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Excerpt from Water Supply Damages: Reporting of Industrial Wastes and Other Toxic Wastes and Nutrient Pollution Control
The General Assembly enacted an administration program bill addressed to the need for information at the state level, the Water and Air Quality Reporting Act of (s.l. 1971, Ch. This new law established a comprehensive State reporting and monitoring system to enable the bwar to maintain full and up-to - date information concerning wastes discharged to the State's waters by industries, municipalities and others.
Legislation aimed at the need for information at the cal level was also seriously considered in 1971. Rep. Payne introduced a bill to require that persons who discharge into municipal or county sewage treatment systems industrial wastes or other wastes containing toxic substances should provide regular detailed reports to the city or county concerning the nature, content, and volume of their wastes. (h The teeth in this bill consisted of civil penalties for failure to comply with the reporting requirements, plus requirements that the polluters must keep their waste loads within prescribed tolerances (on the order of 5 - 10 per cent) during each reporting year. This bill generated much discussion and controversy within the House Water and Air Resources Committee to which it was referred. The Committee and expert wit nesses who appeared before the Committee had considerable sympathy for the purposes of H 409, but disagreed on details. After many meetings on the subject, the bill was reported favorably in substitute form with numerous amendments but failed to pass second reading in the House, and was later listed among the items for lrc study by SR 961.
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