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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 7248
January Session, 2025
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Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH
Introduced by:
(PH)
AN ACT CONCERNING WELL WATER QUALITY.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 25-32 of the general statutes is amended by adding 1
subsection (r) as follows (Effective from passage): 2
(NEW) (r) The commissioner may implement policies and 3
procedures necessary to administer provisions relating to cross 4
connections between water supplies while in the process of adopting 5
such policies and procedures as regulations, in accordance with the 6
provisions of chapter 54, provided the department posts such policies 7
and procedures on the eRegulations System prior to adopting them. 8
Policies and procedures implemented pursuant to this section shall be 9
valid until final regulations are adopted in accordance with the 10
provisions of chapter 54. 11
Sec. 2. Subdivision (1) of subsection (c) of section 19a-37 of the general 12
statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof 13
(Effective from passage): 14
(c) (1) Any laboratory or firm which conducts a water quality test on 15
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a private well serving a residential property or semipublic well in the 16
state shall, not later than thirty days after the completion of such test, 17
report the results of such test to the local health authority of the 18
municipality where the property is located and the Department of 19
Public Health in a format specified by the department. Results 20
submitted to the Department of Public Health or the local health 21
authority pursuant to this subsection, information obtained from any 22
Department of Public Health or local health authority investigation 23
regarding those results and any Department of Public Health or local 24
health authority study of morbidity and mortality regarding the results 25
shall be confidential pursuant to section 19a-25, except the local health 26
authority and the department may, if approved by the commissioner, 27
disclose the results or information obtained from an investigation of the 28
results to (A) the owner of the property on which the well is located, (B) 29
a prospective buyer of such property who has signed a contract to 30
purchase such property, (C) other persons or entities, when such 31
disclosure is necessary to carry out a statutory or regulatory 32
responsibility of the local health authority or department, [or] (D) an 33
agent of a state agency, or (E) the Department of Energy and 34
Environmental Protection. 35
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 from passage 25-32(r)
Sec. 2 from passage 19a-37(c)(1)
Statement of Purpose:
To allow (1) the Commissioner of Public Health to implement policies
and procedures necessary to administer provisions relating to cross
connections between water supplies while in the process of adopting
such policies and procedures as regulations, and (2) a local health
authority or the Department of Public Health to disclose the results or
information obtained from an investigation of the results of a water
quality test on a private well serving a residential property or a
semipublic well to the Department of Energy and Environmental
Protection.
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