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Regular Session, 2014
HOUSE BILL NO. 1125
BY REPRESENTATIVE BURFORD
ENVIRONMENT: Provides for the closure of oxidation ponds
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 30:2074(B)(3)(g), relative to oxidation ponds; to provide the closure of certain2
oxidation ponds; and to provide for related matters.3
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:4
Section 1. R.S. 30:2074(B)(3)(g) is hereby enacted to read as follows:5
ยง2074. Water quality control; secretary of environmental quality; powers and duties6
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B. The secretary shall have the following powers and duties:8
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(3) To adopt and promulgate rules and regulations consistent with the10
general intent and purposes of this Chapter to prevent water pollution, including but11
not limited to the following:12
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(g) Regulations providing for the closure of oxidation ponds, lagoons, or14
surface impoundments. For political subdivisions located in a parish having a15
population of not less than twenty-five thousand eight hundred and not more than16
twenty-seven thousand eight hundred, according to the latest federal decennial17
census, such regulations shall provide for the option to close oxidation ponds,18 HLS 14RS-2310 ORIGINAL
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lagoons, or surface impoundments in place by allowing the treatment of sewage1
sludge on site and allowing the treated sewage sludge to remain under cover.2
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DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
Burford HB No. 1125
Abstract: Provides for in place closure of certain oxidation ponds.
Present law requires the secretary of the Department of Environmental Quality to adopt and
promulgate rules and regulations to prevent water pollution. Proposed law retains present
law.
Proposed law requires the adoption and promulgation of regulations providing for the
closure of oxidation ponds, lagoons, or surface impoundments.
Proposed law provides that for political subdivisions located in a parish having a population
of not less than 25,800 and not more than 27,800, such regulations shall have the option to
close oxidation ponds, lagoons, or surface impoundments in place by allowing the treatment
of sewage sludge on site and allowing the treated sewage sludge to remain on site under
cover.
(Adds R.S. 30:2074(B)(3)(g))