The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part of the
legislative instrument, were prepared by McHenry Lee.
DIGEST
Mills (SB 584)
Proposed law provides legislative findings.
Proposed law prohibits the commissioner of conservation from issuing permits for the creation of
a solution mined cavern or to convert a solution mined cavern to storage or waste disposal in any
area in Vermilion or Iberia parishes where the salt stock underlying a state owned water bottom
has structurally failed if that failure was man-made.
Proposed law provides exceptions for the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve or any entity
regulated by the Offshore Terminal Authority.
Effective upon signature of the governor or lapse of time for gubernatorial action.
(Adds R.S. 30:23.2)