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| 2 | 2 | | HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3603 FILED ON: 1/17/2025 |
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| 3 | 3 | | HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 936 |
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| 4 | 4 | | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
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| 5 | 5 | | _________________ |
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| 6 | 6 | | PRESENTED BY: |
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| 7 | 7 | | Michelle M. DuBois |
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| 8 | 8 | | _________________ |
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| 9 | 9 | | To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General |
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| 10 | 10 | | Court assembled: |
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| 11 | 11 | | The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill: |
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| 12 | 12 | | An Act protecting public drinking water by further regulating solid waste disposal facilities. |
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| 13 | 13 | | _______________ |
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| 14 | 14 | | PETITION OF: |
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| 15 | 15 | | NAME:DISTRICT/ADDRESS :DATE ADDED:Michelle M. DuBois10th Plymouth1/17/2025 1 of 2 |
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| 16 | 16 | | HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3603 FILED ON: 1/17/2025 |
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| 17 | 17 | | HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 936 |
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| 18 | 18 | | By Representative DuBois of Brockton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 936) of |
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| 19 | 19 | | Michelle M. DuBois for legislation to further regulate the building or expansion of solid waste |
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| 20 | 20 | | disposal facilities. Environment and Natural Resources. |
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| 21 | 21 | | [SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION |
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| 22 | 22 | | SEE HOUSE, NO. 788 OF 2023-2024.] |
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| 23 | 23 | | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
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| 24 | 24 | | _______________ |
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| 25 | 25 | | In the One Hundred and Ninety-Fourth General Court |
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| 26 | 26 | | (2025-2026) |
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| 27 | 27 | | _______________ |
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| 28 | 28 | | An Act protecting public drinking water by further regulating solid waste disposal facilities. |
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| 29 | 29 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority |
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| 30 | 30 | | of the same, as follows: |
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| 31 | 31 | | 1 SECTION 1. Section 150A of chapter 111 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2020 |
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| 32 | 32 | | 2Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the second paragraph, on line 37, the |
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| 33 | 33 | | 3following paragraph:- |
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| 34 | 34 | | 4 No site shall be assigned as a place for a new facility or for the expansion of an existing |
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| 35 | 35 | | 5facility if the site is located within a zone of 400 feet of: (1) a public water supply well or well |
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| 36 | 36 | | 6field; (2) that area of an aquifer which: (i) contributes water to a to a well under recharge and |
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| 37 | 37 | | 7pumping conditions that allow safe yield of the well for 180 days without any natural recharge |
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| 38 | 38 | | 8occurring, and (ii) is bounded by the groundwater divides which result from pumping the well |
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| 39 | 39 | | 9and by contact of the edge of the aquifer with less permeable materials; or (3) that area of an |
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| 40 | 40 | | 10aquifer which contributes water to a spring under naturally flowing conditions. Such zone may 2 of 2 |
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| 41 | 41 | | 11include streams or lakes that act as recharge boundaries. Such zone shall be considered to extend |
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| 42 | 42 | | 12up-gradient to its point of intersection with prevailing hydrogeologic boundaries. |
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| 43 | 43 | | 13 SECTION 2. The department of environmental protection may promulgate rules and |
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| 44 | 44 | | 14regulations necessary to carry out the requirements of this act. |
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