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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 59th Legislature (2024)
SENATE BILL 1812 By: Dahm
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to wastewater treatment facilities;
requiring Department of Environmental Quality to
subject certain facilities to certain testing;
specifying test contents; establishing geographic
requirements for testing; requiring maintenance of
certain records; requiring publication of results of
certain testing; directing promulgation of rules;
providing for codification; and declaring an
emergency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA :
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 2-6-404 of Title 27A, unless
there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. The Department of Environmental Quality shall require every
public and private wastewater treatment facility operating in this
state be subject to testing through an accredited or certified
environmental testing laborato ry as prescribed by this section . The
Department shall test:
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1. Wastewater influent before entering a facility for
treatment, including influent derived from industrial, cooling,
leachate, return flow, surface runoff, and urban runoff sources;
2. Grit and debris separated before taken to a landfill;
3. Raw sewage;
4. Pre-treated sewage;
5. Biosolids;
6. Sludge produced in wastewater treatment;
7. Effluent departing the wastewater treatment facility;
8. Groundwater;
9. Surface water;
10. Water upon entering a drinking water treatment facility;
11. Treated water departing from a drinking water treatment
facility; and
12. Public drinking water .
B. The Department shall select testing locations that are
reasonably representative of the typical water systems in the
community and shall avoid non -representative locations. The
Department may conduct more than one test in a particular category
to ensure reasonably representative results.
C. Testing as described in subsection A of this section shall
occur at every wastewater treatment plant within ten (10) miles of
every city with a population of at least two hundred fifty thousand
(250,000) according to the most recent Federal Decennial Census.
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D. Testing shall occur in no fewer than:
1. Ten wastewater treatment plants within ten (10) miles of
cities with populations between one hundred thousand (100,000) and
two hundred fifty thou sand (250,000);
2. Ten wastewater treatment plants within ten (10) miles of
cities with populations between twenty-five thousand (25,000) and
one hundred thousand (100,000); and
3. Ten wastewater treatment plants within ten (10) miles of
cities with populations below twenty-five thousand (25,000).
E. The Department shall conduct testing once each calendar
quarter.
F. The Department shall test for each of the following urinary
metabolites in the form of glucuronides:
1. Benzophenone;
2. Bisphenol A (BPA);
3. Estrone;
4. Ethinylestradiol;
5. Musk ketone;
6. Pregnanediol;
7. Testosterone;
8. Tonalide (AHTN);
9. Mifepristone; and
10. Any other organic substances as deemed necessary by the
Department.
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G. In addition to records required to be kept in the normal
course of water testing, the Department shall keep detailed records
of all testing conducted under this section , including:
1. The date and location of sampling;
2. The date of testing; and
3. The results of testing in nanograms per liter.
H. The Department shall post quarterly on its website all
reports, test results, and records required under this section.
I. The Department shall promulgate rules to effectuate the
provisions of this section.
SECTION 2. It being immediately necessary for the preservation
of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is hereby
declared to exist, by reaso n whereof this act shall take effect and
be in full force from and after its passage and appr oval.
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