Wisconsin 2023-2024 Regular Session

Wisconsin Assembly Bill AB1173 Compare Versions

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3	3	2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
4	4	2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 1173
5	5	March 22, 2024 - Introduced by Representatives MURSAU, O'CONNOR and STEFFEN,
6	6	cosponsored by Senators COWLES, WIMBERGER and CABRAL-GUEVARA. Referred
7	7	to Committee on Environment.
8	8	AN ACT relating to: proposed rules relating to the development of numerical
9	9	groundwater quality standards for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances,
10	10	promulgated by the Department of Natural Resources.
11	11	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
12	12	Under current law, agencies are generally required to prepare economic impact
13	13	analyses (EIAs) for proposed permanent rules, which must contain certain
14	14	information on the economic effect of the proposed rule on specific businesses,
15	15	business sectors, public utility ratepayers, local governmental units, and the state's
16	16	economy as a whole. Current law further provides that if an EIA prepared by an
17	17	agency indicates that $10,000,000 or more in implementation and compliance costs
18	18	are reasonably expected to be incurred by or passed along to businesses, local
19	19	governmental units, and individuals over any two-year period as a result of the
20	20	proposed rule (cost threshold), the agency proposing the rule must stop work on the
21	21	proposed rule and may not continue promulgating the proposed rule. The agency
22	22	may only proceed with the rule-making process if the agency modifies the proposed
23	23	rule so as not to meet this cost threshold or if a bill is enacted authorizing the agency
24	24	to continue with the rule-making process for the proposed rule.
25	25	On December 19, 2023, the Department of Natural Resources notified the
26	26	legislature that DNR had prepared a final EIA for a proposed permanent rule
27	27	relating to the development of numerical groundwater quality standards
28	28	(groundwater quality rule) and that DNR had, in that EIA, determined that the
29	29	groundwater quality rule would meet or exceed that cost threshold. The
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34	34	ASSEMBLY BILL 1173
35	35	groundwater quality rule would establish numerical standards to minimize the
36	36	concentration of certain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in groundwater
37	37	in this state.
38	38	This bill is introduced pursuant to s. 227.139 (2) (a), stats., to authorize DNR
39	39	to continue with the rule-making process for the groundwater quality rule. The bill
40	40	does not affect the applicability of other steps of the rule-making process that must
41	41	be completed in order to promulgate the proposed permanent rule.
42	42	The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
43	43	enact as follows:
44	44	SECTION 1.0Nonstatutory provisions.
45	45	(1) The department of natural resources is hereby authorized, for purposes of
46	46	s. 227.139 (2) (a), to resume the permanent rule-making process under ch. 227 with
47	47	respect to a proposed permanent rule based upon scope statement SS 075-22,
48	48	numbered DG-17-22 by the department, relating to the development of numerical
49	49	groundwater quality standards.
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