HB0605 - Tennessee: Environmental Preservation, Forest And Forest Products, Water Pollution

Companion Bill SB1435. Water Pollution - Places certain restrictions within a streamside management zone during logging operations adjacent to perennial or intermittent streams. - Amends TCA Title 11 and Title 69. Fiscal Summary for *HB0605 / SB1435 Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for *HB0605 / SB1435 This bill requires owners and operators of facilities or activities from which there is or may be a discharge of pollutants to clearly mark and leave a streamside management zone during logging operations conducted adjacent to perennial or intermittent streams. The width of the zone must be at least 25 feet from the disturbed area to the bank. The total minimum width would be 50 feet, to include both sides of the stream. Under this bill, the removal of trees within the zone would be prohibited if removal would [...]

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