HB3482 - Tennessee - Environment And Conservation, Department Of, Water Resources

Companion Bill SB2979. Water Resources - Establishes standards for drawing samples to test water quality of Pigeon River where it enters Tennessee from Haywood County, North Carolina. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 3. Fiscal Summary for HB3482 / *SB2979 Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for HB3482 / *SB2979 This bill requires, under the Water Quality Control Act, that any water sample drawn to test the quality of the Pigeon River at the time such river enters this state from Haywood County, North Carolina, be drawn within one quarter mile of the border separating Tennessee and North Carolina, in the center of the river. This bill further requires that the sample only be drawn at a time when any power plant that emits discharges into the Pigeon River and is located within one mile of the state border is running [...]

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