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Groundwater protection standards.

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Section
160.001

Legislative intent.

Definitions.

Duties of department.

Identification of groundwater contamination; categories.

Establishment of enforcement standards; substances of public health concern.

Establishment of enforcement standards; substances of public welfare concern.

Public information.

Methodology to establish enforcement standard.

Establishment of preventive action limits.

Collection of information.

Regulatory agency; review of existing regulations; design and management criteria.

Adoption of rules for regulatory responses for groundwater contamination.

Implementation of responses for specific sites; preventive action limits.

Implementation of responses for specific sites; enforcement standards.

Enforcement.

Substances in groundwater; monitoring.

Petitioning for rule making.

Legislative review.

Common law and liability.

Public participation.

No mandatory well repair as a condition for testing.

Cooperation with American Indian tribes and bands.

Groundwater coordinating council.

Section
160.255

Exceptions for private on-site wastewater treatment systems.

Section
160.257

Exceptions for aquifer storage and recovery systems.