CHAPTER 204

HB 1546-FN - FINAL VERSION

 

15Mar2022... 0899h

04/21/2022   1458s

2022 SESSION

22-2180

08/11

 

HOUSE BILL 1546-FN

 

AN ACT enabling the commissioner of the department of environmental services to adopt rules relative to airborne PFAS in certain circumstances.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. B. Boyd, Hills. 21

 

COMMITTEE: Science, Technology and Energy

 

─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

 

AMENDED ANALYSIS

 

This bill allows the commissioner of the department of environmental services to adopt rules about airborne PFAS in certain circumstances.

 

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

 

Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

15Mar2022... 0899h

04/21/2022   1458s 22-2180

08/11

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Two

 

AN ACT enabling the commissioner of the department of environmental services to adopt rules relative to airborne PFAS in certain circumstances.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

204:1  New Paragraph; Regulated Toxic Air Pollutants.  Amend RSA 125-I:4 by inserting after paragraph V the following new paragraph:

VI.  By January 1, 2023 and annually thereafter, the commissioner shall consider peer-reviewed studies of the acute, chronic, mutagenic, reproductive, or developmental health effects in humans as a result of inhalation exposure to an individual per and polyfluoroalkyl substance, and whether to establish or modify any classification or ambient air limit for such individual per and polyfluoroalkyl substance by adopting rules in accordance with the provisions of RSA 541-A.

204:2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect January 1, 2023.

 

Approved: June 17, 2022

Effective Date: January 01, 2023