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NH Rev Stat § 485:46 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485 - New Hampshire Safe Drinking Water Act|Section 485:46 - Fees; Advertising.

    485:46 Fees;  Advertising. –||I. The department shall adopt rules under RSA 541-A, after public hearing, establishing a schedule of reasonable fees to be paid by any laboratory applying for accreditation.||II. The schedule of fees shall be designed to recover the costs associated with the accreditation services provided under RSA 485:44, and such fees shall be available to the department to be used to defray the expenses for such services. Funds received shall be deposited in a special revolving fund account maintained by the department which shall be continuously appropriated to the department to offset the costs of the accreditation program. Any balance in excess of $1,000 remaining at the end of the fiscal year shall lapse to the general fund.||III. A laboratory shall provide each prospective New Hampshire client with a list which clearly indicates the specific analytes which the laboratory is accredited to test. In the event that a client has paid a fee to a laboratory in anticipation of testing services before the receipt of said test sampling materials, and the client subsequently determines upon receipt of the test materials that the laboratory is not accredited to provide testing services to meet the client's needs, the client may cancel the order for any testing services which have not yet been performed, and the laboratory shall make full refund to the client. Test reports shall clearly identify those specific analytes for which a laboratory has accreditation and shall specifically identify any analyses which were subcontracted to other laboratories.|||Source. 1989, 339:1. 1992, 191:3. 1998, 152:5, eff. Aug. 7, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 485:47 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485 - New Hampshire Safe Drinking Water Act|Section 485:47 - Rulemaking.

    485:47 Rulemaking. –||The department shall adopt rules, under RSA 541-A, relative to:||I. Procedures and standards for accreditation of laboratories, including but not limited to the form and content of approval and accreditation application forms, analytical techniques to be employed, standard collection and testing procedures, performance on proficiency test samples, as well as qualifications for laboratory personnel. The procedures and standards shall be in conformance with and consistent with the national accreditation standards approved by the National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Conference.||II. [Repealed.]||III. Procedures and conditions under which accreditation of water testing laboratories may be revoked, suspended, or modified.||IV. Information to be disclosed when tests are subcontracted.||V. Procedures and criteria for laboratory reaccreditation.||VI. Procedures for the accreditation of laboratories which have been accredited by other states.||VII. Procedures for approval of alternate testing methodology.||VIII. Fees for accreditation, including rules for accounting of the fees.||IX. Procedures and standards for testing of water under any expanded accreditation program.||X. A time frame for the completion of the accreditation process.||XI-XIII. [Repealed.]|||Source. 1989, 339:1. 1998, 152:6-8, II, III, eff. Aug. 7, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 485:48 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485 - New Hampshire Safe Drinking Water Act|Section 485:48 - Wellhead Protection.

    485:48 Wellhead Protection. –||The department may institute a wellhead protection program as described in section 1428 of the federal Safe Drinking Water Amendments of 1986. The program shall be consistent with the provisions of RSA 485-C and shall include, but not be limited to, the following:||I. Determination of the responsibilities of state and local government units, and those of public drinking water supply systems with respect to wellhead protection.||II. Determination of the extent of the wellhead protection area, based on reasonably available hydrogeologic data, groundwater flow, recharge, discharge, and other data the department deems necessary to such determination.||III. Identify within each wellhead protection area all potential anthropogenic sources of contaminants which may have any adverse effect on human health, through consideration of all potential sources of such contaminants.||IV. Technical assistance, financial assistance, implementation of control measures, education, training, and demonstration projects to protect the water supply within wellhead protection areas from such contaminants.||V. Contingency plans for the location and provision of alternate drinking water supplies for each public water system in the event of well or wellfield contamination by such contaminants.||VI. Procedures, including, but not limited to, the establishment of technical and citizens' advisory committees, to encourage the public to participate in developing the protection program for wellhead areas. Such procedures shall include notice and opportunity for public hearing on the state program before it is submitted to the administrator, United States Environmental Protection Agency, for approval.|||Source. 1989, 339:1. 1991, 344:2. 1996, 228:106, eff. July 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 485:49 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485 - New Hampshire Safe Drinking Water Act|Section 485:49 - Declaration of Need.

    485:49 Declaration of Need. –||It is declared that there is statewide need for long-range planning in order that the health and safety of the people of the state may be protected in respect to adequate water supplies for domestic use.|||Source. 1989, 339:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 485:50 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485 - New Hampshire Safe Drinking Water Act|Section 485:50 - Domestic Water Supply Study.

    485:50 Domestic Water Supply Study. –||The department of environmental services is authorized and directed to study the probable domestic water supply requirements of groups of towns or cities, or both, which appear likely to have increased industrial and population growths for the next 50 years. In connection with said studies the department shall determine the most feasible and economic sites for sources of water supply for such long-range planning.|||Source. 1989, 339:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 485:51 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485 - New Hampshire Safe Drinking Water Act|Section 485:51 - Assistance.

    485:51 Assistance. –||The department of environmental services is authorized, within the limits of the appropriations made therefor, to employ engineers and other assistants to make the studies authorized by this subdivision.|||Source. 1989, 339:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 485:52 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485 - New Hampshire Safe Drinking Water Act|Section 485:52 - Reports.

    485:52 Reports. –||Whenever any study of a group plan for domestic water supply projects is made the department of environmental services shall report the same to the next session of the legislature together with its recommendations to make secure the availability of those sites which the department of environmental services finds will best meet the future needs of the particular locality studied.|||Source. 1989, 339:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 485:53 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485 - New Hampshire Safe Drinking Water Act|Section 485:53 - Advice to Municipalities.

    485:53 Advice to Municipalities. –||Upon request the department of environmental services shall consult with and advise any municipality which is considering a change in its domestic water supply due to an approaching critical situation in the municipality.|||Source. 1989, 339:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 485:54 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485 - New Hampshire Safe Drinking Water Act|Section 485:54 - Ice Cutting.

    485:54 Ice Cutting. –||No person shall cut or take ice from any lake, pond or reservoir used as the source of a domestic public water supply, unless he shall first comply in all respects with such reasonable rules regarding the manner and place of such cutting and taking as may be prescribed by the local legislative body, or officers of a water company, who may have charge of the works of any city or town supplying its inhabitants with water from such source.|||Source. 1989, 339:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 485:55 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485 - New Hampshire Safe Drinking Water Act|Section 485:55 - Ice; Penalty.

    485:55 Ice;  Penalty. –||Any person who knowingly or willfully shall cut or take ice for domestic purposes from any waters which are polluted with sewage or other substance deleterious or dangerous to life or health, or from waters which a board of health, local health officer or the department has condemned, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor if a natural person, or guilty of a felony if any other person.|||Source. 1989, 339:1. 1996, 228:106, eff. July 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 485:56 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485 - New Hampshire Safe Drinking Water Act|Section 485:56 - Ice Inspection.

    485:56 Ice Inspection. –||Health officers of the cities and towns of the state, and the department of environmental services, shall examine and inspect the sources from which ice is cut, or is proposed to be cut, for domestic use in such cities and towns, and to employ any necessary means to determine whether the waters of such sources of ice supply have been polluted, or whether ice taken from such sources will be deleterious to the public health.|||Source. 1989, 339:1. 1996, 228:108, eff. July 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 485:57 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485 - New Hampshire Safe Drinking Water Act|Section 485:57 - Ice; Notice of Pollution.

    485:57 Ice;  Notice of Pollution. –||If the waters of the sources of ice supplies shall be found so polluted that the ice taken from those sources will be unsafe for domestic use, the local health officer or the department of environmental services shall immediately notify such person who may have taken, or who proposes to take, ice from such polluted source for domestic use, of the dangerous character of the waters inspected, and that the taking of such ice for domestic use must cease.|||Source. 1989, 339:1. 1996, 228:108, eff. July 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 485:59 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485 - New Hampshire Safe Drinking Water Act|Section 485:59 - Appeals.

    485:59 Appeals. –||Actions of the department under RSA 485:1-4; 8, II; 31; 41-44; 46-48, or 58, I may be appealed under RSA 21-O:14.|||Source. 1989, 339:1. 1995, 88:3. 1996, 228:106, eff. July 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 485:60 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485 - New Hampshire Safe Drinking Water Act|Section 485:60 - Special Acts.

    485:60 Special Acts. –||Nothing in this chapter shall repeal any special act applying to cities and towns.|||Source. 1989, 339:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 485:61 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485 - New Hampshire Safe Drinking Water Act|Section 485:61 - Rules for Water Conservation.

    485:61 Rules for Water Conservation. –||I. The department shall adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, for water conservation practices for water users. These rules shall strike a reasonable balance between environmental, energy, and economic impacts and be consistent with current industry standards and practices for different types of water users.||II. The water conservation rules in paragraph I of this section shall apply to all new permit applicants and applications for water withdrawals subject to the provisions of RSA 485:3, RSA 485:48, RSA 485-C:21 and section 401 of the Clean Water Act.||III. Water conservation rules shall be consistent with applicable state or federal rules and regulations.|||Source. 2002, 142:2, eff. July 12, 2002.|
NH Rev Stat § 485-A:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485-A - Water Pollution and Waste Disposal|Section 485-A:1 - Declaration of Purpose.

    485-A:1 Declaration of Purpose. –||The purpose of this chapter is to protect water supplies, to prevent pollution in the surface and groundwaters of the state and to prevent nuisances and potential health hazards. In exercising any and all powers conferred upon the department of environmental services under this chapter, the department shall be governed solely by criteria relevant to the declaration of purpose set forth in this section.|||Source. 1989, 339:1. 1996, 228:106, 108, eff. July 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 485-A:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485-A - Water Pollution and Waste Disposal|Section 485-A:3 - Policies.

    485-A:3 Policies. –||It is hereby declared, as a matter of legislative intent, that the department shall, in the administration and enforcement of this chapter, strive to provide that all sources of pollution within the state shall be abated within such times and to such degrees as shall be required to satisfy the provisions of state law or applicable federal law, whichever is more stringent. To the extent not inconsistent with the foregoing nor the aims of any joint state-federal permit program that may from time to time be agreed upon and in force pursuant to this chapter and applicable federal law, the department shall adhere to the following policies:||I. Insofar as practicable, the initial objective of the control program will be to obtain the installation of primary treatment (with adequate disinfection where sewage discharges are involved) for all discharges of sewage and industrial wastes.||II. The second objective will be to require the installation of secondary treatment whenever such additional treatment is necessary to protect the uses assigned to the particular stream classification.||III. The third objective, after all stream classification requirements throughout the state have been satisfied, will be to continue the program of pollution abatement by installing other forms of treatment desirable to maintain all surface waters of the state in as clean a condition as possible, consistent with available assistance funds and technological developments.||IV. Until such time as appropriate methodology and reasonable levels of financial assistance are made available, municipalities with combined sewer systems shall not be required to provide treatment facilities with capacity greater than that necessary to handle anticipated peak dry weather flows.||V. A further objective will be to advance the development and application of innovative/alternative waste treatment systems with guidelines, procedures, pilot projects, demonstration projects, community projects or in any other manner the department may elect.|||Source. 1989, 339:1. 1993, 172:2. 1996, 228:106, eff. July 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 485-A:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485-A - Water Pollution and Waste Disposal|Section 485-A:5 - Pretreatment Standards.

    485-A:5 Pretreatment Standards. –||I. After the effective date of any pretreatment standards established and prescribed by the department pursuant to RSA 485-A:4, XV, no person shall discharge into the collection system or the sewage treatment facility of any municipality or other governmental entity being served by or under orders to construct a public sewage treatment facility, nor discharge to the surface waters of the state if such person will be served by the public sewage treatment facility upon construction of such facility, any waste that does not comply with such pretreatment standards.||II. In setting a date for conformance to pretreatment standards, the department may establish compliance schedules providing a reasonable time for compliance and may give due consideration to expected in-service dates of public sewage and waste treatment facilities not in existence at the time of establishment of pretreatment standards applicable to such facilities. Any such compliance schedule shall be consistent with the purposes and requirements of federal law.||III. No municipality or other governmental entity owning or controlling any public sewage and waste treatment facility shall permit the discharge of any waste to such facility which does not comply with pretreatment standards established by the department.||IV. Pretreatment standards or effluent limits adopted by a municipality as part of its sewer use ordinance or industrial pretreatment program and approved by the department shall be enforceable by the department as pretreatment standards established under RSA 485-A:4, XV and rules adopted under RSA 485-A:6.||V. The department of environmental services may require the installation and operation of monitoring programs by persons subject to pretreatment standards to ensure adherence to such standards.|||Source. 1989, 339:1. 1996, 228:106, 108, eff. July 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 485-A:5-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485-A - Water Pollution and Waste Disposal|Section 485-A:5-a - Operator Certification Required.

    485-A:5-a Operator Certification Required. –||The department shall certify operators of wastewater treatment plants. Wastewater treatment plants shall be operated only by certified operators.|||Source. 1989, 81:1. 1990, 197:4. 1996, 228:106, eff. July 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 485-A:5-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485-A - Water Pollution and Waste Disposal|Section 485-A:5-b - Municipal Responsibility.

    485-A:5-b Municipal Responsibility. –||I. Each municipality shall either provide, or assure access to, a department of environmental services approved septage facility or a department approved alternative option for its residents.||II. For the purposes of paragraph I, "provide, or assure access to" shall mean a written agreement with a recipient facility, or department approved alternative option, indicating that the recipient facility agrees to accept septage generated in that municipality. The municipality shall consider providing sufficient annual capacity equal to the number of households with septic multiplied by the average septic tank capacity of 1, 000 gallons divided by the average septage pumpout frequency of 5 years.|||Source. 1990, 252:12. 1996, 228:108. 2005, 98:2, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.|
NH Rev Stat § 485-A:5-c (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485-A - Water Pollution and Waste Disposal|Section 485-A:5-c - Notice of Septage or Sludge Spreading.

    485-A:5-c Notice of Septage or Sludge Spreading. –||I. No person shall spread septage or sludge as defined in RSA 485-A:2 before providing all property owners abutting the spreading site with written notice of the intended date and location of the spreading. Such notice shall be provided by publishing a notice at least 14 days before the intended date of the first spreading of septage or sludge each year in a newspaper of general circulation in the town or city.||II. The notice shall include the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of the following:||(a) The applicant, if applicable.||(b) The generator of the sludge, if applicable.||(c) The person responsible for managing the activities on-site, if different from the applicant under subparagraph (a).||(d) The landowner, if not given under subparagraph (a) or (c).||III. A copy of such notice shall be posted continually on the entrances to the site beginning 3 days prior to the application and ending 3 days after the application.|||Source. 1998, 60:1, eff. July 11, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 485-A:5-d (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485-A - Water Pollution and Waste Disposal|Section 485-A:5-d - Land Application of Sludge.

    485-A:5-d Land Application of Sludge. –||Sludge or biosolids which are to be land applied in New Hampshire shall not exceed the maximum concentrations for specific chemical contaminants contained in the rules of the department, or the rules or regulations of the state in which the sludge was generated, whichever are more stringent.|||Source. 1998, 230:3, eff. June 24, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 485-A:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485-A - Water Pollution and Waste Disposal|Section 485-A:6 - Rulemaking.

    485-A:6 Rulemaking. –||The commissioner shall adopt rules, under RSA 541-A, after public hearing, relative to:||I. The classification system required by RSA 485-A:9.||II. Requirements under RSA 485-A:4, VI.||III. Requirements under RSA 485-A:4, IX and establishing the methodology and review process for approval of innovative/alternative wastewater treatment systems.||IV. The fees and contract documents required under RSA 485-A:4, XII.||V. The prequalification and contract award procedures required under RSA 485-A:4, XIII.||VI. The standards required under RSA 485-A:4, XV.||VI-a. Procedures and criteria for requesting, reviewing, and granting certifications under RSA 485-A:12, III and IV.||VII. The required information and prescribed conditions needed to implement the program described in RSA 485-A:13, I(a).||VIII. The requirements for a permit under RSA 485-A:17.||IX. [Repealed.]||X. The safety standards for swimming pools and bathing places required by RSA 485-A:26.||X-a. The requirements for permits under RSA 485-A:4, XVI-a and XVI-b.||XI. The minimum qualifications for and certification of operators of pollution control facilities.||XI-a. The contents of the written notification required in RSA 485-A:13, I(c).||XI-b. Certification of operators of wastewater treatment plants and revocation and suspension of such certificates as provided in RSA 485-A:7-d.||XI-c. The location, extent, and duration of the standards specified in RSA 485-A:8, III for the temporary partial use areas provided for in RSA 485-A:8, II.||XII. [Repealed.]||XIII. The disposal of dental office waste under RSA 485-A:4, XVIII.||XIV. Dissolved oxygen water quality standards under RSA 485-A:8, II and II-a.||XV. Water quality standards consistent with RSA 485-A:8 and as required by the Clean Water Act.|||Source. 1989, 339:1. 1990, 197:5; 248:4; 252:13. 1991, 371:2. 1993, 172:4. 1996, 228:110. 1998, 102:5. 2002, 96:4. 2008, 337:3, eff. Sept. 5, 2008. 2017, 211:3, eff. Sept. 8, 2017. 2019, 346:136, I, eff. Jan. 1, 2020. 2020, 10:2, eff. July 14, 2020.|