CHAPTER 227

HB 45 – FINAL VERSION

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2009 SESSION

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06/10

HOUSE BILL 45

AN ACT relative to the water supply land conservation program.

SPONSORS: Rep. Kepner, Rock 15

COMMITTEE: Resources, Recreation and Development

ANALYSIS

This bill expands the eligibility for water supply land conservation grants to future sources of public drinking water and broadens the definition of grantees to include non-profit land trust organizations.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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09-0059

06/10

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nine

AN ACT relative to the water supply land conservation program.

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

227:1 Definition; Eligible Water Supply Protection Costs. Amend RSA 486-A:2, III-a to read as follows:

III-a. “Eligible water supply land protection costs” means the actual cost of permanently conserving substantially undeveloped land within one or more source water protection areas for active [or], proposed, or future sources of public drinking water supplying a community or non-transient non-community water system, including the cost of land or conservation easement acquisition and associated legal and transaction costs.

227:2 New Paragraph; Definition; Future Water Supply Source. Amend RSA 486-A:2 by inserting after paragraph IV the following new paragraph:

IV-a. “Future source of public drinking water supply” means:

(a) Stratified-drift aquifer areas identified by the department as favorable gravel well areas not constrained by existing development; and

(b) Other groundwater resources identified by the department as high-yielding aquifer areas not constrained by existing development.

227:3 Definition; Water Supply Protection Grantee. Amend RSA 486-A:2, VIII to read as follows:

VIII. “Water supply land protection grantee” means an entity that receives a water supply land protection grant to acquire and maintain in perpetuity land or easements for the purpose of protecting a drinking water source. A water supply land protection grantee shall be a nonprofit organization exempt from taxation under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and having public water supply or land conservation as its principal mission or a municipality.

227:4 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved: July 16, 2009

Effective Date: July 16, 2009