ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Missouri House of Representatives
92nd General Assembly, 2nd Regular Session (2004)
Bills Indexed by Subject
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

: Extends the waste tire fee to January 1, 2009, and establishes bonus points for waste tire clean-up bids.

: Extends the waste tire fee to January 1, 2008, establishes bonus points for waste tire clean-up bids, and reduces the collection fee.

: Prohibits the use of glass containers on certain vessels on state waterways.

: Revises the statutes relating to lead abatement.

: Extends the waste tire fee to January 1, 2011.

: Authorizes the Board of Fund Commissioners to issue bonds for waste water pollution control, rural water and sewer projects, and storm water control plans.

: Regulates the disclosure of environmental audit reports.

: Extends the waste tire fee to January 1, 2009, and the hazardous waste generator fee until January 1, 2010.

: Requires certain environmental rules to be based on a regulatory impact report and limits the Department of Natural Resources to issuing permits only to statutory requirements.

: Redirects one-half of the allocations for agricultural demonstration awards to projects for environmentally sound agricultural practices.

: Changes various statutes relating to annual school bus inspections, regulation of low-speed vehicles, sales of abandoned property by the City of Kansas City, all-terrain vehicles, and bumper heights.

: Allows county commissions to receive the funds from landfill fees.

: Revises lead abatement statutes.

: Revises various statutes relating to concentrated animal feeding operations.

: Suspends the motor vehicle emissions inspection program.

: Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to adopt a program to inspect and evaluate indoor air quality in schools.

: Allows moneys in the Natural Resources Protection Fund to be used to fund programs that encourage alternative energy sources.

: Creates task forces for restructuring solid and hazardous waste fees and allows in-state waste facilities receiving out-state waste to pay fees and taxes for out-of-state facilities.

: Authorizes the creation of a watershed improvement district in the Upper White River Basin or any county of the third classification.

: Allows the Department of Natural Resources to use an independent contractor to expedite the review of construction permits for air contaminant sources when the permit applicant agrees.

: Requires the Department of Natural Resources to notify permit holders who fail to file required reports before the department may fine or penalize, with some exceptions.

: Designates spotted knapweed as a noxious weed.

: Changes the allocation of Solid Waste Management Fund moneys.

: Creates the Ground Water Protection Fund and restricts information the Department of Natural Resources can divulge about contractors.

: Clarifies that excavation of minerals or fill dirt for the purpose of construction projects does not require the obtaining of mining permits.

: Requires entities emitting more than 30 pounds of mercury per year to pay a fine.

: Changes the allocation of moneys in the Solid Waste Management Fund.

: Authorizes a tax credit for taxpayers installing qualified net metering units.

: Suspends the motor vehicle emissions inspection program.

: Authorizes local regulation of fuel storage tanks in Jackson County.

: Urges the Air and Land Protection Division of the Department of Natural Resources to assist any applicant requesting to locate a facility in Missouri that provides asphalt roofing shingle recycling.

: Urges the Air and Land Protection Division of the Department of Natural Resources to permit plasma-arc torch technology to be used in the state for solid waste disposal.

: Rewards engineer designs below a per capita cost.

: Modifies laws relating to recreation and entertainment districts.

: Requires DNR to provide an impact statement on rules and state the reasons for denial of permits.

: Natural Resources Protection Fund.

: Creates the Invasive Species Council.

: Establishes the Missouri Biomass Technology Commission.

: Allows the Department of Health to investigate complaints of air quality in public schools.

: Motor Vehicle Emissions Inspections.

: Extends the sunset on the fee for waste tires.

: Vehicles manufactured twenty-six years prior to the current model year are exempt from the emission inspection program.

: Changes jurisdiction over underground storage tanks from the Clean Water Commission.

: Establishes a system of environmental audits to reduce state and local regulation.

: Prohibits the possession or use of glass containers within the banks of Missouri's navigable waterways.

: Transfers hearings on environmental issues to the Administrative Hearing Commission.

: Limitation on use enviromental funds to make handcock refunds.

: A bill to allow D.N.R to hire independent contractors to expedite the building of air containment units.

: Modifies waste tire fees and subsequent programs relating to those fees.

: Establishes a system of environmental audits to reduce state and local regulation.

: Modifies laws relating to solid and hazardous waste management.

: Extension of Hazardous waste fees.

: Modifies procedure for protection of shipwreck sites.

: Revises Laws Regulating Confined Animal Feeding Operations.

: Creates the "Children's Environmental Health and Protection Advisory Council".

: Extends the laws on dry cleaning facilities.

: Expands the Missouri air emission reduction fund.

: Modifies sections relating to environmental regulation, surface mining and the land reclamation commission.

: Creation of the Agroforestry Industrialization.

Missouri House of Representatives
Last Updated October 7, 2004 at 11:09 am