Sewage - As enacted, establishes a deadline for consideration of certain subsurface sewage disposal system applications submitted by soil scientists. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 68, Chapter 221 and Title 69, Chapter 3. C, the official text

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PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 229

                                                     SENATE BILL NO. 883

                                                             By Reeves

                                            Substituted for: House Bill No. 1137

                                By Boyd, Lamberth, Keisling, Howell, Davis, Burkhart

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 68, Chapter 221 and Title 69, Chapter 3,
          relative to subsurface sewage disposal systems.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:

          SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 68-221-403(m)(12), is amended by deleting
the subdivision and substituting:

                    (12)(A) A soil scientist certified by the department may submit an application for a
                    permit for a subsurface sewage disposal system with a capacity of less than seven
                    hundred fifty (750) gallons per day that includes the completed application, application
                    fee, proposed design, an appropriate intensity soils map signed by a soil scientist
                    certified by the department, and a completed but unsigned permit for construction of
                    the subsurface disposal system.

                              (8) No later than ten (10) business days after receipt of the documents required
                    under subdivision (m)(12)(A), the department or the contract county shall review the
                    submission and:

                                         (i) Approve the submission;

                                         (ii) Reject the submission and submit a report of deficiencies found in
                              the submission to the soil scientist and applicant; or

                                         (iii) Request additional information needed to determine compliance with
                              this part, rules promulgated pursuant to this part, and standards of the contract
                              county that are more stringent than the standards of this part or rules
                              promulgated pursuant to this part.

          SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
         SENATE BILL NO. 883

PASSED:  April 7, 2025

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                        SPEAKER OF THE SENATE

                        CAMERONSEXTON,SPEAKER

                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

£ I APPROVED this
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         BILL LEE, GOVERNOR