Assembly Amendment to Assembly Joint Resolution No. 20 (BDR R-1647)
Proposed by: Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture and Mining
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Amends: Summary: Title: Preamble: Joint Sponsorship:
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Amend the resolution, page 2, by deleting lines 19 through 21 and inserting:
"Resolved, That if the United States Environmental Protection Agency does not remove the mining industry from the reporting requirements of the Toxic Release Inventory, the Nevada Legislature strongly urges the Agency to develop a separate form of reporting requirements that have a direct application to the processing of minerals and exclude naturally".
Amend the resolution, page 2, lines 27 and 28, by deleting:
"potentially toxic elements," and inserting "reportable chemicals,".
Amend the preamble of the resolution, pages 1 and 2, by deleting lines 3 through 19 on page 1 and lines 1 through 8 on page 2, and inserting:
"chemical hazards in their area by requiring certain businesses to report the locations and quantities of designated chemicals stored on-site to federal, state and local governments; and
Whereas, Section 313 of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act specifically requires certain manufacturers to report annually releases into the environment of more than 600 designated chemicals as part of the Toxics Release Inventory which is made available on the Internet to the public by the United States Environmental Protection Agency; and
Whereas, The United States Environmental Protection Agency has expanded the Inventory report to include the mining industry and other nonmanufacturing industrial sectors; and
Whereas, Many of the chemicals that must be reported in the Inventory are naturally occurring elements in the earth’s crust and may be reportable by the mining industry in Nevada by mere virtue of handling and moving these elements in standard mining and ore processing activities; and
Whereas, The current reporting requirements of the Inventory were developed for application to the manufacturing industry which brings these chemicals to the manufacturing site and releases them into the environment, and are not appropriate to apply to the mining industry where the risk to public safety is very low; and".