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House Journal: Page 421: Tuesday, March 3, 1998

IMMEDIATE MESSAGE
Siegrist of Pottawattamie asked and received unanimous consent
that House File 2340 be immediately messaged to the Senate.
Special Order Calendar
The House resumed consideration of House File 681, a bill for an
act creating an environmental audit privilege and providing
penalties, temporarily deferred.

Bradley of Clinton offered amendment H-8054 filed by the
committee on environmental protection as follows:

H-8054

 1     Amend House File 681 as follows:
 2     1.  By striking everything after the enacting
 3   clause and inserting the following:
 4     "Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  455J.1  TITLE.
 5     This chapter shall be known and cited as the
 6   "Environmental Audit Privilege and Immunity Act".
 7     Sec. 2.  NEW SECTION.  455J.2  DEFINITIONS.
 8     As used in this chapter, unless the context
 9   otherwise requires:
10     1.  "Department" means the department of natural
11   resources created under section 455A.2.
12     2.  "Environmental audit" means a voluntary
13   evaluation of a facility or operation, of an activity
14   at a facility or operation, or of an environmental
15   management system at a facility or operation, which is
16   regulated under local, state, or federal environmental
17   laws, rules, ordinances, or permits, conducted by an
18   owner or operator, an employee of the owner or
19   operator, or an independent contractor that is
20   designed to identify historical or current
21   noncompliance, discover environmental contamination or
22   hazards, remedy noncompliance or improve compliance
23   with environmental laws, or improve an environmental
24   management system.  Once initiated, an environmental
25   audit shall be completed within a reasonable time not
26   to exceed six months unless an extension is approved
27   by the governmental entity with regulatory authority
28   over the regulated facility or operation based on
29   reasonable grounds.
30     3.  "Environmental audit report" means a document
31   or set of documents generated as a result of an
32   environmental audit.  An "environmental audit report"
33   includes supporting information which may include, but
34   is not limited to, the report document itself,
35   observations, samples, analytical results, exhibits,
36   findings, opinions, suggestions, recommendations,

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