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1 1 Amend House Concurrent Resolution 35 as follows:
1 2 #1. By striking page 1, line 3, through page 2,
1 3 line 21, and inserting the following:
1 4 "A Concurrent Resolution requesting the establishment
1 5 of a committee to study and make recommendations
1 6 concerning issues related to hazardous material
1 7 cleanup and mitigation.
1 8 WHEREAS, hazardous material mitigation is a service
1 9 local fire departments and hazardous material crews
1 10 provide in the case of hazardous material spills; and
1 11 WHEREAS, hazardous material mitigation and training
1 12 are services provided to residents and commercial
1 13 services by publicly funded agencies and local
1 14 governments; and
1 15 WHEREAS, commercial services and their insurance
1 16 carriers provide reimbursement for cleanup when needed
1 17 to the local hazardous material services; and
1 18 WHEREAS, billing charges by various public services
1 19 and hazardous material services to insurance carriers
1 20 for cleanups and mitigation vary; and
1 21 WHEREAS, commercial services and their insurance
1 22 carriers need some standardization in billing for
1 23 cleanup services and mitigation; NOW THEREFORE,
1 24 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, THE
1 25 SENATE CONCURRING, That the legislative council is
1 26 requested to establish an interim study committee to
1 27 study and make recommendations regarding the costs
1 28 associated with the cleanup and mitigation of
1 29 hazardous material, the regional system used to
1 30 provide the service, the billing procedures and
1 31 standards used in other states, the costs of training
1 32 and maintaining the hazardous material service in
1 33 Iowa, the cost of cleanup, mitigation, and disposal of
1 34 hazardous material spilled in Iowa, and the workers
1 35 needed at hazardous material spill sites; and
1 36 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the interim study
1 37 committee shall include members of the general
1 38 assembly, representation of professional and volunteer
1 39 fire fighters who are trained in hazardous material
1 40 cleanup, mitigation, and handling, the department of
1 41 natural resources, members of the trucking industry
1 42 involved in the interstate and intrastate
1 43 transportation of hazardous material for the
1 44 agricultural sector and the industrial sector,
1 45 railroad companies, the insurance industry involved in
1 46 insuring hazardous material spills, the state
1 47 department of transportation, cities, counties, the
1 48 department of public safety, and the chemical
1 49 manufacturing industry; and
1 50 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the interim study
2 1 committee shall report its findings and
2 2 recommendations to the general assembly by January 1,
2 3 2002."
2 4
2 5
2 6
2 7 BRAUNS of Muscatine
2 8 HCR 35.301 79
2 9 tm/cf
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