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Bill to tighten background checks for solid-waste facility owners moves forward after committee hearing
Summary
The EDNA Committee heard testimony from the Department of Environmental Services on Senate Bill 302, which revises criminal-records-check authority and procedures for solid-waste and hazardous-waste facility permit applicants; committee voted to move the bill out with expectant technical corrections from DES.
Sen. Howard Pearl, prime sponsor of Senate Bill 302, returned to the EDNA Committee to seek updated language enabling federal criminal-record searches for owners of solid-waste facilities. Mike Wimsatt, director of the Waste Management Division at the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (DES), explained that prior statutory language did not meet FBI requirements for access to criminal-records databases and that the…
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