§ 13-18-17-5 — Quality standards; onsite sewage systems

(a) The board shall adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 establishing groundwater quality standards that include numeric
and narrative criteria, a groundwater classification plan, and a method
of determining where the groundwater quality standards must apply.
The standards established under this subsection shall be used for the
following purposes:
(1) To establish minimum compliance levels for groundwater
quality monitoring at regulated facilities.
(2) To ban the discharge of effluents into potable groundwater.
(3) To establish health protection goals for untreated water in
water supply wells.
(4) To establish concentration limits for contaminants in ambient
groundwater.
(b) Except as provided in subsection (c) and subject to subsection
(d), the following agencies shall adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 to apply
the groundwater quality standards established under this section to
activities regulated by the agencies:
(1) The department.
(2) The department of natural resources.
(3) The Indiana department of health.
(4) The office of the state chemist.
(5) The department of homeland security.
(c) The executive board of the Indiana department of health may not
adopt rules to apply the nitrate and nitrite numeric criteria included in
groundwater quality standards established in rules adopted by the board
under subsection (a) to onsite sewage systems.
(d) Any rule adopted by the executive board of the Indiana
department of health is void to the extent that the rule applies the
nitrate and nitrite numeric criteria included in groundwater quality
standards established in rules adopted by the board under subsection
(a) to onsite sewage systems.
[Pre-1996 Recodification Citation: 13-7-26-6.]

Legislative History

As added by P.L.1-1996, SEC.8. Amended by P.L.168-1999, SEC.1; P.L.24-2004, SEC.6; P.L.1-2006, SEC.201; P.L.113-2014, SEC.72; P.L.187-2021, SEC.48; P.L.56-2023, SEC.129.