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SB349: relative to criteria for trail construction on state-owned property for all-terrain vehicles and trail bikes.

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SB 349 - AS INTRODUCED

2004 SESSION

04-3048

10/01

SENATE BILL 349

AN ACT relative to criteria for trail construction on state-owned property for all-terrain vehicles and trail bikes.

ANALYSIS

This bill changes certain ATV and trail bike trail criteria for planning and layout of a trail on state-owned property.

This bill is a request of the fish and game department.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

04-3048

10/01

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Four

AN ACT relative to criteria for trail construction on state-owned property for all-terrain vehicles and trail bikes.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 OHRVs; Trail Evaluation Process. Amend RSA 215-A:43, II, (l) - (o) to read as follows:

(l) The proposed trail does not pass through [a wellhead protection] the sanitary protective area of a community groundwater supply as determined by the department of environmental services [under RSA 485:48, II].

(m) The proposed trail is not located on earthen dams, dikes, and spillways.

(n) The proposed trail avoids areas having soil types classified as important forest soil group IIA or IIB as defined and mapped by the Natural Resources Conservation Service, unless there is an existing soil condition or surface roadway that can be used to reduce adverse environmental impacts.

(o) The proposed new trail construction is not within 100 feet of the ordinary high water mark of first and second order streams, 330 feet of third order streams, and 600 feet of fourth order and higher streams, except for purposes of stream crossing.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.