Kootenai County to authorize Panhandle Health District to enforce aquifer chemical rules
COEUR d’ALENE — Kootenai County commissioners will consider authorizing Panhandle Health District to enforce rules about how businesses located over the Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer handle chemicals.
Though PHD has administered the aquifer protection rules since 1997, the Idaho Legislature determined that health districts are not state agencies and thus don’t have rulemaking or enforcement authority on their own. As a result, counties and municipalities have adopted ordinances that allow health districts to carry out certain functions.
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