2019 Annual Report

Section

Amend Chapter Numbers:

1-7-5

187 and 249

1-7-5. Health study.

(a) The corporation shall provide the department of health with funding in an amount not

to exceed two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000), half to be paid in fiscal year 2008 and the

other half to be paid in fiscal year 2009, which funds the department of health will use for an

independent health study (the "study" or the "health study") developed in consultation with the

department of environmental management and the air-quality monitoring public advisory

committee. The purpose of the study will be to determine whether and to what extent, air

pollution generated by airport activities affects the health of area residents based, to the extent

feasible, on established health benchmarks.

(b) The study shall use the data collected from the first year of long-term, air-quality

monitoring at the airport described in the previous sections to evaluate potential public health

implications of emissions based, to the extent feasible, on established health benchmarks, and

shall be completed and submitted to the governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, and

the president of the senate no later than May 30, 2009.

technical reports and scientific publications that resulted from this health study on their respective

websites no later than July 31, 2019, and shall maintain them on their respective websites for at

least five (5) years thereafter.

Section

Amend Chapter Numbers:

1-7-6

187 and 249

1-7-6. Reporting.

(a) The corporation shall provide the department of environmental management with an

inventory of greenhouse gas pollutants, including, but not limited to, carbon dioxide and methane,

and an annual inventory of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and carbon monoxide. The inventories

of data generated in the prior calendar year shall be reported to the department of environmental

management on or before March 30, 2009, and every March 30 thereafter.

(b) Data generated from the permanent air-quality monitors shall be reported to the

department of environmental management, ~~and~~ the department of health, and to the city of

Warwick on at least a quarterly basis and shall be used by the departments to continuously

augment and update air-quality-monitoring studies conducted by the departments. The

corporation shall publish the data on its website within thirty (30) calendar days of the end of the

quarter.

department's findings, analysis, conclusions, and recommendations resulting from the data

generated by and from the permanent air-quality monitors (the "monitors"), as well as a summary

of the data collected from the monitors. The first such report shall be due on or before July 31,

2017, and on or before July 31 in 2018, 2019, and for any further year thereafter during which

data is collected and reported pursuant to the provisions of subsection (b) ~~of this section~~. Copies

of these reports shall be provided by the required dates to the speaker of the house, the president

of the senate, the office of the governor, the office of the attorney general, the airport corporation,

and the offices of the mayor and the city council of the city of Warwick. The department of

health, the airport corporation, and the city of Warwick shall publish these reports on their

respective websites within thirty (30) calendar days of receipt of the reports.

Section

Amend Chapter Numbers:

1-7-9

187 and 249

1-7-9. Monitoring actions required and compliance -- Sunset provision.

(a) On or before January 31, 2017, and on or before January 31, 2018, and January 31,

2019, thereafter, the department of environmental management, the department of health, and the

attorney general shall submit to the governor, the speaker of the house, and the president of the

senate, recommendations as to the continuation of the air monitoring required in this act. ~~and,~~

~~unless~~

(b) Unless extended by the general assembly, the corporation's obligation to operate and

maintain the air monitoring system will cease on ~~July 31, 2019.~~ July 31, 2021; provided, this

sunset date shall be dependent upon the corporation undertaking and completing the following

actions prior to July 31, 2021:

(1) As part of the long-term air-quality monitoring program, ambient air-quality monitors

shall be set up in a network that shall include at least four (4) monitoring sites in the area of and

surrounding T. F. Green Airport. These monitors shall be designed, placed, and maintained so as

to measure air-quality impacts from airport operations, including those impacts associated with

planes operating on the extended runway and on neighborhoods adjacent to the airport facility,

and at the Winslow Park playing fields. In addition to the quarterly summary reports prepared by

the corporation based on this data, the corporation shall compile at least twenty (20) months of

complete air quality monitoring data from these monitors and submit that data to the department

of health prior to May 1, 2021, pursuant to � 1-7-6; and

(2) The corporation shall comply with all other reporting and publishing requirements set

forth in this chapter.

Section

Add Chapter Numbers

2-1-10.1

122 and 134

2-1-10.1. Assent to food safety modernization act.

The state of Rhode Island assents to the provisions of the act of Congress entitled "FDA

Food Safety Modernization Act," 21 U.S.C. � 2201 et seq., and the director of environmental

management is authorized, empowered, and directed to perform those acts relating to produce on

the farm that may be necessary for the modernization of the safety of the food supply, as defined

in that act of Congress, in compliance with that act and with the rules and regulations

promulgated by the Food and Drug Administration that are consistent with that act.

SECTION 2. Section 21-28-1.02 of Chapter 21-28 of the General Laws entitled "Uniform

Controlled Substances Act" is hereby amended by amending � 21-28-1.02(30) [effective until

January 1, 2023] and � 21-28-1.02(29) [effective January 1, 2023] as follows:

(30) "Marijuana" means all parts of the plant cannabis sativa L., whether growing or not;

the seeds of the plant; the resin extracted from any part of the plant; and every compound,

manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the plant, its seeds or resin, but shall not

include the mature stalks of the plant, fiber produced from the stalks, oil or cake made from the

seeds of the plant, any other compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of

mature stalks, (except the resin extracted from it), fiber, oil or cake, or the sterilized seed from the

plant which is incapable of germination. Marijuana shall not include "industrial hemp" or

"industrial hemp products" which satisfy the requirements of chapter 26 of title 2, nor shall it

include products that have been approved for marketing as a prescription medication by the U.S.

Food and Drug Administration and legally prescribed.

(29) "Marijuana" means all parts of the plant cannabis sativa L., whether growing or not;