SB65
Senate · 2025 sessionRepublicanSigned into lawStormwater rules for solar arrays
AI-generatedExempts solar arrays from stormwater management requirements not applicable to other development, requires a permit only for earthmoving or timber harvesting exceeding 100,000 square feet, and voids contradictory administrative rules.
relative to stormwater management for solar arrays.Official record
Division of testimonyComputed by this site
29 submissionsAll 2 written submissions were individually written — no organized campaign detected.
Status
Signed into law · June 18, 2025- ✓Introduced
- ✓Senate
- ✓House
- ✓Governor
- ✓Law
The record · every submission as filed
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Margaret Fletcher for Myself Concord Keep things simple for solar array installations. There's no need to add unnecessary permitting requirements to these businesses. Thanks. | Concord | Support | 137 | Apr 7, 2025 | |
Rob Blakeney for Myself Concord HEARING ON SB 65-FN Relative to stormwater management for solar arrays (BRIEF WRITTEN REMARKS) Permitting proceedings for the siting of solar arrays must no longer treat these developments as being equivalent to impenetrable parking lots. The ground beneath these structures maintains a viable soil biome, albeit without direct hydration from rainfall. I agree with SB 65-FN that this rule should not apply over a certain area of involved earthmoving or timber harvesting, and that it is appropriate such limit be set at more than 100,000 square feet. In addition, SB 65-FN should be amended so as to allow solar arrays to be considered impenetrable surfaces when their siting is proposed to be on prime agricultural soils. Thank you for your consideration Rob Blakeney 33 Via Tranquilla Concord, N.H. 03301 rbplease@aol.com (603) 340-0186 | Concord | Support | 860 | Apr 7, 2025 | |
Megan Haffner for Myself Nashua Position recorded without written comment. | Nashua | Oppose | — | Apr 7, 2025 | |
Melissa Crotto-Young for Myself Surry Position recorded without written comment. | Surry | Support | — | Apr 7, 2025 | |
Bruce Berk for Myself Pittsfield Position recorded without written comment. | Pittsfield | Support | — | Apr 7, 2025 | |
Shea Flanagan for Myself Goffstown Position recorded without written comment. | Goffstown | Support | — | Apr 7, 2025 | |
Richard DeMark for Myself Meredith Position recorded without written comment. | Meredith | Support | — | Apr 7, 2025 | |
Patricia Beffa-Negrini for Myself Nelson Position recorded without written comment. | Nelson | Support | — | Apr 7, 2025 | |
Alison Thatcher for Myself Ashland Position recorded without written comment. | Ashland | Support | — | Apr 7, 2025 | |
Meredith Hatfield for The Nature Conservancy NH Concord Position recorded without written comment. | Concord | Support | — | Apr 7, 2025 | |
Janine Fabiano for Myself North Hampton Position recorded without written comment. | North Hampton | Support | — | Apr 7, 2025 | |
Kimberly Hamlin for Myself Newmarket Position recorded without written comment. | Newmarket | Support | — | Apr 7, 2025 | |
Diane Heller for Myself Northwood Position recorded without written comment. | Northwood | Neutral | — | Apr 7, 2025 | |
Carol Foss for New Hampshire Audubon Penacook Position recorded without written comment. | Penacook | Support | — | Apr 7, 2025 | |
Claudia Damon for Myself CONCORD Position recorded without written comment. | CONCORD | Support | — | Apr 7, 2025 | |
Virginia Riege-Blackman for Myself Chichester Position recorded without written comment. | Chichester | Support | — | Apr 7, 2025 | |
Daniel Richardson for Myself Nashua Position recorded without written comment. | Nashua | Oppose | — | Apr 7, 2025 | |
Nancy Wood for Myself Concord Position recorded without written comment. | Concord | Support | — | Apr 7, 2025 | |
Stephen Bravo Bravo for Myself Bradford Position recorded without written comment. | Bradford | Support | — | Apr 7, 2025 | |
Sandra Bravo for Myself Bradford Position recorded without written comment. | Bradford | Support | — | Apr 7, 2025 | |
Wiltrud Mott-Smith for Myself Loudon Position recorded without written comment. | Loudon | Support | — | Apr 7, 2025 | |
Sarah Thorne for Myself Holderness Position recorded without written comment. | Holderness | Support | — | Apr 7, 2025 | |
Joan Widmer for Myself Amherst Position recorded without written comment. | Amherst | Support | — | Apr 7, 2025 | |
Brenda Diederich for Myself BRISTOL Position recorded without written comment. | BRISTOL | Support | — | Apr 7, 2025 | |
Marek Kotelba for Myself Newbury Position recorded without written comment. | Newbury | Support | — | Apr 7, 2025 |