New Hampshire bans burning of C&D debris.New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). Gov. John Lynch For other persons named John Lynch, see John Lynch (disambiguation). John H. Lynch (born November 25 1952, Waltham, Massachusetts) is the current Governor of New Hampshire. has signed a law permanently banning the burning of construction and demolition debris in the state. The ban will take effect on Jan 1, 2008, replacing a moratorium A suspension of activity or an authorized period of delay or waiting. A moratorium is sometimes agreed upon by the interested parties, or it may be authorized or imposed by operation of law. on burning the material that expires Dec. 31. William Turley, executive director of the Construction Materials Recycling Association (CMRA CMRA Commercial Mail Receiving Agency CMRA Construction Materials Recycling Association CMRA Central Motorcycle Roadracing Association CMRA Capital Market Risk Advisors, Inc. ), has said the ban could slam the door shut on an important market for recycled C&D debris in New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. . "Currently, there are no wood fuel power plants, except for some that use residues from the logging industry, in New Hampshire, so there is nobody using C&D wood fuel now in the state, although a couple such facilities have been proposed," he said in an earlier news report. "We might see these ideas that C&D wood is in some way unsafe spread to other states, and we don't want this untrue concept to take hold." The CMRA through its Issues & Education Fund has been working with the University of New Hampshire on research to present to the state government that would provide evidence that C&D wood is a material that can be used as wood fuel with comparable environmental impacts to other fuel products. More information on the legislation is available online at www.nh.gov and www. cdrecycling.org. |
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