The department assumes all the policymaking functions, regulatory and enforcement powers, rights, duties, and responsibilities of the Division of Environmental Health, the Air Conservation Committee, the Solid and Hazardous Waste Committee, the Utah Safe Drinking Water Committee, and the Water Pollution Control Committee previously vested in the Department of Health and Human Services and its executive director:

1. (1) including programs for individual wastewater disposal systems, liquid scavenger operations, and vault and earthen pit privies; but
2. (2) excluding all other sanitation programs, which shall be administered by the Department of Health and Human Services.

Amended by Chapter 327, 2023 General Session