Bill Text: TX HB1535 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the permitting of certain small commercial development and county park sewage collection, treatment, and disposal systems as on-site sewage disposal systems.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-03 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1535 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1535-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Reynolds | H.B. No. 1535 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1535: | |||
| By: Reynolds | C.S.H.B. No. 1535 | ||
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| relating to the permitting of certain small commercial development | ||
| and county park sewage collection, treatment, and disposal systems | ||
| as on-site sewage disposal systems. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 366, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 366.0513 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 366.0513. SMALL COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND COUNTY PARK | ||
| SYSTEMS. (a) A small commercial development sewage collection, | ||
| treatment, and disposal system may be permitted as an on-site | ||
| sewage disposal system under this chapter if the system: | ||
| (1) is located on property jointly owned by the | ||
| property owners served by the system, as described by the county | ||
| deed records; | ||
| (2) produces not more than 5,000 gallons a day on an | ||
| annual average basis; | ||
| (3) serves an area that does not exceed 15 acres; | ||
| (4) is designed to serve two or more sewage-generating | ||
| units on separate tracts of land; | ||
| (5) collects sewage only from commercial or | ||
| institutional facilities or business parks; | ||
| (6) is located more than 2,000 feet from the nearest | ||
| reservoir used for municipal water supply, unless the owner of the | ||
| reservoir consents in writing; | ||
| (7) is approved by the governing body of any | ||
| municipality: | ||
| (A) that provides wastewater utility service to | ||
| the property where the system is located at the time of the request | ||
| for the permit; and | ||
| (B) in whose boundaries or extraterritorial | ||
| jurisdiction the property is located; | ||
| (8) includes an interceptor for any facility engaged | ||
| in food service activities, if required by commission rule or local | ||
| ordinance or code; | ||
| (9) does not accept waste streams from industrial | ||
| users subject to general pretreatment regulations under 40 C.F.R. | ||
| Part 403; and | ||
| (10) is professionally managed by an entity with the | ||
| appropriate authorization required by the commission to manage the | ||
| system. | ||
| (b) A sewage collection, treatment, and disposal system | ||
| that serves a county park may be permitted as an on-site sewage | ||
| disposal system under this chapter if the system: | ||
| (1) is located on property owned or operated by the | ||
| county; | ||
| (2) produces not more than 5,000 gallons a day on an | ||
| annual average basis; | ||
| (3) collects only sewage generated at the park; and | ||
| (4) meets the requirements of Subsections | ||
| (a)(6)-(10). | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
