Bill Text: TX HB1873 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a limitation on the expansion of certain landfills.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-23 - Left pending in committee [HB1873 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1873-Introduced.html
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| By: Simmons | H.B. No. 1873 | |
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| relating to a limitation on the expansion of certain landfills. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 361, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 361.1231 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 361.1231. LIMITATION ON EXPANSION OF CERTAIN | ||
| LANDFILLS. (a) This section applies only to a Type I municipal | ||
| solid waste landfill that is located in a municipality or the | ||
| extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality that is located in | ||
| a county with a population of more than 600,000. | ||
| (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter, | ||
| the commission may not approve an application for the issuance, | ||
| amendment, or renewal of a permit that seeks to expand the area or | ||
| capacity of a landfill unless the governing body of each local | ||
| government in whose territory the landfill is located first | ||
| approves by resolution or order the issuance, amendment, or renewal | ||
| of the permit. | ||
| (c) The commission shall provide the members of the | ||
| legislature who represent the district containing the landfill | ||
| described in the permit with an opportunity to comment on the | ||
| application and shall consider those comments in evaluating an | ||
| application under this subchapter. | ||
| SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
| an application for the issuance, amendment, or renewal of a permit | ||
| pending before the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on or | ||
| after the effective date of this Act. A permit issued, amended, or | ||
| renewed before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law | ||
| in effect when the permit was issued, amended, or renewed, and the | ||
| former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
