Bill Text: TX HB2659 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to reporting requirements for certain accidental discharges or spills.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-26 - Left pending in committee [HB2659 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2659-Introduced.html
| 87R7833 JAM-D | ||
| By: Rosenthal | H.B. No. 2659 | |
|
|
||
|
|
||
| relating to reporting requirements for certain accidental | ||
| discharges or spills. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Sections 26.039(b) and (g), Water Code, are | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (b) Except as provided by Subsection (g), whenever an | ||
| accidental discharge or spill occurs at or from any activity or | ||
| facility which causes or may cause pollution, the individual | ||
| operating, in charge of, or responsible for the activity or | ||
| facility shall notify the commission and the county judge of the | ||
| county in which the spill or discharge occurred as soon as possible | ||
| and not later than 24 hours after the occurrence. The individual's | ||
| notice to the commission and county judge must include the | ||
| location, volume, and content of the discharge or spill. | ||
| (g) The individual is not required to notify the commission | ||
| or a county judge of an accidental discharge or spill of treated or | ||
| untreated domestic wastewater under Subsection (b) or officials or | ||
| media under Subsection (e) of a single accidental discharge or | ||
| spill that: | ||
| (1) occurs at a wastewater treatment or collection | ||
| facility owned or operated by a local government; | ||
| (2) has a volume of 1,000 gallons or less; | ||
| (3) is not associated with another simultaneous | ||
| accidental discharge or spill; | ||
| (4) is controlled or removed before the accidental | ||
| discharge or spill: | ||
| (A) enters water in the state; or | ||
| (B) adversely affects a public or private source | ||
| of drinking water; | ||
| (5) will not endanger human health or safety or the | ||
| environment; and | ||
| (6) is not otherwise subject to local regulatory | ||
| control and reporting requirements. | ||
| 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, 2021. | ||
