Bill Text: TX HB3412 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to regulation of the management and disposal of certain drinking water treatment residuals through underground injection.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-05 - No action taken in committee [HB3412 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB3412-Introduced.html
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| By: Darby | H.B. No. 3412 | |
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| relating to regulation of the management and disposal of certain | ||
| drinking water treatment residuals through underground injection. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 401.412, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Subsections (g) and (h) to read as follows: | ||
| (g) The commission by rule shall provide for the expedited | ||
| processing of applications for and the issuance of licenses | ||
| required by this chapter for the management of residuals derived | ||
| from the treatment of groundwater for drinking water purposes. | ||
| (h) In exercising its authority under Subsection (g), the | ||
| commission shall, where applicable, reciprocate recognition of | ||
| similar licensing authorized to an applicant by other agencies of | ||
| this state in an effort to create administrative efficiencies, | ||
| avoid regulatory redundancies, and otherwise streamline the | ||
| administrative requirements for obtaining any additional licensing | ||
| that may be required under this chapter. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 27, Water Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Section 27.026 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 27.026. USE OF BEDDED SALT FORMATIONS FOR DISPOSAL OF | ||
| CERTAIN DRINKING WATER TREATMENT RESIDUALS. (a) The commission by | ||
| rule shall provide for the expedited processing of applications for | ||
| and issuance of permits required under this chapter for the | ||
| disposal into a bedded salt formation of residuals derived from the | ||
| treatment of groundwater for drinking water purposes. | ||
| (b) In exercising its authority under Subsection (a), the | ||
| commission shall work to create administrative efficiencies, avoid | ||
| regulatory redundancies, where applicable, and otherwise | ||
| streamline the administrative requirements for obtaining permits | ||
| required by this chapter. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 27.073, Water Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Subsection (e) to read as follows: | ||
| (e) Persons to whom an injection well permit is issued under | ||
| Section 27.026 for a well that is also permitted for injection | ||
| disposal by the railroad commission may demonstrate financial | ||
| responsibility to the commission upon demonstration that | ||
| compatible financial security has already been issued in | ||
| satisfaction of the railroad commission requirements adopted under | ||
| this section. | ||
| SECTION 4. As soon as possible after the effective date of | ||
| this Act, the Department of State Health Services, the Texas | ||
| Commission on Environmental Quality, and the Railroad Commission of | ||
| Texas shall undertake all efforts necessary to efficiently | ||
| implement this Act while providing for the preservation of | ||
| groundwater quality and otherwise ensuring all necessary | ||
| protections of the public health and safety. | ||
| SECTION 5. 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, 2011. | ||
