Bill Text: TX HB3467 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a restriction on permits authorizing discharges of sewage effluent into any water in the contributing or recharge zone of the San Antonio or Barton Springs segment of the Edwards Aquifer.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-11 - Referred to Natural Resources [HB3467 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3467-Introduced.html
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| By: Howard | H.B. No. 3467 | |
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| relating to a restriction on permits authorizing discharges of | ||
| sewage effluent into any water in the contributing or recharge zone | ||
| of the San Antonio or Barton Springs segment of the Edwards Aquifer. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 26, Water Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Section 26.0465 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 26.0465. RESTRICTION ON PERMITS FOR DISCHARGES OF | ||
| SEWAGE EFFLUENT INTO WATER IN CERTAIN ZONES OF EDWARDS AQUIFER. (a) | ||
| The commission may not: | ||
| (1) issue a new permit authorizing the discharge of | ||
| sewage effluent into any water in the contributing or recharge zone | ||
| of the San Antonio or Barton Springs segment of the Edwards Aquifer; | ||
| or | ||
| (2) amend a permit that was issued before September 1, | ||
| 2017, to authorize an increase in the amount of sewage effluent that | ||
| may be discharged into any water in the contributing or recharge | ||
| zone of the San Antonio or Barton Springs segment of the Edwards | ||
| Aquifer. | ||
| (b) This section does not affect the authority of the | ||
| commission to issue a new permit authorizing one or more of the | ||
| following discharges or to amend a permit to authorize an increase | ||
| in one or more of the following discharges: | ||
| (1) a discharge of storm water runoff from: | ||
| (A) an industrial facility; | ||
| (B) a municipal storm sewer system that is | ||
| separate and distinct from the municipality's wastewater | ||
| collection system; or | ||
| (C) construction activity; | ||
| (2) a discharge from: | ||
| (A) firefighting activity; | ||
| (B) the flushing of a fire hydrant; | ||
| (C) a potable water source, including the | ||
| flushing of drinking fountain water or a water line; | ||
| (D) an air conditioner or compressor if the | ||
| discharge consists of uncontaminated condensate; | ||
| (E) lawn watering or similar irrigation work; | ||
| (F) pavement wash-down without the use of | ||
| detergents or other chemicals if a spill or leak of toxic or | ||
| hazardous material has not occurred or all spilled or leaked | ||
| material has been removed; | ||
| (G) a routine external building wash-down that | ||
| does not use detergents or other compounds; | ||
| (H) a foundation or footing drain if the | ||
| discharge is not contaminated with a solvent or other process | ||
| material; or | ||
| (I) the spray-down of a lumber or wood product | ||
| storage yard if chemical additives are not used in the spray-down | ||
| water and chemicals are not applied to the lumber or wood products | ||
| during storage; | ||
| (3) a discharge of uncontaminated groundwater or | ||
| spring water; or | ||
| (4) a discharge of storm water or groundwater seepage | ||
| from mine dewatering activity at a construction, sand and gravel, | ||
| industrial sand, or crushed stone mining facility. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
