Bill Text: TX HB3597 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to application and notification requirements for a permit to drill an oil or gas well in or near an easement held by the Texas Department of Transportation.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-05-13 - Referred to Natural Resources [HB3597 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB3597-Engrossed.html
| By: Burnam | H.B. No. 3597 | |
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| relating to application and notification requirements for a permit | ||
| to drill an oil or gas well in or near an easement held by the Texas | ||
| Department of Transportation. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 91, Natural Resources | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 91.021 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 91.021. NOTICE OF PERMIT TO DRILL WELL IN | ||
| TRANSPORTATION EASEMENT. (a) In this section, "department" means | ||
| the Texas Department of Transportation. | ||
| (b) The commission shall adopt rules to require that an | ||
| application for a permit to drill an oil or gas well include an | ||
| affirmation as to whether or not the well is located within an | ||
| easement held by the department or within 50 yards of an easement | ||
| held by the department. | ||
| (c) Not later than the 14th | ||
| day after the date the | ||
| commission receives an application for a permit to drill an oil or | ||
| gas well that contains an affirmation that the well is located | ||
| within an easement held by the department or within 50 yards of an | ||
| easement held by the department, the commission shall transmit the | ||
| application to the department. | ||
| (d) This section does not grant to the department any | ||
| authority regarding the approval of an application for a permit to | ||
| drill an oil or gas well. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 91.021, Natural Resources Code, as added | ||
| by this Act, applies only to a permit application filed with the | ||
| Railroad Commission of Texas on or after the effective date of this | ||
| Act. A permit application filed with the commission before the | ||
| effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect when the | ||
| application was filed, and the former law is continued in effect for | ||
| that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
