Bill Text: TX HB3718 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the development, protection, and production of brackish aquifers.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-16 - Left pending in committee [HB3718 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB3718-Introduced.html
| By: Martinez Fischer | H.B. No. 3718 | |
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| relating to the development, protection, and production of brackish | ||
| aquifers. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 11, Water Code is amended | ||
| by adding Section 11.054 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 11.054. BRACKISH AQUIFER. (a) The administration of | ||
| rules concerning brackish aquifers shall be efficient, equitable, | ||
| and provide sufficient uniformity to produce the highest and best | ||
| use of resources from brackish aquifers. | ||
| (b) The highest and best use of brackish aquifers includes: | ||
| (1) The production of freshwater through | ||
| desalination; | ||
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| The use of produced water for use in hydraulic | ||
| fracturing. | ||
| (c) The development and production of natural resources in | ||
| brackish aquifers in subsection (b) shall be given precedence over | ||
| all other permitted uses of the brackish aquifer. | ||
| (d) It shall be the goal of the state of Texas to use | ||
| resources from brackish aquifers to: | ||
| (1) reduce freshwater consumption from hydraulic | ||
| fracturing, including promoting recycling of produced water; | ||
| (2) increase access to freshwater for agricultural, | ||
| municipal, and industrial consumption. | ||
| SECTION 2. The effective date of this Act is September 1, 2013 | ||
