Bill Text: TX HB4119 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed
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Bill Title: Relating to procedural requirements for uranium mining production area authorizations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-24 - Removed from local & uncontested calendar [HB4119 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4119-Engrossed.html
Bill Title: Relating to procedural requirements for uranium mining production area authorizations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-24 - Removed from local & uncontested calendar [HB4119 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4119-Engrossed.html
88R24469 JAM-F | ||
By: Guillen | H.B. No. 4119 |
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relating to procedural requirements for uranium mining production | ||
area authorizations. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 27.0513(d), Water Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(d) Notwithstanding Sections 5.551, 5.556, 27.011, and | ||
27.018, an application for an authorization or an amendment to an | ||
authorization that allows the permit holder to conduct mining and | ||
restoration activities in production zones within the boundary | ||
established in the permit is an uncontested matter not subject to a | ||
contested case hearing or the hearing requirements of Chapter 2001, | ||
Government Code, if: | ||
(1) the authorization is for a production zone located | ||
within the boundary of a permit that incorporates, for each | ||
production zone addressed in the application, a range table of | ||
groundwater quality restoration values used to measure groundwater | ||
restoration by the commission; | ||
(2) the application includes, for each production zone | ||
addressed in the application, groundwater quality restoration | ||
values falling at or below the upper limit of the range established | ||
in Subdivision (1); and | ||
(3) the authorization is for a production zone located | ||
within the boundary of a permit that incorporates groundwater | ||
baseline characteristics of the wells for the application required | ||
by commission rule. | ||
SECTION 2. Sections 27.0513(f) and (g), Water Code, are | ||
repealed. | ||
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to an application for an authorization or an amendment to an | ||
authorization that is submitted to the Texas Commission on | ||
Environmental Quality on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
An application for an authorization or an amendment to an | ||
authorization that was submitted to the commission before the | ||
effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect at the | ||
time the application or amendment was submitted, and the former law | ||
is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |