Bill Text: TX HB444 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to notification of applications for permits for certain injection wells.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-05-21 - Effective immediately [HB444 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB444-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to notification of applications for permits for certain injection wells.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-05-21 - Effective immediately [HB444 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB444-Comm_Sub.html
By: Creighton (Senate Sponsor - Nichols) | H.B. No. 444 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 7, 2011; | ||
April 20, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Natural Resources; May 4, 2011, reported favorably by the | ||
following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 4, 2011, sent to printer.) |
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relating to notification of applications for permits for certain | ||
injection wells. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 27.017, Water Code, is amended to read as | ||
follows: | ||
Sec. 27.017. RECOMMENDATIONS FROM OTHER ENTITIES. (a) The | ||
executive director shall submit to the [ |
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Health Services and to other persons which the commission may | ||
designate copies of every application received in proper form. | ||
These entities may make recommendations to the commission | ||
concerning any aspect of the application within 30 days. | ||
(b) If an application is received in proper form for a | ||
permit for an injection well to dispose of industrial and municipal | ||
waste and the proposed location of the injection well is in the | ||
territory of a groundwater conservation district, the executive | ||
director shall submit a copy of the application to the governing | ||
body of the groundwater conservation district. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 27.018, Water Code, is amended by adding | ||
Subsection (e) to read as follows: | ||
(e) In addition to the requirements of Subsection (c), | ||
before any testimony is heard in a contested case regarding an | ||
application for a permit for an injection well to dispose of | ||
industrial and municipal waste that is proposed to be located in the | ||
territory of a groundwater conservation district, the record of the | ||
proceeding must include evidence that: | ||
(1) a copy of each draft permit proposed by the | ||
executive director was provided to the governing body of the | ||
groundwater conservation district; and | ||
(2) notice of the contested case hearing was mailed to | ||
the governing body of the groundwater conservation district. | ||
SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply only in | ||
regard to the provision of copies of and proceedings on an | ||
application for a permit for an injection well to dispose of | ||
industrial and municipal waste that is proposed to be located in the | ||
territory of a groundwater conservation district that is received | ||
in proper form by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on | ||
or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 4. 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. | ||
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