Bill Text: TX HB4819 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to the regulation by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality of certain solid waste processing facilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-16 - Referred to Water, Agriculture, & Rural Affairs [HB4819 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4819-Engrossed.html
88R26027 MP-D | ||
By: Martinez | H.B. No. 4819 |
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relating to the regulation by the Texas Commission on Environmental | ||
Quality of certain solid waste processing facilities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 361, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 361.127 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 361.127. REQUIREMENTS APPLICABLE TO CERTAIN SOLID | ||
WASTE PROCESSING FACILITIES. (a) This section applies only to a | ||
solid waste processing facility that salvages, separates, | ||
dewaters, reclaims, or otherwise processes municipal sludge, | ||
sewage, septage, grease trap waste, or grit trap waste. | ||
(b) An owner or operator of a solid waste processing | ||
facility must have the consent of and authorization from the owner | ||
or operator of: | ||
(1) the wastewater collection system that will receive | ||
the treated wastewater produced by the processing facility; and | ||
(2) any wastewater treatment facility that will | ||
further treat the treated wastewater. | ||
(c) The commission may not issue, amend, or renew a permit | ||
under this chapter for a solid waste processing facility unless the | ||
owner or operator of the processing facility demonstrates to the | ||
commission's satisfaction that the owner or operator has complied | ||
with Subsection (b). | ||
SECTION 2. Section 361.127(c), Health and Safety Code, as | ||
added by this Act, applies only to a solid waste processing facility | ||
the owner or operator of which files an application with the Texas | ||
Commission on Environmental Quality for the issuance, amendment, or | ||
renewal of a permit on or after the effective date of this Act. A | ||
solid waste processing facility the owner or operator of which | ||
filed an application with the commission for the issuance, | ||
amendment, or renewal of a permit before the effective date of this | ||
Act is governed by the law as it existed immediately before the | ||
effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for | ||
that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. 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, 2023. |