Bill Text: TX HCR30 | 2017 | 85th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Directing the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to maintain its opposition to the Beneficial Land Management request to land apply grease and grit trap waste.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-08-06 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HCR30 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HCR30-Introduced.html
85S12141 KSM-F | ||
By: Morrison | H.C.R. No. 30 |
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WHEREAS, In May 2007, Beneficial Land Management was | ||
authorized to use wastewater treatment plant sewage sludge to | ||
condition or fertilize soil in Victoria County; and | ||
WHEREAS, BLM runs Partners Dewatering International, which | ||
operates the City of LaCoste wastewater treatment plant; while the | ||
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality granted the plant | ||
approval to process grease trap waste and grit trap waste, land | ||
application of the waste was not approved; and | ||
WHEREAS, BLM violated the existing land application permit by | ||
applying grease and grit trap waste from LaCoste to land in Victoria | ||
County; when the TCEQ recognized this infraction, BLM was notified, | ||
and the commission and the company entered into a compliance | ||
agreement with required monitoring and sampling of the application | ||
site, allowing BLM to continue its land application operations | ||
until July 6, 2014; and | ||
WHEREAS, The company has since applied for another | ||
experimental use permit to allow for the land application of grease | ||
and grit trap waste, and this has become the focus of a contested | ||
case at the State Office of Administrative Hearings; and | ||
WHEREAS, The land application of grease and grit trap waste | ||
presents a significant threat of damage to Arenosa Creek, Lavaca | ||
Bay, and the surrounding land resources in Victoria County and | ||
beyond, and it is incumbent on the Texas Commission on | ||
Environmental Quality to continue to oppose requests to do so; now, | ||
therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the 85th Legislature of the State of Texas, | ||
1st Called Session, hereby direct the Texas Commission on | ||
Environmental Quality to maintain its opposition to the Beneficial | ||
Land Management request to land apply grease and grit trap waste and | ||
to actively oppose any efforts to circumvent existing state law by | ||
land applying grease and grit trap waste; and, be it further | ||
RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official | ||
copies of this resolution to the offices of the commissioners and | ||
the executive director of the Texas Commission on Environmental | ||
Quality. |