Bill Text: TX SB1428 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a prohibition on the issuance by the Railroad Commission of Texas of a permit for certain commercial surface disposal facilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-16 - Referred to Natural Resources & Economic Development [SB1428 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1428-Introduced.html
| 88R3387 ANG-F | ||
| By: Nichols | S.B. No. 1428 | |
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| relating to a prohibition on the issuance by the Railroad | ||
| Commission of Texas of a permit for certain commercial surface | ||
| disposal facilities. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 91, Natural Resources | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 91.118 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 91.118. PROHIBITION ON PERMIT FOR COMMERCIAL SURFACE | ||
| DISPOSAL FACILITY IF ALTERNATIVE EXISTS. (a) In this section, | ||
| "commercial surface disposal facility" has the meaning assigned by | ||
| Section 91.116. | ||
| (b) The commission may not approve an application for a | ||
| permit for a commercial surface disposal facility unless the | ||
| commission determines the facility is necessary after considering | ||
| whether a practical, economic, and feasible alternative to the | ||
| facility exists that is reasonably available to provide disposal of | ||
| the types of fluids and waste for which the permit is sought. | ||
| SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
| to an application for a permit that is filed with the Railroad | ||
| Commission of Texas on or after the effective date of this Act. An | ||
| application for a permit filed before the effective date of this Act | ||
| is governed by the law in effect on the date of filing, and that law | ||
| is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
