Bill Text: TX SB1745 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to minimum pollution removal requirements for certain stormwater discharges in the Edwards Aquifer.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-02 - No action taken in committee [SB1745 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB1745-Introduced.html
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| By: Uresti | S.B. No. 1745 | |
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| relating to minimum pollution removal requirements for certain | ||
| stormwater discharges in the Edwards Aquifer. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 26, Water Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Section 26.0463 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 26.0463. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR POLLUTION REMOVAL | ||
| FOR STORMWATER ENTERING EDWARDS AQUIFER. (a) In this section, | ||
| "stormwater treatment facility" means a facility that utilizes best | ||
| management practices approved by the commission for use in a water | ||
| pollution abatement plan, or similar submission, for the purpose of | ||
| filtering out and removing pollutants such as total suspended | ||
| solids from stormwater runoff from commercial, residential, | ||
| industrial, or retail developments that are located within the | ||
| recharge zone of the Edwards Aquifer, as defined by commission | ||
| rule. | ||
| (b) The commission may not approve the use or installation | ||
| of a new stormwater treatment facility in a water pollution | ||
| abatement plan unless the stormwater treatment facility has been | ||
| shown to remove at least 85 percent of the total suspended solids | ||
| required to be removed prior to the discharge of the stormwater into | ||
| the recharge zone of the Edwards Aquifer according to the | ||
| "Complying with the Edwards Aquifer Rules, Technical Guidance on | ||
| Best Management Practices," as amended, or by other commission | ||
| rule. | ||
| (c) This section does not apply to a recharge enhancement | ||
| facility within a natural watercourse that is expressly designed | ||
| and installed to improve the quantity and quality of surface water | ||
| entering the aquifer. | ||
| SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
| to an application for approval or amendment of a water pollution | ||
| abatement plan or similar submission that is submitted to the Texas | ||
| Commission on Environmental Quality on or after the effective date | ||
| of this Act. An application for approval or amendment of a water | ||
| pollution abatement plan or similar submission that was submitted | ||
| to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality before the | ||
| effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect at the | ||
| time the application or submission was filed, and the former 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, 2013. | ||
