Bill Text: TX SB1796 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a restriction on permits authorizing discharges of sewage effluent into any water in the contributing or recharge zone of the San Antonio or Barton Springs segment of the Edwards Aquifer.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-10 - Left pending in committee [SB1796 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1796-Introduced.html
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By: Menéndez | S.B. No. 1796 |
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relating to a restriction on permits authorizing discharges of | ||
sewage effluent into any water in the contributing or recharge zone | ||
of the San Antonio or Barton Springs segment of 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 26.0465 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 26.0465. RESTRICTION ON PERMITS FOR DISCHARGES OF | ||
SEWAGE EFFLUENT INTO WATER IN CERTAIN ZONES OF EDWARDS AQUIFER. (a) | ||
The commission may not: | ||
(1) issue a new permit authorizing the discharge of | ||
sewage effluent into any water in the contributing or recharge zone | ||
of the San Antonio or Barton Springs segment of the Edwards Aquifer; | ||
or | ||
(2) amend a permit that was issued before September 1, | ||
2017, to authorize an increase in the amount of sewage effluent that | ||
may be discharged into any water in the contributing or recharge | ||
zone of the San Antonio or Barton Springs segment of the Edwards | ||
Aquifer. | ||
(b) This section does not affect the authority of the | ||
commission to issue a new permit authorizing one or more of the | ||
following discharges or to amend a permit to authorize an increase | ||
in one or more of the following discharges: | ||
(1) a discharge of storm water runoff from: | ||
(A) an industrial facility; | ||
(B) a municipal storm sewer system that is | ||
separate and distinct from the municipality's wastewater | ||
collection system; or | ||
(C) construction activity; | ||
(2) a discharge from: | ||
(A) firefighting activity; | ||
(B) the flushing of a fire hydrant; | ||
(C) a potable water source, including the | ||
flushing of drinking fountain water or a water line; | ||
(D) an air conditioner or compressor if the | ||
discharge consists of uncontaminated condensate; | ||
(E) lawn watering or similar irrigation work; | ||
(F) pavement wash-down without the use of | ||
detergents or other chemicals if a spill or leak of toxic or | ||
hazardous material has not occurred or all spilled or leaked | ||
material has been removed; | ||
(G) a routine external building wash-down that | ||
does not use detergents or other compounds; | ||
(H) a foundation or footing drain if the | ||
discharge is not contaminated with a solvent or other process | ||
material; or | ||
(I) the spray-down of a lumber or wood product | ||
storage yard if chemical additives are not used in the spray-down | ||
water and chemicals are not applied to the lumber or wood products | ||
during storage; | ||
(3) a discharge of uncontaminated groundwater or | ||
spring water; or | ||
(4) a discharge of storm water or groundwater seepage | ||
from mine dewatering activity at a construction, sand and gravel, | ||
industrial sand, or crushed stone mining facility. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |