Bill Text: TX SB551 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to inaccurate or incomplete permit applications for solid waste facilities.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-21 - Referred to Natural Resources & Economic Development [SB551 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB551-Introduced.html
86R4737 JXC-D | ||
By: Kolkhorst, Zaffirini | S.B. No. 551 |
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relating to inaccurate or incomplete permit applications for solid | ||
waste 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 361.0681 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 361.0681. RETURN OR DENIAL OF INCOMPLETE OR INACCURATE | ||
APPLICATION. (a) Before the commission determines that a permit | ||
application is administratively and technically complete, the | ||
commission may return the application to an applicant if the | ||
application is incomplete or inaccurate. | ||
(b) The commission: | ||
(1) shall deny a permit application the commission | ||
finds to be incomplete or inaccurate during technical review if the | ||
commission returned a previous version of the application to the | ||
applicant during technical review because the previous version was | ||
incomplete or inaccurate; and | ||
(2) may not approve a subsequent application for a | ||
solid waste facility at the site that was the subject of the denied | ||
application under Subdivision (1). | ||
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply to an | ||
application for the issuance of a permit pending before the Texas | ||
Commission on Environmental Quality on or after the effective date | ||
of this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |