Bill Text: TX SB617 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a manifest system to record the transportation of certain liquid wastes.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-17 - Referred to Natural Resources [SB617 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB617-Introduced.html
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| By: Rodriguez | S.B. No. 617 | |
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| relating to a manifest system to record the transportation of | ||
| certain liquid wastes. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 361, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 361.034 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 361.034. RECORDS AND MANIFESTS REQUIRED FOR CERTAIN | ||
| MUNICIPAL LIQUID WASTES. (a) The commission by rule shall require | ||
| a person who generates, collects, conveys, transports, processes, | ||
| stores, or disposes of municipal sewage sludge, grit trap waste, or | ||
| grease trap waste to keep records and use, as prescribed by | ||
| commission rule, a sequentially numbered, uniform transportation | ||
| manifest issued by the commission to ensure that the waste is | ||
| transported to an appropriate processing, storage, or disposal | ||
| facility or site permitted or authorized for that purpose. | ||
| (b) The rules must require the person who generates the | ||
| waste, the person who transports the waste, and the person who | ||
| processes, stores, or disposes of the waste each to retain, for not | ||
| less than three years, a copy of the uniform transportation | ||
| manifest that records the: | ||
| (1) generator and transporter; | ||
| (2) processing, storage, or disposal site; and | ||
| (3) processing, storage, or disposal method. | ||
| (c) The rules must require that aggregate amounts of waste | ||
| recorded on the manifests required under this section match the | ||
| amounts of waste reported to the commission annually. The | ||
| commission may require copies of uniform transportation manifests | ||
| to be submitted with reports to the commission or at other times. | ||
| SECTION 2. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality | ||
| shall adopt rules under Section 361.034, Health and Safety Code, as | ||
| added by this Act, as soon as practicable so that the rules take | ||
| effect not later than March 1, 2012. | ||
| 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, 2011. | ||
