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House Bill 1953 |
House Author: Thompson, Ed |
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Effective: 5-17-19 |
Senate Sponsor: Hancock |
House Bill 1953 amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act, Health and Safety Code, to prohibit the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) from considering post-use polymers or recoverable feedstock to be solid waste if they are converted using pyrolysis or gasification into a valuable raw, intermediate, or final product. The bill subjects the recycling and reuse of post-use polymers and recoverable feedstocks classified as hazardous waste under federal law to the federal hazardous waste recycling requirements.
House Bill 1953 exempts a facility that reuses or converts recyclable materials through pyrolysis or gasification, and the operations conducted and materials handled at the facility, from regulation under certain rules relating to the regulation of certain facilities as solid waste facilities if the owner or operator of the facility demonstrates that the facility's primary function is to convert materials that have a resale value greater than the cost of converting the materials for subsequent beneficial use and that all the solid waste generated from converting the materials is disposed of in a hazardous solid waste management facility or a solid waste facility authorized under the act, as appropriate, with the exception of small amounts of solid waste that may be inadvertently and unintentionally disposed of in another manner.
House Bill 1953 prohibits TCEQ from considering a gasification or pyrolysis facility to be a hazardous waste management facility, a solid waste management facility, or an incinerator; excludes as solid waste post-use polymers or recoverable feedstocks processed through pyrolysis or gasification that do not qualify as hazardous waste under the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976; and includes as recycling the conversion of post-use polymers and recoverable feedstocks through pyrolysis or gasification for purposes of provisions relating to waste reduction programs and disposal fees.