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SENATE BILL 1594 |
SENATE AUTHOR: J. E. Brown |
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EFFECTIVE: 5-17-99 |
HOUSE SPONSOR: Cook |
Senate Bill 1594 amends the Water Code to require the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC) to increase participation for certain small businesses through its regulatory flexibility programs. The TNRCC is required to achieve certain goals relating to regulatory flexibility, including marketing the program to businesses, endorsing alternative methods that will benefit the environment but impose the least onerous restrictions on business, and achieving consistent and predictable results for the regulated community and shorter waits for permits.
The act also adds provisions to the Water Code and Texas Clean Air Act authorizing TNRCC to assist and to implement cost-sharing for environmental compliance assessments performed by a small business employing more than 100 but less than 250 people.