Enrolled Bill Summary

            Senate Bill 324 amends the Water Code to require the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission to consider certain factors in processing an application for an injection well for the disposal of either hazardous or nonhazardous waste. The bill requires the commission to establish a procedure for the preparation of comprehensive summaries of the compliance history of an applicant, including the compliance history of any business that the applicant has owned or managed, or that is otherwise closely related to the applicant; allows the commission's executive director to offer that compliance history as evidence at a hearing on the application for an injection well permit; and requires the commission to deny the application for an injection well permit if the applicant's compliance history is found to be unacceptable. The bill also increases the application fee for an application for a disposal well permit from $25 to $100 plus the cost of any required notice.