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Senate Bill 483 |
Senate Author: Campbell |
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Effective: 6-10-19 |
House Sponsor: Zwiener |
Senate Bill 483 amends the Injection Well Act, Water Code, to revise provisions relating to permits for injection wells that transect or terminate in a certain portion of the Edwards Aquifer that is within the external boundaries of the Barton Springs-Edwards Aquifer Conservation District. The bill requires rules adopted or a permit issued under such provisions to ensure that an engineered aquifer storage and recovery facility project is consistent with statutory aquifer storage and recovery project provisions, as applicable. Among other provisions, the bill authorizes the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality by rule, individual permit, or general permit to authorize the injection of fresh water into a well that transects the aquifer provided that the well isolates the aquifer and meets applicable construction and completion standards, the well is part of an engineered aquifer storage and recovery facility, and the injected water is sourced from a permitted public water system and meets applicable water quality standards for public drinking water.