By: Puente H.B. No. 1316
73R4853 SMH-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the drilling and operation of artesian wells.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 11.202(d), Water Code, is amended to read
1-5 as follows:
1-6 (d) Except as provided by Subsection (e) of this section,
1-7 after September 1, 1991, and before September <January> 1, 1997
1-8 <1994>, a person may not drill and operate a free-flowing artesian
1-9 well in a sole or principal source aquifer as designated by 40
1-10 C.F.R., Part 149, pursuant to Section 1424(e), Safe Drinking Water
1-11 Act (42 U.S.C. 300h-3(e)) that will result in a flow of more than
1-12 5,000 gallons per minute or that is within 1,000 feet of another
1-13 well if the combined flows would exceed 5,000 gallons per minute.
1-14 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-20 passage, and it is so enacted.