By: Ratliff S.B. No. 1036 73R419 JJT-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the disposal of solid waste in certain landfills. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 361, Health and Safety 1-5 Code, is amended by adding Section 361.115 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 361.115. CERTIFICATION OF LANDFILL CAPACITY TO 1-7 MUNICIPALITY; RESTRICTIONS ON CONTRACT. (a) The owner or operator 1-8 of a solid waste landfill facility permitted by the commission or 1-9 licensed by a county, before entering into a contract with a 1-10 municipality for the disposal of the municipality's solid waste, 1-11 must certify to the municipality that the facility has the capacity 1-12 to dispose of the volume of waste proposed in the contract for the 1-13 duration of the contract. 1-14 (b) The owner or operator of a solid waste landfill facility 1-15 permitted by the commission or licensed by a county who has a 1-16 contract with a municipality to dispose of the municipality's solid 1-17 waste may not enter into a contract to accept solid waste generated 1-18 from outside the municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction for 1-19 disposal at the facility in an amount that would reduce the 1-20 projected life of the facility to less than the remaining duration 1-21 of the contract for the disposal of the municipality's waste. 1-22 (c) The commission by rule shall require the owner or 1-23 operator of a solid waste landfill facility permitted by the 1-24 commission or licensed by a county who has a contract with a 2-1 municipality for the disposal of the municipality's solid waste to 2-2 certify and report to the municipality annually that the owner or 2-3 operator has the capacity to fulfill its contractual obligations to 2-4 the municipality for solid waste disposal. The certification must 2-5 include a statement: 2-6 (1) of the remaining permitted solid waste disposal 2-7 capacity of the facility; 2-8 (2) of the contractually committed volumes or tonnages 2-9 of waste accepted at the facility; 2-10 (3) from a registered professional engineer in this 2-11 state that the capacities stated in the certification are correct; 2-12 and 2-13 (4) from the owner or operator that the facility 2-14 possesses the capacity to fulfill the disposal commitments in the 2-15 contract with the municipality. 2-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 2-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.