1-1 By: Brown S.B. No. 1384
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed April 16, 1993; April 19, 1993, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
1-4 May 3, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6,
1-5 Nays 0; May 3, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Sims x
1-9 Truan x
1-10 Armbrister x
1-11 Barrientos x
1-12 Bivins x
1-13 Brown x
1-14 Carriker x
1-15 Lucio x
1-16 Montford x
1-17 Ratliff x
1-18 Shelley x
1-19 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-20 AN ACT
1-21 relating to the powers of the Gulf Coast Waste Disposal Authority.
1-22 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-23 SECTION 1. Section 1.02, Chapter 409, Acts of the 61st
1-24 Legislature, Regular Session, 1969, is amended to read as follows:
1-25 Sec. 1.02. FINDINGS AND DECLARATION OF POLICY. It is hereby
1-26 found and declared that the quality of waters in Chambers,
1-27 Galveston, and Harris Counties is materially affected by the
1-28 disposal of wastes throughout those counties; that regional
1-29 approaches to studying water pollution within or outside the
1-30 district <in these counties>, to planning corrective and preventive
1-31 measures, to providing coordinated facilities for waste disposal,
1-32 and to regulating waste disposal would be far more effective than
1-33 efforts on a county-wide, city-wide, or smaller scale; that solid
1-34 wastes, as well as other kinds of waste, may impair water quality
1-35 by seepage, drainage, and otherwise; that regional approaches to
1-36 testing, investigating, and studying vehicular air pollution within
1-37 or outside the district, to planning corrective and preventive
1-38 measures, and to providing coordinated facilities for vehicular
1-39 inspection and maintenance and for reduction of vehicular air
1-40 emissions would be far more effective than efforts on a
1-41 county-wide, city-wide, or smaller scale; that creation of the Gulf
1-42 Coast Waste Disposal Authority would advance the established policy
1-43 of the state to maintain the quality of the air and waters in the
1-44 state consistent with the public health and public enjoyment
1-45 thereof, the propagation and protection of terrestrial and aquatic
1-46 life, the operation of existing industries, and the economic
1-47 development of the state; and that impending shortage of water in
1-48 the district for beneficial uses requires that all reasonable
1-49 measures be taken to prevent and abate water pollution, and to
1-50 reclaim polluted water for beneficial uses.
1-51 SECTION 2. Subdivision (22), Subsection (a), Section 1.03,
1-52 Chapter 409, Acts of the 61st Legislature, Regular Session, 1969,
1-53 is amended to read as follows:
1-54 (22) "Outside the district" means the area contained
1-55 in counties adjacent to the district and Orange County.
1-56 SECTION 3. Section 3.24, Chapter 409, Acts of the 61st
1-57 Legislature, Regular Session, 1969, is amended to read as follows:
1-58 Sec. 3.24. COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS. The authority may enter
1-59 into cooperative agreements with other local governments, state
1-60 agencies, or agencies of the United States of America or their
1-61 contractors:
1-62 (1) to perform water quality and waste disposal
1-63 management, inspection, and enforcement functions and give
1-64 technical aid and education services to any entity that is a party
1-65 to the agreement; <and>
1-66 (2) to design, construct, own, finance, lease, and
1-67 operate vehicular air emissions inspection programs and facilities
1-68 within or outside the district to test, evaluate, and reduce
2-1 vehicular air pollution; and
2-2 (3) to transfer money or property to any entity that
2-3 is a party to the cooperative agreement for the purpose of water
2-4 quality and waste disposal management, inspection, enforcement, and
2-5 technical aid and education and for the purpose of designing,
2-6 constructing, owning, financing, leasing, and operating vehicular
2-7 air emissions inspection programs or facilities.
2-8 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-13 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-14 passage, and it is so enacted.
2-15 * * * * *
2-16 Austin,
2-17 Texas
2-18 May 3, 1993
2-19 Hon. Bob Bullock
2-20 President of the Senate
2-21 Sir:
2-22 We, your Committee on Natural Resources to which was referred S.B.
2-23 No. 1384, have had the same under consideration, and I am
2-24 instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
2-25 that it do pass and be printed.
2-26 Sims,
2-27 Chairman
2-28 * * * * *
2-29 WITNESSES
2-30 FOR AGAINST ON
2-31 ___________________________________________________________________
2-32 Name: Kinnan Golemon x
2-33 Representing: Gulf Coast Waste Disposal Auth
2-34 City: Austin
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