By Holzheauser H.B. No. 1405 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1405: By Holzheauser C.S.H.B. No. 1405 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to facility response plans for hazardous liquids 1-3 pipelines. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 117.012, Natural Resources Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Subsections (d), (e), and (f) to read as follows: 1-7 (d) The commission may adopt rules that require a hazardous 1-8 liquid pipeline facility to prepare and submit for commission 1-9 approval a facility response plan for all or any part of a 1-10 hazardous liquid pipeline facility located landward of the coast. 1-11 Rules shall require the facility response plan to include plans for 1-12 responding, to the maximum extent practicable, to a worst case 1-13 discharge and to a substantial threat of such a discharge of 1-14 hazardous liquids that could reasonably be expected to cause 1-15 substantial harm to the environment by discharging into navigable 1-16 waters. 1-17 (e) Rules relating to facility response plans shall be 1-18 consistent with the provisions of Section 4202(b)(4) of the Oil 1-19 Pollution Act of 1990, 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1321(j)(5). 1-20 (f) Rules relating to facility response plans do not apply 1-21 to a hazardous liquid pipeline facility that is required to 1-22 implement a discharge prevention and response plan under the Oil 1-23 Spill Prevention and Response Act of 1991, Chapter 40, Natural 2-1 Resources Code. 2-2 SECTION 2. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation 2-3 and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.