By Holzheauser 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), (f) and (g) to read as 1-7 follows: 1-8 (d) The commission may adopt rules that require a hazardous 1-9 liquid pipeline facility to prepare and submit for commission 1-10 approval a facility response plan for all or any part of a 1-11 hazardous liquid pipeline facility located landward of the coast. 1-12 Rules shall require the facility response plan to include plans for 1-13 responding, to the maximum extent practicable, to a worst case 1-14 discharge and to a substantial threat of such a discharge of 1-15 hazardous liquids that could reasonably be expected to cause 1-16 substantial harm to the environment by discharging into navigable 1-17 waters. 1-18 (e) Rules relating to facility response plans shall be 1-19 consistent with the provisions of Section 4202 (b)(4) of the Oil 1-20 Pollution Act of 1990, 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1321(j)(5). 1-21 (f) Rules relating to facility response plans do not apply 1-22 to a hazardous liquid pipeline facility that is required to 1-23 implement a discharge prevention and response plan under the Oil 2-1 Spill Prevention and Response Act of 1991, Chapter 40, Natural 2-2 Resources Code. 2-3 (g) Moneys in the oilfield cleanup fund may be used by the 2-4 commission to administer this section. 2-5 SECTION 3. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation and 2-6 the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.