By Kuempel                                            H.B. No. 2287
       74R7198 JJT-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the discharge of water from an aquaculture or
    1-3  mariculture farm.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 26.001(12), Water Code (effective until
    1-6  delegation of NPDES permit authority), is amended to read as
    1-7  follows:
    1-8              (12)  "Other waste" means garbage, refuse, decayed
    1-9  wood, sawdust, shavings, bark, sand, lime, cinders, ashes, offal,
   1-10  oil, tar, dyestuffs, acids, chemicals, salt water, water discharged
   1-11  from an aquaculture or mariculture farm, or any other substance,
   1-12  other than sewage, industrial waste, municipal waste, recreational
   1-13  waste, or agricultural waste, that may cause impairment of the
   1-14  quality of water in the state.  "Other waste" also includes tail
   1-15  water or runoff water from irrigation or rainwater runoff from
   1-16  cultivated or uncultivated range land, pasture land, and farmland
   1-17  that may cause impairment of the quality of the water in the state.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  Section 26.001(12), Water Code (effective upon
   1-19  delegation of NPDES permit authority), is amended to read as
   1-20  follows:
   1-21              (12)  "Other waste" means garbage, refuse, decayed
   1-22  wood, sawdust, shavings, bark, sand, lime, cinders, ashes, offal,
   1-23  oil, tar, dyestuffs, acids, chemicals, salt water, water discharged
   1-24  from an aquaculture or mariculture farm, or any other substance,
    2-1  other than sewage, industrial waste, municipal waste, recreational
    2-2  waste, or agricultural waste.
    2-3        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-4        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-5  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-6  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-7  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-8  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.