By Gray H.B. No. 2504
74R4727 LJR-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the deputy directors of the Texas Natural Resource
1-3 Conservation Commission.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 5.222, Water Code, is amended to read as
1-6 follows:
1-7 Sec. 5.222. DEPUTY DIRECTORS<; TRANSITIONAL ORGANIZATION>.
1-8 (a) The executive director may employ as many <commission has
1-9 four> deputy directors as <directly reporting to> the executive
1-10 director determines is appropriate.
1-11 (b) A <The> deputy director is under the direction of the
1-12 executive director and shall exercise the powers and perform the
1-13 duties assigned by the executive director. <for air quality shall
1-14 be responsible for the management and supervision of all
1-15 responsibilities of the commission under the federal Clean Air Act
1-16 (42 U.S.C. Section 7401 et seq.) and Chapter 382, Health and Safety
1-17 Code, including monitoring, permitting, policy research, planning,
1-18 small business assistance, mobile sources, enforcement functions,
1-19 and other duties assigned by the executive director that are not
1-20 assigned by this section to other deputy directors. The deputy
1-21 director for air quality must have at least two years' experience
1-22 in air pollution control program management for the Texas Air
1-23 Control Board or the commission.>
1-24 <(c) The deputy director for water shall be responsible for
2-1 the management and supervision of all water programs, including
2-2 water quality, water rights and uses, water utilities, petroleum
2-3 storage tank programs, water well drilling, the setting of
2-4 standards for drinking water, protection of public water supplies
2-5 and bodies of water, the regulation of on-site sewage disposal
2-6 systems, the administration of on-site wastewater treatment
2-7 research, wastewater treatment systems, and other duties assigned
2-8 by the executive director that are not assigned by this section to
2-9 other deputy directors.>
2-10 <(d) The deputy director for waste management shall be
2-11 responsible for all regulatory duties assigned to the commission
2-12 concerning the management, supervision, disposal, and cleanup of
2-13 all hazardous wastes and solid wastes, the disposal of radioactive
2-14 substances, and other duties assigned by the executive director
2-15 that are not assigned by this section to other deputy directors.>
2-16 <(e) The deputy director for administration shall be
2-17 responsible for the management and supervision of accounting,
2-18 budgeting, personnel, data processing systems with nonregulatory
2-19 purposes, general and staff services, and other duties assigned by
2-20 the executive director that are not assigned by this section to
2-21 other deputy directors.>
2-22 <(f) This section does not prohibit the commission or the
2-23 executive director from establishing a direct line of reporting
2-24 from persons providing or overseeing staff support functions for
2-25 the commission or the executive director, including hearings,
2-26 general legal consultation, research, or public information. The
2-27 salaries paid to the deputy directors described by Subsections (b)
3-1 through (e) of this section may not be lower than those of any
3-2 other position established within the commission, other than the
3-3 executive director.>
3-4 <(g) This section expires September 1, 1997.>
3-5 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
3-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-10 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-11 passage, and it is so enacted.