1-1 By: Armbrister S.B. No. 1313 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 1995; March 20, 1995, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources; 1-4 April 7, 1995, reported favorably, as amended, by the following 1-5 vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 7, 1995, sent to printer.) 1-6 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Truan 1-7 Amend S.B. No. 1313, page 1, line 19 (committee printing page 1, 1-8 line 29), by striking "(b)(4)" and inserting (a)(6) in its place; 1-9 on line 20 (committee printing page 1, line 30), by striking the 1-10 "42" and inserting 33. 1-11 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-12 AN ACT 1-13 relating to facility response plans for hazardous liquids 1-14 pipelines. 1-15 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-16 SECTION 1. Section 117.012, Natural Resources Code, is 1-17 amended by adding Subsections (d), (e), and (f) to read as follows: 1-18 (d) The commission may adopt rules that require a hazardous 1-19 liquid pipeline facility to prepare and submit for commission 1-20 approval a facility response plan for all or any part of a 1-21 hazardous liquid pipeline facility located landward of the coast. 1-22 Rules shall require the facility response plan to include plans for 1-23 responding, to the maximum extent practicable, to a worst case 1-24 discharge and to a substantial threat of such a discharge of 1-25 hazardous liquids that could reasonably be expected to cause 1-26 substantial harm to the environment by discharging into navigable 1-27 waters. 1-28 (e) Rules relating to facility response plans shall be 1-29 consistent with the provisions of Section 4202(b)(4) of the Oil 1-30 Pollution Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. Section 1321(j)(5)). 1-31 (f) Rules relating to facility response plans do not apply 1-32 to a hazardous liquid pipeline facility that is required to 1-33 implement a discharge prevention and response plan under Chapter 40 1-34 (Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act of 1991). 1-35 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-36 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-37 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-38 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-39 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-40 * * * * *