By:  Bivins                                           S.B. No. 1447
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the regulation of concentrated animal feeding
    1-2  operations.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  The Texas Natural Resource Conservation
    1-5  Commission ("commission") shall adopt rules to regulate certain new
    1-6  and existing concentrated animal feeding operations in order to
    1-7  protect surface water, groundwater and air.
    1-8        SECTION 2.  The commission shall adopt rules providing for
    1-9  streamlined and consolidated permitting procedures, including but
   1-10  not limited to permit amendments, a general permit scheme and
   1-11  automatic permit renewals.  The rules shall provide for an
   1-12  efficient process for the commission to consider the technical
   1-13  merit of an application.
   1-14        SECTION 3.  The commission shall adopt rules for the
   1-15  implementation and documentation of operation and maintenance
   1-16  procedures for concentrated animal feeding operations, including
   1-17  best management practices and pollution prevention plans.
   1-18        SECTION 4.  The commission shall adopt rules requiring
   1-19  concentrated animal feeding operations to provide for employee
   1-20  training, inspections and record keeping, internal reporting
   1-21  procedures and visual and site inspections.
   1-22        SECTION 5.  The commission shall adopt rules for monitoring
   1-23  and reporting requirements for concentrated animal feeding
    2-1  operations.
    2-2        SECTION 6.  The commission shall adopt rules identifying
    2-3  Dairy Outreach Program Areas and providing for education and
    2-4  environmental audit options for concentrated animal feeding
    2-5  operations in the Dairy Outreach Program Areas.
    2-6        SECTION 7.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-7        SECTION 8.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-8  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-9  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-10  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-11  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.