LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                          Austin, Texas

                           FISCAL NOTE
                       74th Regular Session

                          April 20, 1995



 TO:     Honorable Bill Sims, Chair             IN RE: Committee Substitute
         Committee on Natural Resources                        for Senate
         Senate                                 Bill No. 978
         Austin, Texas









FROM: John Keel, Director

In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on Senate Bill No.
978 (relating to cost-benefit analysis of environmental rules
proposed for adoption by certain state agencies) this office has
determined the following:

The bill would require that the General Land Office, Department
of Agriculture, Natural Resource Conservation Commission,
Railroad Commission and Department of Health estimate the cost a
proposed rule would have on the State and the net benefits the
rule would provide the State.

Estimates below do not include costs to the General Land Office
or the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission. 
Approximately $400,000 of the cost below is attributable to Parks
and Wildlife estimates  and approximately $120,000 to the
Department of Health.

The probable fiscal implication of implementing the provisions of
the bill during each of the first  five years following passage
is estimated as follows:



          Fiscal  Probable Cost Out
           Year      of  General   
                   Revenue Fund 001
                                   
                                   
                                   

        1996                  $532,639

        1997                   523,729
        1998                   523,729

        1999                   523,729

        2000                   523,729



       Similar annual fiscal implications would continue as long as the
provisions of the bill are in effect.

 The fiscal implication to  units of local government cannot be
determined.


Source:   General Land Office and Veterans' Land Board, Railroad
Commission,
                         Department of Health, Department of
Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Commission
          LBB Staff: JK, KW, DF