LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                          Austin, Texas

                           FISCAL NOTE
                       74th Regular Session

                          April 5, 1995



 TO:     Honorable Bill Sims, Chair             IN RE:  Senate BillNo. 1313
         Committee on Natural Resources                 By: Armbrister
         Senate
         Austin, Texas






FROM: John Keel, Director

In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on Senate Bill No.
1313 (Relating to facility response plans for hazardous liquids
pipelines.) this office has determined the following:

The bill would amend the Natural Resources Code to allow the
Railroad Commission to make rules requiring hazardous liquid
pipeline facilities, not subject to the Oil Spill Response Act of
1991, to file a facility response plan with the commission. 
Filings would have to include plans for response to a worst case
discharge and to a substantial threat of such a discharge and
would have to be consistent with requirements of the federal Oil
Pollution Act of 1990.

Although the Railroad Commission anticipates some costs in
administering this legislation, it is expected that these costs
could be absorbed within the agency's current resources.


No fiscal implication to the State or units of local government
is anticipated.




Source:   Railroad Commission
          LBB Staff: JK, KW, DF