By Jones of Dallas H.B. No. 1007 75R4915 MI-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the regulation of commercial burning of hazardous waste 1-3 by cement kilns. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 361, Health and Safety 1-6 Code, is amended by adding Section 361.1025 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 361.1025. PERMIT AND STANDARDS FOR COMMERCIAL BURNING 1-8 OF HAZARDOUS WASTE BY CEMENT KILNS. The commission: 1-9 (1) by rule shall require a cement kiln that 1-10 commercially burns hazardous waste to meet the same permit 1-11 requirements as a commercial hazardous waste management facility 1-12 that burns hazardous waste, including requirements relating to: 1-13 (A) using up-to-date control technology for all 1-14 emissions; 1-15 (B) waste acceptance procedures; 1-16 (C) disposal of waste residues after thermal 1-17 treatment; and 1-18 (D) labeling of products containing hazardous 1-19 waste residues; and 1-20 (2) shall monitor a cement kiln that commercially 1-21 burns hazardous waste under the same standards that the commission 1-22 applies in monitoring a commercial hazardous waste management 1-23 facility that burns hazardous waste. 1-24 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 2-1 (b) Section 362.1025, Health and Safety Code, as added by 2-2 this Act, applies to: 2-3 (1) an application for a permit that is: 2-4 (A) pending before the Texas Natural Resource 2-5 Conservation Commission on September 1, 1997; or 2-6 (B) filed with the Texas Natural Resource 2-7 Conservation Commission on or after September 1, 1997; and 2-8 (2) effective September 1, 1998, a person who holds a 2-9 permit issued by the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission 2-10 before September 1, 1997. 2-11 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.