By Howard H.B. No. 1369 75R5858 MI-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to one-stop permitting for solid waste management 1-3 facilities. 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 361.0865 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 361.0865. SINGLE PERMITTING. (a) The owner or 1-8 operator of a solid waste management facility is not required to 1-9 obtain more than one permit to store, process, treat, dispose of, 1-10 or destroy solid waste unless an additional permit is required by 1-11 federal law or a permit issued by the Railroad Commission of Texas 1-12 is required under Chapter 27, Water Code. On request of a permit 1-13 applicant, the commission shall consolidate air and waste 1-14 management requirements in a single permit, and review of the 1-15 permit application shall be through a single permit hearing. 1-16 (b) The commission may exempt classes of solid waste 1-17 management facilities from air impact review or from permit 1-18 provisions relating to air impacts because of low potential for air 1-19 impacts offsite. 1-20 (c) The commission may not apply this section in a manner 1-21 inconsistent with federal law. 1-22 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and 1-23 applies to a permit application that is pending before the Texas 1-24 Natural Resource Conservation Commission on that date or that is 2-1 filed with the commission on or after that date. 2-2 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.