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By Kuempel H.B. No. 1529
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to an exemption from the industrial solid waste
1-3 collection, handling, storage, and processing permitting process
1-4 for such activities on land owned or controlled by the source of
1-5 the waste.
1-6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-7 SECTION 1. Chapter 361, Texas Health & Safety Code, is
1-8 amended by amending Section 361.090(a) to read as follows:
1-9 Sec. 361.090. Regulation and Permitting of Certain
1-10 Industrial Solid Waste Disposal. (a) The commission may not
1-11 require a permit under this chapter for the collection, handling,
1-12 storage, processing, and disposal of industrial solid waste that is
1-13 [disposed of] collected, handled, stored, or processed within the
1-14 boundaries of a tract of land that is:
1-15 (1) owned or otherwise effectively controlled by the
1-16 owners or operators of the particular industrial plant,
1-17 manufacturing plant, mining operation, or agricultural operation
1-18 from which the waste results or is produced; and
1-19 (2) only in the case of disposal, located within 50
1-20 miles from the plant or operation that is the source of the
1-21 industrial solid waste.
1-22 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.