By Tillery H.B. No. 1936 75R7956 MI-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to notice to certain local governments by an applicant for 1-3 a solid or hazardous waste disposal permit. 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 361.0642 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 361.0642. NOTICE TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS. (a) A person 1-8 who files with the commission an application for, or notice of 1-9 intent to file, a permit to construct, operate, or maintain a 1-10 facility to store, process, or dispose of solid waste or hazardous 1-11 waste shall send notice of the application or of the notice of 1-12 intent to the county judge of a county or the governing body of a 1-13 municipality if the perimeter of the facility for which the permit 1-14 is sought is or will be not farther than 1,000 feet outside the 1-15 boundaries of the county or the corporate limits of the 1-16 municipality. 1-17 (b) The notice must be sent at the same time the application 1-18 or notice of intent to file the application is submitted to the 1-19 commission. 1-20 (c) The notice must: 1-21 (1) describe the location or proposed location of the 1-22 facility; 1-23 (2) describe the activities to be conducted at the 1-24 facility; 2-1 (3) state that a person, including a county or 2-2 municipality, who may be affected by the facility or proposed 2-3 facility is entitled to request a hearing from the commission; 2-4 (4) describe the manner in which the commission may be 2-5 contacted for further information; and 2-6 (5) include any other information the commission by 2-7 rule requires. 2-8 (d) The notice required by this section is in addition to 2-9 other notice required by law. 2-10 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and 2-11 applies to a person who on or after September 1, 1997, submits to 2-12 the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission an application 2-13 for a permit or a notice of intent to file an application for a 2-14 permit issued under Chapter 361, Health and Safety Code. 2-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.