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By Clark H.B. No. 2567
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the renewal of permits for wastewater treatment
1-3 facilities issued by Texas Natural Resource Conservation
1-4 Commission.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Chapter 26, Water Code, Section 26.028(b), is
1-7 amended to read as follows:
1-8 (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Chapter, an
1-9 application to renew or amend a permit that [to] maintains or
1-10 improves the quality of waste authorized to be discharged [may be
1-11 set for consideration and may be acted on] shall be approved by the
1-12 commission at a regular meeting without the necessity of holding a
1-13 public hearing if the applicant does not seek to increase
1-14 significantly the quantity of waste authorized to be discharged or
1-15 change materially the pattern or place of discharge. Notice of
1-16 [the] an application for renewal or an amendment under this
1-17 subsection shall be mailed to the mayor and health authorities for
1-18 the city or town, and the county judge and health authorities for
1-19 the county, in which the waste is or will be discharged, at least
1-20 10 days before the commission meeting, and they may present
1-21 information to the commission on the application. Applicants for
1-22 permit renewals or amendments under this Chapter shall retain the
1-23 right to request an evidentiary hearing on any such application.
1-24 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and
2-1 applies only to an application for a renewal of a wastewater
2-2 discharge permit under this Chapter that is submitted to the
2-3 commission on or after that date.
2-4 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the constitution
2-7 rule requiring bills to be read on three several days in each house
2-8 be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.