75R11245 MI-F                           

         By Kuempel, Chisum                                    H.B. No. 2585

         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2585:

         By Howard                                         C.S.H.B. No. 2585

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to industrial solid waste management in municipal solid

 1-3     waste landfills.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 361.019(a), Health and Safety Code, is

 1-6     amended to read as follows:

 1-7           (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (b), Class I

 1-8     nonhazardous industrial solid waste and small quantities of

 1-9     hazardous waste generated by conditionally exempt small quantity

1-10     generators, as defined by the commission, and any other waste

1-11     material authorized by federal regulations for acceptance at a

1-12     municipal solid waste facility may be accepted in a municipal solid

1-13     waste facility if:

1-14                 (1)  the waste is:

1-15                       (A)  handled at the municipal solid waste

1-16     facility specifically authorized by permit to accept the waste,

1-17     notwithstanding a commission rule to the contrary adopted after the

1-18     permit was issued; or

1-19                       (B)  authorized in writing by, or by rule of, the

1-20     commission; and

1-21                 (2)  the generator of the Class I nonhazardous waste

1-22     certifies on an appropriate commission form that the waste is not a

1-23     hazardous waste.

1-24           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and

 2-1     applies to:

 2-2                 (1)  a permit issued by the Texas Natural Resource

 2-3     Conservation Commission that is in effect on or issued after

 2-4     September 1, 1997; and

 2-5                 (2)  a rule adopted by the Texas Natural Resource

 2-6     Conservation Commission that is in effect on or adopted after

 2-7     September 1, 1997.

 2-8           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-9     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-10     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-11     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-12     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.