By Allen                                        H.B. No. 2604

      75R8927 MI-F                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to source reduction and waste minimization plans for

 1-3     electrical energy production and transmission.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 361.504(a), Health and Safety Code, is

 1-6     amended to read as follows:

 1-7           (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (b), this subchapter

 1-8     applies to the following persons:

 1-9                 (1)  all large-quantity generators of hazardous waste;

1-10                 (2)  all generators other than large-quantity

1-11     generators and conditionally exempt small-quantity generators; and

1-12                 (3)  facilities [persons] subject to Section 313, Title

1-13     III, Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (42

1-14     U.S.C. Section 11023), excluding a facility with a standard

1-15     industrial classification code of 49, whose releases exceed the

1-16     levels established  under Section 361.503(b).

1-17           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-18           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.