By Lucio                                         S.B. No. 803

      75R5858 MI-F                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to one-stop permitting for solid waste management

 1-3     facilities.

 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 361.0865 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 361.0865.  SINGLE PERMITTING.  (a)  The owner or

 1-8     operator of a solid waste management facility is not required to

 1-9     obtain more than one permit to store, process, treat, dispose of,

1-10     or destroy solid waste unless  an additional permit is required by

1-11     federal law or a permit issued by the Railroad Commission of Texas

1-12     is required under Chapter 27, Water Code.  On request of a permit

1-13     applicant, the commission shall consolidate air and waste

1-14     management requirements in a single permit, and review of the

1-15     permit application shall be through a  single permit hearing.

1-16           (b)  The commission may exempt classes of solid waste

1-17     management facilities from air impact review or from permit

1-18     provisions relating to air impacts because of low potential for air

1-19     impacts offsite.

1-20           (c)  The commission may not apply this section in a manner

1-21     inconsistent with federal law.

1-22           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and

1-23     applies to a permit application that is pending before the Texas

1-24     Natural Resource  Conservation Commission on that date or that is

 2-1     filed with the commission on or after that date.

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

 2-3     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-4     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-5     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-6     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.