By: Brown S.B. No. 1464
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to an exemption from the industrial solid waste
1-2 collection, handling, storage, processing, and disposal permitting
1-3 process for such activities on land owned or controlled by the
1-4 source of the waste.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 361.090, Health and
1-7 Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-8 (a) The commission may not require a permit under this
1-9 chapter for the collection, handling, storage, processing, and
1-10 disposal of industrial solid waste generated in the state that is
1-11 collected, handled, stored, or processed [disposed of] within the
1-12 boundaries of a tract of land that is:
1-13 (1) owned or otherwise effectively controlled by the
1-14 owners or operators of the particular industrial plant,
1-15 manufacturing plant, mining operation, or agricultural operation
1-16 from which the waste results or is produced; and
1-17 (2) only in the case of disposal, located within 50
1-18 miles from the plant or operation that is the source of the
1-19 industrial solid waste.
1-20 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.