1-1     By:  Brown                                            S.B. No. 1464

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 13, 1997; March 19, 1997, read

 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;

 1-4     April 4, 1997, reported favorably, as amended, by the following

 1-5     vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 4, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6     COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                                By:  Brown

 1-7     Amend S.B. No. 1464 in SECTION 1, Subsection (a), Section 361.090,

 1-8     Health and Safety Code, to read as follows:

 1-9           (a)  The commission may not require a permit under this

1-10     chapter for the collection, handling, storage, processing, and

1-11     disposal of industrial solid waste generated in the state that is

1-12     collected, handled, stored, or processed [disposed of] within the

1-13     boundaries of a tract of land that is:

1-14                 (1)  owned or otherwise effectively controlled by the

1-15     owners or operators of the particular industrial plant,

1-16     manufacturing plant, mining operation, or agricultural operation

1-17     from which the waste results or is produced; and

1-18                 (2)  only in the case of disposal, located within 50

1-19     miles from the plant or operation that is the source of the

1-20     industrial solid waste.

1-21                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

1-22                                   AN ACT

1-23     relating to an exemption from the industrial solid waste

1-24     collection, handling, storage, processing, and disposal permitting

1-25     process for such activities on land owned or controlled by the

1-26     source of the waste.

1-27           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-28           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 361.090, Health and

1-29     Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:

1-30           (a)  The commission may not require a permit under this

1-31     chapter for the collection, handling, storage, processing, and

1-32     disposal of industrial solid waste that is collected, handled,

1-33     stored, or processed [disposed of] within the boundaries of a tract

1-34     of land that is:

1-35                 (1)  owned or otherwise effectively controlled by the

1-36     owners or operators of the particular industrial plant,

1-37     manufacturing plant, mining operation, or agricultural operation

1-38     from which the waste results or is produced; and

1-39                 (2)  only in the case of disposal, located within 50

1-40     miles from the plant or operation that is the source of the

1-41     industrial solid waste.

1-42           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-43           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-44     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-45     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-46     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-47     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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