By: Haywood S.B. No. 1588
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to source reduction and waste minimization plans for
1-2 electrical energy production and transmission.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 361.504, Health and Safety Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 361.504. APPLICATION. (a) Except as provided by
1-7 Subsection (b), this subchapter applies to the following persons:
1-8 (1) all large-quantity generators of hazardous waste;
1-9 (2) all generators other than large-quantity
1-10 generators and conditionally exempt small-quantity generators; and
1-11 (3) facilities [persons] subject to Section 313, Title
1-12 III, Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (42
1-13 U.S.C. Section 11023), excluding Standard Industrial Classification
1-14 Code 49, whose releases exceed the levels established under Section
1-15 361.503(b).
1-16 (b) The commission by rule shall establish one or more
1-17 schedules for the application of the requirements of this
1-18 subchapter to designated classes of persons described by Subsection
1-19 (a). The schedule shall provide for the inclusion of all persons
1-20 described by Subsection (a) on a date to be determined by the
1-21 commission, and until that date this subchapter applies only to
1-22 those persons designated by rule of the commission.
1-23 (c) This subchapter does not apply to a facility regulated
2-1 by the Railroad Commission of Texas under Section 91.101 or
2-2 141.012, Natural Resources Code.
2-3 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-4 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.