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.