1-1     By:  Haywood                                          S.B. No. 1588

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 14, 1997; March 24, 1997, read

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

 1-4     April 7, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 8,

 1-5     Nays 2; April 7, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to source reduction and waste minimization plans for

 1-9     electrical energy production and transmission.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 361.504, Health and Safety Code, is

1-12     amended to read as follows:

1-13           Sec. 361.504.  APPLICATION.  (a)  Except as provided by

1-14     Subsection (b), this subchapter applies to the following persons:

1-15                 (1)  all large-quantity generators of hazardous waste;

1-16                 (2)  all generators other than large-quantity

1-17     generators and conditionally exempt small-quantity generators; and

1-18                 (3)  facilities [persons] subject to Section 313, Title

1-19     III, Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (42

1-20     U.S.C. Section 11023), excluding Standard Industrial Classification

1-21     Code 49, whose releases exceed the levels established under Section

1-22     361.503(b).

1-23           (b)  The commission by rule shall establish one or more

1-24     schedules for the application of the requirements of this

1-25     subchapter to designated classes of persons described by Subsection

1-26     (a).  The schedule shall provide for the inclusion of all persons

1-27     described by Subsection (a) on a date to be determined by the

1-28     commission, and until that date this subchapter applies only to

1-29     those persons designated by rule of the commission.

1-30           (c)  This subchapter does not apply to a facility regulated

1-31     by the Railroad Commission of Texas under Section 91.101 or

1-32     141.012, Natural Resources Code.

1-33           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-34           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-35     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-36     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-37     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-38     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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