By: Shapleigh S.B. No. 1823
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to implementing the La Paz Agreement for radioactive waste
1-2 disposal in Texas.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Amend Sec. 402.0921, Health and Safety Code, to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 402.0921. Site Area. Notwithstanding any other law or
1-7 provision of this chapter, the board shall select as the disposal
1-8 site, a site:
1-9 [(1) within Hudspeth County, Texas, and]
1-10 [(2) circumscribed on the north by 31 degrees north
1-11 latitude, 15' and 00"; on the south by 31 degrees north latitude,
1-12 00' and 00"; on the east by 105 degrees longitude, 00' and 00"; and
1-13 on the west by 105 degrees longitude, 22' and 30".] more than 60
1-14 miles from the international border with Mexico.
1-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.