By: Brown S.B. No. 1954 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the regulation of used oil filter containers. 1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-3 SECTION 1. Chapter 361, Health and Safety Code, is amended 1-4 by adding Subchapter T to read as follows: 1-5 SUBCHAPTER T. HANDLING OF USED OIL FILTERS 1-6 Sec. 361.701. USED OIL FILTER MANAGEMENT. A used oil filter 1-7 may not be intentionally or knowingly placed in or accepted for 1-8 disposal in a landfill permitted by the commission. 1-9 Sec. 361.702. APPLICABILITY. This subchapter applies to 1-10 persons involved in generating, storing, transporting, handling, 1-11 and processing used oil filters and their components. Except for 1-12 Sections 361.701 and 361.703(a), this subchapter does not apply to 1-13 industrial generators that are registered with the commission as 1-14 industrial or hazardous waste facilities or that are under the 1-15 waste management jurisdiction of a state agency other than the 1-16 commission. 1-17 Sec. 361.703. USED OIL FILTER GENERATORS AND COLLECTORS. 1-18 (a) A person may not generate, collect, transport, process, or 1-19 recycle a used oil filter in a manner that endangers or damages the 1-20 public health or welfare or the environment or intentionally or 1-21 knowingly place a used oil filter containing oil on land. 1-22 (b) A used oil filter generator may store used oil filters 1-23 on-site in containers that do not in the aggregate have a volume of 2-1 more than 330 gallons without commission approval and without 2-2 registering as a storage facility. 2-3 (c) A used oil filter collector may store used oil filters 2-4 on-site in containers that do not in the aggregate have a volume of 2-5 more than 330 gallons without commission approval and without 2-6 registering as a storage facility. 2-7 (d) The containers to be used in accordance with Subsections 2-8 (b) and (c) must be securely closed, waterproof, nonleaking, in 2-9 good condition, and labeled "Used Oil Filters." 2-10 (e) A person must remove from service or repair any 2-11 container used for storage of used oil filters that is found to be 2-12 leaking or in poor condition. 2-13 SECTION 2. Section 361.432, Health and Safety Code, is 2-14 repealed. 2-15 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 2-16 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.