LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD Austin, Texas FISCAL NOTE 75th Regular Session April 23, 1997 TO: Honorable Warren Chisum, Chair IN RE: House Bill No. 3164, Committee Report 1st House, Substituted Committee on Environmental Regulation By: Gallego House Austin, Texas FROM: John Keel, Director In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on HB3164 ( Relating to the use of solid waste fee revenues.) this office has detemined the following: Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by HB3164-Committee Report 1st House, Substituted Implementing the provisions of the bill would result in a net impact of $0 to General Revenue Related Funds through the biennium ending August 31, 1999. The bill would make no appropriation but could provide the legal basis for an appropriation of funds to implement the provisions of the bill. Fiscal Analysis The bill would allow the use of solid waste fee revenue to ensure and adequately assess threats to public health and safety posed by closed or abandoned municipal solid waste disposal sites. The bill would also allow solid waste fees to be used for immediate response to closed or abandoned solid waste disposal sites that represent an imminent threat to public health. The bill would exempt revenues appropriated for these purposes from the dedication that requires that one-half of solid waste fee revenue be dedicated to local and regional solid waste projects. Methodolgy The Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC) estimates that $2 million in both 1998 and 1999 is needed to perform an assessment of all inventoried closed landfills. Also, based upon experience with closure costs at abandoned sites, TNRCC estimates that $5 million would be required in 1998 to establish an adequate emergency cleanup contingency fund. The probable fiscal implications of implementing the provisions of the bill during each of the first five years following passage is estimated as follows: Five Year Impact: Fiscal Year Probable Savings/(Cost) from Solid Waste Disposal Fee Account/ GR-Dedicated 5000 1998 ($7,000,000) 1998 (2,000,000) 2000 0 2001 0 2002 0 Net Impact on General Revenue Related Funds: Fiscal Year Probable Net Postive/(Negative) General Revenue Related Funds Funds 1998 $0 1999 0 2000 0 2001 0 2002 0 Similar annual fiscal implications would continue as long as the provisions of the bill are in effect. No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated. Source: Agencies: 582 Natural Resources Conservation Commission 304 Comptroller of Public Accounts LBB Staff: JK ,BB ,MS