LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 1, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Warren Chisum, Chair            IN RE:  House Bill No. 3460
          Committee on Environmental Regulation                              By: Chisum
          House
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on HB3460 ( Relating 
to the issuance of emergency and temporary orders and permits 
by the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission.) this 
office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by HB3460-As Introduced
         

No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
         
This bill would create a new subchapter in the Water Code relating 
to emergency and temporary orders.  It would  consolidate and 
standardize the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission's 
(TNRCC) regulation of emergency orders and delete corresponding, 
existing statutes in both the Water Code and Health and Safety 
Code.  In addition, the bill would allow the TNRCC to prescribe 
rules and establish necessary fees to carry out certain provisions 
of the new subchapter.  

The TNRCC anticipates no significant 
additional costs associated with implementing the provisions 
of the new subchapter.   

This bill would be effective September 
1, 1997.
         
 
          
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   582   Natural Resources Conservation Commission
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,BB ,NT