LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  March 31, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable J.E. "Buster" Brown, Chair            IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 1554
          Committee on Natural Resources                              By: Ogden
          Senate
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SB1554 ( Relating 
to the ability of municipalities to provide water or wastewater 
service to a residence to preserve the quality of an aquifer 
the municipality uses as a water source.) this office has detemined 
the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB1554-As Introduced
         

No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
         

         
 
          
This bill would allow municipalities to construct sewer and 
water systems and remove or fill septic tanks in areas located 
within a municipality or its extraterritorial jurisdiction which 
are located over the recharge zone of an aquifer supply water 
to the municipality.  The bill would require the municipality 
to assess all costs against the property on which the work is 
completed, and the property owner would be required to repay 
the municipality for such costs within five years after completion 
of the work.

Since municipalities would recover the costs 
associated with this bill from property owners, no fiscal impact 
to local governments is anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   582   Natural Resources Conservation Commission
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,BB ,NT ,TL