MINUTES 
          
                  SENATE INTERIM COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES 
                             Friday, April 24, 1998 
                                     9:30 am 
                                 UTB/TSC Campus 
          
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         Pursuant to a notice posted in accordance with Senate Rule  
         11.11, a public hearing of the Senate Interim Committee on  
         Natural Resources was held on Friday, April 24, 1998, at the  
         UTB/TSC Campus in Brownsville, Texas.   
          
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         MEMBERS PRESENT:                        MEMBERS ABSENT: 
         Senator J.E. Brown                      Senator Teel Bivins 
         Senator Tom Haywood                     Senator Jon Lindsay 
         Senator Eddie Lucio, Jr.                Senator Steve Ogden 
         Senator Carlos Truan 
          
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         The Chair called the meeting to order at 9:35 am.  There being  
         a quorum present, the following business was transacted.   
          
         Senator Lucio moved that the Minutes from the previous meeting  
         be approved.  There being no objection, the Minutes were  
         adopted. 
          
         Chairman Brown made opening remarks, followed by opening  
         remarks by Senator Lucio, Senator Truan, and Senator Haywood. 
          
         The following people registered to testify on the interim  
         charge to study the siting of solid waste facilities: 
          
         Dan Pearson, Executive Director, TNRCC 
         Susan Janek, TNRCC 
         Ofelia Montemayor, Citizens Against Landfill Location 
         Maria Garcia, Citizens Against Landfill Location 
         Juan Garcia, Citizens Against Landfill Location 
         Barbara Steidinger, Citizens Against Landfill Location 
         Benito Garcia, Citizens Against Landfill Location 
         Eulogio Rubalcaba, Citizens Against Landfill Location 
         Tomasa Galvan, Citizens Against Landfill Location 
          
         The following registered to testify on the interim charge of  
         granting general licensing authority to the Texas Parks and  
         Wildlife Commission: 
          
         Ralph Rayburn, Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission 
         Ernest Gorena, F/V Virginia Lynn 
  
         Walter Zimmerman, Texas Shrimp Association 
         Terry Ricks, Texas Sea Food Products 
         Deyaun Boudreaux, Texas Shrimp Association 
         Everett Sagnes, Brownsville Port Isabel Shrimp Products 
         Ronald J. Boudreaux, WBP Shrimp Co. 
         Leslie Barrientez, WBP Shrimp 
          
         The following registered to testify on the interim charge to  
         study the effects of the implementation of the American  
         Heritage Rivers Initiative: 
          
         Robert Fulbright 
         Mary Yturria 
         Kathy Reavis, Rio Grande Valley Chapter - Texas Agri-Women 
         Jerry Bell, Bell Properties 
         Humberto Vela, Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers 
         Deyaun Boudreaux, Texas Shrimp Association 
         Marylou Campbell, Sierra Club 
         Penny Hartwell, Earth Care Organization 
          
         There being no further business, at 12:10 p.m. Senator Lucio  
         moved that the committee stand in recess. 
          
         It was so ordered. 
          
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         Senator J. E. "Buster" Brown, Chair 
          
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         Carol K. McGarah, Clerk