SENATE
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Natural Resources

TIME & DATE:  2:00PM, Thursday, April 24, 1997

PLACE: E1.028

CHAIR: Senator J.E. "Buster" Brown

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To consider the following:


SB 13            Galloway, Michael
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, financing, and dissolution of the Chambers County
Improvement District No. 2 and the power of certain entities to
contract with the district; granting authority to issue bonds.

SB 866            Lucio
Relating to the transfer of permits, registrations, or other
authorizations issued by the Texas Natural Resource Conservation
Commission.

SB 991            Ellis / et al.
Relating to permitting certain disabled persons to apply for and
receive a state parklands passport.

SB 1441            Wentworth
Relating to the authority of the Bexar Metropolitan Water District
to issue bonds.

SB 1909            Lindsay
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the North Harris County Regional Water
Authority; granting the power of eminent domain and the authority
to issue bonds; providing a civil penalty.

HB 16            Chisum                   SP: Bivins
Relating to authority of the comptroller to enter certain
agreements with credit card issuers benefitting state parks.

HB 320            Krusee                   SP: Ogden
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.

HB 717            Bosse                    SP: Whitmire
Relating to the disposal or temporary storage of litter or solid
waste.

HB 993            Patterson, L.P. "Pete"   SP: Brown
Relating to the application for and use of the proceeds of loans
guaranteed by the Young Farmer Loan Guarantee Program.

HB 1999            Merritt                  SP: Bivins
Relating to the disposition by the Railroad Commission of Texas of
well-site equipment from a wellbore transferred to the Texas
Experimental Research and Recovery Activity.

HB 3490            Holzheauser              SP: Bivins
Relating to the Texas Experimental Research and Recovery Activity
(TERRA) of the Railroad Commission of Texas.

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