Amend CSHB 2815 by adding a new SECTION to the bill,
appropriately numbered, to read as follows:
      SECTION ____.  Section 26.342, Water Code, is amended by
adding  a new Subdivision (8) and redesignating existing
Subdivisions (8) through (16) as Subdivisions (9) through (17) to
read as follows:
            (8)  "Operator" means any person in day-to-day control
of, and having responsibility for the daily operation of, the
underground storage tank system.
            (9) <(8)>  "Person" means an individual, trust, firm,
joint-stock company, corporation, government corporation,
partnership, association, state, municipality, commission,
political subdivision of a state, an interstate body, a consortium,
joint venture, commercial entity, or the United States government.
            (10) <(9)>  "Petroleum product" means a petroleum
product that is obtained from distilling and processing crude oil
and that is capable of being used as a fuel for the propulsion of a
motor vehicle or aircraft, including motor gasoline, gasohol, other
alcohol blended fuels, aviation gasoline, kerosene, distillate fuel
oil, and #1 and #2 diesel.  The term does not include naphtha-type
jet fuel, kerosene-type jet fuel, or a petroleum product destined
for use in chemical manufacturing or feedstock of that
manufacturing.
            (11) <(10)>  "Petroleum storage tank" means:
                  (A)  any one or combination of aboveground
storage tanks that contain petroleum products and that are
regulated by the commission; or
                  (B)  any one or combination of underground
storage tanks and any connecting underground pipes that contain
petroleum products and that are regulated by the commission.
            (12) <(11)>  "Regulated substance" means an element,
compound, mixture, solution, or substance that, when released into
the environment, may present substantial danger to the public
health, welfare, or the environment.
            (13) <(12)>  "Release" means any spilling including
overfills, leaking, emitting, discharging, escaping, leaching, or
disposing from an underground or aboveground storage tank into
groundwater, surface water, or subsurface soils.
            (14) <(13)>  "Risk-based corrective action" means site
assessment or site remediation, the timing, type, and degree of
which is determined according to case-by-case consideration of
actual or potential risk to public health from environmental
exposure to a regulated substance released from a leaking
underground or aboveground storage tank.
            (15) <(14)>  "Spent oil" means a regulated substance
that is a lubricating oil or similar petroleum substance which has
been refined from crude oil, used for its designed or intended
purposes, and contaminated as a result of that use by physical or
chemical impurities, including spent motor vehicle lubricating
oils, transmission fluid, or brake fluid.
            (16) <(15)>  "Underground storage tank" means any one
or combination of underground tanks and any connecting underground
pipes used to contain an accumulation of regulated substances, the
volume of which, including the volume of the connecting underground
pipes, is 10 percent or more beneath the surface of the ground.
            (17) <(16)>  "Vehicle service and fueling facility"
means a facility where motor vehicles are serviced or repaired and
where petroleum products are stored and dispensed from fixed
equipment into the fuel tanks of motor vehicles.