By Seaman H.B. No. 480 76R3196 JJT-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to notice and hearing for an application for a permit for 1-3 a land treatment or other disposal facility. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 91, Natural Resources Code, 1-6 is amended by adding Sections 91.116 and 91.117 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 91.116. NOTICE OF LAND TREATMENT PERMIT APPLICATION. 1-8 (a) A person who files an application for a permit for a treatment 1-9 and disposal facility for land treatment or for land spreading of 1-10 oil and gas waste or waste related to a geothermal resource shall 1-11 publish notice of the application in accordance with this section. 1-12 (b) The notice must include: 1-13 (1) the date the application was filed; 1-14 (2) a description of the location of the site for 1-15 which the application was made and the name of the owner of the 1-16 site; 1-17 (3) the name of the applicant; 1-18 (4) the type of waste to be treated or spread; and 1-19 (5) the treatment method proposed. 1-20 (c) The notice must be published: 1-21 (1) at least once each week for four consecutive weeks 1-22 with the first publication occurring not later than the seventh day 1-23 after the date on which the application is filed; and 1-24 (2) in a newspaper of general circulation in the 2-1 county in which the proposed treatment would occur. 2-2 Sec. 91.117. PUBLIC INFORMATION HEARING ON LAND TREATMENT 2-3 PERMIT APPLICATION. (a) If the commission receives a request for 2-4 a public comment hearing before the commission makes a 2-5 determination on an application for a permit for a treatment and 2-6 disposal facility for land treatment or for land spreading of oil 2-7 and gas waste or waste related to a geothermal resource, commission 2-8 staff shall conduct a hearing to receive public comment. 2-9 (b) The hearing must be held in the county in which the 2-10 proposed treatment would occur. 2-11 (c) Comments received at a hearing under this section are 2-12 part of the record of the contested case hearing on the 2-13 application. 2-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and 2-15 applies only to an application filed on or after that date. 2-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.