By Greenberg                                          H.B. No. 3288
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the exclusion of certain sewage sludge from solid waste
 1-3     disposal fees.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 361.013(i), Health and Safety Code, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (i)  The commission may not charge a fee under Subsection (a)
 1-8     for the disposal of:
 1-9                 (1)  [the disposal of] Class I industrial solid waste
1-10     or hazardous waste subject to the assessment of fees under Section
1-11     361.136; [or]
1-12                 (2)  [the disposal of] an industrial solid waste for
1-13     which no permit may be required under Section 361.090; or
1-14                 (3)  sewage sludge that:
1-15                       (A)  has been treated to reduce the density of
1-16     pathogens to the lowest level provided by commission rules; and
1-17                       (B)  complies with commission rules regarding:
1-18                             (i)  metal concentration limits;
1-19                             (ii)  pathogen reduction; and
1-20                             (iii)  vector attraction reduction.
1-21           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-22           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-1     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-2     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.