By Dukes H.B. No. 3749 Line and page numbers may not match official copy. Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the cleanup of municipal solid waste facilities which 1-3 contain industrial hazardous waste. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. The Texas Natural Resource Conservation 1-6 Commission shall, by rule, require the owners of a landfill to 1-7 exhume all of the industrial hazardous waste contained in them and 1-8 deposit those materials in a facility that conforms to current 1-9 statutes and regulations if the facility: 1-10 (1) contains more than 500 barrels of industrial 1-11 hazardous waste and 1-12 (2) was built before lining requirements and 1-13 (3) has references to the industrial hazardous waste 1-14 in its dead filing documents 1-15 SECTION 2. A court having jurisdiction to issue injunctions 1-16 may enjoin the violation or threatened violation of this section. 1-17 Venue is in the county in which the facility would be located. The 1-18 county attorney or other attorney representing that county or the 1-19 attorney general may initiate the action. 1-20 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-21 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.