By Shapleigh S.B. No. 1109
76R7499 JJT-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the selection of the disposal site designated by the
1-3 Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Authority.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 402.084, Health and Safety Code, is
1-6 amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
1-7 (d) The board shall evaluate each site according to the
1-8 latest methods of the engineering, radiological, geological, and
1-9 hydrogeological sciences to determine whether the site will be
1-10 adequate to store safely the wastes intended for disposal at the
1-11 site.
1-12 SECTION 2. Sections 402.0921 and 402.0922, Health and Safety
1-13 Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-14 Sec. 402.0921. COMMUNITY SUPPORT OF SITE AREA. The board
1-15 may not designate a disposal site unless the board has the written
1-16 endorsement of the site by:
1-17 (1) the county judge of each county in which the site
1-18 is located;
1-19 (2) the mayor of the municipality that is closest to
1-20 the site; and
1-21 (3) the superintendent of each independent school
1-22 district in which the site is located [Notwithstanding any other
1-23 law or other provision of this chapter, the board shall select as
1-24 the disposal site, a site:]
2-1 [(1) within Hudspeth County, Texas, and]
2-2 [(2) circumscribed on the north by 31 degrees north
2-3 latitude, 15' and 00"; on the south by 31 degrees north latitude,
2-4 00' and 00"; on the east by 105 degrees longitude, 00' and 00"; and
2-5 on the west by 105 degrees longitude, 22' and 30"].
2-6 Sec. 402.0922. EMINENT DOMAIN. The authority may acquire
2-7 land for a disposal site [within the geographical area described in
2-8 Section 402.0921] by condemnation and in accordance with Chapter 21
2-9 of the Property Code.
2-10 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-11 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-12 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-13 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-14 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-15 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-16 passage, and it is so enacted.