By:  Brown                                            S.B. No. 1300
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the permitting of discharges from certain on-site
 1-2     sewage disposal systems in certain counties.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 26, Water Code, is amended
 1-5     by adding Section 26.050 to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 26.050.  ON-SITE SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM.  (a)  To the
 1-7     extent not in conflict with federal law, the commission by rule
 1-8     shall authorize the issuance of a permit by a County for the
 1-9     discharge of treated sewage into or adjacent to water in this state
1-10     by an on-site sewage disposal system if:
1-11                 (1)  the system is in a county with a population of 2.8
1-12     million or more that is an authorized agent under Chapter 366,
1-13     Health and Safety Code;
1-14                 (2)  the system serves a single-family residence and is
1-15     on a property that was subdivided and developed before January 1,
1-16     1979; and the property is of insufficient size to accommodate
1-17     disposal of all wastewater on site;
1-18                 (3)  a county order or resolution has authorized the
1-19     discharge; and to the extent possible, the discharge amount is
1-20     limited by all reasonable means and meets the standards as
1-21     established in the order or resolution; and
1-22                 (4)  the commission has approved the county order or
 2-1     resolution authorizing the discharge.
 2-2           (b)  for purposes of this section, on-site sewage disposal
 2-3     system shall mean one or more systems of treatment devices and
 2-4     disposal of sewage on or off site except that incidental discharge
 2-5     of treated wastewater offsite is authorized.
 2-6           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-7     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-8     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-9     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-10     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-11     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-12     passage, and it is so enacted.