By Nixon S.B. No. 1858 76R7473 WP-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the powers of the Sabine River Authority. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 14(k), Chapter 110, Acts of the 51st 1-5 Legislature, Regular Session, 1949 (Article 8280-133, Vernon's 1-6 Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows: 1-7 (k) The district may provide for the control, storing and 1-8 employment of said waters in the development and distribution of 1-9 hydro-electric power, where such use may be economically 1-10 co-ordinated with other and superior uses, and subordinated to the 1-11 uses declared by law to be superior. Notwithstanding any other 1-12 provision of law, the district may not control, store, or employ 1-13 the waters of the Toledo Bend Reservoir for the generation of 1-14 hydro-electric power if the mean sea level of the reservoir is 1-15 below one hundred sixty-eight feet, unless: 1-16 (1) the federal Energy Regulatory Commission or a 1-17 successor to that agency orders or requires a reduction in the 1-18 water level of the reservoir for purposes of inspecting or 1-19 repairing the dam; 1-20 (2) failure to use or sell the use of the waters of 1-21 the reservoir to generate hydro-electric power will result in a 1-22 supply of electric power that is not sufficient to meet the demand 1-23 of the firm or uninterruptible users of the power; or 1-24 (3) failure to use the waters of the reservoir for the 2-1 generation of hydro-electric power will result in the failure to 2-2 satisfy minimum down river flow requirements necessary to: 2-3 (A) meet water sales from the diversion canals 2-4 of the Sabine River channel and diversion system; and 2-5 (B) deter saltwater encroachment. 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.