LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 76th Regular Session
  
                               May 12, 1999
  
  
          TO:  Honorable J.E. "Buster" Brown, Chair, Senate Committee on
               Natural Resources
  
        FROM:  John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
  
       IN RE:  HB 2977 by Hamric (relating to the authority of the Texas
               Natural Resource Conservation Commission to certify that
               the discharge of a pollutant will not cause a violation
               of certain water quality standards under the Federal
               Water Pollution Control Act), Committee Report 2nd
               House, as amended
  
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*  No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.        *
*  Because the bill would not have statewide impact on units of local    *
*  government of the same type or class, no comment from this office     *
*  is required by the rules of the House/Senate as to its probable       *
*  fiscal implication on units of local government.                      *
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Source Agencies:   582   Natural Resource Conservation Commission, 580
                   Water Development Board, 304   Comptroller of Public
                   Accounts
LBB Staff:         JK, DE, DM