Amend CSSB 2 (House committee printing) by adding
appropriately numbered new SECTIONS to the bill to read as follows
and appropriately renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill:
      SECTION ____.  Section 1.44, Chapter 626, Acts of the 73rd
Legislature, Regular Session, 1993, is amended by adding Subsection
(e) to read as follows:
      (e)  The authority may contract for injection or artificial
recharge under this section only if provision is made for
protecting and maintaining the quality of groundwater in the
receiving part of the aquifer, and:
            (1)  the water used for artificial recharge is
groundwater withdrawn from the aquifer; or
            (2)  the water is recharged through a natural recharge
feature.
      SECTION ____.  Section 27.051, Water Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (h) to read as follows:
      (h)  The commission may not authorize by rule or permit an
injection well that transects or terminates in the Edwards Aquifer.
The commission by rule may authorize injection of groundwater
withdrawn from the Edwards Aquifer, or injections of storm water,
flood water, or groundwater through improved sinkholes or caves
located in karst topographic areas.  For purposes of this
subsection, "Edwards Aquifer" has the meaning assigned by Section
26.046(a).
      SECTION ____. The change in law made by Section 27.051(h),
Water Code, as added by this Act, applies only to an application
for a permit that is filed with the Texas Natural Resource
Conservation Commission on or after September 1, 2001.