Amend SB 689 by adding the following appropriately numbered
SECTION:
      SECTION____.  Section 361.003, Health and Safety Code is
amended by adding Subdivision (40) to read as follows:
      (40)  "Low-level radioactive hazardous waste" means a solid
waste, or a combination of solid wastes, which:
            (A)  because of its quantity, concentration, or
physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics may:
                  (i)  cause or significantly contribute to an
increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or
incapacitating reversible, illness; or
                  (ii) pose a substantial present or potential
hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated,
stored by a public or private facility, transported, or disposed of
or otherwise managed;
            (B)  is identified by the commission as a hazardous
waste  by rule, provided that the rules implementing this
subdivision shall be consistent with, and not more stringent than
necessary to maintain state program authorization under, the
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, as amended (42
U.S.C. Section 6901 et seq.); or
                  (C) is included in Section 401.004, Health and
Safety Code.