SRC-TJG S.B. 606 78(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   S.B. 606
78R4204 JJT-DBy: Shapleigh
Natural Resources
3/31/2003
As Filed


DIGEST AND PURPOSE 

Currently, although Texas specifies what information should be on a liquid
waste manifest, or trip ticket, Texas does not require a standard
statewide form for liquid waste manifest.  As proposed, S.B. 606 creates a
pre-numbered statewide uniform manifest system, prescribed by the Texas
Commission on Environmental Quality, to accompany liquid waste shipments
from cradle-to-grave.   

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

Rulemaking authority is expressly granted to the Texas Commission on
Environmental Quality in SECTION 1 (Section 361.034, Health and Safety
Code) of this bill. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Subchapter B, Health and Safety Code, by adding Section
361.034, as follows: 

Sec. 361.034.  RECORDS AND MANIFESTS REQUIRED FOR CERTAIN LIQUID WASTES.
(a) Requires the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) to
require a person who takes certain actions relating to waste, to keep
records and use a uniform manifest as prescribed by TCEQ rule to ensure
that the waste is transported to an appropriate processing, storage, or
disposal facility or site permitted or authorized for that purpose. 

(b) Requires the rules to require certain persons to retain, for not less
than three years, a copy of a transportation manifest that records the
generator, transporter, and disposal site and method. 

(c) Requires the rules to require that aggregate amounts of waste recorded
on the manifests required under this section match the amounts of waste
reported to TCEQ annually.  Authorizes TCEQ to require copies of manifests
to be submitted with reports to TCEQ or at other times. 

SECTION 2.  Requires TCEQ to adopt rules under Section 361.034, Health and
Safety Code, as added by this Act, as soon as practicable so that the
rules take effect not later than March 1, 2004. 

SECTION 3.  Effective date:  upon passage or September 1, 2003.