78R4204 JJT-D
By: Puente H.B. No. 1977
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a manifest system to record the transportation of
certain liquid wastes.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Health and Safety Code, is amended
by adding Section 361.034 to read as follows:
Sec. 361.034. RECORDS AND MANIFESTS REQUIRED FOR CERTAIN
LIQUID WASTES. (a) The commission by rule shall require a person
who generates, collects, conveys, transports, processes, stores,
or disposes of sewage sludge, water treatment sludge, domestic
septage, chemical toilet waste, grit trap waste, or grease trap
waste to keep records and use a uniform manifest as prescribed by
commission 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) The rules must require the person who generates the
waste, the person who transports the waste, and the person who
disposes of the waste each 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) The rules must require that aggregate amounts of waste
recorded on the manifests required under this section match the
amounts of waste reported to the commission annually. The
commission may require copies of manifests to be submitted with
reports to the commission or at other times.
SECTION 2. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
shall 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. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2003.