By:  Van Arsdale                                                  H.B. No. 3030



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to public notice of groundwater contamination.                       
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subchapter J, Chapter 26, Water Code, is amended 
by adding Section 26.408 to read as follows:
	Sec. 26.408.  NOTICE OF GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION.  (a)  If a 
state agency documents a case of groundwater contamination where a 
drinking water well is threatened under Section 26.406(a), the 
state agency shall notify the commission.
	(b)  On receipt of notice under Subsection (a), the 
commission shall notify owners of potentially affected private 
drinking water wells by first class mail.
	(c)  The commission by rule shall prescribe the form and 
content of notice required under this section.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003, and 
applies only to a case of groundwater contamination where a 
drinking water source is threatened on or after that date.  A case 
of groundwater contamination where a drinking water source is 
threatened documented before the effective date of this Act is 
governed by the law in effect on the date the contamination is 
documented, and the former law is continued in effect for that 
purpose.