By: Van Arsdale, Baxter (Senate Sponsor-Lindsay) H.B. No. 3030
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 7, 2003;
May 9, 2003, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural
Resources; May 23, 2003, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 23, 2003, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to notice of groundwater contamination that may affect a
drinking water well.
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 under Section 26.406(a) a case of
groundwater contamination that may affect a drinking water well,
the state agency shall notify the commission.
(b) Not later than the 30th day after the date the
commission receives notice under Subsection (a) or obtains
independent knowledge of groundwater contamination, the commission
shall make every effort to give notice of the contamination by first
class mail to each owner of a private drinking water well that may
be affected by the contamination and to each applicable groundwater
conservation district.
(c) The committee 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 documented on
or after that date. A case of groundwater contamination 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.
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