By:  Shapleigh                                                    S.B. No. 606
	(In the Senate - Filed February 20, 2003; February 26, 2003, 
read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources; 
April 9, 2003, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 8, 
Nays 0; April 9, 2003, sent to printer.)


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, Chapter 361, 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.



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