LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD

Austin, Texas

FISCAL NOTE, 78TH LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION

May 8, 2003

TO:	Honorable Kenneth Armbrister, Chair, Senate Committee on Natural Resources
FROM:	John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:	SB1275 by Armbrister (Relating to the revocation of permits for certain landfill facilities.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted

No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.

The bill would allow the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) to revoke, after notice and hearing, a permit for a municipal solid waste landfill facility if the following conditions exist: the facility has not begun to receive municipal solid waste on or before the sixth anniversary of the date the permit was issued; and the commissioners court of the county in which the facility is located adopts a resolution recommending the revocation.

Local Government Impact

No significant fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.

Source Agencies:

582 Commission on Environmental Quality

LBB Staff:

JK, CL, TL