Floor Packet Page No. 127                                                   

	
Amend Article VI, CSSB 1 (House Committee Printing) by 
inserting the following appropriately-numbered Rider to the 
appropriation for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality as 
follows and renumbering subsequent Riders accordingly:
	____.  TESTING FOR MERCURY CONTAMINATION.  Out of the amounts 
appropriated above in Strategy A.1.2 (Water Assessment and 
Planning), $750,000 in FY 2006 and $750,000 in FY 2007 shall be used 
for the purpose of testing for mercury contamination of the waters 
of this State by the testing of the tissue of fish and shellfish 
living in State waters.  The Commission should give priority to 
testing bodies of fresh water and salt water that have not 
previously been tested for mercury contamination by any state or 
federal agency, but where the is probable cause that mercury 
contamination may have occurred.  The Commission shall share the 
results of the testing with the Department of State Health Services 
for purposes of considering the appropriate warnings to the public 
of found mercury contamination that the Department is authorized by 
general law to issue.