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79R8589 SLO-F
By: Bonnen H.B. No. 1899
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the regulation and permitting of a commercial
industrial solid waste facility connected to a publicly owned
treatment works facility.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 361, Health and Safety
Code, is amended by adding Section 361.0901 to read as follows:
Sec. 361.0901. REGULATION AND PERMITTING OF CERTAIN
COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL SOLID WASTE FACILITIES. (a) In this
section, "publicly owned treatment works" means any device or
system used in the treatment, recycling, or reclamation of
municipal sewage or industrial waste of a liquid nature that is
owned by a state or by a municipality as defined by Section 502(4),
Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. Section 1362). The
term includes a sewer, pipe, or other conveyance only if the sewer,
pipe, or conveyance conveys wastewater to a publicly owned
treatment works providing treatment.
(b) A commercial industrial solid waste facility may not
receive industrial solid waste for discharge into a publicly owned
treatment works facility without first obtaining from the
commission a permit under this chapter or a permit under Chapter 26,
Water Code.
SECTION 2. (a) The Texas Commission on Environmental
Quality shall adopt rules regarding permits for commercial
industrial solid waste facilities as required by Section 361.0901,
Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act, not later than
February 1, 2006.
(b) A commercial industrial solid waste facility may not
accept industrial solid waste on or after June 1, 2006, unless the
facility obtains a permit as required by Section 361.0901, Health
and Safety Code, as added by this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.