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Amend HB 3827 (Senate committee report) by adding the
following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and
renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION __. (a) As soon as practicable after the effective
date of this Act, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
shall adopt rules regulating the surface facilities associated with
new commercial wells that propose to accept nonhazardous industrial
waste for which a permit has not been issued on or before the
effective date of this Act. In this section:
(1) "Commercial well" means a Class I injection well,
as defined by commission rule, that a person may use to dispose of
hazardous or nonhazardous industrial solid wastes for a charge.
The term does not include:
(A) an injection well that is part of an
integrated waste management unit of a captured facility; or
(B) an injection well at which only waste from
facilities owned or effectively controlled by the same person is
disposed.
(2) "Captured facility" means a manufacturing or
production facility that generates an industrial solid waste or
hazardous waste that is routinely stored, processed, or disposed of
on a shared basis in an integrated waste management unit owned by,
operated by, and located within a contiguous manufacturing complex.
(b) The rules adopted under Subsection (a) of this section
may not apply to an application for a permit for an injection well:
(1) used solely for the sequestration or capture of
carbon dioxide; or
(2) for which the surface facilities are associated
with a well for which a permit is issued before the effective date
of this Act.
(c) The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality shall
provide that the rules adopted under Subsection (a) apply to every
application for a permit for a new commercial underground injection
control well that proposes to accept industrial or municipal waste
that is filed on or after the effective date of this Act.