By: Nichols S.B. No. 1360
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the deadlines for commencement and completion of the
  Lake Columbia reservoir project.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that the proposed Lake
  Columbia project authorized by Permit to Appropriate State Water
  Number 4228 (Application No. 4537) is a rural water project for
  political subdivisions and that its construction and development
  are in the public interest. The legislature further finds that the
  Texas Water Development Board has obtained a right and interest in
  the permit and that the deadlines provided by the permit for
  commencement and completion of construction of the project should
  be stricken from the permit.
         SECTION 2.  The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
  shall issue without notice or hearing an amendment to the permit
  striking from the permit the deadlines provided by the permit for
  commencement and completion of construction of the project in
  accordance with this Act.
         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, 2009.