TO: | Honorable Kip Averitt, Chair, Senate Committee on Natural Resources |
FROM: | John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
IN RE: | HB472 by Hilderbran (Relating to the effect and implementation of the law regarding reporting by a common carrier or pipeline owner or operator of contamination.), As Engrossed |
Fiscal Year | Probable Net Positive/(Negative) Impact to General Revenue Related Funds |
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2010 | $0 |
2011 | $0 |
2012 | $0 |
2013 | $0 |
2014 | $0 |
Fiscal Year | Probable Savings/(Cost) from Oil-field Cleanup Acct 145 |
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2010 | ($202,500) |
2011 | ($202,500) |
2012 | ($202,500) |
2013 | ($202,500) |
2014 | ($202,500) |
The bill would impacts common carriers, which the Railroad Commission reports affects 64,216 miles of pipeline) and operators/owners of pipelines (9,552 miles of private pipeline), for a total of 73,768 miles of pipeline. The Railroad Commission expects that the bill's passage would result in the receipt of an additional 75 contamination reports annually over current levels. Assuming the agency would be required to use a third party to obtain a sample for each of the contamination incidence sites, the Railroad Commission estimates that each sample would cost $2,700. This estimate assumes that the total cost resulting from the bill's passage would thus be $202,500 per fiscal year and that these costs would be paid for out of the Oil Field Cleanup Account No. 145, since changes proposed by the bill would specifically remove restrictions for such use.
Source Agencies: | 455 Railroad Commission, 582 Commission on Environmental Quality
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LBB Staff: | JOB, SD, SZ, ZS, TL, TP
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