TO: | Honorable Kip Averitt, Chair, Senate Committee on Natural Resources |
FROM: | John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
IN RE: | SB213 by Shapleigh (Relating to a manifest system to record the transportation of certain liquid wastes.), As Introduced |
The bill would require that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) adopt rules that require a person who generates, collects, conveys, transports, processes, stores, or disposes of municipal sewage sludge, grit trap waste, or grease trap waste to use a sequentially numbered uniform transportation manifest as prescribed and issued by the TCEQ. In addition, the generator, transporter and disposer must retain copies of the manifests for not less than three years. The bill would also require the TCEQ to match the aggregate amounts of waste recorded on the manifests to amounts of waste reported annually.
Although the bill is likely to increase the workload of the TCEQ, this estimate assumes that the increase would not be significant, and that any additional costs to the agency could be absorbed using existing resources.
Source Agencies: | 582 Commission on Environmental Quality
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LBB Staff: | JOB, SD, TL
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