TO:	Honorable Allan Ritter, Chair, House Committee on Natural Resources
FROM:	John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:	HB179 by Creighton (Relating to the application of new requirements for commercial underground injection control wells to be adopted by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted

The Legislative Budget Board, in cooperation with the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has determined that:

"No Water Development Policy Impact Statement will be prepared for this bill under the provisions of Texas Constitution, Article 16, Section 59(d) as this bill does not create a conservation and reclamation district. "