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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to the power of the Texas Commission on Environmental |
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Quality to authorize certain injection wells that transect or |
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terminate in the Edwards Aquifer. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Subsection (h), Section 27.051, Water Code, as |
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added by Chapter 966 (S.B. 2), Acts of the 77th Legislature, Regular |
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Session, 2001, is redesignated as Subsection (i) and amended to |
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read as follows: |
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(i) [(h)] The commission may not authorize by rule or permit |
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a Class I or Class III [an] injection well that transects or |
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terminates in the Edwards Aquifer. [The commission by rule may
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authorize injection of groundwater withdrawn from the Edwards
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Aquifer, or injections of storm water, flood water, or groundwater
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through improved sinkholes or caves located in karst topographic
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areas.] For purposes of this subsection, "Edwards Aquifer" has the |
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meaning assigned by Section 26.046(a). |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |