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Amend SB 347 (house committee report) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Section 401.212, Health and Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 401.212. MONITORING, MAINTENANCE, AND EMERGENCY MEASURES. (a) The commission may undertake monitoring, maintenance, and emergency measures that are necessary to protect the public health and safety and the environment in connection with low-level radioactive waste and property for which it has assumed custody.
(b) The Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact Commission may not authorize the disposal of nonparty compact waste until the commission adopts rules to prohibit the compact waste disposal facility license holder from placing low-level radioactive waste in a storage or disposal unit:
(1) that contains water that is more than one-half inch deep for more than 48 hours after a rainfall event; or
(2) if groundwater monitoring wells show the presence of water within the boundaries of the compact waste disposal facility site or within the site's buffer zone.