BILL ANALYSIS |
C.S.H.B. 2479 |
By: Bell |
Environmental Regulation |
Committee Report (Substituted) |
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
Interested parties contend that legislation is needed regarding the denial of a permit application for certain municipal solid waste landfills for which a previous application was returned to the applicant for containing inadequate or incomplete information. C.S.H.B. 2479 seeks to address this issue by prohibiting the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality from issuing a permit for a new municipal solid waste landfill under certain conditions.
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.
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RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
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ANALYSIS
C.S.H.B. 2479 amends the Health and Safety Code to prohibit the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) from issuing a permit for a new municipal solid waste landfill if the proposed site is located in a county with a population of less than 70,000 and more than 40,000 that is adjacent to a county with a population of more than 3.3 million and if a previous application was submitted to TCEQ to operate a new municipal solid waste landfill at the same proposed site, the previous application was returned to the applicant by TCEQ for containing inadequate or incomplete information, and the applicant for the previous application stated in writing that the previous application did not meet requirements established by TCEQ rules. The bill applies only to an application for the issuance of a permit pending before TCEQ on or after the bill's effective date.
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EFFECTIVE DATE
September 1, 2017.
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COMPARISON OF ORIGINAL AND SUBSTITUTE
While C.S.H.B. 2479 may differ from the original in minor or nonsubstantive ways, the following comparison is organized and formatted in a manner that indicates the substantial differences between the introduced and committee substitute versions of the bill.
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