85R5043 JXC-D
 
  By: Kolkhorst S.B. No. 551
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to inaccurate or incomplete permit applications for solid
  waste facilities.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 361, Health and Safety
  Code, is amended by adding Section 361.0681 to read as follows:
         Sec. 361.0681.  RETURN OR DENIAL OF INCOMPLETE OR INACCURATE
  APPLICATION. (a) Before the commission determines that a permit
  application is administratively and technically complete, the
  commission may return the application to an applicant if the
  application is incomplete or inaccurate. 
         (b)  The commission:
               (1)  shall deny a permit application the commission
  finds to be incomplete or inaccurate during technical review if the
  commission returned a previous version of the application to the
  applicant during technical review because the previous version was
  incomplete or inaccurate; and
               (2)  may not approve a subsequent application for a
  solid waste facility at the site that was the subject of the denied
  application under Subdivision (1).
         SECTION 2.  The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
  an application for the issuance of a permit pending before the Texas
  Commission on Environmental Quality on or after the effective date
  of this Act.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.