88R1384 SHH-F
 
  By: Kitzman H.B. No. 2369
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to publishing on an Internet website notices concerning
  certain National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permits.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 26, Water Code, is amended
  by adding Section 26.0273 to read as follows:
         Sec. 26.0273.  NOTICE CONCERNING NPDES PERMITS. (a)  
  Notwithstanding Section 5.552, 5.553, 26.028, 26.040, or any other
  law that requires notice to be published in a newspaper, notice
  concerning an NPDES permit, permit amendment, or permit renewal
  issued under this chapter is sufficient if the notice is published
  on the commission's Internet website.
         (b)  The commission shall establish a publicly accessible
  portal on the commission's Internet website that allows a person to
  publish a notice described by this section.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.