Bill Text: TX HB3602 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 3602 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to a restriction on permits authorizing direct discharges of waste or pollutants into water in certain areas associated with the Barton Springs segment of the Edwards Aquifer.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-03 - Left pending in committee [HB3602 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB3602-Introduced.html



	By: Garza	H.B. No. 3602



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to a restriction on permits authorizing direct discharges
	of waste or pollutants into water in certain areas associated with
	the Barton Springs segment of the Edwards Aquifer.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 26, Water Code, is amended
	by adding Section 26.0463 to read as follows:
	Sec. 26.0463. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR POLLUTION REMOVAL
	FOR STORMWATER ENTERING THE EDWARDS AQUIFER. (a) In this section,
	"water treatment facility" means a facility that utilizes best
	management practices approved by the Commission on Environmental
	Quality in a water pollution abatement plan for the purpose of
	filtering out and removing pollutants such as total suspended
	solids from stormwater runoff from commercial, residential,
	industrial or retail developments that are located within the
	recharge zone of the Edwards Aquifer.
	(b) The commission may not:
	(1) approve the use or installation of a new water
	treatment facility in a water pollution abatement plan unless the
	water treatment facility has been shown to remove 85% or more of the
	total suspended solids from the stormwater runoff required to be
	treated prior to its discharge into the recharge zone of the Edwards
	Aquifer.
	SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
	to an application for a permit or permit amendment that is submitted
	to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on or after the
	effective date of this Act. An application for a permit or permit
	amendment that was submitted to the Texas Commission on
	Environmental Quality before the effective date of this Act is
	governed by the law in effect at the time the application was filed,
	and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
	Act takes effect September 1, 2011.