Bill Text: TX SB1742 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to road specifications and safety standards for access to a solid waste facility.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-16 - Referred to Natural Resources & Economic Development [SB1742 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1742-Introduced.html
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| By: Zaffirini | S.B. No. 1742 | |
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| relating to road specifications and safety standards for access to | ||
| a solid waste facility. | ||
| 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 361.125 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 361.125. ROAD SPECIFICATIONS AND SAFETY STANDARDS FOR | ||
| ACCESS TO SOLID WASTE FACILITY. (a) The commission by rule shall: | ||
| (1) adopt specific, uniform road specifications and | ||
| safety standards for access to solid waste facilities that accept | ||
| or process municipal solid waste or hazardous waste; and | ||
| (2) require as a condition of a permit that the permit | ||
| holder comply with the rules adopted under Subdivision (1). | ||
| (b) Rules adopted under Subsection (a)(1) must: | ||
| (1) include standards or requirements for: | ||
| (A) safe railroad grade crossings; | ||
| (B) spill containment in high-risk areas; | ||
| (C) sufficient flood protection; | ||
| (D) vehicle weight and load limits that ensure | ||
| the access of commercial motor vehicles to the solid waste facility | ||
| without causing damage to the access routes; | ||
| (E) sight distance, as that term is defined by | ||
| Section 255.001, Transportation Code; and | ||
| (F) appropriate traffic control devices and | ||
| lighting; | ||
| (2) require the permit holder to be financially | ||
| responsible for access route improvements and maintenance; and | ||
| (3) require the permit holder to provide access to the | ||
| solid waste facility only through: | ||
| (A) a public highway; | ||
| (B) a dedicated county or municipal road; | ||
| (C) an easement for which the permit holder holds | ||
| a fee simple title; or | ||
| (D) an easement for which all owners of the | ||
| easement have agreed in writing to the use of the easement for | ||
| ingress and egress to the facility. | ||
| (c) The commission shall enforce this section, including | ||
| rules adopted under this section and conditions imposed under a | ||
| rule adopted under this section, and take an enforcement action | ||
| against a permit holder who violates this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
| of this Act, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality shall | ||
| adopt the rules required by Section 361.125, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
