Bill Text: TX SB617 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to a manifest system to record the transportation of certain liquid wastes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-17 - Referred to Natural Resources [SB617 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-SB617-Introduced.html
  82R4595 JXC-D
 
  By: Rodriguez S.B. No. 617
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to a manifest system to record the transportation of
  certain liquid wastes.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 361, Health and Safety
  Code, is amended by adding Section 361.034 to read as follows:
         Sec. 361.034.  RECORDS AND MANIFESTS REQUIRED FOR CERTAIN
  MUNICIPAL LIQUID WASTES. (a)  The commission by rule shall require
  a person who generates, collects, conveys, transports, processes,
  stores, or disposes of municipal sewage sludge, grit trap waste, or
  grease trap waste to keep records and use, as prescribed by
  commission rule, a sequentially numbered, uniform transportation
  manifest issued by the commission to ensure that the waste is
  transported to an appropriate processing, storage, or disposal
  facility or site permitted or authorized for that purpose.
         (b)  The rules must require the person who generates the
  waste, the person who transports the waste, and the person who
  processes, stores, or disposes of the waste each to retain, for not
  less than three years, a copy of the uniform transportation
  manifest that records the:
               (1)  generator and transporter;
               (2)  processing, storage, or disposal site; and
               (3)  processing, storage, or disposal method.
         (c)  The rules must require that aggregate amounts of waste
  recorded on the manifests required under this section match the
  amounts of waste reported to the commission annually. The
  commission may require copies of uniform transportation manifests
  to be submitted with reports to the commission or at other times.
         SECTION 2.  The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
  shall adopt rules under Section 361.034, Health and Safety Code, as
  added by this Act, as soon as practicable so that the rules take
  effect not later than March 1, 2012.
         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.
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