Bill Text: TX HB3604 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the cleaning of a structure used to grow oysters for cultivated oyster mariculture.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-24 - Removed from local & uncontested calendar [HB3604 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3604-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the cleaning of a structure used to grow oysters for cultivated oyster mariculture.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-24 - Removed from local & uncontested calendar [HB3604 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3604-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Vasut | H.B. No. 3604 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3604: | |||
By: Kuempel | C.S.H.B. No. 3604 |
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relating to the cleaning of a structure used to grow oysters for | ||
cultivated oyster mariculture. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 26, Water Code, is amended | ||
by adding Section 26.0406 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 26.0406. GENERAL PERMITS FOR AQUACULTURE; EXEMPTION | ||
FOR CLEANING STRUCTURES USED FOR GROWING OYSTERS. (a) A general | ||
permit for aquaculture issued by the commission must allow the | ||
holder of a cultivated oyster mariculture permit under Chapter 75, | ||
Parks and Wildlife Code, to discharge into waters of this state | ||
waste related to the cleaning of a structure used to grow oysters | ||
for cultivated oyster mariculture in accordance with Subsection | ||
(b). | ||
(b) A cultivated oyster mariculture permit holder cleaning | ||
a structure as described by Subsection (a): | ||
(1) must clean the structure at the location where the | ||
permit holder is authorized to operate and only with water from that | ||
location; | ||
(2) prior to use in cleaning, may not alter the | ||
cleaning water in any way, including with the addition of soap, | ||
chemicals, or any other similar substance; and | ||
(3) in consultation with the Texas Parks and Wildlife | ||
Department, must comply with all other permit conditions | ||
established by the commission. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |