Bill Text: TX SB1994 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to reporting requirements for certain accidental discharges or spills.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-19 - Referred to Water & Rural Affairs [SB1994 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1994-Introduced.html
86R7035 MP-D | ||
By: Birdwell | S.B. No. 1994 |
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relating to reporting requirements for certain accidental | ||
discharges or spills. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 26.039(b) and (g), Water Code, are | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) Except as provided by Subsection (g), whenever an | ||
accidental discharge or spill occurs at or from any activity or | ||
facility which causes or may cause pollution, the individual | ||
operating, in charge of, or responsible for the activity or | ||
facility shall notify the commission and appropriate local | ||
government officials as soon as possible and not later than 24 hours | ||
after the occurrence. The individual's notice to the commission and | ||
appropriate local government officials must include the location, | ||
volume, and content of the discharge or spill. | ||
(g) The individual is not required to notify the commission | ||
or local government officials of an accidental discharge or spill | ||
of treated or untreated domestic wastewater under Subsection (b) or | ||
officials or media under Subsection (e) of a single accidental | ||
discharge or spill that: | ||
(1) occurs at a wastewater treatment or collection | ||
facility owned or operated by a local government; | ||
(2) has a volume of 1,000 gallons or less; | ||
(3) is not associated with another simultaneous | ||
accidental discharge or spill; | ||
(4) is controlled or removed before the accidental | ||
discharge or spill: | ||
(A) enters water in the state; or | ||
(B) adversely affects a public or private source | ||
of drinking water; | ||
(5) will not endanger human health or safety or the | ||
environment; and | ||
(6) is not otherwise subject to local regulatory | ||
control and reporting requirements. | ||
SECTION 2. 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, 2019. |