Bill Text: TX SB2379 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to aquifer storage and recovery projects that transect a portion of the Edwards Aquifer.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2023-06-16 - Vetoed by the Governor [SB2379 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB2379-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to aquifer storage and recovery projects that transect a portion of the Edwards Aquifer.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2023-06-16 - Vetoed by the Governor [SB2379 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB2379-Introduced.html
2023S0280-1 03/09/23 | ||
By: Schwertner | S.B. No. 2379 |
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relating to the definition of the Edwards Aquifer for the purposes | ||
of an aquifer storage and recovery project. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 27.051(i), Water Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(i) For purposes of this subsection, "Edwards Aquifer" has | ||
the meaning assigned by Section 26.046(a), except that it includes | ||
only that portion of Williamson County west of Interstate Highway | ||
35, running north from its intersection with State Highway 130, to | ||
the Williamson County Bell County line, and west of State Highway | ||
130 running south from its intersection with Interstate Highway 35 | ||
to the Williamson County Travis County line. Except as otherwise | ||
provided by this subsection, the commission may not authorize by | ||
rule or permit an injection well that transects or terminates in the | ||
Edwards Aquifer. The commission by rule may authorize: | ||
(1) injection of groundwater withdrawn from the | ||
Edwards Aquifer; | ||
(2) injections of storm water, flood water, or | ||
groundwater through improved sinkholes or caves located in karst | ||
topographic areas; or | ||
(3) injections of water made in accordance with | ||
Section 1.44(e)(3), Chapter 626, Acts of the 73rd Legislature, | ||
Regular Session, 1993. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 27.0516(a)(1), Water Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(1) "Edwards Aquifer" means that portion of an arcuate | ||
belt of porous, waterbearing limestones composed of the Edwards | ||
Formation, Georgetown Formation, Comanche Peak Formation, Salmon | ||
Peak Limestone, McKnight Formation, West Nueces Formation, Devil's | ||
River Limestone, Person Formation, Kainer Formation, and Edwards | ||
Group, together with the Upper Glen Rose Formation where scientific | ||
studies have documented a hydrological connection to the overlying | ||
Edwards Group trending from west to east to northeast through | ||
Kinney, Uvalde, Medina, Bexar, Kendall, Comal, Hays, and Travis | ||
Counties, and Williamson County west of Interstate Highway 35, | ||
running north from its intersection with State Highway 130, to the | ||
Williamson County Bell County line, and west of State Highway 130 | ||
running south from its intersection with Interstate Highway 35 to | ||
the Williamson County Travis County line [ |
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aquifer units generally overlie the less-permeable Glen Rose | ||
Formation to the south, overlie the less-permeable Comanche Peak | ||
and Walnut Formations north of the Colorado River, and underlie the | ||
less-permeable Del Rio Clay regionally. | ||
SECTION 3. Not later than December 1, 2023, the commission | ||
shall adopt or amend rules to implement the changes made by this | ||
Act. | ||
SECTION 4. 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, 2023. |