Bill Text: TX SB868 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the amount of certain industrial solid waste authorized to be accepted by a municipal solid waste facility.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-01 - Referred to Natural Resources & Economic Development [SB868 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB868-Introduced.html
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| By: Zaffirini | S.B. No. 868 | |
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| relating to the amount of certain industrial solid waste authorized | ||
| to be accepted by a municipal solid waste facility. | ||
| 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 361.0191 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 361.0191. LIMITATION ON AMOUNT OF INDUSTRIAL SOLID | ||
| WASTE ACCEPTED AT MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE FACILITY. (a) This section | ||
| applies only to a municipal solid waste facility that was | ||
| originally permitted on or after October 9, 1993. | ||
| (b) A municipal solid waste facility may accept Class I | ||
| industrial solid waste in an amount not to exceed 20 percent of the | ||
| total amount of non-Class I industrial solid waste accepted in that | ||
| calendar year and the preceding calendar year. | ||
| (c) If the commission determines that the planning region in | ||
| which the municipal solid waste facility is located lacks | ||
| sufficient disposal capacity for Class I industrial solid waste, | ||
| the commission may authorize a permit amendment to increase the | ||
| amount of Class I industrial solid waste authorized under | ||
| Subsection (b) to an amount not to exceed 50 percent of the total | ||
| amount of non-Class I industrial solid waste accepted in that | ||
| calendar year and the preceding calendar year. A permit amendment | ||
| under this subsection is considered a major amendment as defined by | ||
| commission rule and subjects the permittee to all of the procedural | ||
| and substantive obligations imposed by the rules applicable to | ||
| major amendments. | ||
| (d) The amount of waste accepted may be measured by volume | ||
| or by weight, but the same means of measurement must be used in the | ||
| calculation for each year. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 361.0191(c), Health and Safety Code, as | ||
| added by this Act, applies only to an application for the amendment | ||
| of a permit pending before the Texas Commission on Environmental | ||
| Quality on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| 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, 2019. | ||
