81R5014 JAM-F
By: Martinez Fischer H.B. No. 1922
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the authorization of certain reuse water system
contributions and discharges.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 26, Water Code, is amended
by adding Section 26.0271 to read as follows:
Sec. 26.0271. PERMITS AUTHORIZING REUSE SYSTEM
CONTRIBUTIONS AND DISCHARGES. (a) This section applies only to
wastewater treatment facilities operated by an agency of a
home-rule municipality with a population of one million or more.
(b) In any permit or amendment to a permit issued under this
chapter, the commission may authorize a wastewater treatment
facility to contribute treated domestic wastewater produced by the
facility as reclaimed water to a reuse water system if the
commission has approved the use of reclaimed water from the
wastewater treatment facility.
(c) In any permit or amendment to a permit issued under this
chapter, the commission shall authorize a wastewater treatment
facility to:
(1) contribute reclaimed water into a reuse water
system operated by the agency; and
(2) discharge reclaimed water contributed to a reuse
water system at any outfall for which a discharge from the reuse
water system is authorized in any permit issued for any wastewater
treatment facility operated by the agency.
(d) For an effluent limitation violation occurring at an
outfall permitted for reuse system discharges by more than one
wastewater treatment facility, the commission shall attribute the
violation to the wastewater treatment facility contributing the
reclaimed water causing the violation. For a violation that is not
directly attributable to a specific wastewater treatment facility,
the commission shall attribute the violation to the wastewater
treatment facility contributing the greatest volume of reclaimed
water to the reuse system on the date of the violation.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by Section 26.0271, Water
Code, as added by this Act, applies only to permits or amendments to
permits issued on or after the effective date of this Act. A permit
or permit amendment that was issued before the effective date of
this Act is governed by the law in effect at the time the permit or
amendment to the permit was issued, and the former law is continued
in effect for that purpose.
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, 2009.