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1	1	H.B. No. 1922
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4	4	AN ACT
5	5	relating to the authorization of certain reuse water system
6	6	contributions and discharges.
7	7	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
8	8	SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 26, Water Code, is amended
9	9	by adding Section 26.0271 to read as follows:
10	10	Sec. 26.0271. PERMITS AUTHORIZING REUSE WATER SYSTEM
11	11	CONTRIBUTIONS AND DISCHARGES. (a) This section applies only to
12	12	wastewater treatment facilities operated by an agency of a
13	13	home-rule municipality with a population of one million or more.
14	14	(b) In any permit or amendment to a permit issued under this
15	15	chapter, at the request of the applicant the commission may
16	16	authorize a wastewater treatment facility to contribute treated
17	17	domestic wastewater produced by the facility as reclaimed water to
18	18	a reuse water system if the commission has approved the use of
19	19	reclaimed water from the wastewater treatment facility.
20	20	(c) In any permit or amendment to a permit issued under this
21	21	chapter, at the request of the applicant the commission shall
22	22	authorize, subject to any required approval by the United States
23	23	Environmental Protection Agency, a wastewater treatment facility
24	24	to:
25	25	(1) contribute reclaimed water into a reuse water
26	26	system operated by the agency; and
27	27	(2) discharge reclaimed water contributed to a reuse
28	28	water system at any outfall for which a discharge from the reuse
29	29	water system is authorized in any permit issued for any wastewater
30	30	treatment facility operated by the agency.
31	31	(d) For an effluent limitation violation occurring at an
32	32	outfall permitted for reuse water system discharges by more than
33	33	one wastewater treatment facility, the commission shall attribute
34	34	the violation to the wastewater treatment facility contributing the
35	35	reclaimed water causing the violation. For a violation that is not
36	36	directly attributable to a specific wastewater treatment facility,
37	37	the commission shall attribute the violation to the wastewater
38	38	treatment facility contributing the greatest volume of reclaimed
39	39	water to the reuse water system on the date of the violation.
40	40	SECTION 2. (a) The change in law made by Section 26.0271,
41	41	Water Code, as added by this Act, applies only to permits or
42	42	amendments to permits issued on or after the effective date of this
43	43	Act. A permit or permit amendment that was issued before the
44	44	effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect at the
45	45	time the permit or amendment to the permit was issued, and the
46	46	former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
47	47	(b) It is the intent of the legislature that the change in
48	48	law made by Section 26.0271, Water Code, as added by this Act, does
49	49	not in any way alter the current law related to permits, amendments
50	50	to permits, authorizations, and other approvals for the
51	51	contribution or discharge of reclaimed water, including the
52	52	commission's current reclaimed water rules, as applied to any
53	53	entity other than a wastewater treatment facility operated by an
54	54	agency of a home-rule municipality with a population of one million
55	55	or more, including a municipality with a population of less than one
56	56	million.
57	57	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
58	58	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
59	59	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
60	60	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
61	61	Act takes effect September 1, 2009.
62	62	______________________________ ______________________________
63	63	President of the Senate Speaker of the House
64	64	I certify that H.B. No. 1922 was passed by the House on April
65	65	22, 2009, by the following vote: Yeas 149, Nays 0, 1 present, not
66	66	voting.
67	67	______________________________
68	68	Chief Clerk of the House
69	69	I certify that H.B. No. 1922 was passed by the Senate on May
70	70	21, 2009, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
71	71	______________________________
72	72	Secretary of the Senate
73	73	APPROVED: _____________________
74	74	Date
75	75	_____________________
76	76	Governor