By: Shapleigh S.B. No. 213
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a manifest system to record the transportation of
certain liquid wastes.
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 361.034 to read as follows:
Sec. 361.034. RECORDS AND MANIFESTS REQUIRED FOR CERTAIN
MUNICIPAL LIQUID WASTES. (a) The commission by rule shall require
a person who generates, collects, conveys, transports, processes,
stores, or disposes of municipal sewage sludge, grit trap waste, or
grease trap waste to keep records and use, as prescribed by
commission rule, a sequentially numbered, uniform transportation
manifest issued by the commission to ensure that the waste is
transported to an appropriate processing, storage, or disposal
facility or site permitted or authorized for that purpose.
(b) The rules must require the person who generates the
waste, the person who transports the waste, and the person who
disposes of the waste each to retain, for not less than three years,
a copy of the uniform transportation manifest that records the
generator, transporter, disposal site, and disposal method.
(c) The rules must require that aggregate amounts of waste
recorded on the manifests required under this section match the
amounts of waste reported to the commission annually. The
commission may require copies of uniform transportation manifests
to be submitted with reports to the commission or at other times.
SECTION 2. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
shall adopt rules under Section 361.034, Health and Safety Code, as
added by this Act, as soon as practicable so that the rules take
effect not later than March 1, 2010.
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.