By: Hegar S.B. No. 1132
(Thompson)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the water rights permits issued to the Texas Water
Development Board for the Allens Creek Reservoir.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 1.02, Chapter 1291 (S.B.
1593), Acts of the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999, is
amended to read as follows:
(b) Upon application by the Texas Water Development Board
pursuant to Section 11.1311, Water Code, the Texas Natural Resource
Conservation Commission shall reissue without notice or hearing
Water Appropriation Permit No. 2925 previously issued for the
Allens Creek Reservoir. The permit shall be issued in the name of
the Texas Water Development Board and it shall have a priority date
of September 1, 1999. The date to commence construction of the
reservoir shall be not later than September 1, 2025 [2018]. The
Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission may extend such time
for beginning of construction for good cause.
SECTION 2. Article 1, Chapter 1291 (S.B. 1593), Acts of the
76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999, is amended by adding
Section 1.06 to read as follows:
Sec. 1.06. (a) Time Limitation No. 7.a. in Permit No.
2925A issued by the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission,
the predecessor agency to the Texas Commission on Environmental
Quality, to the Texas Water Development Board is amended to require
that construction of the Allens Creek Reservoir commence on or
before September 1, 2025, and be completed not later than the fifth
anniversary of the date construction of the reservoir commences.
(b) Not later than September 1, 2011, the Texas Commission
on Environmental Quality shall reissue Permit No. 2925A, as amended
by Subsection (a) of this section.
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, 2011.