82R4618 SMH-F
By: Wentworth S.B. No. 467
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the power of the Texas Commission on Environmental
Quality to authorize certain injection wells that transect or
terminate in the Edwards Aquifer.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsection (h), Section 27.051, Water Code, as
added by Chapter 966 (S.B. 2), Acts of the 77th Legislature, Regular
Session, 2001, is redesignated as Subsection (i) and amended to
read as follows:
(i) [(h)] The commission may not authorize by rule or permit
a Class I or Class III [an] injection well that transects or
terminates in the Edwards Aquifer. [The commission by rule may
authorize injection of groundwater withdrawn from the Edwards
Aquifer, or injections of storm water, flood water, or groundwater
through improved sinkholes or caves located in karst topographic
areas.] For purposes of this subsection, "Edwards Aquifer" has the
meaning assigned by Section 26.046(a).
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.