By: Larson, Lucio III, Fallon H.B. No. 2230
(Senate Sponsor - Estes)
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 22, 2015;
May 6, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural
Resources and Economic Development; May 15, 2015, reported
favorably by the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 15, 2015,
sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the authority of the Texas Commission on Environmental
Quality to authorize an injection well used for oil and gas waste
disposal to be used for the disposal of nonhazardous brine produced
by a desalination operation or nonhazardous drinking water
treatment residuals.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 27, Water Code, is amended
by adding Section 27.026 to read as follows:
Sec. 27.026. DUAL AUTHORIZATION OF INJECTION WELLS TO
INJECT NONHAZARDOUS BRINE FROM DESALINATION OPERATIONS OR
NONHAZARDOUS DRINKING WATER TREATMENT RESIDUALS. (a) The
commission may authorize by individual permit, by general permit,
or by rule a Class V injection well for the injection of
nonhazardous brine from a desalination operation or nonhazardous
drinking water treatment residuals into a Class II injection well
that is also permitted by the railroad commission under Subchapter
C.
(b) The commission and railroad commission by rule shall
enter or amend a memorandum of understanding to implement and
administer this section.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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