86R4737 JXC-D
By: Kolkhorst, Zaffirini S.B. No. 551
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to inaccurate or incomplete permit applications for solid
waste facilities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 361, Health and Safety
Code, is amended by adding Section 361.0681 to read as follows:
Sec. 361.0681. RETURN OR DENIAL OF INCOMPLETE OR INACCURATE
APPLICATION. (a) Before the commission determines that a permit
application is administratively and technically complete, the
commission may return the application to an applicant if the
application is incomplete or inaccurate.
(b) The commission:
(1) shall deny a permit application the commission
finds to be incomplete or inaccurate during technical review if the
commission returned a previous version of the application to the
applicant during technical review because the previous version was
incomplete or inaccurate; and
(2) may not approve a subsequent application for a
solid waste facility at the site that was the subject of the denied
application under Subdivision (1).
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply to an
application for the issuance of a permit pending before the Texas
Commission on Environmental Quality on or after the effective date
of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.