bill requiring sewer consent for sludge processing facilities

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89R4417 CMO-D

By: Martinez
H.B. No. 2092

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the regulation by the Texas Commission on Environmental

Quality of certain solid waste processing 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 361.127 to read as follows:

Sec. 361.127. REQUIREMENTS APPLICABLE TO CERTAIN SOLID

WASTE PROCESSING FACILITIES. (a) This section applies only to a

solid waste processing facility that salvages, separates,

dewaters, reclaims, or otherwise processes municipal sludge,

sewage, septage, grease trap waste, or grit trap waste.

(b) An owner or operator of a solid waste processing

facility must have the consent of and authorization from the owner

or operator of:

(1) the wastewater collection system that will receive

the treated wastewater produced by the processing facility; and

(2) any wastewater treatment facility that will

further treat the treated wastewater.

(c) The commission may not issue, amend, or renew a permit

under this chapter for a solid waste processing facility unless the

owner or operator of the processing facility demonstrates to the

commission's satisfaction that the owner or operator has complied

with Subsection (b).

SECTION 2. Section 361.127(c), Health and Safety Code, as

added by this Act, applies only to a solid waste processing facility

the owner or operator of which files an application with the Texas

Commission on Environmental Quality for the issuance, amendment, or

renewal of a permit on or after the effective date of this Act. A

solid waste processing facility the owner or operator of which

filed an application with the commission for the issuance,

amendment, or renewal of a permit before the effective date of this

Act is governed by the law as it existed immediately before the

effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for

that purpose.

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, 2025.