88S30808 JAM-F
	By: Guillen	H.B. No. 194

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to procedural requirements for uranium mining production
	area authorizations.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Section 27.0513(d), Water Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	(d)  Notwithstanding Sections 5.551, 5.556, 27.011, and
	27.018, an application for an authorization or an amendment to an
	authorization that allows the permit holder to conduct mining and
	restoration activities in production zones within the boundary
	established in the permit is an uncontested matter not subject to a
	contested case hearing or the hearing requirements of Chapter 2001,
	Government Code, if:
	(1)  the authorization is for a production zone located
	within the boundary of a permit that incorporates, for each
	production zone addressed in the application, a range table of
	groundwater quality restoration values used to measure groundwater
	restoration by the commission;
	(2)  the application includes, for each production zone
	addressed in the application, groundwater quality restoration
	values falling at or below the upper limit of the range established
	in Subdivision (1); and
	(3)  the authorization is for a production zone located
	within the boundary of a permit that incorporates groundwater
	baseline characteristics of the wells for the application required
	by commission rule.
	SECTION 2.  Sections 27.0513(f) and (g), Water Code, are
	repealed.
	SECTION 3.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
	to an application for an authorization or an amendment to an
	authorization that is submitted to the Texas Commission on
	Environmental Quality on or after the effective date of this Act.
	An application for an authorization or an amendment to an
	authorization that was submitted to the commission before the
	effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect at the
	time the application or amendment was submitted, and the former law
	is continued in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect on the 91st day after the
	last day of the legislative session.

Statutes affected:
Introduced: Water Code 27.0513 (Water Code 27)