TITLE: Relating to requiring the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to adopt rules preventing access to on-site sewage disposal systems.

SUMMARY: Relating to requiring the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to adopt rules preventing access to on-site sewage disposal systems.

FULL TEXT:
AN ACT relating to requiring the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to adopt rules preventing access to on-site sewage disposal systems. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 366.012(a), Health and Safety Code, is amended to read as follows: (a) To assure the effective and efficient administration of this chapter, the commission shall: (1) adopt rules governing the installation of on-site sewage disposal systems, including rules concerning the: (A) review and approval of on-site sewage disposal systems; and (B) temporary waiver of a permit for an emergency repair; and (2) adopt rules under this chapter that: (A) encourage the use of economically feasible alternative techniques and technologies for on-site sewage disposal systems that can be used in soils not suitable for conventional on-site sewage disposal; [and] (B) address the separation of graywater, as defined by Section 341.039, in a residence served by an on-site sewage disposal system;and (C) require on-site sewage disposal systems, including risers and covers, installed after September 1, 2012, to be designed to prevent access to the system by anyone other than: (i) the owner of the system; or (ii) a person described by Section 366.071(a) or (b).SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.