Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of the Eightieth Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 6 Page: 6,489
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Sec. 27.054. ELECTRIC OR DRILLING LOG. If an existing well is to be
converted to an injection well, monitoring well, or production well, the
commission or railroad commission may require the applicant to furnish an
electric log or a drilling log of the existing well.
SECTION 5. Section 27.071, Water Code, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 27.071. POWER TO ENTER PROPERTY. Members of the
commission and the railroad commission and employees of the commission and
the railroad commission may enter public or private property to inspect and
investigate conditions relating to injection well, monitoring well, [er] disposal
well, or production well activities within their respective jurisdictions or to
monitor compliance with a rule, permit, or other order of the commission or
railroad commission. Members or employees acting under the authority of this
section who enter an establishment on public or private property shall observe the
establishment's safety, internal security, and fire protection rules.
SECTION 6. Section 27.072, Water Code, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 27.072. POWER TO EXAMINE RECORDS. Members of the
commission and the railroad commission and employees of the commission and
railroad commission may examine and copy those records or memoranda of a
business they are investigating as provided by Section 27.071 of this code that
relate to the operation of an injection well, monitoring well, [ef] disposal well, or
production well, or any other records required to be maintained by law.
SECTION 7. Section 27.073, Water Code, is amended by adding
Subsection (a-1) to read as follows:
(a-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), a person to whom an in situ uranium
mining injection well, monitoring well, or production well permit is issued shall
be required by the commission to maintain a performance bond or other form of
financial security to ensure that an abandoned well is properly plugged.
SECTION 8. This Act takes effect September 1, 2007.
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED
Representative Gallego moved to suspend all necessary rules in order to take
up and consider at this time HR 2784 - HR 2786.
The motion prevailed.
The following resolutions were laid before the house:
HR 2784 (by Gallego), In memory of Clayton McKinney.
HR 2785 (by Gallego), In memory of Irene Pena Villarreal of San Antonio
HR 2786 (by Gallego), In memory of Martin Shuster of Fort Stockton.
The resolutions were unanimously adopted by a rising vote.
On motion of Representative Hochberg, the names of all the members of the
house were added to HR 2784 - HR 2786 as signers thereof.Saturday, May 26, 2007
HOUSE JOURNAL
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