Tex. Health & Safety Code § 401.307 · Subchapter H. FINANCIAL PROVISIONS
PERPETUAL CARE ACCOUNT AND ENVIRONMENTAL RADIATION AND PERPETUAL CARE ACCOUNT CAPS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The fees imposed under Sections 401.052(d) and 401.301(d) are suspended when the sum of the balances of the perpetual care account and the environmental radiation and perpetual care account reaches $100 million. The fees are reinstated when the sum of the balances of the perpetual care account and the environmental radiation and perpetual care account falls to $50 million or less.
(b) The surcharge collected under Section 401.207(g) is collected without regard to the balances of the perpetual care account and the environmental radiation and perpetual care account.
(c) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), a fee imposed by the commission under Section 401.301(d) on the holder of a license authorizing the extraction, processing, or concentration of uranium or thorium from ore is suspended when the amount in the environmental radiation and perpetual care account attributable to those fees reaches $2 million. If the amount in that account attributable to those fees is reduced to $1.5 million or less, the fee is reinstated until the amount reaches $2 million.
(d) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), a fee imposed under Section 401.052(d) is suspended from imposition against a party state compact waste generator when the amount in the perpetual care account attributable to those fees reaches $500,000. If the amount in that account attributable to those fees is reduced to $350,000 or less, the fee is reinstated until the amount reaches $500,000.
(e) This section does not relieve a generator from liability for a transportation accident involving low-level radioactive waste.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1159 (S.B. 347), Sec. 12, eff. September 1, 2013.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.401.htm
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Health and Safety Code
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 401.052RULES FOR TRANSPORTATION AND ROUTING.Printed as Section 401.052(d) | Sections 401.052(d) and 401.301(d)
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 401.207OUT-OF-STATE WASTE; NONPARTY COMPACT WASTE.Printed as Section 401.207(g)
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 401.301LICENSE AND REGISTRATION FEES.Printed as Section 401.301(d) | Sections 401.052(d) and 401.301(d)
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