Committee on Environmental Regulation

Jurisdiction:

Environmental Regulation

The committee shall have nine members, with jurisdiction over all matters pertaining to:

• (1) air, land, and water pollution, including the environmental regulation of industrial development;
• (2) the regulation of waste disposal;
• (3) environmental matters that are regulated by the Department of State Health Services or the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality;
• (4) oversight of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality as it relates to environmental regulation;
• (5) the following state agency: the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission.