HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Energy Resources

TIME & DATE:  8:30AM, Tuesday, April 20, 1999

PLACE: E2.010

CHAIR: Rep. Ron E. Lewis

To take up and consider the following:

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HB 3312            Merritt
Relating to the transfer of responsibility for responding to and
cleaning up certain oil discharges in coastal areas to the Railroad
Commission of Texas.

HB 3719            Merritt
Relating to collection of fees on the delivery of certain petroleum
productions, the allocation of fees on the delivery of certain
petroleum products to the oil-field cleanup fund, the reduction of
certain fees by the Railroad Commission of Texas, the use of money
in the oil-field cleanup fund to implement the provisions of
Chapter 40 of the Natural Resources Code that relate to activities
under the jurisdiction of the Railroad Commission of Texas, and the
repeal of the expiration of certain fees imposed by the Railroad
Commission of Texas.

HB 3696            Hawley
Relating to the approval of assignments of oil and gas leases
administered by the land commissioner.

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