Sec. 81.073.  CRITICAL NATURAL GAS FACILITIES AND ENTITIES.  (a) The commission shall collaborate with the Public Utility Commission of Texas to adopt rules to establish a process to designate certain natural gas facilities and entities associated with providing natural gas in this state as critical customers or critical gas suppliers during energy emergencies.
(b)  The rules must:
(1)  establish criteria for designating persons who own or operate a facility under the jurisdiction of the commission under Section 81.051(a) or engage in an activity under the jurisdiction of the commission under Section 81.051(a) who must provide critical customer and critical gas supply information, as defined by the commission, to the entities described by Section 38.074(b)(1), Utilities Code;
(2)  consider essential operational elements when defining critical customer designations and critical gas supply information for the purposes of Subdivision (1), including natural gas production, processing, and transportation, related produced water handling and disposal facilities, and the delivery of natural gas to generators of electric energy; and
(3)  require that only facilities and entities that are prepared to operate during a weather emergency may be designated as a critical customer under this section.
Added by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 426 (S.B. 3), Sec. 4, eff. June 8, 2021.