By Alexander H.B. No. 1674 75R4694 SMH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to an exemption from emissions monitoring requirements for 1-3 certain small incinerators. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 382, Health and Safety 1-6 Code, is amended by adding Section 382.0196 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 382.0196. EXEMPTION FROM MONITORING REQUIREMENTS FOR 1-8 CERTAIN SMALL INCINERATORS. A dual-chambered incinerator is not 1-9 required to be equipped with an emissions monitoring device if the 1-10 incinerator: 1-11 (1) has a manufacturer's rated capacity of not more 1-12 than 500 pounds per hour for Type 0, 1, or 2 waste as described by 1-13 30 T.A.C. Chapter 116; and 1-14 (2) is used only to burn waste specified by 1-15 Subdivision (1). 1-16 SECTION 2. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies 1-17 only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this 1-18 Act or a violation of a rule of the Texas Natural Resource 1-19 Conservation Commission that occurs on or after that date. For 1-20 purposes of this section, an offense is committed or a violation 1-21 occurs before the effective date of this Act if any element of the 1-22 offense or violation occurs before that date. 1-23 (b) An offense committed or violation that occurs before the 1-24 effective date of this Act is covered by the law in effect when the 2-1 offense was committed or the violation occurred, and the former law 2-2 is continued in effect for that purpose. 2-3 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-8 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-9 passage, and it is so enacted.