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      By Maxey                                        H.B. No. 2810

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the prevention of illness and disease caused by

 1-3     air-born particulate matter.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 361, Health and Safety

 1-6     Code, is amended by adding Section 361.1025 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 361.1025. AIR-BORNE PARTICULATE MATTER STANDARDS.  The

 1-8     Texas Department of Health by rule shall require an industrial

 1-9     furnace or boiler that commercially combusts certain substances

1-10     defined as hazardous under the Resource Conservation and Recovery

1-11     Act within ten miles of a public drinking water reservoir or

1-12     hospital to limit its waste characteristics to the following:

1-13           (a)  Flammability as measured by BTUs must be a minimum of

1-14     11,000 per pound, as generated;

1-15           (b)  Non-detectable levels of metals as defined by the Clean

1-16     Air Act as hazardous air pollutants;

1-17           (c) Non-detectable levels of total halogens and fluorine;

1-18           (d)  Maximum solids content of .5%.

1-19           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-20           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.