Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. Line and page numbers may not match official copy. 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.