By Horn H.B. No. 3398 Line and page numbers may not match official copy. Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the provision requiring legislative review and 1-3 oversight of actions of the Ozone Transport Assessment Group 1-4 initiated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Title 2, Water Code, is amended to add subchapter 1-7 I as follows: 1-8 SUBCHAPTER I: OZONE TRANSPORT ASSESSMENT GROUP 1-9 Sec. 5.40: FINDINGS AND PURPOSES: The House of Texas hereby 1-10 find that: 1-11 (a) The Federal Clean Air Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 7401 et 1-12 seq., contains a comprehensive regulatory scheme for the control of 1-13 emissions from mobile and stationary sources; 1-14 (b) Ozone and other air pollutants have declined 1-15 substantially during the past 25 years throughout the United States 1-16 due to implementation of the Clean Air Act, and additional air 1-17 quality improvements will result as the 1990 Clean Air Act 1-18 Amendments are implemented; 1-19 (c) The Northeast Ozone Transport Commission ("OTC"), in an 1-20 effort to remedy the serious ozone nonattainment conditions 1-21 prevailing in urbanized areas of the Northeast, has proposed 1-22 emission control requirements for stationary and mobile sources 2-1 more stringent than those applicable to states outside of the 2-2 Northeast Ozone Transport Region ("OTR"), including a petition to 2-3 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") concerning 2-4 Low-Emitting Vehicle emission control requirements; 2-5 (d) The OTC's initiatives, together with other local 2-6 emission control actions, will help northeastern states to attain 2-7 the national ambient air quality standard for ozone; 2-8 (e) In response to concerns raised by certain north eastern 2-9 states about the interstate transport of ozone, the U.S. EPA has 2-10 convened the Ozone Transport Assessment Group ("OTAG"), involving 2-11 representatives from 25 states to the west and south of the 2-12 Northeast OTR, including Texas to consider means to reduce the 2-13 atmospheric transport of ozone; 2-14 (f) OTAG will develop recommendations in 1997 for emission 2-15 control actions in states outside of the Northeast that may form 2-16 the basis for U.S. EPA enforcement actions under the Clean Air Act, 2-17 including the preparation land submission of State Implementation 2-18 Plans calling for control actions in Texas not specifically 2-19 mandated by the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990;