By: Fraser S.B. No. 1758 97S0869/1 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to hearings on certain exemptions from permitting 1-2 procedures under the Texas Clean Air Act. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 382.058, Health and Safety Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Subsections (d) and (e) to read as follows: 1-6 (d) When the commission determines that a public hearing is 1-7 required by this section, the hearing shall be held within 45 days 1-8 after the date of the commission's determination and shall be 1-9 conducted in accordance with the procedure for public hearings held 1-10 under Section 382.0561. Dispersion modeling of emissions shall not 1-11 be received at such hearing or otherwise reviewed or considered in 1-12 connection with a proposed facility governed by this section. 1-13 (e) Any appeal of commission action regarding a facility 1-14 governed by this section shall be brought pursuant to Section 1-15 382.032. The record on appeal shall consist of all written and 1-16 oral substantive public comments, responses to comments, and other 1-17 information on which the commission based its decision. 1-18 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-1 passage, and it is so enacted.