79R8497 SMH-F
By: Haggerty H.B. No. 2240
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the circumstances under which the Texas Commission on
Environmental Quality may authorize certain emissions reductions
to be substituted for other emissions reductions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 382.0172(c), Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(c) The commission may authorize or allow substitution of
emissions reductions under Subsection (b) only if:
(1) reductions in emissions of one air contaminant for
which the area has been designated as nonattainment are substituted
for reductions in emissions of another air contaminant for which
the area has been designated as nonattainment; or [and]
(2) the commission finds that the substitution will
clearly result in greater health benefits for the community as a
whole than would reductions in emissions at the original facility.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2005.