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By: Shapleigh S.B. No. 784
(In the Senate - Filed February 28, 2005; March 10, 2005,
read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
April 18, 2005, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9,
Nays 0; April 18, 2005, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the acceptance by the Texas Commission on Environmental
Quality of certain emissions reductions in exchange for other
emissions reductions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Section 382.0172, 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.
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