Amend SB 12 on third reading (house committee printing) by 
adding the following appropriately numbered article and 
renumbering subsequent articles accordingly:

ARTICLE ____.  CONSIDERATION OF CERTAIN CUMULATIVE EFFECTS
	SECTION ____.01.  Section 382.0518, Health and Safety Code, 
is amended by adding Subsection (b-1) to read as follows:
	(b-1)  In making its finding under Subsection (b)(2) as to 
whether emissions from the facility will contravene the intent of 
this chapter, the commission shall consider the cumulative effects 
on the public's health and physical property of expected air 
contaminant emissions from the facility or proposed facility and 
from other facilities located less than three miles from the 
facility or proposed facility.
	SECTION ____.02.  Section 382.055(d), Health and Safety Code, 
is amended to read as follows:
	(d)  In determining whether and under which conditions a 
preconstruction permit should be renewed, the commission shall 
consider, at a minimum:
		(1)  the performance of the owner or operator of the 
facility according to the method developed by the commission under 
Section 5.754, Water Code;  [and]
		(2)  the condition and effectiveness of existing 
emission control equipment and practices; and
		(3)  the cumulative effects on the public's health and 
physical property of expected air contaminant emissions from the 
facility and from other facilities located less than three miles 
from the facility.
	SECTION ____.03.  The changes in law made by this article 
apply only to the issuance or renewal of a permit the application 
for which is filed with the Texas Commission on Environmental 
Quality on or after the effective date of this article.  The 
issuance or renewal of a permit the application for which is filed 
with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality before the 
effective date of this article is governed by the law in effect when 
the application is filed, and the former law is continued in effect 
for that purpose.
	SECTION ____.04.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
Act, this article takes effect September 1, 2007.