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HOUSE BILL 33
57
TH LEGISLATURE
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STATE
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MEXICO
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FIRST SESSION
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2025
INTRODUCED BY
Debra M. Sariñana
AN ACT
RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENT; PROHIBITING THE CONSTRUCTION OF
NEW SOURCES OF EMISSIONS AND ACTIVITIES RELATING TO OIL AND GAS
IN COUNTIES WHERE OZONE CONCENTRATIONS ARE IN EXCESS OF THE
PRIMARY NATIONAL AMBIENT AIR QUALITY STANDARDS FOR OZONE.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
SECTION 1. A new section of the Air Quality Control Act
is enacted to read:
"[NEW MATERIAL] PROHIBITION ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF NEW
SOURCES RELATING TO OIL AND GAS IN COUNTIES WHERE OZONE
CONCENTRATIONS ARE IN EXCESS OF THE PRIMARY NATIONAL AMBIENT
AIR QUALITY STANDARDS FOR OZONE.--Beginning July 1, 2025, the
department and a local agency shall prohibit the construction
of a new source relating to oil and gas production in a county
where the environmental improvement board or the local agency
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determines that emissions from sources in a county within the
environmental improvement board's jurisdiction or the local
authority's jurisdiction cause or contribute to ozone
concentrations in excess of the primary national ambient air
quality standard for ozone as promulgated pursuant to the
federal Clean Air Act or its subsequent amendments and
successor provisions."
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