By: Burnam H.B. No. 3590
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the creation by the Texas Commission on Environmental
Quality of an inventory of emissions of air contaminants from oil or
gas production, transportation, or processing facilities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 382, Health and Safety
Code, is amended by adding Section 382.0146 to read as follows:
Sec. 382.0146. OIL OR GAS FACILITY EMISSIONS INVENTORY.
(a) The commission shall develop and maintain an inventory of
major, minor, area, and fugitive air contaminant emissions from oil
and gas industry sources.
(b) The commission shall require an owner or operator of an
oil or gas production, transportation, or processing facility that
emits air contaminants to annually submit emissions estimates and
other information necessary for the commission to develop and
maintain the inventory.
(c) The commission may prescribe reasonable requirements
for:
(1) measuring, monitoring, or estimating the
emissions of air contaminants from an oil or gas production,
transportation, or processing facility; and
(2) the owner or operator of an oil or gas production,
transportation, or processing facility to make and maintain records
on the measuring, monitoring, or estimating of emissions of air
contaminants from the facility.
(d) A member, employee, or agent of the commission may
examine during regular business hours any records or memoranda
relating to the emissions of air contaminants from an oil or gas
production, transportation, or processing 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, 2010.