81R23398 JAM-F
By: Hochberg, Edwards, Farrar H.B. No. 4581
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 4581:
By: Legler C.S.H.B. No. 4581
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the use of advanced technologies by the Texas
Commission on Environmental Quality for measuring and monitoring
air pollution.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 382.014, Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 382.014. EMISSION INVENTORY. (a) The commission
may require a person whose activities cause emissions of air
contaminants to submit information to enable the commission to
develop an inventory of emissions of air contaminants in this
state.
(b) The commission shall use emissions information
submitted under this section and gathered during other commission
activities to evaluate the integrity of emissions factors and the
emissions inventory.
(c) The commission shall annually assess the information
collected under this section and recommend emissions inventory
improvement strategies in the report required by Section 5.126,
Water Code.
SECTION 2. Section 382.016, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
(c) The commission may measure and monitor the emissions of
air contaminants from a source or from an activity causing or
resulting in the emission of air contaminants subject to the
commission's jurisdiction.
SECTION 3. Section 382.0173, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (h) to read as follows:
(h) The commission shall adopt policies to permanently
reduce quantifiable surplus emissions that are found through the
use of any advanced technologies authorized under this chapter to
gain credits for this state's air quality state implementation
plan.
SECTION 4. Section 382.021, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
(c) The commission shall use optical gas imaging in
two-dimensional vertical fields or other technologies that measure
the concentration and volume of emissions of volatile organic
compounds and nitrogen oxides.
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.