82R2141 JTS-D
By: Gallegos S.B. No. 675
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to allowing the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
to impose more stringent conditions for existing air quality
permits to avoid a condition of air pollution.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 382.0513, Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 382.0513. PERMIT CONDITIONS. (a) The commission may
establish and enforce permit conditions consistent with this
chapter. Permit conditions of general applicability shall be
adopted by rule.
(b) The commission at any time may establish and enforce
conditions for operating under a permit that are more stringent
than the conditions in an issued or amended permit if the commission
determines that the more stringent conditions are necessary to
avoid a condition of air pollution.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.