By: Morales Shaw H.B. No. 3855
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to projects that may be considered for a grant under the
new technology implementation grant program administered by the
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 391.002(b), Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(b) Projects that may be considered for a grant under the
program include:
(1) advanced clean energy projects, as defined by
Section 382.003;
(2) new technology projects that reduce emissions of
regulated pollutants from stationary sources;
(3) new technology projects that reduce emissions from
upstream, [and] midstream, or downstream oil and gas production,
completions, gathering, storage, processing, or [and] transmission
activities through:
(A) the replacement, repower, or retrofit of
stationary compressor engines;
(B) the installation of systems to reduce or
eliminate the loss of gas, flaring of gas, or burning of gas using
other combustion control devices; or
(C) the installation of systems that reduce
flaring emissions and other site emissions; and
(4) electricity storage projects related to renewable
energy, including projects to store electricity produced from wind
and solar generation that provide efficient means of making the
stored energy available during periods of peak energy use.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.