Bill Text: TX HB2252 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to air quality permits issued by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for certain oil and gas facilities.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-03-14 - Referred to Environmental Regulation [HB2252 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB2252-Introduced.html

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89R5093 ANG-F
By: Goodwin H.B. No. 2252

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to air quality permits issued by the Texas Commission on
Environmental Quality for certain oil and gas facilities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 382.051961(b), Health and Safety Code,
is amended to read as follows:
(b) The commission may not adopt a new permit by rule or a
new standard permit or amend an existing permit by rule or an
existing standard permit relating to a facility to which this
section applies unless the commission:
(1) conducts a regulatory analysis as provided by
Section 2001.0225, Government Code;
(2) determines, based on the evaluation of credible
air quality monitoring data, that the emissions limits or other
emissions-related requirements of the permit are necessary to
ensure that the intent of this chapter is not contravened,
including the protection of the public's health and physical
property; and
(3) establishes any required emissions limits or other
emissions-related requirements based on:
(A) the evaluation of credible air quality
monitoring data; and
(B) credible air quality modeling that is not
based on the worst-case scenario of emissions or other worst-case
modeling scenarios unless the actual air quality monitoring data
and evaluation of that data indicate that the worst-case scenario
of emissions or other worst-case modeling scenarios yield modeling
results that reflect the actual air quality monitoring data and
evaluation[; and
[(4) considers whether the requirements of the permit
should be imposed only on facilities that are located in a
particular geographic region of the state].
SECTION 2. Not later than September 1, 2026, the Texas
Commission on Environmental Quality shall modify the version of 30
T.A.C. Sections 106.352(a) through (k) in effect on the effective
date of this Act and any other rules necessary to ensure that those
sections apply statewide.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.