Bill Text: TX HB3196 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to requirements related to the reporting of emissions events by certain regulated entities under the Clean Air Act.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-13 - Left pending in committee [HB3196 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB3196-Introduced.html

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82R3268 SLB-F
By: Coleman H.B. No. 3196

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to requirements related to the reporting of emissions
events by certain regulated entities under the Clean Air Act.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 382.0215(b), Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(b) The commission shall require the owner or operator of a
regulated entity that experiences emissions events:
(1) to maintain a record of all emissions events at the
regulated entity in the manner and for the periods prescribed by
commission rule;
(2) to notify the commission in a single report for
each emissions event, as soon as practicable but not later than one
hour [24 hours] after discovery of the emissions event, of an
emissions event resulting in the emission of a reportable quantity
of air contaminants as determined by commission rule; [and]
(3) to report to the commission in a single report for
each emissions event, not later than two weeks after the occurrence
of an emissions event that, as determined in accordance with
commission rules, results in the emission of a reportable quantity
of air contaminants or an emission that affects an area beyond the
site of the regulated entity [as determined by commission rule],
all information necessary to evaluate the emissions event,
including:
(A) the name of the owner or operator of the
reporting regulated entity;
(B) the location of the reporting regulated
entity;
(C) the date and time the emissions began;
(D) the duration of the emissions;
(E) the nature and measured or estimated quantity
of air contaminants emitted, including the method of calculation
of, or other basis for determining, the quantity of air
contaminants emitted;
(F) the processes and equipment involved in the
emissions event;
(G) the cause of the emissions; and
(H) any additional information necessary to
evaluate the emissions event; and
(4) to notify the commission and any local air
pollution control agency with jurisdiction over the regulated
entity in a single report for each emissions event, as soon as
practicable but not later than one hour after discovery of the
emissions event, of an emissions event that:
(A) results in the emission of less than a
reportable quantity of air contaminants; and
(B) as determined by commission rule, affects or
is likely to affect an area beyond the site of the regulated entity,
including through smoke, odor, measured contaminants, or the
deposition of contaminants in the area.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.