Bill Text: TX HB3636 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the obstruction from public view of flaring at a natural gas liquefaction facility and liquefied natural gas export terminal.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-29 - Withdrawn from schedule [HB3636 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB3636-Introduced.html
| 87R12475 ANG-D | ||
| By: Dominguez | H.B. No. 3636 | |
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| relating to the obstruction from public view of flaring at a natural | ||
| gas liquefaction facility and liquefied natural gas export | ||
| terminal. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 382.051961, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: | ||
| (d) A permit by rule or a standard permit relating to a | ||
| natural gas liquefaction facility and liquefied natural gas export | ||
| terminal must require any elevated flare stack or ground flare | ||
| located at the facility to be constructed in a manner that obscures | ||
| from public view any flaring occurring at the facility. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 382.051961(d), Health and Safety Code, | ||
| as added by this Act, applies only to a permit the application for | ||
| which is filed with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality | ||
| on or after the effective date of this Act. A permit the | ||
| application for which is filed before the effective date of this Act | ||
| is governed by the law in effect on the date of filing, and that law | ||
| is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
