Bill Text: TX SB102 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to allocation of certain money in the Texas emissions reduction plan fund to air quality monitoring activities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-31 - Referred to Natural Resources [SB102 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-SB102-Introduced.html

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82R1147 JXC-D
By: Davis S.B. No. 102

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to allocation of certain money in the Texas emissions
reduction plan fund to air quality monitoring activities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 386.051(b), Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(b) Under the plan, the commission and the comptroller shall
provide grants or other funding for:
(1) the diesel emissions reduction incentive program
established under Subchapter C, including for infrastructure
projects established under that subchapter;
(2) the motor vehicle purchase or lease incentive
program established under Subchapter D;
(3) the new technology research and development
program established under Chapter 387;
(4) the clean school bus program established under
Chapter 390; [and]
(5) the new technology implementation grant program
established under Chapter 391; and
(6) air quality monitoring under Section 386.059.
SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 386, Health and Safety
Code, is amended by adding Section 386.059 to read as follows:
Sec. 386.059. AIR QUALITY MONITORING. (a) The commission
shall conduct short-term and long-term air quality monitoring
activities to evaluate levels of air contaminants, including
particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds,
air toxics, and carbon monoxide.
(b) The monitoring activities may include canister
sampling, automated gas chromatography, handheld instrument
surveys, lab analysis, or any other monitoring method or procedure
generally recognized in the field of air pollution control.
(c) The commission may hire staff and consultants needed to
accomplish the commission's duties under this section.
SECTION 3. Section 386.252(a), Health and Safety Code, as
amended by Chapters 1125 (H.B. 1796) and 1232 (S.B. 1759), Acts of
the 81st Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, is reenacted and
amended to read as follows:
(a) Money in the fund may be used only to implement and
administer programs established under the plan and shall be
allocated as follows:
(1) for the diesel emissions reduction incentive
program, 82.5 [87.5] percent of the money in the fund, of which:
(A) not more than four percent may be used for the
clean school bus program;
(B) not more than 10 percent may be used for
on-road diesel purchase or lease incentives; [and]
(C) a specified amount may be used for the new
technology implementation grant program, from which a defined
amount may be set aside for electricity storage projects related to
renewable energy; and
(D) five percent shall be used for the clean
fleet program;
(2) for the new technology research and development
program, nine percent of the money in the fund, of which:
(A) up to $200,000 is allocated for a health
effects study;
(B) $500,000 is to be deposited in the state
treasury to the credit of the clean air account created under
Section 382.0622 to supplement funding for air quality planning
activities in affected counties;
(C) not less than 20 percent is to be allocated
each year to support research related to air quality as provided by
Section 387.010; and
(D) the balance is allocated each year to the
commission to be used to:
(i) implement and administer the new
technology research and development program for the purpose of
identifying, testing, and evaluating new emissions-reducing
technologies with potential for commercialization in this state and
to facilitate their certification or verification; and
(ii) contract with the Energy Systems
Laboratory at the Texas Engineering Experiment Station for $216,000
annually for the development and annual computation of creditable
statewide emissions reductions obtained through wind and other
renewable energy resources for the state implementation plan; [and]
(3) for continuous air quality monitoring under
Section 386.059, five percent of the money in the fund is allocated
to the commission; and
(4) two percent is allocated to the commission and 1.5
percent is allocated to the laboratory for administrative costs
incurred by the commission and the laboratory.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.