bill taking oil and gas air permit rules statewide

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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.