HB2252 - Relating to air quality permits issued by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for certain oil and gas facilities.

  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.