HB 435 — An Act amending the act of January 8, 1960 (1959 P.L.2119, No.787), known as the Air Pollution Control Act, further providing for standards relating to hazardous air pollutants.

PRINTER'S NO.   407

                     THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                         HOUSE BILL
                         No. 435
                                               Session of
                                                 2025

     INTRODUCED BY McNEILL, MAKO, HILL-EVANS, BURGOS, SANCHEZ AND
        DALEY, JANUARY 31, 2025

     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL AND NATURAL RESOURCE
        PROTECTION, JANUARY 31, 2025


                                    AN ACT
 1   Amending the act of January 8, 1960 (1959 P.L.2119, No.787),
 2      entitled "An act to provide for the better protection of the
 3      health, general welfare and property of the people of the
 4      Commonwealth by the control, abatement, reduction and
 5      prevention of the pollution of the air by smokes, dusts,
 6      fumes, gases, odors, mists, vapors, pollens and similar
 7      matter, or any combination thereof; imposing certain powers
 8      and duties on the Department of Environmental Resources, the
 9      Environmental Quality Board and the Environmental Hearing
10      Board; establishing procedures for the protection of health
11      and public safety during emergency conditions; creating a
12      stationary air contamination source permit system; providing
13      additional remedies for abating air pollution; reserving
14      powers to local political subdivisions, and defining the
15      relationship between this act and the ordinances, resolutions
16      and regulations of counties, cities, boroughs, towns and
17      townships; imposing penalties for violation of this act; and
18      providing for the power to enjoin violations of this act; and
19      conferring upon persons aggrieved certain rights and
20      remedies," further providing for standards relating to
21      hazardous air pollutants.
22      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
23   hereby enacts as follows:
24      Section 1.    Section 6.6(d) of the act of January 8, 1960
25   (1959 P.L.2119, No.787), known as the Air Pollution Control Act,
26   is amended by adding a paragraph to read:
27      Section 6.6.    Hazardous Air Pollutants.--* * *
 1      (d)   * * *
 2      (4)   For cement plants regulated under 40 CFR Pt. 63 Subpt.
 3   LLL (relating to national emission standards for hazardous air
 4   pollutants from the Portland cement manufacturing industry), the
 5   department may remove the requirement under regulation for
 6   opacity monitors where an emissions source is already subject to
 7   particulate matter emissions limitations under Federal law,
 8   provided the cement plant has particulate matter monitors for
 9   the subject sources.
10      * * *
11      Section 2.    This act shall take effect in 60 days.




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