PRINTER'S NO. 3557
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
2530
Session of
2024
INTRODUCED BY McNEILL, MAKO, SANCHEZ, HILL-EVANS, PROBST,
SCHLOSSBERG, SCHMITT, ROZZI, TWARDZIK AND M. JONES,
AUGUST 12, 2024
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY,
AUGUST 12, 2024
AN ACT
Amending the act of January 8, 1960 (1959 P.L.2119, No.787),
entitled "An act to provide for the better protection of the
health, general welfare and property of the people of the
Commonwealth by the control, abatement, reduction and
prevention of the pollution of the air by smokes, dusts,
fumes, gases, odors, mists, vapors, pollens and similar
matter, or any combination thereof; imposing certain powers
and duties on the Department of Environmental Resources, the
Environmental Quality Board and the Environmental Hearing
Board; establishing procedures for the protection of health
and public safety during emergency conditions; creating a
stationary air contamination source permit system; providing
additional remedies for abating air pollution; reserving
powers to local political subdivisions, and defining the
relationship between this act and the ordinances, resolutions
and regulations of counties, cities, boroughs, towns and
townships; imposing penalties for violation of this act; and
providing for the power to enjoin violations of this act; and
conferring upon persons aggrieved certain rights and
remedies," further providing for hazardous air pollutants.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 6.6(d) of the act of January 8, 1960
(1959 P.L.2119, No.787), known as the Air Pollution Control Act,
is amended by adding a paragraph to read:
Section 6.6. Hazardous Air Pollutants.--* * *
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(4) For cement plants regulated under 40 CFR Pt. 63 Subpt.
LLL (relating to national emission standards for hazardous air
pollutants from the Portland cement manufacturing industry), the
department may remove the requirement under regulation for
opacity monitors where an emissions source is already subject to
particulate matter emissions limitations under Federal law,
provided the cement plant has particulate matter monitors for
the subject sources.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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