• Governor Perry signed SB 12 into law on June 8, 2007.  The law takes immediate effect
  since SB 12 received a two-thirds vote from both the Senate and the House.
• New Title V provisions in SB 12 codify the TCEQ's recent update to their Enforcement Initiation Criteria (EIC) guidance document which limits TCEQ enforcement to only those violations reported under Title V that require automatic enforcement (Category A violations).  However, under the new statute, the Commission may still include in the enforcement action Category B & C violations that are repeat violations due to the same root cause or that have not been corrected within the time frame specified by the TCEQ even though such violations may not otherwise require automatic enforcement. 

·         New emission control strategies in the DFW area, combined with existing rules implemented under the previous one-hour federal ozone standard, are predicted to bring the area into attainment of the new, more stringent, eight-hour ozone standard by the EPA’s 2010 deadline.
·         The HGB ozone nonattainment area will take longer to reach attainment.  Texas, therefore, will submit a SIP showing the rate of progress toward attainment as well as new emission control requirements for volatile organic compound (VOC) sources in Houston, strategies for reducing NOx, and elements required by the Federal Clean Air Act such as emissions inventory.