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.
20250HB0435PN0407 - 2 -