Section 185 Fee for the 2008 Ozone NAAQS - RPN 2023-131-101-AI

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Comment From: Shiv Srivastava

6/19/25 @ 10:55 AM
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Comment From: Brian Harrison

6/18/25 @ 9:54 PM
June 18, 2025
Submitted electronically at https://tceq.commentinput.com/

Office of Legal Services
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
12100 Park 35 Circle
Austin, TX 78711-3087

Re: Section 185 Fee for the 2008 Ozone NAAQS - RPN 2023-131-101-...↓
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Comment From: Jordan Hunter

6/18/25 @ 8:37 PM
Regarding: Rule Project Number 2023-131-101-AI

We should not be shifting financial burdens to taxpayers while allowing industry to have no incentive to clean up their operations.

The intent of Texas Emission Reduction Plan (TERP), created in 2001, ...↓
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Comment From: Sarah Utley

6/18/25 @ 6:39 PM
Please see attached for Harris County Attorney's Office comments.
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Comment From: Jennifer Hardee

6/18/25 @ 6:07 PM
I am commenting on the proposal for Section 185. This is not what these funds were intended for. Actually, this has the opposite effect and should not be a legal way to use taxpayer money. We should be more strongly enforcing fees and consequences...↓
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Comment From: Tsion Amare

6/18/25 @ 5:47 PM
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Comment From: Kristel Wickham

6/18/25 @ 5:46 PM
I am strongly opposed to using TERP funds to pay any part of the federal penalties. These funds should come from the industrial companies who are generating the pollution.
If it is ultimately deemed that greater public good comes from having taxpa...↓
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Comment From: Brad Kinkeade

6/18/25 @ 5:43 PM
Ash Grove, Holcim and Cemex joint comments on Section 185 Fee
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Comment From: Robert McGehee

6/18/25 @ 5:35 PM
Please find Holcim (US) comments in the attached PDF.

Thank you.
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Comment From: Donna Piercy

6/18/25 @ 5:26 PM
Many citizens are aware that North Texas became a severe violator of the EPA's 2008 ground level ozone standard of 75 parts per billion.
Almost a million of us in Tarrant county live, work, or go to school close the fracking sources of VOCs and NOx. ...↓
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Comment From: Francisco Pinto

6/18/25 @ 5:16 PM
Comments by Ash Grove Cement Company, inclusive of referenced attachment.
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Comment From: Edward Macleod

6/18/25 @ 2:44 PM
I strongly object to the passage of this provision. The net effect is to tax the taxpayer, not the offending polluting companies. No good can come of this, except for the polluters.
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Comment From: Lauren Godshall

6/18/25 @ 2:38 PM
Please see attached comments.
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Comment From: Kathryn Guerra

6/18/25 @ 1:22 PM
Attached are Public Citizen's comments on Rule Project Number 2023-131-101-AI.
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Comment From: Chris Klaus

6/18/25 @ 12:23 PM
North Central Texas Council of Governments: Comments on Proposed Rule – Chapter 101 – General Air Quality Rules (Rule Project No. 2023-131-101-AI)
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Comment From: Klaudia Hunter

6/18/25 @ 11:31 AM
Regarding: Rule Project Number 2023-131-101-AI

We should not be shifting financial burdens to taxpayers while allowing industry to have no incentive to clean up their operations.

The intent of Texas Emission Reduction Plan (TERP), created in 2001, ...↓
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Comment From: Robert Halpin

6/18/25 @ 10:48 AM
Public Comments on behalf of Summit Next Gen LLC in response to Rule Project Number 2023-131-101-AI.

Please see attached letter referencing public comments to proposed Section 185 Rules on behalf of Summit Next Gen LLC. Please reach out directly sh...↓
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Comment From: Logan Harrell

6/18/25 @ 9:17 AM
Please see attached joint comments respectfully submitted on behalf of the Texas Chemistry Council, the Texas Oil & Gas Association, and the Texas Pipeline Association in support of TCEQ's proposal for Rule Project No. 2023-131-101-AI related to the ...↓
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Comment From: Lisa Duke

6/17/25 @ 8:37 PM
Allowing companies to avoid fines by using the TERP fund does not force industry to clean up its pollution. TCEQ needs to rethink this program, and impose costs via the Section 185 fee to incentivize meaningful emissions reductions from major pollute...↓
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Comment From: Ingrid Kelley

6/17/25 @ 7:40 PM
This should never be a tax payer burden. Residents already are placed at risk and may suffer life changing medical conditions from exposure to pollutants. Polluters and irresponsible industries must be held accountable through stiff fines and those f...↓
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Comment From: Holly Ray

6/17/25 @ 7:17 PM
It is important that the polluters pay the fines so that they have incentive to stop polluting - we are victims of their profiting off of us, it should come out of their pocket.
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Comment From: D Schoech

6/17/25 @ 6:10 PM
I have lived in Arlington since 1971 and my wife died of lung cancer in 2017. She was very healthy except for her lungs which developed COPD and then cancer. The worst part of living in the DFW area is the poor quality of the air. The DFW area has n...↓
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Comment From: Janet Greenberg

6/17/25 @ 5:21 PM
Rule Project No. 2023-131-101-AI
Proposed New 30 TAC §§101.700 - 101.718
RE: FCAA Section 185 Fee Rule

Thank you for the opportunity to provide comments regarding this proposed regulation. Our comments regard sources that are NOT major for VOC or ...↓
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Comment From: Jacob Franklin

6/17/25 @ 3:54 PM
This rule is designed to allow private corporations to pollute without having to pay the meager fines that they already ignore. This is nothing more than a transfer of wealth from taxpayers to the corporations that are destroying our planet and colla...↓
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Comment From: Darlene Aksoy

6/17/25 @ 3:53 PM
The State of Texas is required to implement a program to improve air quality in severe and extreme non-attainment areas, which are regions where pollution levels exceed national air quality standards.

Section 185 of the Clean Air Act does this by as...↓
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Comment From: Texas Lime Company and Gerdau Ameristeel US Inc Anonymous

6/17/25 @ 3:53 PM
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Comment From: Lawson Reilly

6/17/25 @ 3:31 PM
Using citizen taxes intended to help PREVENT and mitigate pollution to instead give subsidies to companies so they can pay their penalties without affecting their bottom line and go on to pollute MORE, with IMPUNITY, is a TERRIBLE idea. Are y'all im...↓
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Comment From: Caroline Crow

6/17/25 @ 3:16 PM
Good afternoon,

Attached are public comments on Rule Project Number 2023-131-101-AI submitted by Lone Star Legal Aid on behalf of Better Brazoria – Clean Air & Clean Water.

Thank you.
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Comment From: Jonathan Prentice

6/17/25 @ 3:05 PM
The intent of Texas Emission Reduction Plan (TERP), created in 2001, is to decrease the effects from harmful vehicle emissions, not pay for pollution from industry.

Allowing industry to avoid fines by using the TERP fund does not force industry to c...↓
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Comment From: Margarita Martinez

6/17/25 @ 2:48 PM
Rule Project Number 2023-131-101-A1
Margarita Martinez
509 Balsam Drive
Euless, TX 76039
The intent of Texas Emission Reduction Plan (TERP),created in 2001,is to decrease the effects from harmful emissions from industry. Allowing industry to avoid f...↓
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Comment From: Stephanie Morrison

6/17/25 @ 2:41 PM
Regarding 2024-131-101-AI, the TERP funds. Every summer I am so sick of seeing Orange and Red alerts "limit outdoor activity" on billboards like we are in some creepy society that can't even go outside. It is so sad. And, to use money citizens pay ...↓
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Comment From: Chioma Ugwonali

6/17/25 @ 2:24 PM
The TCEQ has a rare opportunity to hold major polluters across Texas responsible for their emissions. The air quality here in Tarrant County is already abysmal. We do not want to reward corporate negligence and harmful pollution, and we certainly sho...↓
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Comment From: Jennifer Yacio

6/17/25 @ 2:22 PM
For Rule Project Number 2023-131-101-AI:
I would like to discourage this proposal.
Please understand that the intent of Texas Emission Reduction Plan (TERP), created in 2001, is to decrease the effects from harmful vehicle emissions, not pay for poll...↓
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Comment From: Randall Kahan

6/17/25 @ 2:10 PM
The intent of Texas Emission Reduction Plan (TERP), created in 2001, is to decrease the effects from harmful vehicle emissions, not pay for pollution from industry.
Allowing industry to avoid fines by using the TERP fund does not force industry to cl...↓
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Comment From: Richard Foreman

6/17/25 @ 1:56 PM
Do not do this! It's not the will of thePeople!
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Comment From: ROBERT LANDOLT

6/17/25 @ 1:41 PM
It is clear that industrial polluting companies should not be able to dodge responsibility for carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxide pollution. See https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2500829122 "
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Comment From: Lawrence Carter

6/17/25 @ 1:32 PM
The intent of Texas Emission Reduction Plan (TERP), created in 2001, is to decrease the effects from harmful vehicle emissions, not pay for pollution from industry.
Allowing industry to avoid fines by using the TERP fund does not force industry to cl...↓
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Comment From: Augustine Gaona

6/17/25 @ 12:23 AM
The TCEQ doesn't need to take fees from Texas drivers to offset debt owed by private industry, reducing or eliminating financial obligations owed by private industry, otherwise known as big polluters, under Sect.185 of the Clean Air Act. Let industry...↓
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Comment From: Gina Biekman

6/16/25 @ 7:30 PM
Regarding section 185 Fee for the 2008 Ozone NAAQS - RPN 2023-131-101-AI: I OPPOSE this proposal to use the fees we pay as individual motor vehicle drivers to reduce the fees that refineries owe for exceeding the limits of pollution set out by Congre...↓
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Comment From: Cosme Beth

6/16/25 @ 3:50 PM
I oppose this proposal
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Comment From: Darelle Robbins

6/16/25 @ 3:40 PM
I OPPOSE this proposal to use the fees we pay as individual motor vehicle drivers to reduce the fees that refineries owe for exceeding the limits of pollution set out by Congress in the CLEAN AIR ACT. The aim of the proposal is not to reduce pollutio...↓
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Comment From: Don Gèntz

6/13/25 @ 9:32 PM
Use the fees as intended and not to subsidize stationary polluters!
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Comment From: Katherine Homan

6/12/25 @ 3:43 PM
What's the point of even having a TCEG if it WILL NOT DO ITS JOB of improving air quality, allocating new funds for air quality programs, and disincentivizing large stationary polluters from continuing to pollute Texas' air??? Why is TCEG seeking to ...↓
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Comment From: Tracy Wallace

6/12/25 @ 10:34 AM
Industrial polluters need to pay, not individual Texans, a fee clearly intended for industries. We expect Texas industries to accept responsibility for actions, not shirk it off on hardworking Texans. How dishonorable for TCEQ to recommend otherwise....↓
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Comment From: t logan

6/12/25 @ 8:11 AM
my experience of TECQ is that is a store front that does nothing substantive and gives a free pass to polluters, corporate and residential rather than enforce responsible stewardship of the Earth. Taking without regard, developers raze the trees and ...↓
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Comment From: James Evans

6/12/25 @ 7:45 AM
Make polluters pay fines for non compliance of the Clean Air Act, not Texas motorists!
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Comment From: Boyd Federici

6/12/25 @ 7:24 AM
It is your duty to make the polluters pay the fee to comply with the Clean Air Act. Stop bending over to industry, and protect and enforce laws that protect Texans. Do your job for once.
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Comment From: Dale Bulla

6/12/25 @ 7:23 AM
When will TCEQ finally force the polluters to pay for their damages instead of the taxpayers. Orphan wells, tar balls on our beaches, cancer allies, increasing rates of childhood asthma, etc. They are poisening our air and water and now Texas is li...↓
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Comment From: Randolph Streng

6/12/25 @ 3:02 AM
The state is required to implement a program to improve air quality in severe and extreme non-attainment areas, which are regions where pollution levels exceed national air quality standards.

Section 185 of the Clean Air Act does this by assessing a...↓
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Comment From: Thomas Wolfsohn

6/11/25 @ 10:46 PM
The State is required to implement a program to improve air quality in severe and extreme non-attainment areas, which are regions where pollution levels exceed national air quality standards.

Section 185 of the Clean Air Act does this by assessing a...↓
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Comment From: Todd Phillips

6/11/25 @ 10:08 PM
Please explain to me why Texas drivers should pay fees for stationary polluters through vehicle fees. This makes no sense. Will the polluters pay my traffic fines if I get cited?
Stationary polluters should pay the fines that THEY have incurred, not ...↓
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Comment From: Mary Alvarez

6/11/25 @ 9:03 PM
Charging fees for the pollution created by those companies that are responsible for it, and who are enjoying huge profits from the products that they are making, is just about the most absurd notion that has been proposed in recent history.

Vote NO ...↓
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Comment From: Chris Nicolosi

6/11/25 @ 7:14 PM
TECQ proposal must be reject. We should no give industries who pollute a pass!
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Comment From: Frederick Wills

6/11/25 @ 7:05 PM
I oppose making car owners pay the fees owed by heavy industry. Section 185 is intended to reduce pollution by power plants and other large emitters. This rule change would do nothing to reduce pollution in Texas. Please reject this proposal and i...↓
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Comment From: Martin Balk

6/11/25 @ 6:17 PM
I HAVE LIVED AND WORKED IN TEXAS CHEMICAL PLANTS FOR 40 YEARS AND CORPORATIONS ARE PISS POOR AT POLICING THEMSELVES IN TEXAS!!!! EITHER YOU ARE NOT DOING YOUR JOB OR YOU JUST DO NOT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT OUR LAND OR WATER WAYS!!!! DO YOUR JOB NUMB NUTS!!...↓
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Comment From: Tracey Bonner

6/11/25 @ 6:11 PM

We ALL have a responsibility to work together in order to Protect and SAVE our Wilderness, Waterways and Environment from senseless Destruction and Poisoning in the name of Ignorance and Greed.


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Comment From: sydney brainard

6/11/25 @ 6:06 PM
With the oil and auto industries dominating our nation and state, it is unjust to penalize drivers and users of petroleum vehicles. The manufacturers are the ones who make engines and machinery meet better standards. The citizens of this state can on...↓
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Comment From: Caroline Chow

6/10/25 @ 11:11 AM
Public Comment on TCEQ Section 185 Fee Program (Rule Project No. 2023-131-101-AI)
Submitted to: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Date: June 10, 2025

To Whom It May Concern,

I am writing to express my strong opposition to the proposed Secti...↓
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Comment From: Jeffrey English

6/09/25 @ 1:26 PM
I don't pay vehicle registration fees each year so that money can go to industry. These are transportation dollars and need to be spent on transportation projects that reduce emissions. Thank you.
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Comment From: Duane Hengst

5/27/25 @ 11:14 AM
Interested in obtaining a list of the names of businesses that will be subject to the fee, and the fee dollar amount for each business. Is this available?
Ref: 2023-131-101-AI
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