Increase Public Protection Air Toxics Emissions

The act defines "covered air toxics" as hydrogen cyanide, hydrogen sulfide, and benzene. A stationary source of air pollutants that reported in its federal toxics release inventory filing at least one of the following amounts of a covered air toxic for the year 2017 or later is defined as a "covered facility":

• For hydrogen cyanide, 10,000 pounds;
• For hydrogen sulfide, 5,000 pounds; and
• For benzene, 1,000 pounds.

"Incidents" are defined as unauthorized emissions of an air pollutant from a covered facility. Each covered facility will:

• Conduct outreach to representatives of the community surrounding the covered facility to discuss communications regarding the occurrence of an incident;
• Use reverse-911 to communicate with, and make data available to, the community surrounding the covered facility regarding the occurrence of an incident;
• Implement reverse-911 within 6 months; and
• Pay all costs associated with its use of reverse
  (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)