The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to disapprove parts of a plan by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to manage air quality fees in the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria area. This plan was meant to address a rule requiring fees for emitting too much ozone. The EPA says the proposed plan doesn't meet the rule's requirements since it allows ending the fee program too soon without redesignating the area as having good air quality. Even if disapproved, Texas does not need to fix these plan parts due to other rule changes that ended the requirement for the fee program.
Simple Explanation
The EPA wants to say "no" to part of Texas's plan to fix air pollution fees in one area because the plan lets them stop charging too soon. But, Texas doesn't have to change it since the fee rule doesn't apply anymore.