86R11644 MP-D
By: Zwiener H.B. No. 3034
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the requirements for aggregate production operation air
permits.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 382, Health and Safety
Code, is amended by adding Section 382.067 to read as follows:
Sec. 382.067. AGGREGATE PRODUCTION OPERATION ROAD LOAD
LIMITS. (a) In this section, "aggregate production operation" has
the meaning assigned by Section 28A.001, Water Code.
(b) The commission may not issue an air permit under Section
382.051 to an aggregate production operation unless the operation
demonstrates that the Texas Department of Transportation and the
commissioners court of the county in which the proposed aggregate
production operation is located have established load limits under
Sections 621.102 and 621.301, Transportation Code, on each road on
which the operation expects to operate vehicles.
(c) An aggregate production operation may petition to the
Texas Department of Transportation for a technical review of a load
limit established by the commissioners court under Subsection (b).
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
an application for a permit that is filed with the Texas Commission
on Environmental Quality on or after the effective date of this Act.
An application for a permit filed before the effective date of this
Act is governed by the law in effect on the date of filing, and that
law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.