88R1173 JXC-D
By: Walle H.B. No. 758
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the deadline to request a contested case hearing on an
authorization to use a standard permit for a concrete plant.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 382.058, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
(e) This subsection applies only to a request that the
commission hold a contested case hearing on an authorization to use
a standard permit issued under Section 382.05195 for a concrete
plant that performs wet batching, dry batching, or central mixing.
Notwithstanding Section 5.556, Water Code, the commission must
allow the filing of the request at any time during the public
comment period on the authorization, including during any extension
of the public comment period for public meetings.
SECTION 2. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
shall adopt rules to implement the changes in law made by this Act
not later than December 31, 2023.
SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
an application for an authorization to use a standard permit that is
submitted to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on or
after December 31, 2023. An application that was submitted to the
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality before that date is
governed by the law in effect at the time the application was filed,
and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.