89R3549 KRM-D
By: Miles S.B. No. 1783
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a prohibition on the crushing of contaminated concrete
by certain concrete crushing facilities.
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 382.0651 to read as follows:
Sec. 382.0651. CONCRETE CRUSHING FACILITY; PROHIBITION ON
CONTAMINATED CONCRETE. (a) The commission by rule shall, as a
condition of issuing a permit or authorizing the use of a standard
permit under this chapter for a concrete crushing facility,
prohibit the facility from crushing concrete that has been exposed
to a chemical contaminant listed under Subsection (b).
(b) The commission by rule shall establish a list of
chemicals that the commission finds may contaminate concrete in a
manner likely to cause adverse human health effects when that
concrete is crushed. Before adding a chemical to the list, the
commission shall consider the degree of risk of the chemical
causing contamination of concrete and of that contamination to
cause adverse human health effects.
SECTION 2. (a) Not later than March 1, 2026, the Texas
Commission on Environmental Quality shall adopt rules necessary to
implement the changes in law made by this Act, including by amending
any applicable standard permit issued under Chapter 382, Health and
Safety Code.
(b) Notwithstanding any contrary provision of Chapter 382,
Health and Safety Code, the Texas Commission on Environmental
Quality shall require a concrete crushing facility operating under
a permit or an authorization to use a standard permit issued before
the effective date of the rules described by Subsection (a) of this
section to comply with the rules as if the permit or authorization
had been issued after the effective date of the rules.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.