89R439 MP-D
By: Miles S.B. No. 2270
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the renewal of certain air quality permits.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 382.05195(e) and (k), Health and Safety
Code, are amended to read as follows:
(e) The commission by rule shall establish procedures for
the amendment of a standard permit and for an application for, the
issuance of, the renewal of, and the revocation of an authorization
to use a standard permit. Each authorization to use a standard
permit issued under this section is subject to review at least once
every five years to determine whether the authority to operate
should be renewed.
(k) An application for an authorization to use [the issuance
of] a standard permit under this section for a concrete plant that
performs wet batching, dry batching, or central mixing, including a
permanent, temporary, or specialty concrete batch plant, as defined
by the commission, must include a plot plan that clearly shows:
(1) a distance scale;
(2) a north arrow;
(3) all property lines, emission points, buildings,
tanks, and process vessels and other process equipment in the area
in which the facility will be located;
(4) at least two benchmark locations in the area in
which the facility will be located; and
(5) if the permit requires a distance, setback, or
buffer from other property or structures as a condition of the
permit, whether the required distance or setback will be met.
SECTION 2. Section 382.05198(c), Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(c) An application for an authorization to use [the issuance
of] a standard permit under this section must include a plot plan
that meets the requirements of Section 382.05195(k).
SECTION 3. (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.
(b) After the effective date of this Act, notwithstanding
the changes in law made by this Act, the Texas Commission on
Environmental Quality may allow the continuation of an
authorization to use a permit issued before the effective date of
this Act until the date the authorization would have been eligible
for renewal under the law in effect immediately before the
effective date of this Act, and the former law is continued in
effect for that purpose.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.