By: Alvarado S.B. No. 763
(In the Senate - Filed January 10, 2025; February 7, 2025,
read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
March 24, 2025, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; March 24, 2025,
sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 763 By: Parker
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to standard permits for certain concrete plants.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 382.05195, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (e-1) and amending Subsection (k) to
read as follows:
(e-1) This subsection applies only to a standard permit
issued under this section that authorizes the operation of a
permanent concrete plant that performs wet batching, dry batching,
or central mixing, as defined by the commission. The commission
shall at least once every six years conduct a protectiveness review
of the permit regarding the operation of a permanent concrete plant
described by this subsection, including by reviewing available
background concentrations of air pollutants. If the commission
amends the permit after a protectiveness review, the commission
shall allow facilities authorized to emit air contaminants under
the permit as it read before the amendment to continue to operate
until a date provided by the commission under Subsection (f) that
provides facility operators a reasonable amount of time to comply
with the amended permit.
(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. 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.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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