Bill Text: TX HB137 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the issuance of air quality permits for concrete plants located in certain areas.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-23 - Referred to Environmental Regulation [HB137 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB137-Introduced.html
  88R168 JXC-F
 
  By: Thompson of Harris H.B. No. 137
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the issuance of air quality permits for concrete plants
  located in certain areas.
         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 382.051991 to read as follows:
         Sec. 382.051991.  MUNICIPAL OR COUNTY APPROVAL OF CERTAIN
  CONCRETE PLANTS. (a) This section applies only to a permit
  application for a concrete plant located or proposed to be located
  in:
               (1)  an incorporated area of a municipality that has
  not adopted zoning regulations and has a population of more than 2
  million; or
               (2)  the unincorporated area of a county with a
  population of more than 4.5 million.
         (b)  For each permit application described by Subsection
  (a), the commission:
               (1)  shall send to the governing body of the
  municipality or county, as applicable, a copy of the application;
  and
               (2)  may not issue the permit applied for before the
  31st day after the date the governing body receives the copy unless
  the commission receives notice that the governing body has approved
  the application.
         (c)  The commission may not issue a permit under Section
  382.0518, 382.05195, 382.05196, or 382.05198 or another provision
  of this chapter for a concrete plant described by Subsection (a) if
  the commission receives, before the 31st day after the date the
  governing body receives the copy of the application from the
  commission, notice that the governing body has rejected the
  application.
         SECTION 2.  Section 382.058(c), Health and Safety Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (c)  For purposes of this section, the only [those] persons
  who [actually residing in a permanent residence within 440 yards of
  the proposed plant] may request a hearing under Section 382.056 as a
  person who may be affected are:
               (1)  the municipality or county in which the proposed
  plant will be located; and
               (2)  persons actually residing in a permanent residence
  within 440 yards of the proposed plant.
         SECTION 3.  The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
  an application for a permit that is submitted to the Texas
  Commission on Environmental Quality on or after the effective date
  of this Act. An application for a permit that was submitted to the
  Texas Commission on Environmental Quality before the effective date
  of this Act 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.
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