Bill Text: TX HB1786 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the issuance of air quality permits for concrete plants located in certain areas.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-10 - Referred to Environmental Regulation [HB1786 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB1786-Introduced.html
| 87R1965 JXC-F | ||
| By: Thierry | H.B. No. 1786 | |
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| 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 is not | ||
| subject to zoning regulations with 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 382.051991, Health and Safety Code, as | ||
| added by this Act, applies only to an application for a permit that | ||
| is filed with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on or | ||
| after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
