Bill Text: TX HB1498 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the monitoring of emissions from certain concrete plants.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-12-03 - Filed [HB1498 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB1498-Introduced.html

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89R2901 JXC-D
By: Walle H.B. No. 1498

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the monitoring of emissions from 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 amending Subsection (k) and adding Subsection (l) to
read as follows:
(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.
(l) The commission shall prescribe reasonable requirements
for the regular monitoring of the emissions of air contaminants
from facilities described by Subsection (k) that regularly operate
at or near any applicable hourly production rate maximum set by the
applicable standard permit.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.