Bill Text: TX HB4896 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to air quality permits for certain aggregate production operations; establishing rulemaking authority.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-23 - Referred to Environmental Regulation [HB4896 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4896-Introduced.html
By: Landgraf | H.B. No. 4896 |
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relating to air quality permits for certain aggregate production | ||
operations; establishing rulemaking authority. | ||
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 Sections 382.0651 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 382.0651. STANDARD PERMIT WITH ENHANCED CONTROLS FOR | ||
CERTAIN AGGREGATE PRODUCTION FACILITIES. (a) The commission shall | ||
issue a Standard Permit with Enhanced Controls to a rock crushing | ||
facility that: | ||
(1) is located at an aggregate production operation | ||
required to be registered under Section 28A.051, Water Code; | ||
(2) is used for the production of aggregates, as | ||
defined by Section 28A.001, Water Code; | ||
(3) limits production to under 1500 tons per hour; and | ||
(4) meets the requirements of this section. | ||
(b) The permit process authorized by this section is not | ||
subject to the requirements relating to a contested case hearing | ||
under this chapter, Chapter 5, Water Code, or Subchapters C-G, | ||
Chapter 2001, Government Code. | ||
SECTION 2. The commission shall adopt rules relating to | ||
best management practice requirements for an owner or operator of a | ||
facility to use the permit under this section. The commission may | ||
not establish by rule any requirements that an applicant for a | ||
permit under this section be subject to a hearing under 2001.051, | ||
Government Code. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |