bill requiring five-year reviews of standard air permits

The text as introduced · 412 words

89R439 MP-D

By: Miles
S.B. No. 2270

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the renewal of certain air quality permits.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Sections 382.05195(e) and (k), Health and Safety

Code, are amended to read as follows:

(e) The commission by rule shall establish procedures for

the amendment of a standard permit and for an application for, the

issuance of, the renewal of, and the revocation of an authorization

to use a standard permit. Each authorization to use a standard

permit issued under this section is subject to review at least once

every five years to determine whether the authority to operate

should be renewed.

(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. Section 382.05198(c), Health and Safety Code, is

amended to read as follows:

(c) An application for an authorization to use [ the issuance

of ] a standard permit under this section must include a plot plan

that meets the requirements of Section 382.05195(k).

SECTION 3. (a) 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.

(b) After the effective date of this Act, notwithstanding

the changes in law made by this Act, the Texas Commission on

Environmental Quality may allow the continuation of an

authorization to use a permit issued before the effective date of

this Act until the date the authorization would have been eligible

for renewal under the law in effect immediately before the

effective date of this Act, and the former law is continued in

effect for that purpose.

SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.