bill requiring growth analysis for some concrete plant permits

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89R3550 KRM-D

By: Miles
S.B. No. 2272

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to air quality permits for concrete crushing facilities

and 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 382.0651 to read as follows:

Sec. 382.0651. COMMUNITY GROWTH ANALYSIS FOR CERTAIN

CONCRETE FACILITIES. (a) This section applies only to an

application for an authorization to use a standard permit issued

under this chapter for a facility that is:

(1) a concrete crushing facility or a concrete plant

that performs wet batching, dry batching, or central mixing; and

(2) located or proposed to be located:

(A) in the unincorporated area of a county; and

(B) within one mile of a tract of land that has

been subdivided into at least 500 lots for residential use on which

residential construction has not begun on the date the application

is submitted.

(b) The commission by rule shall require an applicant to

submit with the application a projected community growth analysis

that includes:

(1) an assessment of the anticipated social and

economic impact of the proposed facility on future local

communities; and

(2) any other information the commission determines is

necessary to project growth in the area in which the facility is

located or proposed to be located to ensure that the facility will

comply with applicable federal and state air control statutes,

rules, and regulations and the intent of this chapter.

SECTION 2. Section 382.0651, Health and Safety Code, as

added by this Act, applies only to an authorization to use a permit

for which an application is submitted to the Texas Commission on

Environmental Quality on or after the effective date of this Act.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.