concrete batch plants get one 90-day extension, max

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89R6349 KRM-D

By: Alvarado
S.B. No. 796

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the construction of certain concrete batch plants.

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 382.051995 to read as follows:

Sec. 382.051995. EXTENSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF CONCRETE

BATCH PLANT; NOTICE TO STATE SENATOR AND STATE REPRESENTATIVE. (a)

The executive director may grant a person authorized under a

standard permit issued under Section 382.05195 or Section 382.05198

to construct a concrete plant that performs wet batching, dry

batching, or central mixing only one extension to any deadline to

begin construction of the plant incorporated in the standard

permit. The extension may not exceed 90 days.

(b) If a person granted an extension described by Subsection

(a) fails to begin construction within the time allotted under the

authorization to use the standard permit or the extension period,

the person must submit a new application for an authorization to use

the standard permit before beginning construction.

(c) On receiving a request to extend a deadline under

Subsection (a), the executive director shall send notice of the

request to the state senator and representative who represent the

area in which the facility will be located.

SECTION 2. Not later than September 1, 2026, the Texas

Commission on Environmental Quality shall adopt rules necessary to

implement the changes in law made by this Act.

SECTION 3. Section 382.051995, Health and Safety Code, as

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

standard permit the application for which is filed with the Texas

Commission on Environmental Quality on or after the effective date

of this Act. An authorization the application for which is filed

before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in

effect on the date the application was filed, and that law is

continued in effect for that purpose.

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