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Senate creates optional enhanced-control permits for rock crushing facilities, raises production ceiling
Summary
Committee substitute Senate Bill 1757 permits aggregate production operations (APOs) to obtain voluntary enhanced-control permits that require monitoring, mitigation and public reporting in exchange for a streamlined permitting track and an increased production ceiling up to 1,500 tons per hour.
The Texas Senate passed committee substitute Senate Bill 1757, which creates an optional enhanced-control permit for aggregate production operations (APOs) — including rock crushing facilities and quarries — that implement additional pollution and reclamation controls. The bill extends a permitting model currently available to concrete batch plants and makes it optional for APO operators who meet enhanced standards.
Sponsor Senator Brian Birdwell said the enhanced control permits are meant to…
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