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Committee backs scheduled 6‑year protectiveness reviews for concrete batch standard permits in revised bill
Summary
A narrower committee substitute for SB 763 would require the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to run a protectiveness review of concrete batch plant standard permits every six years; stakeholders and TCEQ staff described the process and the committee left the bill pending.
Senate Bill 763, filed by Senator Alvarado, would require the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) to conduct a periodic “protectiveness review” of standard permits covering concrete batch plants every six years. The committee considered a narrowed committee substitute that removes enhanced‑control standard permits from the statutory requirement and leaves current permit renewal processes unchanged.
Senator Alvarado said the substitute focuses the review requirement on concrete batch plant standard permits and removes language that would affect enhanced control permits, a change stakeholders requested. “The change made in the committee substitute should address the concerns,” she…
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