The TCEQ has proposed changes to concrete batch plant permits including lowering production limits, reducing dust coming from plants and setting minimum distance requirements from nearby communities. tx kprc2 click2hou
that will give Texans more time to make public comments about certain TCEQ permit applications and require the agency to post permit meeting notices on its website in addition to the required public posting in local newspapers or other publications.
Among TCEQ’s proposed changes is setting production rate limits on individual plants to 650,000 cubic yards per year. New proposed rules will also lower hourly concrete production rates for some counties, including Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Liberty and Montgomery, to 200 cubic yards per hour from the original 300. The current daily maximum of 6,000 cubic yards per day has been removed from the proposed permit.
The Texas concrete industry generates more than $10 billion annually for the state economy, according to the group. Dinn said the residents she represents in Houston would like to see TCEQ add a cap on how many concrete batch plants can be within a certain radius. The state agency is also proposing increasing the minimum distance requirements for concrete batch plants from nearby communities. The current minimum is 100 feet from any property line, and the proposal would increase that to 200 feet in Harris, Chambers, Fort Bend, Brazoria, Galveston, Montgomery and Waller Counties and 300 feet in Cameron and Hidalgo counties.
Cann, the TCEQ spokesperson, said the agency’s air quality analysis of concrete plants took into account cumulative air impacts.
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