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TITLE 30ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
PART 1TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
CHAPTER 111CONTROL OF AIR POLLUTION FROM VISIBLE EMISSIONS AND PARTICULATE MATTER
SUBCHAPTER AVISIBLE EMISSIONS AND PARTICULATE MATTER
DIVISION 4MATERIALS HANDLING, CONSTRUCTION, ROADS, STREETS, ALLEYS, AND PARKING LOTS
RULE §111.145Construction and Demolition

For the purpose of this section, the following restrictions apply if the area of land affected by the listed activities is more than one acre in size, except for the City of El Paso, where restrictions shall apply regardless of the size of the area of land affected. No person may cause, suffer, allow, or permit a structure, road, street, alley, or parking area to be constructed, altered, repaired, or demolished, or land to be cleared without taking at least the following precautions to achieve control of dust emissions:

  (1) use of water or of suitable oil or chemicals for control of dust in the demolition of structures, in construction operations, in work performed on a road, street, alley, or parking area, or in the clearing of land;

  (2) use of adequate methods such as wet-sandblasting and enclosure of work areas to prevent airborne particulate matter during sandblasting of structures or other similar operations;

  (3) application of asphalt, other paving materials, water, suitable oil, or chemicals on construction and/or demolition site access roads located in the City of El Paso.


Source Note: The provisions of this §111.145 adopted to be effective July 18, 1989, 14 TexReg 3293; amended to be effective February 12, 1992, 17 TexReg 691.

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