Sec. 382.004. CONSTRUCTION WHILE PERMIT APPLICATION PENDING. (a) To the extent permissible under federal law and notwithstanding Section 382.0518, a person who submits an application for a permit for a modification of or a lesser change to an existing facility under this subtitle may, at the person's own risk, begin construction related to the application after the application is submitted and before the commission has issued the permit.
(b) The commission may not consider construction begun under this section in determining whether to grant the permit sought in the application.
Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 422 (S.B. 1740), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2005.
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