Enforcement Policies and Procedures

Policies on penalties, notices of violation, findings orders, investigating nuisance odors.

Topics Under This Category:

	Criteria for Use of Findings Orders Policy regarding agreed orders that are drafted with findings of fact and conclusions of law. (Currently under review. See featured link above.)
	Enforcement Initiation Criteria (EIC) Criteria used by TCEQ inspectors for air, water, and waste violations.
	Environmental Crime The TCEQ provides technical support and criminal investigative expertise in multi-agency investigations. We also serve as a resource for and provide training to local, state, and federal law enforcement officers on criminal environmental violations. Our goals are to increase recognition of environmental crime as a threat to public safety and to encourage and support enforcement of environmental statutes at the local level.
	Field Citation Program The TCEQ is implementing this pilot program statewide on March 13, 2006. The pilot covers nine specific violations and is the result of the agency's enforcement process review.
	Gathering and Preserving Information and Evidence Showing a Violation Information about most agency protocols, procedures, or guidelines to use when collecting and submitting information or evidence to the TCEQ.
	Odor Complaint Investigation Procedures - PDF Procedures for how to collect information and make an odor complaint to the TCEQ.
	Revocation of PST Delivery Certificate in Case of Default Explains the agency's policy of revoking a PST delivery certificate if a respondent defaults in a PST enforcement case.