Correspondence between EPA and TCEQ regarding Texas Air Permitting Program

The following comments from Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) regarding State Implementation Plan (SIP) revisions related to Texas Air Permitting Program is available in PDF format. (Help with PDF.). Note: Some files may be large, please be patient as they load.

• April 11, 2006 - Letter from EPA - (PDF) file size: 960 kb
• September 15, 2006 - EPA Qualified Facilities letter (PDF)
• August 30, 2007 - Response from TCEQ - (PDF) file size: 2071 kb
• March 12, 2008 - Letter from EPA (PDF)
• March 31, 2008 - Response from TCEQ (PDF)
• June 13, 2008 - Response from TCEQ - BACT (PDF)
• June 13, 2008 - Response from TCEQ - PBR (PDF)
• June 13, 2008 - Response from TCEQ - Public Participation (PDF)
• June 13, 2008 - Response from TCEQ - Consolidation, Reissue and Amendment (PDF)
• October 27, 2008 - Response to TCEQ's Letters From EPA Region 6 - (PDF) file size: 108 kb
• June 5, 2009 - TCEQ Letter to EPA Region 6 (PDF)
• June 24, 2009 - EPA Region 6 Response Letter (PDF)
• September 29, 2009 - EPA E-mail (PDF)
• October 23, 2009 - TCEQ Response Letter (PDF)
• October 30, 2009 - Letter from EPA - Seven Issues Re: State Implementation Plan (SIP) (PDF)
• November 12, 2009 - Letter from EPA - Further SIP Discussion (PDF)
• February 16, 2010 - Letter from EPA - Public Participation (PDF)
• March 1, 2010 - Letter from EPA - Comments on Rule Project (PDF)
• April 15, 2010 - Letter from EPA - Future Permitting Work (PDF)
• May 14, 2010 - Letter from EPA - Flexible Permitting Issues, including BACT (PDF)
• May 24, 2010 - Response from TCEQ - Response to EPA April 15, 2010 letter (PDF)
• June 7, 2010 - Letter from EPA - EPA Region 6 Qualified Facilities rule comments (PDF)
• June 10, 2010 - Letter from EPA - Title V Incorporation By Reference (PDF)
• July 6, 2010 - TCEQ Letter to EPA - Voluntary 'De-Flex' Options"(PDF)
• August 2, 2010 - Letter from EPA - EPA Region 6 Flexible Permitting rule comments (PDF)
• August 9, 2010 - TCEQ Letter to EPA from Chairman Shaw (PDF)
• August 9, 2010 - Letter from EPA to Commissioner Rubinstein (PDF)
• August 30, 2010 - Letter from EPA to Chairman Shaw (PDF)
• October 4, 2010 - TCEQ comments on permitting of greenhouse gas sources. (PDF)
• November 1, 2010 - Letter from EPA - Alteration option for transitioning Flexible Permits. (PDF)
• December 21, 2010 - Letter from EPA to Chairman Shaw regarding federal air construction and operating permits meeting Clean Air Act (PDF)
• March 18, 2011 - Letter from EPA - Title V Objections (PDF)
• July 11, 2011 - TCEQ comments on Title 30 TAC Section 116.620 Oil and Gas Standard Permit SIP Submittal (PDF)
• August 24, 2011 - Letter from EPA - Major Air Pollution Sources 'Incorporation by Reference (IBR) (PDF)
• September 30, 2011 - Letter from EPA - Texas NSR Reform SIP Submittal (PDF)
• October 11, 2011 - TCEQ Letter to EPA - Texas New Source Review (NSR) Reform State Implementation Plan (SIP) Submittal (PDF)
• March 6, 2012 - Example PAL letter from EPA (PDF)
• March 21, 2012 - Title V Pilot Permits to Remove 'Incorporation by Reference' (IBR) (PDF)
• March 26, 2012 - US Court of Appeals, Case No. 10-60891 (PDF)
  “The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has issued its opinion in the Pollution Control Project (PCP) Standard Permit case. The Court vacated EPA’s unlawful disapproval of Texas’s PCP Standard Permit and ordered EPA to reconsider the matter “most expeditiously.” Perhaps most significant, the Court clarifies EPA’s role with respect to its review of state implementation plan (SIP) submissions: “With regard to implementation, the Act confines EPA to the ministerial function of reviewing SIPs for consistency with the Act’s requirements.” (p. 2-3) The Court further states that “EPA does not possess any ‘discretionary authority’ in that process. Only the states enjoy discretion in implementing the dictates of the CAA. (p. 14 n.9).”
• May 3, 2012 - New Source Review Reform Rulemaking Letter to EPA (PDF)

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