Water Quality Individual Permit for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations

A complete application package includes these items:

• the Individual Permit Application for a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) form TCEQ-00728 (You will find the instructions in the same document as the form.) (Help with PDF.)

• a completed technical information packet, which provides technical information on the manure and wastewater management system that you will use (form TCEQ-00760)

• a Core Data Form (PDF) (Word), if you have not completed one already (Instructions). (More information can be found on the TCEQ Central Registry Core Data Form - Instructions and Guidance web page.)

Submit one original and one copy of the application package to the Water Quality Applications Team at the address shown in the application.

Submit one copy of the application package to the TCEQ regional office in the region where the facility is to be built.

After the Application Has Been Submitted

After the application is declared administratively complete, you will be required to publish, in a local newspaper, a notice of your intent to obtain a water quality permit. You may need to translate the Notice of Receipt and Intent to Obtain a Permit into Spanish. Therefore, we have provided spanish language templates.

After the application is declared technically complete, you will be required to do the following if the TCEQ executive director is considering approving the permit:

• Publish a second notice indicating the preliminary decision to issue the permit.

• Provide a complete copy of the application package and all correspondence for inspection by the public at your place of business and at a public place located within the county.

Public meetings and hearings may also be required.

For more information on the requirements for CAFOs please refer to Title 30, Texas Administrative Code, Chapter 321, Subchapter B (HTML).

If you have questions, please see our Contact Page or e-mail us at CAFO@tceq.texas.gov.