Regulatory Guidance

On-Site Wastewater Treatment Research Council Fee: The fee charged to property owners applying for a permit to construct a septic system.
Regulatory Assessments Collected by Retail Public Utilities: Information on the regulatory assessment fee collected from retail customers of investor-owned utilities, water districts and water supply corporations.
Environmental Rules for Car Washes: Summarizes the environmental requirements that apply to car washes and the actions you need to take to operate your car wash in compliance with state and federal laws.
How to Develop a Monitoring Plan for a Public Water System: Provides guidance for public water systems that are required to develop a monitoring plan under 30 TAC 290.122.
Developer's Bond Application Report Format: Step-by-step instructions for water districts on how to prepare a bond application for submission to the TCEQ.
A Guide to Pollution Prevention Planning: Details the steps in the pollution prevention planning process for facilities that must comply under the Waste Reduction Policy Act--small and large quantity generators and those who report on the Toxics Release Inventory Form R.
Can I Recycle Some of My Industrial or Hazardous Wastes?: Tells how to decide whether a facility has a material or a waste, and which regulations apply.
Requirements for Nonhazardous Recycling and Composting Facilities
Preparing a Petition for Expedited Release from a Certificate of Convenience and Necessity: An owner of 50 or more acres may petition the TCEQ for exclusion from a utility service area. This guide outlines information a petitioner must submit and gives a timeline for processing by the TCEQ.
Texas Clean Fleet Program: Guidelines for Vehicle Emission Credits: Explains the generation and use of credits in the Texas Clean Fleet Program for private, local government, and transit fleet owners in certain areas that are required to acquire a percentage of low-emission vehicles as replacements.
TCEQ Jurisdiction over Utility Rates and Service Policies: Guidance on the TCEQ's juridiction over utility rates and service policies.
Radiation Dose Report, Guidelines for Amending a...: Describes items licensees consider when assessing or amending a radiation dose report for an employee who loses or damages monitoring devices or receives an invalid report. Covers data sent to TCEQ for release of open lands for unrestricted use requests.
Step-by-Step Guide to Registration, Operating, and Reporting Requirements for Transporting Sludge Wastes in Texas: Explains state environmental rules for transporters of sewage sludge, domestic septage, chemical toilet waste, grease trap waste, grit trap waste, sludge from drinking water treatment plants, and similar wastes in Texas.
TRRP: Facility Operations Area: Procedures for regulated community/environmental professionals to establish a Facility Operations Area to address multiple sources of chemicals of concern in an operational chemical- or petroleum-manufacturing plant required to perform corrective action.
TRRP: Soil and Groundwater Response Objectives: Describes the soil and groundwater response objectives that a response action at an affected property must achieve in order to attain Remedy Standard A and B under the Texas Risk Reduction Program (TRRP).
Quarterly Visual Monitoring of Storm Water Runoff: A Guide for Industries Operating under the TPDES Multi-Sector General Permit, TXR050000: Tells industries how and when to conduct required quarterly visual monitoring to assess the effectiveness of their efforts to reduce pollution in storm water runoff, and provides a form that may be used.
Guidelines for Preparing a Surface Water Drainage Plan for a Municipal Solid Waste Facility: Gives information on preparing a surface water drainage plan for those who operate or apply to operate Type I and Type IV municipal solid waste facilities in Texas.
Texas Clean Fleet Program: Guidelines for Exception Applications: Explains the exceptions process of the Texas Clean Fleet Program for private, local government, and transit fleet owners in certain areas that are required to acquire a percentage of low-emission vehicles as replacements.
TRRP: Groundwater Classification: Provides recommended procedures for classifying groundwater and documenting the classification under the Texas Risk Reduction Program.
Rules Protecting the Edwards Aquifer Recharge, Contributing, and Transition Zones: Guidance on restrictions relating to construction on the Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone in Williamson, Travis, Hays, Comal, Bexar, Medina, Uvalde, and Kinney counties.
Waste Generation Fee: Answers questions related to this reporting fee.
Texas Clean Fleet Program: Guidelines for Private and Local Government Fleets: A guide for private, local government, and transit fleet owners in certain areas of the state that are required to acquire a percentage of low-emission vehicles when replacing or adding fleet vehicles.
Texas Pollutant Discharge Sytem: A general permit covering eligible storm water discharges from industrial facilities. Also covers certain discharges other than storm water.
Special Waste Regulations in Texas: A guidance document about special waste disposal in Texas.
Total Organic Carbon (TOC) Guidance Manual: Tells surface water treatment plant operators how to comply with rules on removing total organic carbon (TOC) & to lessen the concentration of disinfection by-product precursors (DBP-Ps) that are available to form more harmful disinfection by-products.
Guidelines to Develop Effects Screening Levels, Reference Values, and Unit Risk Factors: A technical guide that details the process of developing ESLs, ReVs, and URFs.
Facility Fee: Answers questions related to this reporting fee.
Procedures to Implement the Texas Surface Water Quality Standards: Details how the TCEQ implements the state's surface water quality standards through wastewater permitting.
Resources for Texas Water and Wastewater Utilities: Lists agencies and organizations that provide funding and assistance to utilities for water, wastewater, and waste disposal.
Handbook for Drought Contingency Planning for Retail Public Water Suppliers: Guidance for preparing drought contingency plans. Provides a single source of guidance meeting the planning requirements of either the TCEQ or the Texas Water Development Board.
Plumbing Fixtures Fee: Answers questions related to this reporting fee.
Institutional Controls under TRRP: Describes the process to apply institutional controls as required by the Texas Risk Reduction Program.
A Model Environmental Management System for Local Governments
Disposal of Domestic or Exotic Livestock Carcasses: A guide for farm and ranch owners, state agencies, and local authorities when faced with animal mortalities.
Complying with the Pollution Prevention Planning Law: Gives the basics on pollution prevention planning requirements for facilities that must comply under the Waste Reduction Policy Act--small and large quantity generators and those who report on the Toxics Release Inventory Form R.
Air Inspection Fee: Answers questions related to these reporting fees.
Municipal Solid Waste Diversion Methods: Options for Local Governments: How local authorities can keep solid waste out of landfills. Discusses waste reduction, recycling, composting, and energy recovery.
Texas Emissions Reduction Plan: I Just Received a Grant-Now What?: Step-by-step workbook for recipients of TERP grants explaining what their grant requires of them.
Industrial & Hazardous Waste Annual Waste Summary Instructions: Instructions on how to perform an annual waste summary; includes examples.
Review and Reporting of COC Concentration Data under TRRP: For data on chemicals of concern (COCs), tells how to: document quality of data used to show compliance with TRRP rule, determine data to include in required reports, review data for technical standards and usability, and prepare a Data Usability Summary.
Disposal of Special Wastes Associated with the Development of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources: Addresses the management of wastes associated with the exploration, development, or production of oil, gas, or geothermal resources regulated by the Railroad Commission of Texas that are disposed in municipal solid waste landfills permitted by the TCEQ.
La TCEQ Inspecciono Su Negocio. Que Representa Esto para Usted?: Resumen del proceso de ejecución (en inglés y español), cubre los derechos básicos y responsabilidades involucrados.
Landscape Irrigator's Rule Compilation: A guide that compiles the various rules for landscape irrigators from the occupation code, water code and TCEQ rules
Universal Waste Regulations for Hazardous Lamps and Mercury-Containing Equipment (MCE) in Texas: How to comply with state and federal laws when disposing of lamps and equipment that contains mercury, lead or other hazardous substances. Fluorescent tubes, incandescent lamps, mercury switches, and thermostats may be covered by the regulations.
TRRP: Tier 1 PCL Tables: A guide to the correct interpretation and use of the Tier 1 PCL Tables.
TRRP: Critical PCLs: Explains the role of the critical protective concentration level (PCL) in the Texas Risk Reduction Program (TRRP) rule and outlines the steps to determine the critical PCL on a site-specific basis.
Submitting a Contact Designating Service Areas Between Utilities: How retail public utilities may transfer existing CCN areas and customers by filing a contract for approval by the TCEQ.
Texas Regulations on Medical Waste: Covers rules for the handling, treatment, and transport of these wastes from health-care-related facilities: waste of animals intentionally exposed to pathogens; bulk human blood and blood products; pathological waste; microbiological waste; and "sharps."
TRRP: Notification Requirements: Describes the process to provide notification as required by the Texas Risk Reduction Program rule.
TRRP: Development of Human Health PCLs for Total Petroleum Hydrocarbon Mixtures: Describes the process to develop protective concentration levels for total petroleum hydrocarbons.
Meter Tampering: States the law prohibiting tampering with meters. (Excerpt from Texas Penal Code)
The Water and Wastewater Consumer Assistance Team Can Help: Lists TCEQ services available to various water or wastewater utilities and customers.
Voluntary Cleanup Program Fee: Answers questions related to this reporting fee.
Texas Emissions Reduction Plan: Guidelines for Emission Reduction Incentive Grants: Explains the standards for ERIG grants issued under the TERP Program for projects to improve air quality in areas of the state that do not meet certain air quality standards established by the Environmental Protection Agency.
TRRP: Comparison of 30 TAC 335 and 30 TAC 350: Points to Consider in Making the Shift: Summarizes the primary differences between the Risk Reduction Rule and the Texas Risk Reduction Program Rule.
Approval of Training for Occupational Licensing: Describes the process for obtaining TCEQ approval of initial and continuing education training for professionals who do work that affects environmental quality. Includes application and attendance forms, instructions, and checklists.
Surcharging Customers of Investor-Owned Utilities for Sampling and Inspection Fees: Provides guidelines for investor-owned water and sewer utilities on when and how to surcharge customers for actual increases in costs for sampling, inspection fees, and other governmental requirements that are beyond the utility's control.
Landowner's Guide to Plugging Abandoned Water Wells: Guidance on how to properly plug an abandoned water well.
Disinfectant Residual Reporting for Public Water Systems: Shows public water systems that use only purchased water or groundwater how to comply with the disinfectant-level monitoring and reporting requirements of 30 TAC Section 290.110. Includes example calculations, worksheets, sample report, blank report form.
TRRP: Risk Levels, Hazard Indices, and Cumulative Adjustment: Describes the correct use of carcinogenic risk levels and noncarcinogenic hazard indices for effect, due to the presence of both individual and multiple chemicals of concern when setting human health PCLs.
Do You Need Industrial or Hazardous Waste Registration Numbers?: Guides waste generators on whether they need industrial or hazardous waste I.D. and registration numbers and how to obtain them if they do.
TRRP: Land Use Classification: Describes how land use classifications are made under the Texas Risk Reduction Program rule.
Beneficial Land Use and Surface Disposal Fees: Answers questions related to these reporting fees.
TRRP: Human Health Points of Exposure: Describes on-site and off-site locations of the prescribed and alternate human health points of exposure (POEs) to environmental media as presented in Texas Risk Reduction Program (TRRP) rule 30 TAC 350.37.
TRRP: Tiered Development of Human Health PCLS: Discusses the process of establishing protective concentration levels (PCLs) in accordance with the various tiers set forth in 350.75 of the Texas Risk Reduction Program (TRRP) rule.
TRRP: Screening Target Chemicals of Concern from PCL Development: Describes a step-by-step process to screen target chemicals of concern from PCL development.
Conditional No-Exposure Exclusion for Storm Water Runoff: A Guide for Industries Operating Under the TPDES Multi-Sector General Permit, TXR050000: Explains the no-exposure exclusion for industries operating under the TPDES Multi-Sector General Permit.
Financial Reporting Requirements for Districts and River Authorities: Water districts in Texas must file an annual financial report, an audit report, or a dormancy report each year. This guide tells how to determine the type of report that must be filed and the deadline for filing that report.
Most Frequently Needed Records for Wastewater Investigations: TCEQ investigators send this document to a plant that is about to undergo a wastewater investigation to ensure availability of records needed to complete the process expeditiously.
The TCEQ Has Inspected Your Business. What Does This Mean to You?: Overview (in English and Spanish) of TCEQ's enforcement process, covers the basic rights and responsibilities involved.
Managing Paint and Paint-Related Waste under the Universal Waste Rule: How wastes from painting can be managed more economically and conveniently under the Universal Waste Rule, as opposed to managing them as hazardous waste.
Water and Sewer Utility Stock Transfer Approval Requirements: Tells when and how to apply for TCEQ approval before conducting a transaction involving the transfer of voting stock in a water or sewer utility.
TRRP: Comparison of 30 TAC 334 and 30 TAC 350: Regulation of LPST Sites under TRRP: Provides information on the differences between (a) the portions of Chapter 334 (with respect to PSTs) that are being replaced by rules of the Texas Risk Reduction Program and (b) the TRRP rules that are replacing them.
A Public Water System Guide to Customer Service Inspections: Provides answers to commonly asked questions about the customer service inspection process of public water systems.
Guide for Preparing Site Operating Plans for Municipal Solid Waste Facilities: Assists municipal solid waste facilities with preparing a new or revised Site Operating Plan (SOP).
On-Site Sewage Facility (OSSF) Rules Compilation: Contains statutory authority and administrative rules for the On-Site Sewage Facility program, including changes adopted 9/11/08 in response to HB 2482 passed by the 80th legislature. Changes affect maintenance providers, installers, apprentices, and DRs.
Guias para Documentar el Uso de Maquinaria Comprada con Ayuda de un Subsidio TERP: Guía para documentar el uso de maquinaria comprada con ayuda de subsidios TERP.
General Permit Storm Water and General Permit Wastewater Fee: Answers commonly asked questions from those billed for these annual fees, and provides agency contacts for more detailed questions.
Investigating and Reporting Releases from Petroleum Storage Tanks (PST): Guide to the TCEQ requirement for investigating and reporting releases from underground and aboveground storage tanks.
Innocent Owner/Operator Program Fee: Answers questions related to this reporting fee.
The Analytical Method Modification Program--How to Apply: Provides step-by-step instructions and two forms (TCEQ-10364 and TCEQ-10365) for obtaining approval from the TCEQ to modify analytical reference methods that are used to generate data for regulatory purposes.
Petroleum Storage Tanks: Am I Regulated?: Explanation of petroleum storage tank registration requirements.
Handling and Disposal of Carcasses from Poultry Operations: Guidance for poultry operators on methods of handling poultry carcasses from both routine and major die-offs.
Texas Emissions Reduction Plan: Guidelines for Vehicle Manufacturers under the Light-Duty Motor Vehicle Purchase or Lease Incentive Program: Explains requirements for vehicle manufacturers under the TERP incentive program for purchase or lease of cleaner light-duty vehicles that will be administered by the Comptroller of Public Accounts (S.B. 5, 77th Texas Legislature).
TRRP: Determining PCLs for Surface Water and Sediment: Under the Texas Risk Reduction Program, describes how to determine the surface water and sediment PCLs for human and ecological receptors, the surface water RBEL, and the source media PCLs for groundwater and soil.
TRRP: Monitored Natural Attenuation Demonstrations under TRRP: Describes the elements and development of demonstrations for monitored natural attenuation at affected properties.
TRRP: Compatibility with RCRA: Explains interface of Texas Risk Reduction Program rule with Resource Conservation and Recovery Act as it relates to closure of a hazardous waste management unit with and without a release, RCRA permit modifications, corrective action, and soil reuse.
Landscape Irrigation Program: Implementation: Explains new rules relating to LI for both licensed professionals and customers.
Como Conseguir Permisos de Construccion para Descargas de Agua de Tormenta: Detalla cuáles proyectos de construcción requieren permisos en cuanto a descargas de agua de tormenta, y traza los pasos necesarios para conseguir cobertura de permiso.
Prevent Illegal Dumping: A Guide for Local Governments: Guide to help local officials and local governments in Texas address common issues related to waste and illegal dumping.
Utility On-Site Assistance: Help is on the Way!: Alerts small water and wastewter utilities that the TCEQ can offer them free on-site assistance so that they may give better service to their customers.
TRRP: Application of Remedy Standards A and B: An overview of Remedy Standards A and B.
I Received a Field Citation ... What Happens Next?: Explains options available to regulated entities when a field citation is issued.
Outdoor Burning in Texas: Helps to interpret the revised Outdoor Burning Rule, 30 TAC 111.201-221, for the general public, the regulated community, and responsible state and local officials.
Vapor Recovery Test Procedures Handbook: Efficient operation of vapor recovery systems is critical to improving air quality in Texas. This handbook outlines procedures which must be followed to ensure accurate and consistent test results.
Selecting Target Chemicals of Concern: Designed to help the person determine the appropriate chemicals of concern (COCs) for analysis of environmental media when responding to the Texas Risk Reduction Program (TRRP) rule of 30 TAC 350.
Design and Construction Guidelines for Dams in Texas
Texas Emissions Reduction Plan: Grant Forms and Instructions: Workbook for recipients of TERP grants explaining how to fill out program forms, with blank forms and examples.
System of Accounts for Water and Wastewater Utilities with 200 or More Connections: Describes TCEQ-approved system of accounts and general accounting principles for utilities who use a general ledger system, preferably computerized.
Backflow Protection on Water-Based Fire Protection Systems: Guidance for water purveyors, waterworks operators, fire line personnel, professional consultants, and licensed testers.

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