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Environmental Research Library

Our library maintains a specialized collection of materials to provide scientific, technical, and legislative information in support of all TCEQ programs. Our primary purpose is to assist staff, but we also serve other state agencies, consulting firms, businesses, universities, teachers, students, and interested citizens.

Library Hours and Facilities

All TCEQ buildings—both Austin and our regional offices—are currently closed to the general public and open to staff only on a limited basis. TCEQ is still open and operating to fulfill day-to-day responsibilities. See more on our COVID-19 response.

The TCEQ Library is temporarily closed for in-person use. However, librarians are available to answer questions by phone at 512-239-0020 or email at library@tceq.texas.gov.

Phone : 512-239-0020
Email: library@tceq.texas.gov

Ground floor of Building A at Park 35, on the left as you enter the main doors.

Physical address: Building A, 12100 Park 35 Circle, Room 102.
Mailing address: TCEQ Library, MC-196, P.O. Box 13087, Austin, TX 78711-3087

TCEQ Austin Offices Map

The library has four public computers with black-and-white printing access and quiet seating areas for studying. Other equipment available includes a photocopier, microform reader, and video monitor. Copies made by external customers are $0.05 per page.


What is available on the shelves?

The TCEQ Environmental Research Library maintains a specialized collection of materials to provide scientific, technical, and legislative information in support of all TCEQ programs. We acquire books, reports, magazines, and data with subject concentrations that support TCEQ programs, including water, geology, waste, recycling, air quality, petroleum storage tanks, ecology, toxicology, and pollution. The library maintains current and out-of-print TCEQ and predecessor agency publications.

The legal collection includes Texas and federal law resources that are updated regularly, including the Texas Administrative Code, relevant volumes of Vernon’s Texas Codes Annotated, Texas Register, Code of Federal Regulations Title 40, and U.S. Code Annotated, as well as general and environmental law reference books.


What can I borrow or access and how?

All TCEQ buildings—both Austin and our regional offices—are currently closed to the general public and open to staff only on a limited basis. TCEQ is still open and operating to fulfill day-to-day responsibilities. See more on our COVID-19 response.

The general public may use library resources on the premises during normal business hours. They may not, however, borrow TCEQ library materials except by arrangements made through inter library network organizations.

Books from the TCEQ collection are loaned only to TCEQ staff and personnel in other state agencies. Registration in our library is required.

ll TCEQ books and periodicals are cataloged in a system shared with the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. Select TCEQ from the drop-down library menu to access only the TCEQ collection. Access the catalog .

TexShare is a statewide resource sharing program designed to improve library service to Texans. The TexShare Consortium includes public libraries, colleges and universities, and libraries of clinical medicine. TexShare is administered by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC).

The TexShare Databases allow you to access over 27,000 journals, over 171,000 ebooks, and over 15 million images, videos, and interactive resources. Access TexShare Databases


What services are available?

  • answer reference questions
  • check holdings for specific items
  • explain services, policies, and the arrangement of library materials
  • help you use research tools, including the online catalog, electronic databases, and printed reference sources

If you need expertise to answer questions on the TCEQ's more technical programs, library staff can refer you to appropriate personnel or to another agency.

Staff will make copies for requestors as time permits.