Environmental Insider News articles from December 2004

Environmental Insider News archives from December 2004

Penalty Policy - Er, Regulations.
December 8, 2004... TCEQ's Commissioners on December 6 agreed that the agency's penalty policy - or at least large parts of it - should be adopted as rules. Some of the details can still be relegated to policy documents, they said, but stakeholders should have...

Supplemental Environmental Projects.
December 8, 2004... As the day wore on, Chairman White shocked the crowd by announcing only tentative support for continuing the Supplemental Environmental Projects program - contingent upon improvements. Staff ideas included expanding the preapproved list of...

Ordering Provisions - Part I.
December 8, 2004... As the sun faded in the west, the Commission finally turned to staff recommendations regarding ordering provisions (but did not finish - and still has collections to look forward to on December 17). Right off the top, we learned that TCEQ does...

TCEQ Plots Compliance Initiatives.
December 18, 2004... TCEQ staff have proposed three major compliance initiatives for fiscal 2005. Two of them won quick endorsement from the Commissioners, but the third - dubbed "Permit Now!" - was a harder sell. One project will target diesel engine polluters...

More Enforcement Review Blah Blah Blah.
December 18, 2004... What was it? The fourth (but not the last, we now know) installment of Commissioner review of the final report from the Enforcement Process Review team. The work session was scheduled to end at noon, but by that time the gang had barely gotten...

Penalty Collection.
December 18, 2004... The Commissioners then turned to issues regarding penalty collection and quickly agreed that no entity n default of a penalty should be allowed to acquire, amend, or renew a permit, license, or registration (including a permit by rule). The...

They're Baaaacccck!
December 18, 2004... Soon enough, anyway. The 79th Legislature will be sworn in in just a few weeks, but the lawmakers are already busy pre-filing bills. Only a few to date have any real significance for TCEQ's operations - indeed, new TCEQ Intergovernmental...