Environmental Insider News articles from November 1999

Environmental Insider News archives from November 1999

Subdivision Rules for Border Counties: A Bad Model?
November 14, 1999... On November 17, the Texas Water Development Board will take a second look at model subdivision rules prepared pursuant to Senate Bill 1421 (76th Legislature, 1999). The new rules are going to be costly for individuals and many small businesses...

Model Subdivision Rules.
November 14, 1999... Staff had earlier provided copies of a preliminary draft of the model rules to all the counties and municipalities that have participated in the EDAP program; they also provided copies to invitees and participants in the Attorney General's...

Fina Facing Fine, Cleanup.
November 14, 1999... The case is far from over, but on October 27 the battle lines became more sharply drawn in TNRCC's battle to force Fina Pipe Line Company and Fina Oil & Chemical Company to pay a $750,000 penalty for allowing the continued migration through...

Old Ozone Standard Back.
November 14, 1999... Perhaps anticipating the bad news that would come four days later, EPA on October 25 formally proposed to reinstate its ozone attainment standard of 0.12 ppm, averaged over a 1-hour period), asserting that the old standard would serve as a...

Texas Tidbits.
November 14, 1999... *** Dr.Kerry Kinney of the University of Texas at Austin's College of Engineering has won a 4-year National Science Foundation Early Career Development Award to study whether fungus can be used to clean contaminated air by consuming pollutants....

Cherry Blossoms.
November 14, 1999... *** With the death last month of Sen. John Chafee (R, Rhode Island), Sen. Bob Smith (I, New Hampshire) was persuaded to return to the Republican Party that he left in July to run for president as an independent. The carrot that brought Smith...

Water, Water (Almost) Everywhere - Fit to Drink!
November 28, 1999... Not many Texans probably know that the Lone Star State is one of the nation's shining stars when it comes to drinking water quality, from both a regulatory and a real-world point of view. In a review of activities pursuant to the 1996 Safe...

You Can Drink the Water.
November 28, 1999... On the heels of the federal legislation, the Texas Legislature, as part of 1997's omnibus water bill (Senate Bill 1), directed TNRCC to adopt rules that require proposed new water systems to submit business plans along with their engineering...

Water System Enforcement.
November 28, 1999... During fiscal 1999, 102 of TNRCC's 662 Administrative Orders in enforcement cases (15.4%) were issued to public water system operators (including water rights cases), but total penalties assessed ($328,181) represented only 6% of total...

Revisiting Inactive Landfills.
November 28, 1999... In the wake of the recent transfer of a municipal solid waste landfill permit (and sale of the landfill property) from the City of Henderson to a private-sector operator, TNRCC's Commissioners asked staff to review legal and policy issues...

Nutrient Utilization Plans.
November 28, 1999... In other action at the November 19 work session, the Commissioners approved an order [under 30 TAC 321.39] requiring that applicants for a new confined animal feeding operation registration or an expansion in the number of animal units...

Model Subdivision Rules.
November 28, 1999... The day before the Texas Water Development Board authorized publication of the proposed Model Subdivision Rules (see last issue), Board members held a public meeting attended by stakeholders representing all sides of the issue at hand -...