Description: Brownfields are properties that may have hazardous substances, pollutants or contaminants present. EPA’s Brownfields Program provides grants and technical assistance to communities, states, cities, local governments, nonprofit organizations, regional councils of government, tribes and others to assess, safely clean up and sustainably reuse these contaminated properties. Cleaning up and reinvesting in brownfields protects human health and the environment, reduces blight, and takes development pressures off greenspaces and working lands. The TCEQ offers technical advice and education, through its relationship with the EPA, for some brownfields redevelopment projects where local government is supporting or playing a key role. The TCEQ will assess eligible sites and accept applications as long as resources are available. The Brownfields Site Assessments Program web URL is: (https://www.tceq.texas.gov/remediation/bsa).
Copyright Text: Acknowledgment of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality in products derived from this dataset would be appreciated.
Description: This layer contains all sites in the State of Texas that have been designated as Radioactive Waste sites.This layer complies with National Map Accuracy Standards for 1:24,000-scale maps. According to this standard, 90% of well-defined features tested must be within 12 meters. The layer also complies with all TCEQ Agency Standards.
Description: This layer contains all sites in the State of Texas that have been designated as Superfund cleanup sites; it includes both Federal and State sites. Federal Superfund sites have a Hazard Ranking System (HRS) score of 28.5 or above, and are placed on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US-EPA) National Priorities List (NPL). NPL sites are eligible for cleanup at Federal expense if the responsible parties cannot be identified or no longer exist. Remediation at State Superfund sites must be provided in the following sequence: first, by responsible party funding; second, with the aid of Federal funds; and third, if necessary, with State funds from the Hazardous and Solid Waste Remediation Fee Fund. Sites that were once designated as Superfund sites but have since been removed from the active list are still included in the coverage, but have been given a Status of "deleted". Two NPL sites, State Marine and Hart Creosoting were deleted from the State Superfund Registry but were then listed as Federal NPL sites, therefore they are only shown as Federal Superfund sites to avoid geographical redundancy, since they are still the same physical sites.
Copyright Text: Acknowledgment of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality in products derived from this dataset would be appreciated.
Description: This layer contains point locations for operating Permitted Industrial and Hazardous Waste Locations in Texas. Facilities which store, process, or dispose of hazardous waste (except where such storage and/or processing is excluded from permit requirements in accordance with 30 Texas Administrative Code (TAC) Section 335) must obtain a permit pursuant to the Texas Solid Waste Disposal Act. The Industrial and Hazardous Waste Permits Section of the TCEQ maintain a database of these facilities, which is represented geographically here.Level 3 Certification - This layer does not meet the minimum 25 meter agency standard. The layer was certified with known problems that have been documented in the metadata. It is not suitable for high-precision measurement applications.
Copyright Text: Permits Section of the Industrial & Hazardous Waste Division, Office of Waste Management
TCEQ - http://www.tceq.texas.gov/gis/sites.html
Description: The PST State Lead Program is authorized by law to remediate situations where a release from a PST system has occurred. Release incident cases generally involve responsible parties (RPs) who are either unwilling or financially unable to conduct the necessary corrective actions at LPST sites. The state authority for the PST program can be located in the Texas Water Code, Chapter 26, Subchapter I, originally enacted by Senate Bill 779, 70th Legislature, 1987, and amended in subsequent legislative sessions.In 1987, the 70th Texas Legislature passed Senate Bill 779 which authorized the Texas Water Commission (historic state agency) to develop and administer a comprehensive statewide underground storage tank (UST) program. The program is now administered by the TCEQ and addresses the requirements applicable to all UST owners/operators concerning leak detection, record keeping, reporting, corrective action, closure, and financial responsibility.In 1989, the 71st Texas Legislature established House Bill 1588 in response to the growing concerns for public health, environmental, and financial impacts resulting from LPSTs. House Bill 1588 created the Petroleum Storage Tank Remediation (PSTR) Fund. Currently, the PSTR Fund is the primary source of funding for PST State Lead remediation activities.The Leaking Petroleum Storage Tank Cleanups web URL is: (https://www.tceq.texas.gov/remediation/pst_rp/pst.html).
Copyright Text: Acknowledgment of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality in products derived from this dataset would be appreciated.
Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>This layer contains all permitted or registered landfills and associated Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) facilities for the State of Texas as of the publication date shown below. The dataset contains both closed and open landfills. The associated facilities represent various categories including transfer stations, waste processing facilities, and recyling centers. The type of facility is indicatd by the Facility Type (FACILITY_T) field. Landfills are represented by Facility Types 1 - 4. Type 2 and 3 are historical facility types that are no longer used for new permits. The following represents the horizontal accuray of this dataset: 53% - based on DRGs (12 meter accuracy) 12% - address matching (10-meter accuracy) 35% - Coordinates reported by Operator (accuracy unknown)</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>