TCEQ Stakeholder Meeting Concerning Environmental Flow Standards

Title: TCEQ Stakeholder Meeting Concerning Environmental Flow Standards
Location: TCEQ’s Offices at 12100 Park 35 Circle, Building E, Room 201, Austin, Texas
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Description: House Bill (HB) 3 and Senate Bill (SB) 3, 80th Legislature, 2007, require the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) to adopt by rule appropriate environmental flow standards for each river basin and bay system in the state. The adoption schedule, as amended, requires environmental flow standards for the river and bay systems consisting of the Sabine and NechesRivers and SabineLakeBay, and the Trinity and San JacintoRivers and GalvestonBay to be adopted by June 1, 2011.

To comply with HB 3/SB 3, TCEQ staff is proposing the creation of new 30 Texas Administrative Code Chapter 298, Environmental Flows, Subchapter A, Sabine and NechesRivers and SabineLakeBay; and Subchapter B, Trinity and San JacintoRivers and GalvestonBay.

TCEQ is holding a rule stakeholder meeting to obtain input from the public on the rulemaking required by HB 3/SB 3.

The rule stakeholder meeting will be held on Thursday, August 12, 2010, at 1:00 p.m., at TCEQ’s Offices at 12100 Park 35 Circle, Building E, Room 201, Austin, Texas. If you are unable to attend the scheduled meeting, please submit your written comments no later than August 13, 2010, to Ron Ellis, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, P.O. Box 13087, MC 160, Austin, Texas 78711-3087, (512) 239-1282, or roellis@tceq.state.tx.us.
Start Time: 13:00
Date: 2010-08-12