TCEQ Agenda Meeting – August 9, 2021

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality consider the following agenda items at the agenda meeting scheduled for Wednesday, August 11, 2021, which can be viewed virtually starting at 9:30 AM. The Commission will review petitions for enforcement actions, permit considerations, and adoption of total maximum daily loads; as well as Agreed and Default Orders on issues regarding,  municipal solid waste, water discharge, petroleum storage tanks, water quality, and air quality (among others). Public comments on any matters within the jurisdiction of the TCEQ will also be allowed. Registration for public comments at the agenda meeting will conclude at 9:30AM and will require participants to join the meeting through webinar with the ID 452-604-643.

Item 2: Consideration of application by NRG Texas Power LLC for renewal an air quality permit to authorize the continued operation of an existing permitted, pulverized coal-fired steam boiler and appurtenant equipment located in Fort Bend County which operate to provide electricity to the grid.

• Item 4: Consideration of adoption of Two Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) for indicator bacteria in the Caney Creek Watershed, of the Brazos-Colorado Coastal Basin, in Brazoria, Matagorda,and Wharton Counties.
• Item 9: Consideration of an Agreed Order assessing administrative penalties, and requiring certain actions -due to air quality violations for a failure to comply with the concentration limit for the polyethylene powder exiting the product purge bin (among other violations) -by Equistar Chemicals, LP in Harris County.
• Item 11: Consideration of an Agreed Order assessing administrative penalties and requiring certain actions -for air quality violations due to a failure to store and transfer chemicals according to the scenarios and their associated vapor control requirements- by Stolthaven Houston, Inc. in Harris County.
• Item 13: Consideration of an Agreed Order assessing administrative penalties and requiring certain actions -due to air quality violations for a failure to obtain a federal operating permit prior to operating a portable air curtain incinerator and a failure to obtain authorization prior to constructing or modifying a source of air contaminants- by Project Storm, LLC in Galveston County.
• Item 14: Consideration of an Agreed Order assessing administrative penalties and requiring certain actions, for water quality violations due to a failure to comply with designated limitations of cyanide, Escherichia coli, and biochemical oxygen demand-by GB Biosciences LLC in Harris County.
• Item 20: Consideration of an Agreed Order assessing administrative penalties and requiring certain actions -for water quality violations for a failure to comply with designated limitations of Escherichia coli and dissolved oxygen, by Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 221 in Harris County.
• Item 25: Consideration of an Agreed Order assessing administrative penalties and requiring certain actions, for petroleum storage tank violations -including failure to conduct effective inventory control procedures, inspect underground storage tank parts, as well as investigate and confirm all suspected release of regulated substances requiring reporting (among others)- by Homeland Enterprises, Inc. in Montgomery County.