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September 20, 2004
If you have problems with how your local trash facility operates: Have your Say!
The state environmental agency (Texas Commission on Environmental Quality or TCEQ) is revising rules regarding garbage dumps and other garbage facilities. Right now, the agency is about to publish proposed rules on site Operating Plans which are the part of the permit that address the day-to-day operations of facility.
The most recent draft Site Operating Plan rules are available now. Latest Version of Proposed Rules on Site Operating Plans for Landfills
You can still make comments on this phase of the rule-making. Here are some comments that a number of groups submitted on a n earlier draft of the rules (Download file).
Here's a link to the TCEQ webpage with details on proposal, timeline, etc. As mentioned above the "Proposed Rule" and timeline are being changed TCEQ Site Operating Plans Rules Re-write Page
Feel free to borrow or echo ideas from the comments submitted by trash groups already, or add your own ideas. Email your comments to: mswsop@tceq.state.tx.us
Include your name and address and request updates!
Posted by robin at September 20, 2004 04:59 PM