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TCEQ adopts dairy‑waste emergency land‑application rules; revises wastewater treatment design criteria rulemaking underway
Summary
Commissioners adopted rules allowing emergency land application of dairy waste and exempting certain activities from solid‑waste permitting; concurrent rulemaking will update wastewater treatment systems design criteria (30 TAC Chapter 217) after stakeholder meetings.
TCEQ staff reported on two rulemaking efforts affecting on‑farm waste management and wastewater treatment design criteria.
Dairy waste rulemaking: Staff said rulemaking implements House Bill 692 (88th regular session), adding new sections to 30 TAC chapter 321 (subchapter B) to allow concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) and unpermitted animal feeding operations to directly land‑apply dairy waste under emergency conditions. A new subchapter Q will allow land application of dairy waste under emergency conditions on agricultural land not associated with an animal feeding operation.…
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