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TCEQ adopts compliance-history rule changes to include moderate and minor violations

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) · January 15, 2026
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Summary

The commission adopted amendments to 30 TAC §§60.1 and 60.2 to implement Texas Water Code section 5.754 (SB 1397), expanding repeat-violator criteria to consider moderate and minor violations, increasing complexity categories, and requiring semiannual compliance-history updates.

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on Jan. 14 adopted amendments to 30 Texas Administrative Code §§60.1 and 60.2 intended to implement legislative changes from Senate Bill 1397 and address Sunset Advisory Commission recommendations.

Amy Sedemeyer of the Enforcement Division said the adopted rulemaking adds moderate and minor violations to the compliance-history calculation when determining repeat-violator status, expands complexity categories from two to five to better account for facility…

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