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TCEQ outlines revisions to implementation procedures to align permits with updated water quality standards
Summary
TCEQ staff described planned updates to the Implementation Procedures (IPs) to incorporate existing permitting practices and align with recent water quality standards, including toxicity testing procedures, updated appendices, and removal of a lipid correction factor for certain toxic pollutants.
Peter Schafer, team leader of the standards implementation team in TCEQ’s Water Quality Division, told the advisory work group that the agency is updating the Implementation Procedures (IPs) — the document used to translate water quality standards into permit limits.
“ The procedures to implement the water quality standards are really a document that turns these standards…into how we implement those standards…
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