Updating Your Geologic Assessment
If your geologic assessment was completed before the October 1,
2004, revisions to the Instructions to Geologists (TCEQ-0585
Instructions), and your site contains features that were rated as
possibly sensitive, then your assessment must be updated. One of
the revisions to the instructions was to eliminate the category
"possibly sensitive".
Submitting Your Application
Submit your completed Edwards Aquifer protection plan or
contributing zone plan to the TCEQ regional office that serves the
county where your project is located:
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San Antonio for Comal, Bexar, Medina, Uvalde, and Kinney
Counties
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Austin for Williamson, Travis, and Hays Counties
The best way to submit your application is by appointment
with an EAPP staff member. We will meet with either you or your
agent to review your application and discuss any points you want to
further explore. In this meeting we will make sure your application
is administratively complete.
You can learn more about our
administrative review steps and
see the checklists we use to evaluate applications. Our
checklist comments highlight certain items we check and are not a
substitute for complete responses.
Next, we provide a copy of your plan application to any affected
city, groundwater conservation district, and county whose
jurisdiction includes your site. These entities then have 30 days
to provide comments on the application to our regional office. We
will consider these comments and, when appropriate, act upon
them.
Guidance for the Number of Copies to Submit
Submit
one original and
three copies of the
application. The TCEQ will retain the original and one copy. The
other copies will be distributed to any affected city, county, or
groundwater-conservation district depending on where the project is
located. The number of copies we'll need will depend on the
location of your project.
For projects located where there is no groundwater conservation
district, we only need one original and two
copies.
If more than one groundwater-conservation district has
jurisdiction over your site, then send us one additional copy of
your application.
Our Review of Your Application
We review applications in the order they are received. Our review
process includes:
- an initial site assessment
- an evaluation of the plan for technical merit
- contact with the applicant or agent to resolve any
deficiencies
If your plan application is technically adequate, complies with
the rules, and generally is protective of the Edwards Aquifer
during and after construction, we will send you an approval letter.
We will also send a copy of this letter to the agent.
The turnaround time for our review of Edwards Aquifer protection plans and contributing zone plan applications is 60
days. Construction may not begin until our approval letter has been
issued.
