This is a brief overview of the public notice process from the applicant’s perspective:
- Public notice requirements for NSR permits are governed by 30 TAC Chapters 39
and 116.
An applicant must publish notice for an NSR permit if it is listed as "Yes" on the Applicability Table. (PDF)
- The Air Permit Initial Review Team, Air Permits Division will contact you concerning public notice.
- Based on the information you have given us in your application, we will prepare a Notice of Receipt and Intent to Obtain
a Permit. This notice is customized, based on these factors:
- the type of authorization requested
- whether notice is in a language other than English
- whether you qualify as a “small business stationary source”
To customize your notice properly, we rely on information that you provide in your application.
- When we find that your application is administratively complete, we will send you a draft of the customized wording for
the notice. Review this wording carefully. Contact us right away if:
- any information in the notice is incorrect; or if
- alternative language has not been included, but should have.
Because we obtained this information from your application, you would have to correct the information in the application to
correct the notice wording or process.
- Contact us to approve the draft notice if it is correct.
- If we do not hear from you within 48 hours of when you receive the draft notice, then we may file it with the Office of
Chief Clerk in that form.
- If you must publish notices in Spanish, templates are located in "Publishing
Air Notices in Alternative Languages".
- As the applicant, you must ensure the proper translation of the public notice into any other language that is required.
- Using the information that we have sent you, publish the public notice in an acceptable newspaper (as outlined in the
instructions) in each required language. Do not try to develop your own version of this notice. In this notice,
you must use the wording that we provide you. We will provide you with this wording in electronic format on request.
- The notice must be published within 30 days after we declare your application to be administratively complete.
- You must complete an Air Permit Public Notice Verification Form TCEQ-20244 PDF
or DOC
(combines previous PN1 and PN2 forms), an affidavit of publication, and an alternative language affidavit
of publication (if applicable).
- If you have any questions about this step, contact the administrative reviewer named in the application package that we
sent to you.
- Some authorization requests require a second notice after your application is declared technically complete. Someone from
the technical review staff will contact you with information concerning second notice.
- If a second notice is required, we will send you the information you will need to publish the Notice of Preliminary Decision
and Draft Permit when (and if) we find that your application is technically complete. Again, you must use the wording we provide
for this notice. Do not try to develop your own version of this notice. We will provide you with an electronic
file of this wording on request.
- If you must publish notices in Spanish, templates are located in "Publishing
Air Notices in Alternative Languages".
- It is the applicant's responsibility to ensure proper translation of any alternative language public notice.
- Using the information that we have sent you, publish the public notice in an acceptable newspaper in each required language
as outline in the instructions for public notice.
- If you have any questions about this step, contact the permit
engineer named in the Preliminary Decision and Draft Permit package
that we sent you.
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