If you submit discharge monitoring reports to TCEQ, you can now submit them electronically over the Web through STEERS. These reports are required for facilities covered under a Texas Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit.

What do you need to submit DMRs electronically?
Obtain an electronic reporting account by completing a STEERS Participation Agreement online. Go to the STEERS login page to create a new account, or to update an existing account to add eDMRs.

Methods for Reporting Electronically

You have two choices for reporting DMR data electronically:

• Manually key DMR data into a Web form on the Internet. No special software is required. You only need an Internet connection and a Web browser.
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• Upload DMR data from databases or spreadsheets that you already maintain. This allows data to be imported from your system without rekeying.
  NOTE: If you want to upload data to the eDMR system, it will need to be in the required format. See our eDMR data format in PDF. (Help with PDF.)

Benefits of submitting DMRs electronically:

• Secure, authenticated submissions — You are using STEERS, the same system that thousands of individuals in the regulated community already use.
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• Pull-down menus and the ability to verify and validate DMR data before submitting it — Dozens of data quality checks are performed on the data and you can correct mistakes prior to submitting the data.
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• Receive e-mail notification that your data were received by the TCEQ and know that your data will be uploaded to the primary EPA database for DMRs within days.
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• The ability to correct DMR data you previously submitted for the current and the past five years.
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• Easy online access to all of your previous copies of record — Every electronically signed DMR is stored as a copy of record, including all the data, the user name and e-mail address of the person who submitted them, and the time and date of the submission.
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• Three types of user roles allow you to delegate the tasks of developing and submitting DMRs to multiple staff while keeping submittal authority for final submission with the appropriate company official as required by the regulations:
  
  • “Read-only” users can view pending and submitted data.
  • “Edit/prepare” users can view, create, edit, and delete reports and upload files.
  • “Submit” users can view, create, edit, delete, and submit reports, as well as upload files.