Purpose
The TRRP Steering Committee was formed to aid the TCEQ in
developing guidance for the Texas Risk Reduction Program
(TRRP).
The TCEQ initiated the TRRP Steering Committee in response to
the need to develop guidance for the implementation of the TRRP
rule (30 TAC Chapter 350). The TRRP Steering Committee was formed
in December 1999 and will continue until all the planned TRRP
guidance documents are completed. Many of the TRRP guidance
documents have been completed and many more are in the process of
development. These TRRP
guidance documents are made available on the web as soon as
they are finalized.
The TRRP Steering Committee is a committee comprised of TCEQ
representatives and stakeholders who:
- represents stakeholder interests;
- aids the TCEQ in determining critical guidance needs, subject
and timing;
- identifies and coordinates the participation of
experts/resources on particular subject matters;
- shepherds the development of guidance recommendations by the
workgroups by providing direction and encouraging timeliness, uses
progress tracking report as management tool;
- coordinates the efforts of and liaisons between the five
workgroups to ensure sufficient communication between workgroups
and with the Steering Committee;
- assigns workgroup participants and ensures there is a
designated leader for each workgroup;
- identifies inconsistency and conflicts in developing guidance
recommendations between workgroups and ensures such matters are
resolved; rules on guidance recommendation conflicts which are not
resolved within the workgroup;
- reviews and critiques all draft guidance recommendations for
content, clarity and presentation, either sending the draft
guidance back to the workgroup for further work, or recommends the
TCEQ consider taking ownership of the guidance recommendation as
draft guidance and developing it towards adoption;
- provides peer review of draft TRRP guidance under consideration
for adoption;
- makes final recommendations of adoption or rejection of draft
TRRP guidance to the TCEQ, and provides recommendations for any
necessary amendments; and
- prepares and issues minutes for each meeting.
Committee Members
Members of the Steering Committee include:
- Patricia Fontenot, Chair, TCEQ/Remediation
Division/Technical Support Section
- Al Biehle, Dupont, representing the Texas Chemical Council
- Emily Collins, TCEQ/Public Interest Counsel
- Tracy Hester, Bracewell and Giuliana, representing Legal
Interests
- Bruce Keels, San Antonio Water System, representing
Municipalities
- Maria C. Lebron, TCEQ/Remediation Division/Special
Assistant
- Paul Lewis, TCEQ/Remediation Division/Technical Support
- Susan Litherland, Weston Solutions, representing Environmental
Consulting Interests
- Rick Lowerre, Lowerre and Fredericks, representing
Environmental Group Interests
- Scott McLain; Reed, McLain, and Guerro, representing
Environmental Group Interests
- Steve Morton; Moltz, Morton, OToole, LLP, representing Legal
Interests
- Ron Pitts, URS Corporation, representing Texas Chemical
Council
- Dick Record, Cirrus Associates, Industry Council on
Environment
- Greg Tipple, TCEQ/Remediation Division/Technical Support
Section
- Joe Zupan, Zephyr Environmental, representing Texas Association
of Business and Chambers of Commerce
Schedule of Future Meetings
The next meeting is not yet scheduled.
See our location
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Meeting Minutes and Transcripts
Work Groups
Several work groups are in the process of developing guidance to
support the TRRP rule. Information on scheduled meetings for each
of these work groups will be posted as it becomes available.
Guidance documents that are currently available can be downloaded
from http://www.tceq.state.tx.us/remediation/trrp/guidance.html.
TCEQ Ecological Workgroup
July 27, 2006 meeting minutes
TRRP Guidance Subcommittees
NAPL Evaluation and Recovery (TRRP-32). Provides
guidance for compliance with the TRRP requirements for non-aqueous
phase liquids in soil and groundwater.
