🌉Presidential Permit for Eagle Pass Border Crossing Expansion
The document outlines the Presidential Permit granting the City of Eagle Pass, Texas, permission to expand and maintain the vehicular and pedestrian border crossing at the Camino Real International Bridge. It details construction requirements, compliance mandates, environmental mitigation strategies, and operational oversight by federal agencies.
Learn More🛢️Saybolt LP Approved as Commercial Gauger and Laboratory
Notice is hereby given, pursuant to CBP regulations, that Saybolt LP (Nederland, TX), has been approved to gauge petroleum and certain petroleum products and accredited to test petroleum and certain petroleum products for customs purposes for the next three years as of August 14, 2024.
Learn More🚧Texas DOT MOU Renewal Impacts Federal Highway Project Responsibilities
This notice announces that FHWA received an amended renewal package from the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) requesting participation in the Surface Transportation Project Delivery Program (Program). This Program allows for FHWA to assign, and States to assume, responsibilities under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and all or part of FHWA's responsibilities for environmental review, consultation, or other actions required under any Federal environmental law with respect to one or more Federal highway projects within the State.
Learn More🌫️Air Plan Approval in Texas and Oklahoma
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is extending the comment period for the proposed rule "Air Plan Approval; Texas and Oklahoma; Texas Regional Haze Plans for the First and Second Implementation Periods and Five-Year Progress Report; Oklahoma Regional Haze Plan for the First Implementation Period" that was published on May 23, 2025. The proposal provided for a public comment period ending June 23, 2025. The EPA is extending the comment period to July 23, 2025.
Learn More🌉Presidential Permit for Laredo Border Crossing Expansion
The presidential permit authorizes the City of Laredo, Texas, to expand and operate a vehicular border crossing at the Laredo-Colombia Solidarity International Bridge. It outlines construction and operational standards, environmental mitigation measures, and compliance requirements. The permit also stipulates conditions and obligations related to federal oversight and indemnification.
Learn More💧EPA Considers Approval of Texas Class VI UIC Program
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) has received a complete Underground Injection Control (UIC) program revision application from the State of Texas, requesting primary enforcement responsibility (primacy) for Class VI injection wells under Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) section 1422. The EPA's approval would allow the Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) to issue and enforce compliance with UIC Class VI permits for injection wells used for geologic carbon sequestration. In this action, the EPA proposes to approve Texas' application to implement the UIC program for Class VI injection wells located within the State, except those on Indian lands.
Learn More🏭EPA Finalizes Hazardous Waste Delisting for WRB Refinery
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is granting a petition submitted by WRB Refining in Borger, Texas to exclude (or "delist") 7,000 cubic yards of F037 (petroleum refinery sludge) solids to be removed from their stormwater storage tanks for a one-time delisting. This determination is based on information the petitioner provided to the Agency, completion of sampling, and risk assessment using the Delisting Risk Assessment Software (DRAS) to determine whether the waste poses a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported or disposed of, or otherwise managed. This final rule responds to a petition submitted by WRB Refinery to exclude stormwater solids from the definition of a hazardous waste. If not delisted, the stormwater solids are listed as F037 (primary oil/water/solids separation sludge). After careful analysis of the petition and evaluation of comments submitted by the public, the EPA has concluded that the petitioned waste is not hazardous waste when disposed of in Subtitle D landfills. This exclusion applies to the stormwater solids generated at WRB Refinery Borger, Texas facility. Accordingly, this final rule excludes the petitioned waste from the requirements of hazardous waste regulations under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) when disposed of in a Subtitle D landfill but imposes testing conditions to ensure that the future-generated waste remain qualified for delisting.
Learn More🛩️Noise Compatibility Program Update for Laredo International Airport
The Federal Aviation Administration published a document in the Federal Register of April 3, 2025, notifying the public of the approval of the noise compatibility program at Laredo International Airport (LRD). The document contained references to an incorrect date for City of Laredo noise exposure maps (NEM) submittal.
Learn More🌉Presidential Permit for Green Corridors Border Crossing in Texas
The regulatory document authorizes Green Corridors, LLC to build and operate a commercial elevated guideway border crossing at the U.S.-Mexico border in Laredo, Texas. It outlines conditions for construction, maintenance, compliance with federal regulations, and environmental mitigation measures, emphasizing the necessity of coordination with relevant authorities for successful implementation.
Learn More🌬️EPA Proposes Approval of Texas SIP for Sulfur Dioxide Standards
Pursuant to the Federal Clean Air Act (CAA or the Act), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve the portion of the State Implementation Plan (SIP) submittal from the State of Texas demonstrating that the State satisfies the interstate transport requirements, also known as the "good neighbor" provision of the Clean Air Act, for the 2010 1-hour sulfur dioxide (SO<INF>2</INF>) primary National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS). The good neighbor provision requires each State's implementation plan to contain adequate provisions prohibiting the interstate transport of air pollution in amounts that will contribute significantly to nonattainment, or interfere with maintenance, of a NAAQS in any other State.
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