State law requires the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
to prepare an electronic enforcement report by December 1 each year
that reports on the enforcement actions for each type of regulatory
program in the agency.
This year's report is provided as an Adobe Portable Document
Format (PDF) file (help with PDF
) and includes the information listed below for the current fiscal
year as well as the preceding five fiscal years.
This enforcement report contains statistical indicators and a
comparative analysis for the following enforcement related
activities:
- number of investigations and complaints by program and
region;
- number of notices of violation issued by program and
region;
- number and type of enforcement actions and lists of each action
denoting the regulated entity name and location by county and
region;
- amount of penalties assessed, deferred, and required to be paid
to General Revenue;
- supplemental environmental project costs, offsets, and
descriptions;
- number and percentage of enforcement actions issued to persons
who previously have committed the same or similar violations;
- number and percentage of enforcement orders issued to entities
that have been the subject of a previous enforcement order;
- classification of violations as major, moderate, or minor;
- most frequently cited rules/statutes in enforcement
actions;
- emissions events; and
- other information which the Commission deems relevant,
including information on the results of enforcement actions (i.e.,
environmental benefit, pollutant reductions, etc.).
