Texas Superfund Registry
Published October 10, 2008 ( 33 TexReg 8608-8610)

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) is required under the Texas Solid Waste Disposal Act, Texas Health and Safety Code (THSC), Chapter 361 to identify, to the extent feasible, and evaluate facilities which may constitute an imminent and substantial endangerment to public health and safety or to the environment due to a release or threatened release of hazardous substances into the environment. The first registry identifying these sites was published in the January 16, 1987 issue of the Texas Register (12 TexReg 205). In accordance with THSC, §361.181, the commission must update the state Superfund registry annually to add new facilities proposed for listing in accordance with THSC, §361.184(a) and §361.188(a)(1) (see also 30 Texas Administrative Code (TAC) §335.343) or to delete facilities in accordance with THSC §361.189 (see also 30 (TAC) §335.344). The current notice also includes facilities where state Superfund action has ended, or where cleanup is being adequately addressed by other means.

In accordance with THSC, §361.188, the state Superfund registry identifying those facilities that are listed and have been determined to pose an imminent and substantial endangerment in descending order of hazard ranking system (HRS) scores are as follows.

  1. Col-Tex Refinery. Located on both sides of Business Interstate 20 (U.S. 80) in Colorado City, Mitchell County: tank farm and refinery.
  2. J. C. Pennco Waste Oil Service. Located at 4927 Higdon Road, San Antonio, Bexar County: waste oil and used drum recycling.
  3. Precision Machine and Supply. Located at 500 West Olive Street, Odessa, Ector County: chrome plating and machine shop.
  4. Sonics International, Inc. Located north of Farm Road 101, approximately two miles west of Ranger, Eastland County: industrial waste injection wells.
  5. Maintech International. Located at 8300 Old Ferry Road, Port Arthur, Jefferson County: chemical cleaning and equipment hydroblasting.
  6. Federated Metals. Located at 9200 Market Street, Houston, Harris County: magnesium dross/sludge disposal, inactive landfill.
  7. Niagara Chemical. Located west of the intersection of Commerce Street and Adams Avenue, Harlingen, Cameron County: pesticide formulation.
  8. International Creosoting. Located at 1110 Pine Street, Beaumont, Jefferson County: wood treatment.
  9. McBay Oil & Gas. Located approximately three miles northwest of Grapeland on Farm Road 1272, Houston County: oil refinery and oil reclamation plant.
  10. Materials Recovery Enterprises. Located about four miles southwest of Ovalo, near U.S. Highway 83 and Farm Road 604, Taylor County: Class I industrial waste management.
  11. Toups. Located on the west side of Texas 326, 2.1 miles north of its intersection with Texas 105, in Sour Lake, Hardin County: fencepost treating facility and municipal waste.
  12. Harris Sand Pits. Located at 23340 South Texas 16, approximately 10.5 miles south of San Antonio at Von Ormy, Bexar County: commercial sand and clay pit.
  13. JCS Company. Located north of Phalba on County Road 2415, approximately 1.5 miles west of the intersection of County Road 2403 and Texas 198, Van Zandt County: lead-acid battery recycling.
  14. Jerrell B. Thompson Battery. Located north of Phalba on County Road 2410, approximately one mile north of the intersection of County Road 2410 and Texas 198, Van Zandt County: lead-acid battery recycling.
  15. Spector Salvage Yard. Located at Jackson Avenue and Tenth Street, Orange, Orange County: military surplus and chemical salvage yard.
  16. Hayes-Sammons Warehouse. Located at Miller Avenue and East Eighth Street, Mission, Hidalgo County: commercial grade pesticide storage.
  17. Jensen Drive Scrap. Located at 3603 Jensen Drive, Houston, Harris County: scrap salvage.
  18. State Highway 123 PCE Plume. Located near the intersection of State Highway 123 and Interstate Highway 35 (IH-35) in San Marcos, Hays County: contaminated groundwater plume.
  19. Baldwin Waste Oil Company. Located on County Road 44 approximately 0.1 mile west of its intersection with Farm Road 1889, Robstown, Nueces County: waste oil processing.
  20. Hall Street. Located north of the intersection of 20th Street East and California Street, north of the Dickinson city limits, Galveston County: waste disposal and landfill/open field dumping.
  21. Unnamed Plating. Located at 6816 - 6824 Industrial Avenue, El Paso, El Paso County: metals processing and recovery.
  22. Tricon America, Inc. Located at 101 East Hampton Road, Crowley, Tarrant County: aluminum and zinc smelting and casting.

In accordance with THSC, §361.181, those facilities that may pose an imminent and substantial endangerment, and which have been proposed to the state Superfund registry, are set out in descending order of hazard ranking system (HRS) scores as follows.

  1. Kingsland. Located in the vicinity of the 2100 and 2400 blocks of Farm to Market Road 1431, in the community of Kingsland, Llano County: two groundwater plumes.
  2. First Quality Cylinders. Located at 931 West Laurel Street, San Antonio, Bexar County: aircraft cylinder rebuilder.
  3. Rogers Delinted Cottonseed - Colorado City. Located near the intersection of Interstate Highway 20 and State Highway 208 in Colorado City, Mitchell County: former cottonseed delinting, processing.
  4. ArChem Thames/Chelsea. Located at 13013 Conklin Lane, Houston, Harris County: chemical manufacturing and recycling.
  5. Industrial Road/Industrial Metals. Located at 3000 Agnes Street, Corpus Christi, Nueces County: lead acid battery recycling and copper coil salvage.
  6. Tenaha Wood Treating. Located at 275 County Road 4382, about a mile and a half south of the city limits and near the intersection of U.S. Highway 96 and County Road 4382, Tenaha, Shelby County: wood treatment.
  7. Poly-Cycle Industries, Inc., Tecula. Located northeast of Tecula on the southeast corner of the intersection of Farm to Market Road 2064 and County Road 4216, Cherokee County: lead acid battery recycling.
  8. Sherman Foundry. Located at 532 E. King Street in south central Sherman, Grayson County: cast iron foundry.
  9. Process Instrumentation and Electrical - PIE. Located at the northwest corner of 48th Street and Andrews Highway (Highway 385) in Odessa, Ector County: Chromium Plating
  10. James Barr Facility. Located in the 3300 block of Industrial Road, Pearland, Brazoria County: vacuum truck waste storage facility.
  11. Pioneer Oil and Refining Company. Located at 20280 South Payne Road, outside of Somerset, Bexar County: oil refinery.
  12. Voda Petroleum Inc. Located at 211 Duncan Street, Clarksville City, Gregg County: waste oil recycling facility.
  13. Force Road Oil and Vacuum Truck Company. Located at 1722 County Road 573 (Alloy Road), approximately 1,300 feet east of the Brazoria-Fort Bend County Line, Brazoria County: oily wastewater disposal and oil recovery facility.
  14. Marshall Wood Preserving. Located at 2700 West Houston Street, Marshall, Harrison County: wood treatment.
  15. Avinger Development Company (ADCO). Located on the south side of Texas State Highway155, approximately one quarter mile east of the intersection with Texas State Highway 49, Avinger, Cass County: wood treatment.
  16. Hu-Mar Chemicals. Located north of McGothlin Road, between the old Southern Pacific Railroad tracks and 12th Street, Palacios, Matagorda County: pesticide and herbicide formulation.
  17. American Zinc. Located approximately 3.5 miles north of Dumas on U.S. 287 and five miles east on Farm Road 119, Moore County: zinc smelter.
  18. El Paso Plating Works. Located at 2422 Wyoming Avenue, El Paso, El Paso County: metal plating.
  19. Ballard Pits. Located at the end of Ballard Lane, west of its intersection with County Road 73 approximately 5.8 miles north of Robstown, Nueces County: storage and disposal of hazardous substances.
  20. Cass County Wood Treating. Located at 304 Hall Street within the southeastern city limits of Linden, Cass County: wood treatment.
  21. San Angelo Electric Service Company (SESCO). Located at 926 Pulliam Street in a residential area of northeastern San Angelo, Tom Green County: electric transformer recycling.
  22. Tucker Oil Refinery/Clinton Manges Oil & Refining Company. Located on the east side of U.S. Highway 79 in the rural community of Tucker, Anderson County: oil refinery.
  23. Bailey Metal Processors, Inc.. Located one mile northwest of Brady on Highway 87, McCulloch County: scrap metal dealer, primarily conducting copper and lead reclamation.
  24. City View Road Groundwater Plume. Located northwest of the intersection of Interstate Highway 20 and State Highway 158, Midland County: groundwater contamination plume.
  25. Mineral Wool Insulation Mfg. Co..Located on Shaw Road at the northwest corner of the city limits of Rogers, Bell County: mineral wool manufacturing.
  26. Woodward Industries, Inc., Nacogdoches County. Located on County Road 816, about 6 miles north of the city of Nacogdoches in Nacogdoches County: wood treating.

Since the last Texas Register publication on October 5, 2007 (32 TexReg 7120), the TCEQ has determined that one facility, Process Instrumentation and Electrical - PIE, Ector County, may pose an imminent and substantial endangerment to public health and safety or the environment, and pursuant to THSC, §361.184(a) has been added to the list of sites proposed to the state Superfund registry.  No additional sites were proposed to the state Superfund registry.

Also, the commission has determined that two sites, Hicks Field Sewer Corp., Tarrant County and Shelby Wood Specialty, Inc., Shelby County no longer pose an imminent and substantial endangerment to public health or the environment and have been deleted pursuant to 30 TAC §335.344(c).  Shelby Wood Specialty, Inc., Shelby County was referred to the Voluntary Cleanup program.

To date, 46 sites have been deleted from the state Superfund registry in accordance with THSC, §361.189 (see also THSC §361.183(a) and 30 TAC §335.344):

  1. Aluminum Finishing Company, Harris County;
  2. Aztec Ceramics, Bexar County;
  3. Aztec Mercury, Brazoria County;
  4. Barlow's Wills Point Plating, Van Zandt County;
  5. Bestplate Inc., Dallas County;
  6. Butler Ranch, Karnes County;
  7. Cox Road Dump Site, Liberty County,
  8. Crimm-Hammett, Rusk County;
  9. Dorchester Refining Company, Titus County;
  10. Double R Plating Company, Cass County;
  11. Gulf Metals Industries, Harris County;
  12. Hagerson Road Drum, Fort Bend County;
  13. Harkey Road, Brazoria County;
  14. Hart Creosoting, Jasper County;
  15. Harvey Industries, Inc, Henderson County;
  16. Hick Field Sewer Corp, Tarrant County
  17. Hi-Yield, Hunt County;
  18. Higgins Wood Preserving, Angelina County;
  19. Houston Lead, Harris County;
  20. Houston Scrap, Harris County;
  21. Kingsbury Metal Finishing, Guadalupe County;
  22. LaPata Oil Company, Harris County;
  23. Lyon Property, Kimble County;
  24. McNabb Flying Service, Brazoria County;
  25. Melton Kelly Property, Navarro County;
  26. Munoz Borrow Pits, Hidalgo County;
  27. Newton Wood Preserving, Newton County;
  28. Old Lufkin Creosoting, Angelina County;
  29. Permian Chemical, Ector County;
  30. Phipps Plating, Bexar County;
  31. PIP Minerals, Liberty County;
  32. Poly-Cycle Industries, Ellis County;
  33. Poly-Cycle Industries, Jacksonville, Cherokee County;
  34. Rio Grande Refinery I, Hardin County;
  35. Rio Grande Refinery II, Hardin County;
  36. Rogers Delinted Cottonseed - Farmersville, Collin County;
  37. Sampson Horrice, Dallas County ;
  38. Shelby Wood Specialty Inc.,Shelby County;
  39. Solvent Recovery Services, Fort Bend County;
  40. South Texas Solvents, Nueces County;
  41. State Marine, Jefferson County;
  42. Stoller Chemical Company, Hale County;
  43. Texas American Oil, Ellis County;
  44. Thompson Hayward Chemical, Knox County;
  45. Waste Oil Tank Services, Harris County;
  46. Wortham Lead Salvage, Henderson County.

The public records for each of the sites are available for inspection and copying during regular TCEQ business hours at the TCEQ Records Management Center, Building E, North Entrance, 12100 Park 35 Circle, Austin, Texas 78753, (800) 633-9363 or (512) 239-2920. Handicapped parking is available on the east side of Building D, convenient to access ramps that are located between Buildings D and E. There is no charge for viewing the files, however use of copiers to reproduce file information is subject to payment of a fee.

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