What permits and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) compliance will be required for this project?
All permitting will be attained prior to issuing construction contracts. The project team will be attaining Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Army Corp of Engineers, Fish & Wildlife, and Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), whom administers NEPA requirements in Texas via the Texas Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (TPDES), permits and any others required during the commission phase of the project. The State of Texas assumed the authority to administer the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) program in Texas on September 14, 1998. NPDES is a federal regulatory program to control discharges of pollutants to surface waters of the United States. The TCEQ Texas Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (TPDES) program now has federal regulatory authority over discharges of pollutants to Texas surface water, with the exception of discharges associated with oil, gas, and geothermal exploration and development activities, which are regulated by the
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