If you work at an industrial facility in Texas, make sure the person in charge of environmental compliance at your facility has made a new storm water filing with the Texas Commission for Environmental Quality (TCEQ) recently. Manufacturing plants must renew this filing every five years. While the due date is November 14, 2016; there will be a 90 day grace period for filing (before your past filing expires).

Your facility can make a storm water filing on-line with credit card (for $100) or with paper and mail (for $200). Many of our clients are able to file the Storm Water "No Exposure Certification" (abbreviated NEC). The paper NEC application is only a couple of pages.

If your plant is able to keep all chemicals, products, industrial dusts, paper scrap, compressor blow-down, oils, trash, etc. under roof or inside (where materials & contaminates can't be carried off with rain water into the environment) your facility would likely be eligible to file for a Storm Water No Exposure Certification.

If an individual at your company made storm water filings on-line in the past, they already have a STEERS account with TCEQ.  If you want to file on-line but do not have an account yet, go to the TCEQ STEERS ePermit webpage to create an account.

If you want to file using paper and mail, the form is available on-line as follows:
* Form number 10383 if filing a Storm Water NEC
* Form number 10382 if updating your "storm water pollution prevention plan" (SWP3) and filing for a new general Storm Water Notice of Intent (NOI) permit for industrial facilities.