Depicts locations of designated hazardous materials routes on the roadway network in North Central Texas. Significantly revised by TR GIS staff in January 2022.

This map has been prepared by the Texas Department of Transportation. This feature layer is for the upkeep of the Non-Radioactive Hazardous Materials routes. State law requires a municipality with a population of more than 850,000 to develop a route for commercial motor vehicles carrying NRHM on a road or highway in the municipality and to submit the proposed route to TxDOT for approval. Routes are either Prohibited, Through Routing, Local Routing only, Gas & Diesel Routing only, or routes that have special provisions. Rules for NRHM routing are contained in the Texas Administrative Code under Title 43, Sections 25.101-25.104. Accuracy is limited to the validity of data as of dates shown. Cities and Counties Covered:City CountyAmarillo AngelinaBeaumont BellBrenham BexarCenter BrazoriaConroe CameronCrockett ChambersDallas CollinDeer Park ComalDickinson DallasEdinburg EctorEl Paso El PasoFort Worth FayetteGalveston Fort BendHarlingen GalvestonHempstead HarrisHouston HidalgoLa Grange HoustonLa Marque JeffersonLaredo LamarLeague City LubbockLubbock MidlandLufkin MontgomeryMansfield NacogdochesMidland PotterMont Belvieu RandallNacogdoches ShelbyNew Braunfels TarrantOdessa Tom GreenParis VictoriaPearland WallerRosenberg WashingtonSan Angelo WebbSan Antonio Santa Fe Stafford TempleTexas CityVictoria

This data layer can be used for a variety of purposes, including: the plotting of IHWCA sites on maps; utilization by field personnel; and performing spatial analysis on how the sites affect their surroundings. The purpose of the industrial and hazardous waste corrective action program is to oversee the cleanup of sites with soil and groundwater contamination from industrial and municipal hazardous and industrial non-hazardous wastes. The goal is to assure that the public and the environment is not exposed to harmful levels of chemicals by requiring assessment, mitigation and/or removal of the contamination to levels protective of human health and the environment. The program currently handles the regulatory oversight of cleanup actions at over 1000 facilities in Texas. Facilities conducting cleanup actions in the program range from large scale facilities conducting complex cleanup actions at multiple waste management units and areas of concern pursuant to RCRA Permits and/or enforcement action orders (e.g. military installations, operating petrochemical refineries, etc.) to small scale commercial facilities conducting waste management unit closure actions and response actions at their facility.Facilities entering the corrective action program are comprised of the following: Remediation at facilities with industrial and hazardous waste permits which have released hazardous contaminants to the environmental media from RCRA regulated units. This program is implemented via the Compliance Plan section of the IHW Permit or corrective action obligations incorporated into a Post Closure Care Order. Remediation of environmental media which are contaminated by releases from Solid Waste Management Units (HSWA corrective action). This program is also implemented via the Compliance Plan section of the IHW Permit. Note: In both scenarios discussed above, the program also functions in a supportive role to the Waste Permits Section on the processing of renewal, amendment and/or modification applications associated with all Compliance Plans and Post Closure Care Orders. Closure/Remediation of Interim Status RCRA Units, Industrial Solid Waste Management Units, Wastewater Treatment Units, and Municipal Hazardous Waste Landfills. Remediation of sites which conduct the corrective action programs through Enforcement Orders (these could include both RCRA and non-RCRA sites). With respect to enforcement related issues, the program also functions in a supportive role to the Enforcement Division and Office of Legal Services. Remediation of sites which conduct corrective action in accordance with the existing regulations without an Enforcement Order. Remediation of contaminated sites at Federal Facilities. This program is administered under the Department of Defense and State Memorandum of Agreement (DSMOA). Facilities pursuing land revitalization efforts and/or beneficial reuse of their property via the Texas Ready for Reuse (RfR) Program. The Industrial and Hazardous Waste Corrective Action Program web URL is: (https://www.tceq.texas.gov/remediation/corrective_action/ihwca.html).

This CD-ROM product from the NOAA National Ocean Service Hazardous Materials Response and Assessment Division contains the Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI) data for the upper Texas coast. ESI data characterize estuarine environments and wildlife by their sensitivity to spilled oil. The ESI data include information for three main components: shoreline habitats, sensitive biological resources, and human-use resources. This data set contains hydrology data.

The ESI data were collected, mapped, and digitized to provide environmental data for oil spill planning and response. The Clean Water Act with amendments by the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 requires response plans for immediate and effective protection of sensitive resources.

All maps on this CD-ROM product are in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format.

Cleanups of contamination caused by spills, leaks, or other releases of petroleum substances or hazardous substances from regulated underground and aboveground storage tanks.

This data layer can be used for a variety of purposes, including: the plotting of BSA sites on maps; utilization by field personnel; and performing spatial analysis on how the sites affect their surroundings. There are several aspects of the Brownfields Program, all of which begin with the EPA providing funding for Petroleum and/or Hazardous Waste assessments and/or cleanups. This is outlined in the Memorandum of Agreement between the EPA and TCEQ. The EPA provides funding directly for voluntary cleanup programs to approved state agencies. In Texas, this money goes to the Railroad Commission (RRC) and TCEQ.Brownfields are properties that may have hazardous substances, pollutants or contaminants present. EPA’s Brownfields Program provides grants and technical assistance to communities, states, cities, local governments, nonprofit organizations, regional councils of government, tribes and others to assess, safely clean up and sustainably reuse these contaminated properties. Cleaning up and reinvesting in brownfields protects human health and the environment, reduces blight, and takes development pressures off greenspaces and working lands. The TCEQ offers technical advice and education, through its relationship with the EPA, for some brownfields redevelopment projects where local government is supporting or playing a key role. The TCEQ will assess eligible sites and accept applications as long as resources are available. The Brownfields Site Assessments Program web URL is: (https://www.tceq.texas.gov/remediation/bsa).

According to the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission's Municipal Solid Waste regulations (30 TAC § 330.951), the definition of a closed municipal solid waste landfill is as follows:A discrete area of land or an excavation that has received only municipal solid waste or municipal solid waste combined with other solid wastes, including but not limited to construction/demolition waste, commercial solid waste, nonhazardous sludge, conditionally exempt small-quantity generator hazardous waste, and industrial solid waste, and that is not a land application unit, surface impoundment, injection well, or waste pit as those terms are now defined by 40 CFR § 257.2 (EPA Regulations).Under § 363.064 (a)(10) of the Texas Health and Safety Code, as amended by Senate Bill 1447, 76th Texas Legislature, all Councils of Governments are required to compile an inventory of closed municipal solid waste landfill units. Per the statutory provisions, the inventory is to include:a. Landfill units no longer in operationb. The exact boundaries of each former landfill unit or, if the exact boundaries are not known, the best approximation of each unit's boundariesc. A map showing the approximate boundaries of each former landfill unit, if the exact boundaries are not knownd. The current owners of the land on which the former landfill units were locatede. The current use of the landThe data collection was conducted by ATCOG staff. Based of this data a map depicting each landfill unit and its boundaries was produced. The site history, ownership information, current land use, and a narrative description of the location of each landfill are also included in the inventory. The minimum required components of the inventory, as required by the TNRCC, are listed below.An appendix is included in the Closed Landfill Inventory containing changes to the TNRCC database.All maps and supporting information are derived from the best available public records and many times they are only estimations. No claims are made as to the positional accuracy or completeness of the data or its suitability for a particular purpose.Once the compilation of the Inventory was complete public meetings were held on November 13, 2001, in Paris, November 19, 2001, in Texarkana, November 28, 2001 in Linden, and November 29, 2001 in Mt. Pleasant. No public comments were received at any meeting. The Solid Waste Advisory Committee met on January 17, 2002 and approved the Inventory and formally adopted the document as an amendment to the Regional Solid Waste Plan. The Executive Committee of ATCOG officially accepted this approval on January 31, 2002.For more information, visit https://atcog.org/Open Data Portal Homepage: https://open-data-portal-atcog.hub.arcgis.com/

According to the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission's Municipal Solid Waste regulations (30 TAC § 330.951), the definition of a closed municipal solid waste landfill is as follows:A discrete area of land or an excavation that has received only municipal solid waste or municipal solid waste combined with other solid wastes, including but not limited to construction/demolition waste, commercial solid waste, nonhazardous sludge, conditionally exempt small-quantity generator hazardous waste, and industrial solid waste, and that is not a land application unit, surface impoundment, injection well, or waste pit as those terms are now defined by 40 CFR § 257.2 (EPA Regulations).Under § 363.064 (a)(10) of the Texas Health and Safety Code, as amended by Senate Bill 1447, 76th Texas Legislature, all Councils of Governments are required to compile an inventory of closed municipal solid waste landfill units. Per the statutory provisions, the inventory is to include:a. Landfill units no longer in operationb. The exact boundaries of each former landfill unit or, if the exact boundaries are not known, the best approximation of each unit's boundariesc. A map showing the approximate boundaries of each former landfill unit, if the exact boundaries are not knownd. The current owners of the land on which the former landfill units were locatede. The current use of the landThe data collection was conducted by ATCOG staff. Based of this data a map depicting each landfill unit and its boundaries was produced. The site history, ownership information, current land use, and a narrative description of the location of each landfill are also included in the inventory. The minimum required components of the inventory, as required by the TNRCC, are listed below.An appendix is included in the Closed Landfill Inventory containing changes to the TNRCC database.All maps and supporting information are derived from the best available public records and many times they are only estimations. No claims are made as to the positional accuracy or completeness of the data or its suitability for a particular purpose.Once the compilation of the Inventory was complete public meetings were held on November 13, 2001, in Paris, November 19, 2001, in Texarkana, November 28, 2001 in Linden, and November 29, 2001 in Mt. Pleasant. No public comments were received at any meeting. The Solid Waste Advisory Committee met on January 17, 2002 and approved the Inventory and formally adopted the document as an amendment to the Regional Solid Waste Plan. The Executive Committee of ATCOG officially accepted this approval on January 31, 2002.For more information, visit https://atcog.org/Open Data Portal Homepage: https://open-data-portal-atcog.hub.arcgis.com/