Governing Law and Regulations
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) Office of Compliance and Enforcement
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 6
See ADDRESSES & CONTACTS for addresses and telephone numbers.
See national section for basic information and federal regulations.
Comparison: State vs. Federal
• Rules. Texas has adopted the federal rules for identifying and classifying hazardous waste, including the federal conditional exclusions from the definitions of solid and hazardous waste as they apply to cathode-ray tubes and solvent-contaminated wipes, the hazardous waste exclusion for carbon dioxide streams in geologic sequestration activities, and the solid waste exclusion for hazardous secondary materials, known as the 2015 Definition of Solid Waste rule.
However, unlike the federal rules, the state categorizes hazardous waste as either "hazardous industrial waste" or "municipal hazardous waste." In addition, Texas ...