EPA Awards More Than $18 million to TCEQ for Environmental Programs

The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $18,609,238 to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s Performance Partnership Grant (PPG) to assist in administering Texas’s environmental quality programs. TCEQ’s environmental programs aim to prevent, reduce, and eliminate water, solid waste, air, and pesticide pollution through standard-setting, monitoring, permitting and enforcement activities.

Additional information on EPA’s Performance Partnership Grants: http://www.epa.gov/water/PPG/ppgguide.html

More about activities in EPA Region 6: http://www.epa.gov/region6

An EPA audio file is available at http://www.epa.gov/region6/6xa/audio.htm#audio021709_tceq_ppg