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ARANSAS AND REFUGIO COUNTY RESIDENTS – YOU SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED NOTICE

Quick Guide | Request for Reconsideration

We encourage ALL ARANSAS AND REFUGIO COUNTY residents with concerns about the Exxon/Saudi project affecting their counties to use this opportunity to submit a Request for Reconsideration.  You should have been given Notice of the Application and Preliminary Decision [to issue a permit]. You were not.

Submitting a Request for Reconsideration to the TCEQ is very easy and should take no longer than 5 minutes of your time.  We have even provided a sample letter that you may copy and paste.

  1. GCGV’s Industrial Wastewater Permit – Permit Number WQ0005228000
  2. Request for Reconsideration is NOT limited to 1 per household.  Each member of your family can submit a Request for Reconsideration.

Step 1: Visit http://www14.tceq.texas.gov/epic/eComment/.
Enter the Permit Number: WQ0005228000 and click “Next”. This is the Water Quality Permit.  

 

 

Step 2: Fill out the form with your personal information and your Request for Reconsideration.
The box labeled Comments is where you should input your Request for Reconsideration.

You may copy and paste the following Request for Reconsideration. Just fill in your information AND County.  If desired, you may also submit your Request for Reconsideration as an attached file.

We have marked the items in red that should contain your information. 

NOTE: You MUST fill in Your Name, Address, and Telephone Number twice.  Once in the form’s labeled boxes and again in the “Comment” box as part of your request.  Also please be sure to replace the “BLANK” with Aransas or Refugio in the 2nd sentence!  

 

Request for Reconsideration

GCGV Asset Holding LLC

TPDES Permit No. WQ0005228000

My name is:

My address is:

My daytime telephone number is:

I am hereby requesting reconsideration of the decision of the Executive Director issued on April 9, 2018.  The decision must be reconsidered because I am a resident of  ___________________  County and the Notice of Application and Preliminary Decision (NAPD) issued in October 2017 was not published in a newspaper regularly published or circulated in my county.  My county is clearly affected by the discharge of industrial stormwater into Copano/Mission/Port Bays and I and other residents should have, and could have, been informed of the application had proper notice been issued.  I was shocked to learn of the application only through social media and word of mouth.  There was no time or opportunity to fully consider the application before the period for public comment expired.      

These bays are important to residential, commercial and recreational interests.  It is also a watershed of high priority where the whooping crane and other endangered and threatened aquatic-dependent species are present.  Not only are residents invested in the protection of these species and their continued recovery, the local economy thrives on birding, and other tourism generated from the unique ecosystem of the area.

There having been no notice published in my county, the NAPD is defective and must be re-issued to afford me and other residents the opportunity to comment, request a public meeting or request a contested case hearing.  Furthermore, the application and all relevant documents should be made available in a public place in my county so that I and other residents may be fully informed.

 

 

When finished click “Submit to TCEQ”.

 

All finished!  

You can also submit Request for Reconsideration via mail, hand-delivery, or fax.  The following has been copied from the TCEQ website.

“Please include a TCEQ permit  you mail, hand-deliver, or fax comments on a pending permit application. Submit your comments using one of the options below:

Mail to:
Office of the Chief Clerk, MC 105
TCEQ
PO Box 13087
Austin, TX 78711-3087

Courier or hand-deliver to:
Office of the Chief Clerk
TCEQ
12100 Park 35 Circle, Bldg F
Austin, TX 78753

Fax to:
512-239-3311*
*Note: If you fax your filing, you must mail or hand-deliver the original document and the appropriate number of copies to the Office of the Chief Clerk within three business days.”