Texas Industrial and Hazardous Waste Corrective Action Program

The Industrial and Hazardous Waste Corrective Action Program of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) oversees the cleanup of sites contaminated by industrial and municipal hazardous waste and industrial nonhazardous waste. It also verifies that waste management units and facilities are taken out of service and closed properly.

In a Phase I ESA

This is the Texas record of cleanups and unit closures at industrial and hazardous waste facilities. It sits beside the federal corrective action records described on the RCRA CORRACTS page. ASTM E1527-21 lists state hazardous waste facility records among its standard sources. This handbook does not pair a single Texas list with that type; this is one of the Texas records that bear on it. The distances the standard sets for each kind of record are on the search distances page.

Three Texas details shape how to read a corrective action record.

• Closure and cleanup are different things. TCEQ uses closure to mean taking a waste management unit out of service. A cleanup addresses contaminated soil or groundwater. A record can be one, the other, or both. TCEQ's own first question for any project is which of the two is being done.
• Most of these facilities have no permit. TCEQ says most facilities subject to its industrial and hazardous waste rules are not required to have a hazardous waste permit or compliance plan. The program covers permitted facilities, non-permitted facilities and federal facilities.
• The standard depends on the date. Cleanup goals come from the 1993 Risk Reduction Standards or from the current Texas Risk Reduction Program rules, which took effect in 1999, depending on the date of initial notification. Check which standard a closure was measured against before relying on it.

For non-permitted facilities, TCEQ gives these examples of how a cleanup or closure arises: contamination from waste management, a spill, the closure of a waste management unit, or an enforcement action. Where enforcement is involved, the enforcement document carries site-specific requirements on top of the rules.

The governing rules are 30 Texas Administrative Code Chapter 335. Federal requirements in 40 Code of Federal Regulations Parts 264 or 265 may also apply. The current cleanup standards are in 30 Texas Administrative Code Chapter 350.

Where to look a site up

• TCEQ's Central Registry query includes a search for IHW corrective action facilities.
• TCEQ's Remediation Documents Search Portal shows receipt and submittal data for the last five years of incoming and outgoing documents for this program and four other cleanup programs.

Getting the file

TCEQ offers three routes to its records: TCEQ Records Online for records already scanned, an email to the Central File Room (cfrreq@tceq.texas.gov) to view or copy paper and microform records, and a Public Information Request for records that are not available through the file room or that contain confidential information.

Sources

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality pages, read September 30, 2026:

• Industrial and Hazardous Waste Corrective Action Program, last modified July 13, 2026.
• Cleanups and Closures at Non-Permitted Facilities, last modified March 19, 2026.
• Waste Management Permit Applications, Permits, Registrations, and Facilities, last modified July 17, 2026.
• Remediation: Cleaning up Contaminated Sites, last modified March 18, 2026.
• Access Records from our Central File Room, last modified July 17, 2026.