Daily News Update, Jan. 9, 2008

EPA awards over $2 million to TCEQ water quality program

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $2.02 million to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) to administer the state's base water quality program under their Performance Partnership Grant.

TCEQ's program aims to prevent, reduce, and eliminate water pollution through standard-setting, monitoring, permitting and enforcement activities. The funding will also assist in administering the state's environmental management programs which monitor, abate, and control hazardous and solid waste, air pollution and pesticides.