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Texas State Affordable Housing Corporation

Notice of Public Hearing

TEXAS STATE AFFORDABLE HOUSING CORPORATION MULTIFAMILY HOUSING REVENUE BONDS (WHAC ALLIANCE DEVELOPMENT) SERIES 2001

Notice is hereby given of a public hearing to be held by the Texas State Affordable Housing Corporation (the "Issuer") on June 8, 2001 at 12:00 p.m., at the Freeman Memorial Library, 16602 Diana Lane, Houston, Texas 77062, with respect to an issue of multifamily housing revenue bonds (the "Bonds") to be issued by the Issuer in one or more series in the aggregate amount not to exceed $130,000,000, the proceeds of which will be loaned to WHAC Alliance LLC, an Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3) corporation, to finance the acquisition and rehabilitation of nine separate multifamily housing projects (collectively, the "Projects") located in the cities of Amarillo, Austin, Corpus Christi, Houston, Lubbock, San Antonio, Temple, and Webster, Texas. The public hearing, which is the subject of this notice, will concern the Baystone Apartments containing 290 units, located at 800 W. Nasa Road 1, Webster, Texas 77598. The Projects will be owned by WHAC Alliance LLC.

All interested parties are invited to attend such public hearing to express their views with respect to the Projects and the issuance of the Bonds. Questions or request for additional information may be direct to Daniel C. Owen at the Texas State Affordable Housing Corporation, 1715 West 35th Street, Austin, Texas 78703; 1-888-638-3555 ext. 404.

Persons who intend to appear at the hearing and express their views are invited to contact Daniel C. Owen in writing in advance of the hearing. Any interested persons unable to attend the hearing may submit their views in writing to Daniel C. Owen prior to the date scheduled for the hearing.

Individuals who require auxiliary aids in order to attend this meeting should contact Glenda Houchin David, ADA Responsible Employee, at 1-888-638-3555, ext. 417 through Relay Texas at 1-800-735-2989 at least two days before the meeting so that appropriate arrangements can be made.

Individuals who require child care to be provided at this meeting should contact Glenda Houchin David at 1-888-638-3555, ext. 417, at least five days before the meeting so that appropriate arrangements can be made.

Individuals may transmit written testimony or comments regarding the subject matter of this public hearing to Daniel Owen at dowen@tsahc.com.

TRD-200102588

Daniel C. Owen

Vice President

Texas State Affordable Housing Corporation

Filed: May 8, 2001

Texas Department of Agriculture

Notice of Public Hearings

The Texas Department of Agriculture (the department) will hold public hearings to take public comment on proposed amendments to §20.1 and §20.3, the repeal of §20.2 and §§20.10 - 20.14, and new §§20.10 - 20.17, concerning the department's Boll Weevil Quarantine rules. The proposal was published in the Friday, May 4, 2001, issue of the Texas Register (26 TexReg 3313).

The hearings will be held as follows:

(1) Thursday, May 24, 2001, beginning at 1:30 p.m., Texas A&M Agricultural Research and Extension Center-Weslaco, 2401 East Hwy. 83, Weslaco, Texas, 78596;

(2) Friday, May 25, 2001, beginning at 9:00 a.m., Texas A&M Agricultural Research and Extension Center-Robstown, 10345 Agnes Street (Hwy. 44, 5 miles west of airport), Corpus Christi, Texas 78410;

(3) Friday, May 25, 2001, beginning at 2:30 p.m., Victoria County Agricultural Extension Service Building, 528 Waco Circle, Victoria, Texas 77904;

(4) Tuesday, May 29, 2001, beginning at 11:00 a.m., Texas A&M Agricultural Research and Extension Center-San Angelo, 7887 U.S. Highway 87 North, San Angelo, Texas 76901

(5) Tuesday, May 29, 2001, beginning at 3:00 p.m., Texas Engineering Extension Center-Abilene, 3650 Loop 322, Abilene, Texas 79602; and

Wednesday, May 30, 2001, beginning at 10:00 a.m., Godeke Library, 6601 Quaker, Lubbock, Texas 79413.

For more information please contact Ed Gage, Texas Department of Agriculture, P.O. Box 12847, Austin, Texas 78711, (512) 463-5025.

TRD-200102605

Dolores Alvarado Hibbs

Deputy General Counsel

Texas Department of Agriculture

Filed: May 9, 2001

Automobile Theft Prevention Authority

Request for Applications under the Automobile Theft Prevention Authority Fund

Notice of Invitation for Applications:

The Automobile Theft Prevention Authority (ATPA) is soliciting applications for supplemental grants to be awarded for projects to reduce the incidence of economic automobile theft. This grant cycle will be two months in duration, and will begin on July 1, 2001 and end August 31, 2001.

Notice: Awards under this notice is contingent upon approval by the legislature of ATPA's full legislative appropriation request. Availability of funds will be announced after June 15, 2001.

Law Enforcement/Detection/Apprehension Projects, to establish motor vehicle theft enforcement teams and other detection/apprehension programs. Priority funding may be provided to state, county, precinct commissioner, general or home rule cities for enforcement programs in particular areas of the state where the problem is assessed as significant. Enforcement efforts covering multiple jurisdictional boundaries may receive priority for funding.

Prosecution/Adjudication/Conviction Projects, to provide for prosecutorial and judicial programs designed to assist with the prosecution of persons charged with motor vehicle theft offenses.

Prevention, Anti-Theft Devices and Automobile Registration Projects, to test experimental equipment which is considered to be designed for auto theft deterrence and registration of vehicles in the Texas Help End Auto Theft (H.E.A.T.) Program.

Reduction of the Sale of Stolen Vehicles or Parts Projects, to provide vehicle identification number labeling, including component part labeling and etching methods designed to deter the sale of stolen vehicles or parts.

Public Awareness and Crime Prevention/Education/Information Projects, to provide education and specialized training to law enforcement officers in auto theft prevention procedures, provide information linkages between state law enforcement agencies on auto theft crimes, and develop a public information and education program on theft prevention measures.

Eligible Applicants:

Current ATPA funded agencies are eligible to apply for supplemental grants for automobile theft prevention assistance projects.

Contact Person:

Detailed specifications, including selection process for applicants is available from ATPA.

Contact Agustin De La Rosa, Jr., Director,

Texas Automobile Theft Prevention Authority,

4000 Jackson Avenue, Austin, Texas 78779, (512) 374-5101.

Closing Date for Receipt of Applications:

The original and three (3) copies of the proposal must be received by the Texas Automobile Theft Prevention Authority by 5 p.m., May 30, 2001 or postmarked by May 30, 2001. If mailed, applications must be marked "Personal and Confidential" and addressed to the contact person listed above. If delivered, please leave application with the contact person (or designee) at the address listed.

Selection Process:

Applications will be selected according to rules §57.2, §57.4, §57.7, and §57.14, as published in Title 43 Chapter 57, Texas Administrative Code. Grant award decisions by ATPA are final and not subject to judicial review. Grants will be awarded on or before July 1, 2001.

TRD-200102534

Agustin De La Rosa, Jr.

Director

Automobile Theft Prevention Authority

Filed: May 4, 2001

Coastal Coordination Council

Notice and Opportunity to Comment on Requests for Consistency Agreement/Concurrence under the Texas Coastal Management Program

On January 10, 1997, the State of Texas received federal approval of the Coastal Management Program (CMP) (62 Federal Register pp. 1439-1440). Under federal law, federal agency activities and actions affecting the Texas coastal zone must be consistent with the CMP goals and policies identified in 31 TAC Chapter 501. As required by federal law, the public is given an opportunity to comment on the consistency of proposed activities in the coastal zone undertaken or authorized by federal agencies. Pursuant to 31 TAC §§506.25, 506.32, and 506.41, the public comment period for these activities extends 30 days from the date published on the Coastal Coordination Council web site. Requests for federal consistency review were received for the following projects(s) during the period of March 30, 2001, through April 19, 2001. The public comment period for these projects will close at 5:00 p.m. on May 21, 2001.

FEDERAL AGENCY ACTIONS

Applicant: Davis Petroleum Corporation; Location: The project can be located on the U.S.G.S. quadrangle map entitled Port Bolivar, Texas. Approximate UTM Coordinates: Zone 15; Easting: 319650; Northing: 3260442. CCC Project No.: 01-0112-F1; Description of Proposed Action: The applicant proposes to drill Well Number 1 in State Tract 327 in Galveston Bay, Galveston County, Texas under Department of the Army Permit 21021(02). Type of Application: This application is being evaluated under Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 and Section 404 of the Clean Water Act.

Applicant: Davis Petroleum Corporation; Location: The project can be located on the U.S.G.S. quadrangle map entitled Port Bolivar, Texas. Approximate UTM Coordinates: Zone 15; Easting: 321588; Northing: 3262084. CCC Project No.: 01-0119-F1; Description of Proposed Action: The applicant proposes to drill Well Number 1 in State Tract 283 in Galveston Bay, Galveston County, Texas under Department of the Army Permit 21021(02). Type of Application: This application is being evaluated under Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899.

Applicant: Reliant Exploration, Ltd.; Location: The project is located in State Tract No. 48 in Trinity Bay approximately 2 miles northeast of Beach City, Chambers County, Texas. The site can be located on the U.S.G.S. quadrangle map entitled Umbrella Point, Texas. Approximate UTM Coordinates: Zone 15; Easting: 323779; Northing: 3283903. CCC Project No.: 01-0138-F1; Description of Proposed Action: The applicant proposes to install, operate, and maintain structures and equipment necessary for oil and gas drilling, production, and transportation activities. Such activities include installation of typical marine barges and keyways, shell and gravel pads, production structures with attendant facilities, and flowlines. Type of Application: This application is being evaluated under Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899.

Applicant: Davis Petroleum Corporation; Location: The site can be located on the U.S.G.S. quadrangle map entitled Port Bolivar, Texas. Approximate UTM Coordinates: Zone 15; Easting: 321345; Northing: 3261613. CCC Project No.: 01-0129-F1; Description of Proposed Action: The applicant proposes to drill Well Number 4 in State Tract 312 in Galveston Bay, Galveston County, Texas under Department of the Army Permit 21021(02). Type of Application: This application is being evaluated under Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 and Section 404 of the Clean Water Act.

Applicant: Matagorda County-Palacios Seawall Commission; Location: The project site is located in Tres Palacios Bay, near Bayshore Drive, in Matagorda County, Texas. The site can be located on the U.S.G.S. quadrangle map entitled Palacios, Texas. Approximate UTM Coordinates: Zone 14; Easting: 3773151 Northing: 3179120. CCC Project No.: 01-0141-F1; Description of Proposed Action: The applicant proposes to amend Department of the Army Permit No. 17473 to authorize removal of sections of an existing rock breakwater and excavation of the water circulation channels. The project purpose is to improve water circulation behind the Grassy Point Breakwater, which was constructed in 1992. In order to construct the 30-foot-wide by 3-foot deep circulation channels, approximately 1,500 cubic yards of soil would be hauled by truck to the Corps of Engineers Dredged Materials Placement Area No. 15. The circulation channels would extend from the breakwater to the existing channel located adjacent to the north shoreline. The applicant also proposes to construct 250 linear feet of rock revetment landward of the vegetation line and the mean high tide line at the west end of the Grassy Point Breakwater. Type of Application: This application is being evaluated under Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899.

Applicant: Reliant Exploration, Ltd.; Location: The project site is located in State Tract No. 48 in the Trinity Bay approximately 2-miles northeast of Beach City, Chambers County, Texas. The project can be located on the U.S.G.S. quadrangle map entitled Umbrella Point, Texas. Approximate UTM Coordinates: Zone 15; Easting: 323779; Northing: 3283903. CCC Project No.: 01-0144-F1; Description of Proposed Action: The applicant proposes to install, operate, and maintain structures and equipment necessary for oil and gas drilling, production, and transportation activities. Such activities include installation of typical marine barges and keyways, shell gravel pads, production structures with attendant facilities, and flowlines. Type of Application: This application is being evaluated under Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 and Section 404 of the Clean Water Act.

Applicant: Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation; Location: The project site is located in the Corpus Christi Bayou channel, in Redfish Bay, in State Tract 256, Nueces County, Texas. The project can be located on the U.S.G.S. quadrangle map entitled Estes, Texas. Approximate UTM Coordinates: Zone 14; Easting: 688886; Northing: 3089371. CCC Project No.: 01-0145-F1 Description of Proposed Action: The applicant proposes to install, operate, and maintain structures and equipment necessary for oil and gas drilling, production, and transportation activities for Well Number 1. The project includes installation of typical marine barges and keyways, production platforms with attendant facilities, and flowlines between well and production platforms. If necessary, approximately 1000 cubic yards of shell, gravel, or crushed rock will be discharged to construct a pad to position the marine barge. The approximate water depths of Corpus Christi Bayou at the proposed project location range from 3-feet mean low tide near the northern edge of the channel to 12-feet mean low tide near the channel center line. The equipment and structures noted on the plans are typical for the proposed activity, and the layouts and locations of platform structures and flowlines in relation to Well Number 1 are conceptual. Type of Application: Corpus Christi Bayou and Redfish Bay are navigable waters of the United States. This application is being evaluated under Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 and Section 404 of the Clean Water Act.

Applicant: Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation ; Location: The project site is located in the Corpus Christi Bayou channel, in Corpus Christi Bay, in State Tract 286, Nueces County, Texas. The project can be located on the U.S.G.S. quadrangle map entitled Estes, Texas. Approximate UTM Coordinates: Zone 14; Easting: 688269; Northing: 3087685. CCC Project No.: 01-0146-F1; Description of Proposed Action: The applicant proposes to install, operate, and maintain structures and equipment necessary for oil and gas drilling, production, and transportation activities for Well Number 1. The project includes installation of typical marine barges and keyways, shell gravel pads, production platforms with attendant facilities, and flowlines between -well and production platforms. If necessary, approximately 200 cubic yards of shell, gravel, or crushed rock will be discharged to construct a pad to position the marine barge. The approximate water depths of Corpus Christi Bayou at the proposed project location range from 5-feet mean low tide near the northern edge of the channel to 9-feet mean low tide near the channel center line. The equipment and structures noted on the plans are typical for the proposed activity, and the layouts and locations of platform structures and flowlines in relation to Well Number 1 are conceptual. Type of Application: Corpus Christi Bayou and Redfish Bay are navigable waters of the United States. This application is being evaluated under Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 and Section 404 of the Clean Water Act.

Applicant: Texas Point National Wildlife Refuge; Location: The project site is located at the Texas Point National Wildlife Refuge, adjacent to Pilot Station Road, Sabine Pass, Jefferson County, Texas. The project can be located on the U.S.G.S. quadrangle map entitled Texas Point, Texas. Approximate UTM Coordinates: Zone 15; Easting: 417900; Northing: 3284800. CCC Project No.: 01-0147-F1; Description of Proposed Action: The applicant proposes to place a rock plug into the roadside canal at the marsh elevation. The diameter of the rocks used for the plug will vary between 4 and 18 inches, which will allow a limited exchange of water to occur. Between 4-6 feet of rock will be deposited during the construction of the rock plug. The bottom soil is soft and some sinking will occur. The final height after expected sinking will be approximately 1-foot below the mean high tide line. Type of Application: This application is being evaluated under Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 and Section 404 of the Clean Water Act.

Pursuant to §306(d)(14) of the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C.A. §§1451-1464), as amended, interested parties are invited to submit comments on whether a proposed action is or is not consistent with the Texas Coastal Management Program goals and policies and whether the action should be referred to the Coastal Coordination Council for review.

Further information for the applications listed above may be obtained from Ms. Diane P. Garcia, Council Secretary, Coastal Coordination Council, 1700 North Congress Avenue, Room 617, Austin, Texas 78701-1495, or diane.garcia@glo.state.tx.us. Comments should be sent to Ms. Garcia at the above address or by fax at 512/475-0680.

TRD-200102609

Larry R. Soward

Chief Clerk, General Land Office

Coastal Coordination Council

Filed: May 9, 2001

Office of Consumer Credit Commissioner

Notice of Rate Ceilings

The Consumer Credit Commissioner of Texas has ascertained the following rate ceilings by use of the formulas and methods described in §303.003 and §303.009, Texas Finance Code.

The weekly ceiling as prescribed by §303.003 and §303.009 for the period of May 14, 2001 - May 20, 2001 is 18% for Consumer 1 /Agricultural/Commercial 2 /credit thru $250,000.

The weekly ceiling as prescribed by §303.003 and §303.009 for the period of May 14, 2001 - May 20, 2001 is 18% for Commercial over $250,000.

1 Credit for personal, family or household use.

2 Credit for business, commercial, investment or other similar purpose.

TRD-200102578

Leslie L. Pettijohn

Commissioner

Office of Consumer Credit Commissioner

Filed: May 8, 2001

Texas Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Notice of Request for Proposals

The Texas Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing announces a Request for Proposals (RFP) for services to eliminate communication barriers and to facilitate communication access for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. Funding is available to provide Regional Specialist services to facilitate and coordinate the provision of accessible state and local services to persons of all ages. (This announcement replaces the one made on May 11, 2001 regarding Regional Specialist services funding. The previous announcement was pulled in order to extended the contract period from 2 years to up to 4 years.)

Note to Applicants: The estimated funding levels in the RFP does not bind TCDHH to make awards in any of these categories, or to any specific number of awards or funding levels.

Contact: Parties interested in submitting a proposal for any of the funding categories should contact the Texas Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, P.O. Box 12904, Austin, Texas 78711, 512-407-3250 (Voice) or 512-407-3251 (TTY), to obtain a complete copy of the. The RFP is also available for pick-up at 4800 North Lamar, Suite 310, Austin, Texas 78756 on and after Friday, May 18, 2001, during normal business hours. The RFP is not available through fax. The RFP will also be available on the agency website at www.tcdhh.state.tx.us.

Closing Date: Proposals must be received in the Texas Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Office, 4800 North Lamar, Suite 310, Austin, Texas 78756 no later than 5 p.m. (CDT), on Friday, June 22, 2001. Proposals received after this time and date will not be considered.

Award Procedure: All proposals will be subject to evaluation by a review team using a scoring method based on the evaluation criteria set forth in the RFP. The review team will determine which proposals best meet the established criteria and will make selection recommendations for each category to the Executive Director, who will then make recommendations to the Commission. The Commission will make the final decision prior to final selection. Any applicant may be asked to clarify any information in their proposal and which may involve either written or oral presentations of requested information. The initial contract award shall be for 12 months with the renewal option of three 12 month awards, for a potential four year project period.

The Commission reserves the right to accept or reject any or all proposals submitted. The Texas Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing is under no legal or other obligation to execute a contract on the basis of this notice or the distribution of a RFP. Neither this notice nor the RFP commits the Commission to pay for any costs incurred prior to the award of a contract. The anticipated schedule of events is as follows:

Issuance of RFP - May 18, 2001;

Proposals Due - June 22, 2001, 5 p.m. (CDT);

Estimated Project Period (months) - 12 with 3 additional 12 month renewal options;

Estimated number of awards-11;

Maximum award amount per 12 month period-$45,000; and

Contract Period - September 1, 2001 to August 31, 2002.

TRD-200102604

David W. Myers

Executive Director

Texas Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Filed: May 9, 2001

East Texas Council of Governments

Notice of Request for Proposals for Purchase of Marketing Products

This Request for Proposals to interested vendors is filed under the provisions of Government Code 2254.

Notice is given that the East Texas Council of Governments (ETCOG) as the administrative entity for the local Workforce Development Board is soliciting information on the purchase of marketing products to promote the East Texas Workforce Development Board to East Texas employers. Products to be purchased include posters, brochures, radio spots, and a video.

Interested parties should contact: Daniel Pippin, Regional Planner, ETCOG (903) 984-8641. If Mr. Pippin is unavailable, you may speak with Gary Allen, Section Chief-Planning and Board Support. Requests for the Request for Proposals should be sent to: East Texas Council of Governments 3800 Stone Road Kilgore, TX 75662 Attention: Wendell Holcombe Fax: 903-983-1440

The closing date for the receipt of responses to the Request for Quotations is 5:00 p.m. Central Daylight Time, June 12, 2001.

The ETCOG Executive Committee, who will be responsible for the contract award, will review the responses.

TRD-200102591

Glynn Knight

Executive Director

East Texas Council of Governments

Filed: May 8, 2001

Texas Department of Health

Licensing Actions for Radioactive Materials

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TRD-200102567

Susan K. Steeg

General Counsel

Texas Department of Health

Filed: May 7, 2001

Notice of Amendment to Radioactive Material License

Notice is hereby given by the Texas Department of Health (department), Bureau of Radiation Control that it has amended Radioactive Material License Number L04971 issued to Waste Control Specialists, LLC (WCS) located in Andrews County, Texas, one mile North of State Highway 176; 250 feet East of the Texas/New Mexico State Line; 30 miles West of Andrews, Texas.

The issuance of amendment number 14 authorizes the licensee to: (1) conduct in-house decontamination of items contaminated as a result of processing activities and as a consequence of shipment of radioactive waste; and (2) release solid objects that do not exceed the limits for surface contaminated objects.

The department has determined that the amendment of the license, 25 Texas Administrative Code (TAC), Chapter 289, and the documentation submitted by the licensee provide reasonable assurance that the licensee's radioactive waste facility is sited, designed, operated, and will be decommissioned and closed in accordance with the requirements of 25 TAC, Chapter 289; the amendment of the license will not be inimical to the health and safety of the public or the environment; and the activity represented by the amendment of the license will not have a significant effect on the human environment.

This notice affords the opportunity for a public hearing upon written request within 30 days of the date of publication of this notice by a person affected as required by Texas Health and Safety Code, §401.116 and as set out in 25 TAC, §289.205(f). A "person affected" is defined as a person who demonstrates that the person has suffered or will suffer actual injury or economic damage and, if the person is not a local government, is (a) a resident of a county, or a county adjacent to a county, in which the radioactive material is or will be located; or (b) doing business or has a legal interest in land in the county or adjacent county.

A person affected may request a hearing by writing Mr. Richard A. Ratliff, P.E., Chief, Bureau of Radiation Control, 1100 West 49th Street, Austin, Texas 78756-3189. Any request for a hearing must contain the name and address of the person who considers himself affected by this action, identify the subject license, specify the reasons why the person considers himself affected, and state the relief sought. If the person is represented by an agent, the name and address of the agent must be stated. Should no request for a public hearing be timely filed, the agency action will be final.

A public hearing, if requested, shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions of Texas Health and Safety Code, Chapter 401, the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 2001, Texas Government Code), the formal hearing procedures of the department (25 Texas Administrative Code §1.21 et seq.) and the procedures of the State Office of Administrative Hearings (1 Texas Administrative Code, Chapter 155).

A copy of the license amendment and supporting materials are available for public inspection and copying at the office of the Bureau of Radiation Control, Texas Department of Health, Exchange Building, 8407 Wall Street, Austin, Texas, telephone (512) 834-6688, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday-Friday (except holidays). Information relative to inspection and copying the documents may be obtained by contacting Chrissie Toungate, Custodian of Records, Bureau of Radiation Control.

TRD-200102617

Susan K. Steeg

General Counsel

Texas Department of Health

Filed: May 9, 2001

Notice of Default Order

A default order was entered regarding Ronald L. Dill and Tracer Laboratory of Midland, Inc., Docket Number A2085-876-2001; Texas Department of Health License Number L03298 (Revoked); Compliance Number EL89-005 on April 18, 2001, assessing $20,000 in administrative penalties.

Information concerning this order is available for public inspection Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (except holidays). Contact Chrissie Toungate, Custodian of Records, Bureau of Radiation Control, Texas Department of Health, 1100 W. 49th Street, Austin, Texas 78756-3189, by calling (512) 834-6688, or by visiting the Exchange Building at 8407 Wall Street, Austin, Texas.

TRD-200102618

Susan K. Steeg

General Counsel

Texas Department of Health

Filed: May 9, 2001

Notice of Request for Proposals for Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Examination Development Program

PURPOSE: The Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Examination Development Program was established for the purpose of improving EMS certification examinations throughout Texas by contracting with an organization, corporation, college or university to develop such examinations. This program is administered by the Bureau of Emergency Management (Bureau) of the Texas Department of Health (department). The program provides reimbursement for approved cost incurred for a specific project completed during a specified contract period, September 1, 2001 - August 31, 2003.

DESCRIPTION: The department is seeking proposals for the development of psychometrically valid, reliable, error free and legally defensible initial, initial retest, recertification and recertification retest competency examinations for the Emergency Care Attendant (ECA), Emergency Medical Technician- Basic (EMT-B), Emergency Medical Technician- Intermediate (EMT-I), and Emergency Medical Technician-Paramedic (EMT-P), and Licensed Paramedic (LP).

ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS: Proposals will be accepted from qualified organizations, corporations, colleges and universities that are involved in the development and administration of examinations and in pre-hospital emergency care education. Applicants must be in good standing with no administrative action against them by the Department or any national accrediting agency.

Failure to comply with these requirements of the contract constitutes grounds for revocation of any award as part of the EMS Examination Development Program.

CONTACT: Information concerning the Request or Proposal (RFP) may be obtained from Kathy Perkins, Bureau Chief, Bureau of Emergency Management, Texas Department of Health, 1100 West 49th Street, Austin, Texas, 78756, telephone (512) 834-6700, fax (512) 834-6736, or email (Kathy.Perkins@tdh.state.tx.us).

DEADLINE: The deadline for submitting the application, required forms and copies will be midnight June 25, 2001. Only those applications and copies that are received or postmarked on or before June 25, 2001, will be reviewed, regardless of the circumstances. Applications may be mailed or hand delivered. If delivered by hand, the proposal must be taken to the Exchange Building, Bureau of Emergency Management, 8407 Wall Street, Suite S220, Austin, Texas, no later than the close of business (5:00 P. M.) of the specified deadline.

EVALUATION AND SELECTION: Proposals will be reviewed and evaluated based on information provided by the applicant. Eligibility criteria includes:

An evaluation of all information in the application.

A consideration of the applicant's experience in examination development.

The applicant's numerical Examination Development Application score.

References.

Proposals will be reviewed to ensure all budget items requested are applicable and appropriate and that implementation of the proposed project is possible. The Commissioner of Health or the Commissioner's appointed agent will give final approval of the entity chosen.

INFORMATION MEETING: A meeting with all interested applicants will be held at the department's offices in Austin to address any questions relating to the EMS Examination Development Proposal. Applicants may call the Bureau's office, 512-834-6700, for information as to date, time and location.

TRD-200102616

Susan K. Steeg

General Counsel

Texas Department of Health

Filed: May 9, 2001

Houston Galveston Area Council

Notice of Public Hearings to Solicit Comments on Proposed Child Care Rules

The Houston-Galveston Area Council (H-GAC) in conjunction with The WorkSource - Gulf Coast Workforce Board will be holding Public Hearings to solicit comments on proposed child care rules for its 13-county workforce service region. This region includes the counties of Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Liberty, Matagorda, Montgomery, Walker, Waller and Wharton. Public Hearings for Child Care will be held: * May 15, 2001 in Lake Jackson from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. at The WorkSource - Gulf Coast Careers, 491 This Way * May 16, 2001 in Katy from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the University of Houston - West Houston Institute at Cinco Ranch, 4242 South Mason Road * May 17, 2001 in Conroe from 10:00 a.m. to noon at the Montgomery Public Library, 104 I-45 North at FM 2854 * May 17, 2001 in Houston from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Houston-Galveston Area Council, 3555 Timmons, 2nd floor, Conference Room A

Proposed changes include * Providing Time-Limited Care * Increasing Parent Co-payments * Lowering Exit Level Income for Families * Restricting Child Care Subsidies to Younger Children

To obtain a draft of the proposed recommendations, please visit the website www.theworksource.org or contact Carol Kimmick at 713-627-3200 or write H-GAC, The WorkSource, P.O. Box 22777, Houston, TX 77227-2777.

To forward comments regarding the proposed rules, mail to H-GAC, The WorkSource at the above address, fax to 713-993-4578 or e-mail RAY@hgac.cog.tx.us . The deadline for comments is June 15, 2001.

TRD-200102594

Jack Steele

Executive Director

Houston Galveston Area Council

Filed: May 8, 2001

Request for Qualifications

The Houston-Galveston Area Council (H-GAC) is requesting qualifications submittals for assistance to H-GAC staff in the application of urban regional travel models and development of model input data.

Qualifications will include, but are not limited to: previous related work experience, availability of personnel, adequate technical resources to complete project on schedule, and references, three minimum. Qualification Statements are due by 12:00 Noon, May 29, 2001. Ten typewritten, bound/stapled and signed copies are required.

Interested firms may obtain the Request for Qualifications Submittal via H-GAC's web site (www.hgac.cog.tx.us/transportation). Telephone requests, (713) 627-3200, must be followed up by written requests or faxed to (713) 993-4508.

TRD-200102528

Alan Clark

MPO Director

Houston-Galveston Area Council

Filed: May 3, 2001

Texas Department of Insurance

Insurer Services

Application for admission to the State of Texas by NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE OF NEW YORK, INC., a foreign title company. The home office is in Commack, New York.

Application for admission to the State of Texas by AMERICAN SURETY AND CASUALTY COMPANY, a foreign fire and casualty company. The home office is in Jacksonville, Florida.

Application for incorporation to the State of Texas by OMNIA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, a domestic life company. The home office is in Austin, Texas.

Application to change the name of XL CAPITAL ASSURANCE INC. ONLY to XL CAPITAL ASSURANCE INC., a foreign fire and casualty company. The home office is in New York, New York.

Application to change the name of EMPLOYERS INSURANCE OF WAUSAU A MUTUAL COMPANY to EMPLOYERS INSURANCE COMPANY OF WAUSAU., a foreign life, fire and casualty company. The home office is in Wausau, Wisconsin.

Application for admission to the State of Texas by HALLMARK INSURANCE COMPANY, INC. under the assume name UNITED NATIONAL ASSURANCE COMPANY, a foreign fire and casualty company. The home office is in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Application for incorporation to the State of Texas by AMCARE HEALTH PLANS OF TEXAS, INC., under the assume name AMCARE HEALTH PLANS a domestic Health Maintenance Organization. The home office is in Houston, Texas.

Application for incorporation to the State of Texas by HEALTH PLANS OF TEXAS, INC., under the assume name AMCARE FIRST a domestic Health Maintenance Organization. The home office is in Houston, Texas.

Application for incorporation to the State of Texas by AMCARE HEALTH PLANS OF TEXAS, INC., under the assume name AMCARE ARRIVALS a domestic Health Maintenance Organization. The home office is in Houston, Texas.

Application for incorporation to the State of Texas by AMCARE HEALTH PLANS OF TEXAS, INC., under the assume name AMCARE MEDICARE HEALTH PLAN a domestic Health Maintenance Organization. The home office is in Houston, Texas.

Any objections must be filed with the Texas Department of Insurance, addressed to the attention of Godwin Ohaechesi, 333 Guadalupe Street, M/C 305-2C, Austin, Texas 78701.

TRD-200102520

Judy Woolley

Deputy Chief Clerk

Texas Department of Insurance

Filed: May 2, 2001

Insurer Services

Application for incorporation to the State of Texas by LIBERTY AMERICAN LLOYDS INSURANCE COMPANY, a domestic Lloyds/Reciprocal company. The home office is in Austin, Texas.

Application to change the name of HALLMARK INSURANCE COMPANY, INC. to UNITED NATIONAL SPECIALTY INSURANCE COMPANY, a foreign fire and casualty company. The home office is in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Any objections must be filed with the Texas Department of Insurance, addressed to the attention of Godwin Ohaechesi, 333 Guadalupe Street, M/C 305-2C, Austin, Texas 78701.

TRD-200102607

Judy Woolley

Deputy Chief Clerk

Texas Department of Insurance

Filed: May 9, 2001

Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission

Extension of Comment Period

In the March 9, 2001 issue of the Texas Register , the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (commission) published proposed amendments to 30 TAC Chapter 331, concerning Underground Injection Control (26 TexReg 2004). The preamble to the proposal stated that the commission must receive all written comments by 5:00 p.m., April 16, 2001. The commission extended the deadline for receipt of written comments to 5:00 p.m., May 7, 2001 for these proposed amendments. The commission has extended the deadline for receipt of written comments to 5:00 p.m., May 21, 2001 for this proposal.

Written comments should be mailed to Joyce Spencer, Office of Environmental Policy, Analysis, and Assessment, MC 205, P.O. Box 13087, Austin, Texas 78711-3087, or faxed to (512) 239-4808. For further information on the proposed revisions, please contact Ray Henry Austin at (512) 239-6814. Copies of the proposed amendments can be obtained from the commission's Web Site at www.tnrcc.state.tx.us/oprd/rules/propadop.html.

TRD-200102589

Margaret Hoffman

Director, Environmental Law Division

Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission

Filed: May 8, 2001

Notice of Application and Preliminary Decision for a Municipal Solid Waste Permit

For the Period of May 9, 2001

APPLICATION. Chambers County which operates a Type V incinerator has applied to the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC) for a permit amendment to authorize the elimination of the percentage limitation on medical waste, and process municipal solid waste, or other similar or related waste streams as the demand dictates. The facility size and structure layout will be altered and numerous minor operational changes will also be made. The facility is located 8.5 miles east of the town of Anahuac, Texas, on the north side of State Highway 65, and approximately two miles south of Interstate Highway 10 in Chambers County, Texas. This application was submitted to the TNRCC on May 1, 2000. The permit application is available for viewing and copying at the Chambers County Engineer's Office located at 201 Airport Road in Anahuac, Texas. The application is subject to the goals and policies of the Texas Coastal Management Program and must be consistent with the applicable Coastal Management Program goals and policies. The TNRCC executive director has determined the application is administratively complete and will conduct a technical review of the application. After completion of that review, the TNRCC will issue a Notice of Application and Preliminary Decision.

MAILING LISTS. You may ask to be placed on a mailing list to obtain additional information on this application by sending a request to the Office of the Chief Clerk, at the address below. You may also ask to be on a county-wide mailing list to receive public notices for TNRCC permits in the county.

PUBLIC COMMENT / PUBLIC MEETING. You may submit public comments or request a public meeting about this application. The purpose of a public meeting is to provide the opportunity to submit comments or to ask questions about the application. The TNRCC will hold a public meeting if the executive director determines that there is a significant degree of public interest in the application or if requested by a local legislator. A public meeting is not a contested case hearing. Written public comments and requests for a public meeting must be submitted to the Office of the Chief Clerk, MC 105, TNRCC, P.O. Box 13087, Austin, TX 78711-3087.

ADDITIONAL NOTICE. After technical review of the application is completed, the executive director may prepare a draft permit and will issue a preliminary decision on the application. Notice of the Application and Preliminary Decision will be published and mailed to those who are on the county-wide mailing list or the mailing list for this application. That notice will contain the final deadline for submitting public comments.

OPPORTUNITY FOR A CONTESTED CASE HEARING. After the deadline for public comments, the executive director will consider the comments and prepare a response to all relevant and material, or significant public comments. The response to comments, along with the executive director's decision on the application, will be mailed to everyone who submitted public comments or who is on the mailing list for this application. If comments are received, the mailing will also provide instructions for requesting reconsideration of the executive director's decision and for requesting a contested case hearing. A contested case hearing is a legal proceeding similar to a civil trial in state district court. A contested case hearing will only be granted based on disputed issues of fact that are relevant and material to the Commission's decision on the application. Further, the Commission will only grant a hearing on issues that were raised during the public comment period and not withdrawn.

INFORMATION. If you need more information about this permit application or the permitting process, please call the TNRCC Office of Public Assistance, Toll Free, at 1-800-687-4040. General information about the TNRCC can be found at our web site at www.tnrcc.state.tx.us. Further information may also be obtained from Chambers County at the address stated above or by calling Mr. Donald Brandon P.E. at (409) 267-8379.

TRD-200102619

LaDonna Castañuela

Chief Clerk

Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission

Filed: May 9, 2001

Notice of Minor Amendment

For the Period of May 4, 2001

APPLICATION. The City of Farmers Branch, P.O. Box 819010, Farmers Branch, Texas 75381-9010, has applied to the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC) for a minor permit amendment to Permit No. MSW-1312A which would authorize the revision to the Site Development Plan to allow a revision to the landfill footprint by relocating Pond 1 and to allow an alternate landfill liner which uses tire chips and general fill as the protective layer. The municipal solid waste landfill for the City of Farmers Branch is located on a 349.97 acre site approximately 0.8 miles south of SH-121, north of the Elm Fork of the Trinity River, and 1.5 miles west of FM-2281 in Hebron, Denton County, Texas. The Executive Director of the TNRCC has prepared a draft permit which, if approved, will authorize a minor amendment to this permit under the terms described above.

PUBLIC COMMENT. Written comments concerning this minor amendment may be submitted to the TNRCC, Chief Clerk's Office, Mail Code 105, P.O. Box 13087, Austin, Texas 78711-3087 telephone (512) 239- 3300. Comments must be received no later than 10 days from the date this notice is mailed. Written comments must include the following: (1) your name (or for a group or association, the name of an official representative), mailing address, daytime phone number, and fax number, if any; (2) the name of the applicant and the permit number; and (3) the location of your property relative to the applicant's operations. INFORMATION. Individual members of the public who wish to inquire about the information contained in this notice may contact the TNRCC Office of Public Assistance, Toll Free, at 1-800-687-4040.

TRD-200102621

LaDonna Castañuela

Chief Clerk

Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission

Filed: May 9, 2001

Notice of Non-Adjudicatory Public Hearing (TMDL)

The Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC or commission) has made available for public comment a draft implementation plan concerning depressed dissolved oxygen in Lake Austin in Travis County, Texas. The commission will also conduct a non-adjudicatory public hearing to receive comment on the implementation plan.

Lake Austin is included in the State of Texas Clean Water Act, §303(d), List of impaired water bodies. As required by federal Clean Water Act, §303(d), the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) was developed for dissolved oxygen. The TMDL was adopted by the commission on November 17, 2000 as an update to the State Water Quality Management Plan. Upon adoption by the commission, the TMDL was submitted to the United States Environmental Protection Agency for review and approval.

A non-adjudicatory public hearing will be held in Austin, Texas on June 19, 2001, at 7:00 p.m., at the Lower Colorado River Authority, Hancock Building, Board Room, 1st Floor, 3700 Lake Austin Boulevard. Individuals may present oral statements when called upon in order of registration. Open discussion will not occur during the hearing; however, an agency staff member will be available to discuss the matter 30 minutes prior to the hearing and will answer questions before and after the hearing. The purpose of the public hearing is to provide the public an opportunity to comment on the proposed plan. The commission requests comment on each of the six major components of the implementation plan: Description of Management Measures, Legal Authority, Implementation Schedule, Follow-up Monitoring Plan, Reasonable Assurance, and Measurable Outcomes. After the public comment period, TNRCC staff may revise the implementation plan, if appropriate. The final implementation plan will then be considered for approval by the commission. Upon approval of the implementation plan by the commission, the final implementation plan and a response to public comments will be made available on the commission's website at http://www.tnrcc.state.tx.us/water/quality/tmdl . The implementation plan is a flexible tool that the governmental and non-governmental agencies involved in TMDL implementation will use to guide their program management.

Written comments should be submitted to Joyce Spencer, Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, Office of Environmental Policy, Analysis, and Assessment, MC 205, P.O. Box 13087, Austin, Texas, 78711-3087 or faxed to (512) 239-4808. All comments must be received by 5:00 p.m., June 20, 2001, and should reference 2001-0457-TML. For further information regarding this proposed TMDL implementation plan, please contact Gail Rothe, Office of Environmental Policy, Analysis, and Assessment, (512) 239-4617. Copies of the document summarizing the proposed TMDL implementation plan can be obtained via the commission's web site or by calling Joyce Spencer at (512) 239-5017.

Persons with disabilities who have special communication or other accommodation needs who are planning to attend the meeting should contact the agency at (512) 239-4900. Requests should be made as far in advance as possible.

TRD-200102581

Margaret Hoffman

Director, Environmental Law Division

Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission

Filed: May 8, 2001

Notice of Non-Adjudicatory Public Hearing (TMDL)

The Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC or Commission) has made available for public comment a draft implementation plan concerning legacy pollutants, chlordane, DDT, DDE, dieldrin, and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), in the Trinity River and three urban lakes in Fort Worth. The TNRCC will also conduct a non-adjudicatory public hearing to receive comments on the implementation plan.

Lake Como, Fosdic Lake, Echo Lake and the Trinity River in Fort Worth are included in the State of Texas Clean Water Act, §303(d), List of impaired water bodies. As required by §303(d) of the federal Clean Water Act, Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) were developed for chlordane, DDT, DDE, dieldrin and PCBs. The TMDLs were adopted by the commission on November 17, 2000 as updates to the State Water Quality Management Plan. Upon adoption by the commission, the TMDLs were submitted to the United States Environmental Protection Agency for review and approval.

A non-adjudicatory public hearing will be held in Fort Worth, on June 13, 2001, at 7:00 p.m., at the Municipal Building, located at 1000 Throckmorton Street (2nd Floor, Pre-Council Chambers). Individuals may present oral statements when called upon in order of registration. Open discussion will not occur during the hearing; however, an agency staff member will be available to discuss the matter 30 minutes prior to the hearing and will answer questions before and after the hearing. The purpose of the public hearing is to provide the public an opportunity to comment on the proposed plan. The commission requests comment on each of the six major components of the implementation plan: Description of Control Actions and Management Measures, Legal Authority, Implementation Schedule, Follow-up Monitoring Plan, Reasonable Assurance, and Measurable Outcomes. After the public comment period, TNRCC staff may revise the implementation plan, if appropriate. The final implementation plan will then be considered for approval by the commission. Upon approval of the implementation plan by the commission, the final implementation plan and a response to public comments will be made available on the TNRCC web site at http://www.tnrcc.state.tx.us/water/quality/tmdl . The implementation plan is a flexible tool that the governmental and non-governmental agencies involved in TMDL implementation will use to guide their program management.

Written comments should be submitted to Joyce Spencer, Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, Office of Environmental Policy, Analysis, and Assessment, MC 205, P.O. Box 13087, Austin, Texas, 78711-3087 or faxed to (512) 239-4808. All comments must be received by 5:00 p.m., June 18, 2001, and should reference 2001-0438-TML. For further information regarding this proposed TMDL implementation plan, please contact John Mummert, Region 4 Office, at (817) 588-5879. Copies of the document summarizing the proposed TMDL implementation plan can be obtained via the commission's web site or by calling Joyce Spencer at (512) 239-5017.

Persons with disabilities who have special communication or other accommodation needs who are planning to attend the meeting should contact the agency at (512) 239-4900. Requests should be made a far in advance as possible.

TRD-200102582

Margaret Hoffman

Director, Environmental Law Division

Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission

Filed: May 8, 2001

Notice of Water Quality Applications

The following notices were issued during the period of April 24, 2001 through May 4, 2001.

The following require the applicants to publish notice in the newspaper. The public comment period, requests for public meetings, or requests for a contested case hearing may be submitted to the Office of the Chief Clerk, Mail Code 105, P O Box 13087, Austin Texas 78711-3087, WITHIN 30 DAYS OF THE DATE OF NEWSPAPER PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE.

CITY OF ABILENE has applied for renewal of an existing wastewater permit. The applicant has an existing National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permit No. TX0023973 and an existing Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC) Permit No. 10334-004. The draft permit authorizes the discharge of treated domestic wastewater at an annual average flow not to exceed 18,000,000 gallons per day. The plant site is located approximately 1.5 miles north of the intersection of State Highway 351 and County Road 309, and 5 miles northeast of the intersection of Interstate Highway 20 and State Highway 351 in Jones County, Texas.

ACTON MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT has applied for a new permit, proposed Texas Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (TPDES) Permit No. 14211-001, to authorize the discharge of treated domestic wastewater at a daily average flow not to exceed 600,000 gallons per day. The facility is located on the west bank of McCarty Branch approximately 2.6 miles south of the intersection of U.S. Highway 377 and Farm-to-Market Road 167 in Hood County, Texas.

ALVIN INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT has applied for a new permit, proposed Texas Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (TPDES) Permit No. 14238-001, to authorize the discharge of treated domestic wastewater at a daily average flow not to exceed 20,000 gallons per day. The facility is located approximately 650 feet north and 300 feet east of the intersection of Old Airline Road and Del Bello Road in Brazoria County, Texas.

AQUASOURCE DEVELOPMENT COMPANY a wastewater plant owner and operator, has applied for a new permit, proposed Texas Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (TPDES) Permit No. 14253-001, to authorize the discharge of treated domestic wastewater at a daily average flow not to exceed 450,000 gallons per day. The facility will be located approximately 1,200 feet southwest of the intersection of County Road 405 and State Highway 288 in Brazoria County, Texas.

BRIGHT STAR-SALEM WATER SUPPLY CORPORATION has applied for a new permit, proposed Texas Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (TPDES) Permit No. 14220-001, to authorize the discharge of filter backwash effluent from a water treatment plant at a daily average flow not to exceed 6,000 gallons per day. The facility is located 1.25 miles west of the intersection of State Highway 17 and State Highway 515, just south of State Highway 515, on the northwest border of Wood County in Wood County, Texas.

CITY OF BROWNSBORO has applied for renewal of an existing wastewater permit. The applicant has an existing National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permit No. TX0062707 and an existing Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC) Permit No. 10540-001. The draft permit authorizes the discharge of treated domestic wastewater at a daily average flow not to exceed 67,000 gallons per day. The plant site is located north of Brownsboro on the west side of Farm-to-Market Road 314 at the north end of the highway bridge over Kickapoo Creek in Henderson County, Texas.

CITY OF CELESTE has applied for a renewal of TPDES Permit No. 10146-001, which authorizes the discharge of treated domestic wastewater at a daily average flow not to exceed 94,800 gallons per day. The facility is located approximately 4000 feet west of U.S. Highway 69 and approximately one mile south-southwest of the intersection of U.S. Highway 69 and the Atchison- Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in Hunt County, Texas. The treated effluent is discharged to an unnamed tributary; thence to Cowleech Fork of the Sabine River; thence to Lake Tawakoni in Segment No. 0507 of the Sabine River Basin.

CITY OF CENTER has applied for a renewal of TNRCC Permit No. 10063-004, which authorizes the discharge of treated filter backwash effluent from a water treatment plant at a daily average flow not to exceed 96,000 gallons per day. The facility is located north of Lake Center, approximately 3 miles south-southeast of the intersection of U.S. Highway 96 and State Highway Spur 500 in Shelby County, Texas.

CHAPEL HILL INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT has applied to the for a renewal of TPDES Permit No. 13821-001, which authorizes the discharge of treated domestic wastewater at a daily average flow not to exceed 32,000 gallons per day. The facility is located approximately 1,300 feet east of the intersection of Farm-to-Market Road 1735 and County Road SE-18 in Titus County, Texas. The sludge disposal site is located near the City of Sulphur Springs at the Commercial Disposal Systems (CDS) site in Hopkins County. The treated effluent is discharged to a drainage ditch; thence to an unnamed tributary of Williamson Creek; thence to Williamson Creek; thence to Big Cypress Creek Below Lake Bob Sandlin in Segment No. 0404 of the Cypress Creek Basin.

CITY OF COLMESNEIL has applied for a renewal of TNRCC Permit No. 11295-001, which authorizes the discharge of treated domestic wastewater at a daily average flow not to exceed 150,000 gallons per day. The facility is located approximately 0.8 mile northwest of the intersection of U.S. Highway 69 and Farm-to-Market Road 256 in the northwest part of the City of Colmesneil in Tyler County, Texas.

CITY OF HENRIETTA has applied for a renewal of TNRCC Permit No. 10454-002, which authorizes the discharge of treated domestic wastewater at a daily average flow not to exceed 392,000 gallons per day. The facility is located approximately 1 mile northeast of the intersection of U.S. Highway 287 and State Highway Loop 510 in Clay County, Texas. The treated effluent is discharged to Dry Fork Little Wichita River; thence to the Little Wichita River in Segment No. 0211 of the Red River Basin. The unclassified receiving water uses are limited aquatic life uses for the Dry Fork Little Wichita River.

JMSC UTILITY COMPANY has applied for a new permit, proposed Texas Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (TPDES) Permit No. 14264-001, to authorize the discharge of treated domestic wastewater at a daily average flow not to exceed 60,000 gallons per day. The facility is located approximately 3.1 miles west of Interstate Highway 45 and approximately 350 feet south of League Line Road in Montgomery County, Texas. The treated effluent is discharged via pipeline to Lake Conroe in Segment No. 1012 of the San Jacinto River Basin.

LAKE TRAVIS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT has applied for a renewal of Permit No. 12920-001, which authorizes the disposal of treated domestic wastewater at a daily average flow not to exceed 40,000 gallons per day via subsurface drainfields with a minimum area of 90,000 square feet. This permit will not authorize a discharge of pollutants into waters in the State. The facility and disposal site are located west of Ranch Road 620, approximately 2 miles north-northwest of the intersection of Ranch Road 620 and State Highway 71 in Travis County, Texas. The sludge from the treatment process may be hauled by a licensed hauler to the City of Austin's Walnut Creek WWTP, Permit No. 10543-011 to be digested, dewatered and then disposed of with the bulk of the sludge from the plant accepting the sludge. The facility and disposal site are located in the drainage basin of Barton Creek in Segment No. 1430 of the Colorado River Basin.

MAURICEVILLE SPECIAL UTILITY DISTRICT has applied for a renewal of TPDES Permit No. 13839-001, which authorizes the discharge of treated domestic wastewater at an annual average flow not to exceed 2,200,000 gallons per day. The renewal requests to add two phases for flows less than 1,000,000 gallons per day. The draft permit authorizes the discharge of treated domestic wastewater at an annual average flow not to exceed 1,700,000 gallons per day. The facility is located west of State Route 87 and 300 feet north of the Sabine River Authority Canal Crossing in Orange County, Texas.

CITY OF MERCEDES has applied for a renewal of TPDES Permit No. 10347-001, which authorizes the discharge of treated domestic wastewater at an annual average flow not to exceed 2,300,000 gallons per day. The facility is located on both sides of and adjacent to Mile 1/2 East Road immediately south of its intersection with North 8 Mile Road in Hidalgo County, Texas.

CITY OF NORMANGEE has applied for renewal of an existing wastewater permit. The applicant has an existing National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permit No. TX0027448 and an existing Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC) Permit No. 10356-001. The draft permit authorizes the discharge of treated domestic wastewater at a daily average flow not to exceed 50,000 gallons per day. The plant site is located on Caney Creek, east of Farm-to-Market Road 39, approximately 1800 feet north of County Line Road (OSR) in Leon County, Texas.

NORTHEAST TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE has applied for a renewal of TPDES Permit No. 13948-001, which authorizes the discharge of treated domestic wastewater at a daily average flow not to exceed 10,000 gallons per day. This application was submitted to the TNRCC on December 20, 2000.The facility is located approximately 100 yards northwest of the campus entrance on Farm-to-Market Road 1735; approximately 3-1/2 miles southeast of the intersection of Farm-to-Market Road 1735 and State Highway 49 in Titus County, Texas.

CITY OF PFLUGERVILLE has applied for a renewal of TNRCC Permit No. 11845-002, which authorizes the discharge of treated domestic wastewater at a daily average flow not to exceed 2,500,000 gallons per day. The draft permit authorizes the discharge of treated domestic wastewater at an annual average flow not to exceed 2,500,000 gallons per day. The applicant is requesting authorization to compost sewage sludge at the treatment facility. The facility is located approximately 1.7 miles southeast of the City of Pflugerville and approximately 1.0 mile southeast of the intersection of Dessau Road and Farm-to-Market Road 1825 on the east bank of Gilleland Creek in Travis County, Texas.

RJS PROPERTIES, INC. has applied for a new permit, proposed Texas Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (TPDES) Permit No. 14215-001, to authorize the discharge of treated domestic wastewater at a daily average flow not to exceed 22,500,000 gallons per day. The proposed permit would also authorize the disposal of treated domestic wastewater via irrigation on 40 acres of a 90 acre golf course. The facility and irrigation site are located approximately 8,650 feet north and 2,000 feet west of the intersection of Farm-to-Market Road 1564 and U.S. Highway 69 in Hunt County, Texas.

SABINE VALLEY REGIONAL MENTAL HEALTH-MENTAL RETARDATION CENTER and Gregg-Harrison County Center for Mental Health and Mental Retardation Services has applied for renewal of an existing wastewater permit. The applicant has an existing National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permit No. TX0068004 and an existing Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC) Permit No. 11361-001. The draft permit authorizes the discharge of treated domestic wastewater at a daily average flow not to exceed 10,000 gallons per day. The plant site is located on the north side of State Highway 154, approximately 5.5 miles northwest of the intersection of U.S. Highway 80 and Loop 390 in Harrison County, Texas.

SHEZY ENTERPRISES, INC. has applied for a renewal of TPDES Permit No. 11721-001, which authorizes the discharge of treated domestic wastewater at a daily average flow not to exceed 7,000 gallons per day. The facility is located approximately 500 feet southeast of the intersection of Interstate Highway 30 and Farm-to-Market Road 1903 and 5 miles southwest of the City of Greenville in Hunt County, Texas.

TEAL CREEK WEST INCORPORATED has applied for a new permit, proposed Texas Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (TPDES) Permit No. 14244-001, to authorize the discharge of treated domestic wastewater at a daily average flow not to exceed 650,000 gallons per day. The facility is located east of and adjacent to Farm-to-Market Road 359, approximately 2.3 miles south of Interstate Highway 10 in Waller County, Texas.

TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION has applied for a major amendment to TPDES Permit No. 12024-001 to authorize an increase in the discharge of treated domestic wastewater from a daily average flow not to exceed 5,000 gallons per day to a daily average flow not to exceed 20,000 gallons per day. The facility is located on the right-of-way of U.S. Highway 59, approximately 0.6 mile west of the City of Inez (on the southbound traffic side) in Victoria County, Texas. The treated effluent is discharged to an unnamed tributary; thence to Garcitas Creek; thence into Lavaca Bay/Chocolate Bayou (Segment No. 2453).

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY which operates the Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant McGregor, which formerly engaged in the manufacturing of solid propellant rocket motors (activities at the site currently consist of site remediation and closure), has applied for a major amendment to National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permit No. TX0034321 (corresponding to TNRCC Permit No. 02335) to authorize the addition of treated groundwater for discharge from this facility on an intermittent and flow variable basis via Outfall 001, and the removal of all other waste streams previously authorized in the existing permit. The current permit authorizes the discharge of treated process wastewater, domestic sewage, boiler blowdown, cooling water, rinse water, and storm water at a daily average flow not to exceed 200,000 gallons per day via Outfall 001; and storm water on an intermittent and flow variable basis via Outfall 002. The facility is located at 1701 Bluebonnet Parkway, just west of State Highway 317, bounded on the south by Farm-to-Market Road 2671, and on the north by the St. Louis Southwestern Railway, southwest of the City of McGregor, Coryell and McLennan Counties, Texas.

CITY OF WEST has applied for a renewal of TNRCC Permit No. 10544-001, which authorizes the discharge of treated domestic wastewater at a daily average flow not to exceed 450,000 gallons per day. The plant site is located approximately 2,000 feet northeast of the intersection of Farm-to- Market Road 2311 and Farm-to-Market Road 2114 in the City of West in Mclennan County, Texas.

Written comments or requests for a public meeting may be submitted to the Office of the Chief Clerk, at the address provided in the information section above, WITHIN 30 DAYS OF THE ISSUED DATE OF THIS NOTICE

CITY OF SILSBEE has applied for a major amendment to TNRCC Permit No. 10282-001 to authorize an increase in the discharge of treated domestic wastewater from a daily average flow not to exceed 1,000,000 gallons per day to an annual average flow not to exceed 1,600,000 gallons per day. The plant site is located approximately 400 feet east and 800 feet south of the intersection of U.S. Highway 96 and Third Street in the southern portion of the City of Silsbee in Hardin County, Texas.

TRD-200102620

LaDonna Castañuela

Chief Clerk

Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission

Filed: May 9, 2001

Notice of Water Rights Applications

BENJAMIN C. PAWELEK, P. O. Box 254, Falls Creek, Texas 78113, has applied to the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC) to amend Certificate of Adjudication No. 19-2183 which was issued to Benjamin C. Pawelek on July 29, 1982, and authorized the owner, with a time priority of November 7, 1940, the diversion and use of not to exceed 100 acre-feet of water per annum from a point on the west bank of the San Antonio River approximately 4 miles west of Falls City at a maximum rate of 3.34 cfs (1500 gpm) to irrigate a maximum of 80 acres of land per annum in Wilson County, Texas. Applicant seeks to amend Certificate No. 19-2183 to authorize the lease of the 100 acre-feet of water rights authorized by Certificate No. 19-2183 and by moving the diversion point and place of use approximately 25 miles downstream to the diversion point and place of use authorized by Permit No. 5368 in Karnes County, Texas owned by Arthur Ray Yanta and wife, Patsy Yanta. The amended diversion will be directly from the San Antonio River at a point on the right, or south bank, between a point bearing N 13° W, 9800 feet from the south corner of the Alexander Hunter Survey, Abstract No. 146 and a point bearing N 29° 30" E, 7750 feet from the aforesaid corner, also being Latitude 28.943° N and Longitude 97.870° W. The amended place of use for the water will those lands in the Alexander Hunter Survey, Abstract No. 146 and the William Pate Survey, Abstract No. 235 approximately 5 miles northeast of Karnes City in Karnes County as authorized by Permit No. 5368. There are twenty-five (25) water rights located between the existing and proposed diversion points in the San Antonio River Basin watershed. Notice of this application will be mailed via certified mail to each of these interjacent owners. This amendment will be junior to all water rights with diversion points in the San Antonio River watershed between the original diversion point, approximately 4 miles west of Falls City and the amended diversion point down-stream approximately 10 miles east-southeast of Falls City as they exist on the date of issuance of this amendment. It will retain its original priority with respect to all other water rights in the San Antonio River Basin. The application was received on January 14, 1999 and accepted for filing on May 21, 1999. The Executive Director of the TNRCC has reviewed the application and has declared it to be administratively complete. This notice is being sent to you as an interjacent water right holder with a diversion point on the San Antonio River between the existing diversion point and the requested diversion point. Any proposed amendment for the application by the Executive Director will include a condition that it be junior in priority to these 25 water rights on the San Antonio River between the existing and the requested diversion points.

TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT, 4200 Smith School Road, Austin, Texas 78744, applicant, seeks a Water Use Permit pursuant to §11.143, Texas Water Code, and Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission Rules 30 TAC §§295.1, et seq. The applicant seeks authorization to maintain an exempt on-channel dam and reservoir (pursuant to Texas Water Code §11.142) for in-place recreational use in Fort Boggy State Park. The reservoir is located on an unnamed tributary to Boggy Creek , Boggy Creek tributary, Trinity River, Trinity River Basin, in Leon County, Texas approximately 5.1 miles south of Centerville and 2.0 miles north of Leona, Texas. Station 2 + 00 on the centerline of the dam is N 27.283 E, 3,105 feet from the Southwest corner of the Manuel Skinner Original Survey No. 160, Abstract No. 27, in Leon County, Texas, also being Latitude 31.184 N, Longitude 95.976 W. The reservoir has a capacity of 90 acre-feet, a surface area of 8.7 acres, and was constructed prior to 1964. Pursuant to TAC §295.153, notice will be sent to the ten water right holders downstream of the reservoir to the coast.

Notice is given that CLIFFORD A. FAUBION, P.O. 481, Ballinger, TX 76821, applicant, seeks to amend a certificate of adjudication pursuant to Texas Water Code §11.122 and Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission Rules 30 TAC §§295.1, et seq. Clifford A. Faubion, submitted Application No. 1097-A to amend Certification of Adjudication No. 14-1097 on June 1, 1999. Additional information required to process the application was received on March 13, 2000, and on April 20, 2001. The application was declared administratively complete on May 1, 2001. Certificate of Adjudication No. 14-1097 authorizes the owner to divert and use not to exceed 53 acre-feet of water from three points on Elm Creek, tributary of the Colorado River, to irrigate a maximum of 54 acres of land north of Farm to Market Road No. 53 out of a 1,088 acre tract in the Juan Jose Ximines League No. 265, Abstract No. 569 in Runnels County, Texas. Maximum authorized diversion rate is 2.67 cfs (1200 gpm). The time priority is 1954. Applicant acquired the water right authorized by Certificate of Adjudication No. 14-1097 and seeks to amend the certificate by moving the diversion point approximately 14 miles downstream on Elm Creek and by changing the place of use of the water. The proposed diversion point will be on Elm Creek at Latitude 31.71°N, Longitude 99.96°W. Land to be irrigated is located in the Alexander Lessassier Survey No. 174, Abstract No. 347 in Runnels County, Texas as recorded in Volume 376, page 191 of the Runnels County Deed Records. This notice is being sent to you as a water rights owner of record with a diversion point between the existing and proposed diversion points. Applicant is not requesting an increase in the amount of water diverted per year or in the diversion rate. The priority date of the requested amendment will be 1954, except that it will be junior in priority to all existing water rights between the current and proposed diversion points.

Written public comments and requests for a public meeting should be submitted to the Office of Chief Clerk, at the address provided in the information section below, by May 28, 2001. A public meeting is intended for the taking of public comment, and is not a contested case hearing. A public meeting will be held if the Executive Director determines that there is a significant degree of public interest in the application.

The TNRCC may grant a contested case hearing on this application if a written hearing request is filed by May 28, 2001. The Executive Director may approve the application unless a written request for a contested case hearing is filed by May 28, 2001. To request a contested case hearing, you must submit the following: (1) your name (or for a group or association, an official representative), mailing address, daytime phone number, and fax number, if any; (2) applicant's name and permit number; (3) the statement "[I/we] request a contested case hearing;" (4) a brief and specific description of how you would be affected by the application in a way not common to the general public; and (5) the location and distance of your property relative to the proposed activity. You may also submit your proposed adjustments to the application/permit which would satisfy your concerns. Requests for a contested case hearing must be submitted in writing to the TNRCC Office of the Chief Clerk at the address provided in the information section below. If a hearing request is filed, the Executive Director will not issue the permit and will forward the application and hearing request to the TNRCC Commissioners for their consideration at a scheduled Commission meeting.

Written hearing requests, public comments or requests for a public meeting should be submitted to the Office of the Chief Clerk, MC 105, TNRCC, P.O. Box 13087, Austin, TX 78711-3087. For information concerning the hearing process, please contact the Public Interest Counsel, MC 103, the same address. For additional information, individual members of the general public may contact the Office of Public Assistance at 1-800-687-4040. General information regarding the TNRCC can be found at our web site at www.tnrcc.state.tx.us.

TRD-200102622

LaDonna Castañuela

Chief Clerk

Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission

Filed: May 9, 2001

Public Notice - Update of State Superfund Registry

The Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC or commission) is required under the Texas Health and Safety Code, Chapter 361, Texas Solid Waste Disposal Act (the Act) to identify, to the extent feasible, and evaluate facilities which may constitute an imminent and substantial endangerment to public health and safety or to the environment due to a release or threatened release of hazardous substances into the environment. The first registry identifying these sites was published in the January 16, 1987 issue of the Texas Register (12 TexReg 205). Pursuant to the Act, §361.181, the commission must update the registry (state Superfund registry) annually to add new facilities in accordance with the Act, §361.184(a) and §361.188(a)(1) (see also 30 TAC §335.343) or to delete facilities in accordance with the Act, §361.189 (see also the Act, §361.183(a) and 30 TAC §335.344). The current notice also includes facilities where state Superfund action has ended, or where cleanup is being adequately addressed by other means.

Pursuant to the Act, §361.188, the state Superfund registry identifying those facilities that are listed and have been determined to pose an imminent and substantial endangerment in descending order of hazard ranking system (HRS) scores are as follows.

1. Col-Tex Refinery, both sides of Business Interstate 20 (U.S. 80) in Colorado City, Mitchell County: tank farm and refinery.

2. Precision Machine and Supply, 500 West Olive Street, Odessa, Ector County: chrome plating and machine shop.

3. Sonics International, Inc., north of Farm Road 101, approximately two miles west of Ranger, Eastland County: industrial waste injection wells.

4. Maintech International, 8300 Old Ferry Road, Port Arthur, Jefferson County: chemical cleaning and equipment hydroblasting.

5. Federated Metals, 9200 Market Street, Houston, Harris County: magnesium dross/sludge disposal, inactive landfill.

6. Gulf Metals Industries, on Telean Street, northeast of the intersection of Mykawa Road and Almeda-Genoa Road, Houston, Harris County: disposal of hazardous materials.

7. Texas American Oil, approximately three miles north of Midlothian on Old State Highway 67, Ellis County: waste oil recycling.

8. Niagara Chemical, west of the intersection of Commerce Street and Adams Avenue, Harlingen, Cameron County: pesticide formulation.

9. International Creosoting, 1110 Pine Street, Beaumont, Jefferson County: wood treatment.

10. McBay Oil & Gas, approximately three miles northwest of Grapeland on Farm Road 1272, Houston County: oil refinery and oil reclamation plant.

11. Solvent Recovery Services, 5502 FM 521 approximately 0.2 mile south of its intersection with Highway 6, Arcola, Fort Bend County: paint solvent recycling.

12. Toups, on the west side of Texas 326, 2.1 miles north of its intersection with Texas 105, in Sour Lake, Hardin County: fencepost treating facility and municipal waste.

13. Harris Sand Pits, 23340 South Texas 16, approximately 10.5 miles south of San Antonio at Von Ormy, Bexar County: commercial sand and clay pit.

14. JCS Company, north of Phalba on County Road 2415, approximately 1.5 miles west of the intersection of County Road 2403 and Texas 198, Van Zandt County: lead-acid battery recycling.

15. Jerrell B. Thompson Battery, north of Phalba on County Road 2410, approximately one mile north of the intersection of County Road 2410 and Texas 198, Van Zandt County: lead-acid battery recycling.

16. Aztec Ceramics, 4735 Emil Road, San Antonio, Bexar County: tile manufacturing.

17. Hayes-Sammons Warehouse, Miller Avenue and East Eighth Street, Mission, Hidalgo County: commercial grade pesticide storage.

18. Jensen Drive Scrap, 3603 Jensen Drive, Houston, Harris County: scrap salvage.

19. Baldwin Waste Oil Company, on County Road 44 approximately 0.1 mile west of its intersection with Farm Road 1889, Robstown, Nueces County: waste oil processing.

20. Hall Street, north of intersection of 20th Street East with California Street, north of Dickinson, Galveston County: waste disposal and landfill/open field dumping.

21. Unnamed Plating, 6816-6824 Industrial Avenue, El Paso, El Paso County: metals processing and recovery.

22. Tricon America, Inc., 101 East Hampton Road, Crowley, Tarrant County: aluminum and zinc smelting and casting.

Pursuant to the Act, §361.184(a), those facilities that may pose an imminent and substantial endangerment, and which have been proposed to the state Superfund registry, are set out in descending order of HRS scores as follows.

1. Kingsland, in the vicinity of the 2100 block of Farm to Market Road 1431 and in the vicinity of the 2400 block of Farm to Market Road 1431, in the community of Kingsland, Llano County: two groundwater plumes.

2. First Quality Cylinders, 931 West Laurel Street, San Antonio, Bexar County: aircraft cylinder rebuilder.

3. J. C. Pennco Waste Oil Service, 4927 Higdon Road, San Antonio, Bexar County: waste oil and used drum recycler.

4. ArChem/Thames Chelsea, 13103 Conklin Lane, Houston, Harris County: chemical manufacturing and recycling.

5. Crim-Hammett, 801 Highway 64, Henderson, Rusk County: open pit dumping, buried waste.

6. Phipps Plating, 305 East Grayson Street, San Antonio, Bexar County: metal plating.

7. Harkey Road, 17111 Harkey Road, Pearland, Brazoria County: residential area contaminated from waste material used for fill.

8. Pioneer Oil and Refining Company, 20280 South Payne Road, outside of Somerset, Bexar County: oil refinery.

9. Voda Petroleum Inc., 211 Duncan Street, Clarksville City, Gregg County: waste oil recycling facility.

10. Force Road Oil and Vacuum Truck Company, 1722 County Road 573 (Alloy Road), approximately 1,300 feet east of the Brazoria - Fort Bend County Line, Brazoria County: oily wastewater disposal and oil recovery facility.

11. Higgins Wood Preserving, inside the bordering streets of North Timberland Drive (U.S. 59) on the west, Warren Street on the east, and Paul Avenue on the north, Lufkin, Angelina County: wood treatment.

12. Marshall Wood Preserving, 2700 West Houston Street, Marshall, Harrison County: wood treatment.

13. Thompson Hayward Chemical Company, on the east side of U.S. 277, 0.5 mile south of Munday, Knox County: pesticide formulating.

14. Avinger Development Company (ADCO), on the south side of Texas 155, approximately 1/4 mile east of the intersection with Texas 49, Avinger, Cass County: wood treatment.

15. Old Lufkin Creosoting, 1411 East Lufkin Avenue, Lufkin, Angelina County: wood treatment.

16. Materials Recovery Enterprises, about four miles southwest of Ovalo, near U.S. 83 and Farm Road 604, Taylor County: Class I industrial solid waste disposal site.

17. Harvey Industries, Inc., southeast corner of Farm Road 2495 and Texas 31 (One Curtis Mathes Drive), Athens, Henderson County: television cabinets and circuit board manufacturing.

18. Hu-Mar Chemicals, north of McGothlin Road, between the old Southern Pacific Railroad tracks and 12th Street, Palacios, Matagorda County: pesticide and herbicide formulation.

19. American Zinc, approximately 3.5 miles north of Dumas on U.S. 287 and five miles east on Farm Road 119, Moore County: zinc smelter.

20. El Paso Plating Works, 2422 Wyoming Avenue, El Paso, El Paso County: metal plating.

21. Spector Salvage Yard, Jackson Avenue and 10th Street, Orange, Orange County: military surplus and chemical salvage yard.

22. State Highway 123 PCE Plume, near intersection of State Highway 123 and Interstate Highway 35 (IH-35) in San Marcos, Hays County: contaminated groundwater plume from unknown source.

23. Kingsbury Metal Finishing, Inc., 1720 Farm-to-Market Road 1104, Kingsbury, Guadalupe County: electroplating facility. 24. Permian Chemical Company, 325 Pronto Avenue, southeast of Odessa, Ector County: chemical manufacturer.

25. Tucker Oil Refinery/Clinton Manages Oil & Refining Company, east side of U.S. Highway 79 in the rural community of Tucker, Anderson County: oil refinery.

26. Sampson Horrice, 2000 and 2006 Plainfield Drive, Dallas, Dallas County: inactive gravel pit landfill that illegally accepted hazardous and solid waste.

27. Barlow's Wills Point Plating, south side of U.S. 80, approximately 3.4 miles east of its intersection with Texas 64, in Wills Point, Van Zandt County: inactive electroplating.

28. McNabb Flying Service, located 1.5 miles northwest of Alvin, approximately one mile east of State Highway 6, at the intersection of Brazoria County roads 146 and 539, Brazoria County: aerial pesticide applicator.

29. Stoller Chemical Company, Inc., 5200 North Columbia Street, east of the intersection of Highway 87 and Business 87, north of Plainview, Hale County: warehouse containing vats and leftover fertilizer products and an abandoned cattle trailer containing leaking drums of hazardous waste.

Since the last publication on November 24, 2000, the TNRCC has determined that five facilities, ArChem Thames/Chelsea; Harkey Road; Kingsbury Metal Finishing Inc.; State Highway 123 PCE Plume; and Voda Petroleum Inc. may pose an imminent and substantial endangerment to public health and safety or the environment and pursuant to the Act, §361.184(a), have been added to the list of sites proposed to the state Superfund registry. One site, Toups, has been determined to pose an imminent and substantial endangerment to public health and safety or the environment and pursuant to the Act, §361.188, and is hereby listed on the state Superfund registry.

To date, 20 sites: Aztec Mercury, Brazoria County; Bestplate, Inc., Dallas County; Butler Ranch, Karnes County; Double R Plating Company, Cass County; Hagerson Road Drum, Fort Bend County; Hart Creosoting, Jasper County; Hi-Yield, Hunt County; Houston Lead, Harris County; Houston Scrap, Harris County; LaPata Oil Company, Harris County; Munoz Borrow Pits, Hidalgo County; Newton Wood Preserving, Newton County; PIP Minerals, Liberty County; Poly-Cycle Industries, Ellis County; Rio Grande Refinery I, Hardin County; Rio Grande Refinery II, Hardin County; South Texas Solvents, Nueces County; State Marine, Jefferson County; Waste Oil Tank Services, Harris County; and Wortham Lead Salvage, Henderson County have been deleted from the state registry pursuant to the Act, §361.189 (see also the Act, §361.183(a) and 30 TAC §335.344).

The public records for each of the sites are available for inspection and copying during TNRCC business hours at the TNRCC Records Management Center, Building D, North Entrance, Room 190, 12100 Park 35 Circle, Austin, Texas 78753, telephone 1-800-633-9363, or 512-239-2920. Handicapped parking is available on the east side of Building D, convenient to access ramps that are located between Building D and Building E. Copying of file information is subject to payment of a fee.

TRD-200102590

Margaret Hoffman

Director, Environmental Law Division

Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission

Filed: May 8, 2001

Update to the Water Quality Management Plan

The Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC or commission) announces the availability of the draft April 2001 "Update to the Water Quality Management Plan for the State of Texas."

The Water Quality Management Plan (WQMP) is developed and promulgated pursuant to the requirements of Section 208 of the federal Clean Water Act (CWA). The draft April 2001 Update includes projected effluent limits of indicated domestic dischargers useful for water quality management planning in future permit actions. Once the commission certifies a WQMP update, the update is submitted to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for approval. For some Texas Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (TPDES) permits, the EPA's approval of a corresponding WQMP update is a necessary precondition to TPDES permit issuance by the commission.

A copy of the draft April 2001 Update may be found on the commission's web page located at http://www.tnrcc.state.tx.us/water/quality/wqmp . A copy of the draft may also be viewed at the TNRCC Library located at TNRCC, Building A, 12100 Park 35 Circle, Austin, Texas.

Comments on the draft April 2001 "Update to the Water Quality Management Plan" shall be submitted to Ms. Suzanne Vargas, Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, Water Permits and Resource Management Division, MC-150, P.O. Box 13087, Austin, Texas 78711-3087. Comments may also be faxed to (512) 239-4420, but must be followed up with the submission and receipt of the written comments within three working days of when they were faxed. Written comments must be submitted no later than 5:00 p.m. on June 18, 2001. For further information or questions, please contact Ms. Vargas at (512) 239-4619 or by e-mail at svargas@tnrcc.state.tx.us .

TRD-200102580

Margaret Hoffman

Director, Environmental Law Division

Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission

Filed: May 8, 2001

Public Utility Commission of Texas

Notice of Application for a Certificate to Provide Retail Electric Service

Notice is given to the public of the filing with the Public Utility Commission of Texas (commission) of an application on April 30, 2001, for retail electric provider (REP) certification, pursuant to §§39.101 - 39.109 of the Public Utility Regulatory Act (PURA). A summary of the application follows.

Docket Title and Number: Application of Coral Power, L.L.C. for Retail Electric Provider (REP) certification, Docket Number 24034 before the Public Utility Commission of Texas.

Applicant's requested service area includes the entire state of Texas.

Persons who wish to comment upon the action sought should contact the Public Utility Commission of Texas, P.O. Box 13326, Austin, Texas 78711-3326, or call the commission's Customer Protection Division at (512) 936-7120 no later than May 25, 2001. Hearing and speech-impaired individuals with text telephone (TTY) may contact the commission at (512) 936-7136.

TRD-200102519

Rhonda Dempsey

Rules Coordinator

Public Utility Commission of Texas

Filed: May 2, 2001

Notice of Application for Amendment to Certificate of Operating Authority

On May 1, 2001, ETS Telephone Company, Inc. filed an application with the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUC) to amend its certificate of operating authority (COA) granted in COA Certificate Number 50001. Applicant intends to expand its geographic area to include the entire state of Texas.

The Application: Application of ETS Telephone Company, Inc. for an Amendment to its Certificate of Operating Authority, Docket Number 24042.

Persons with questions about this docket, or who wish to intervene or otherwise participate in these proceedings should make appropriate filings or comments to the Public Utility Commission of Texas, at P.O. Box 13326, Austin, Texas 78711-3326 no later than May 23, 2001. You may contact the PUC Customer Protection Division at (512) 936-7150. Hearing and speech-impaired individuals with text telephone (TTY) may contact the commission at (512) 936-7136. All correspondence should refer to Docket Number 24042.

TRD-200102525

Rhonda Dempsey

Rules Coordinator

Public Utility Commission of Texas

Filed: May 3, 2001

Notice of Application for Amendment to Service Provider Certificate of Operating Authority

On May 7, 2001, NOS Communications, Inc. filed an application with the Public Utility Commission of Texas (commission) to amend its service provider certificate of operating authority (SPCOA) granted in SPCOA Certificate Number 60022. Applicant intends to remove the resale-only restriction.

The Application: Application of NOS Communications, Inc. for an Amendment to its Service Provider Certificate of Operating Authority, Docket Number 24070.

Persons with questions about this docket, or who wish to intervene or otherwise participate in these proceedings should make appropriate filings or comments to the Public Utility Commission of Texas, P.O. Box 13326, Austin, Texas 78711-3326 no later than May 23, 2001. You may contact the commission's Customer Protection Division at (512) 936-7120. Hearing and speech- impaired individuals with text telephone (TTY) may contact the commission at (512) 936-7136. All correspondence should refer to Docket Number 24070.

TRD-200102576

Rhonda Dempsey

Rules Coordinator

Public Utility Commission of Texas

Filed: May 7, 2001

Notice of Application for Service Provider Certificate of Operating Authority

Notice is given to the public of the filing with the Public Utility Commission of Texas of an application on May 2, 2001, for a service provider certificate of operating authority (SPCOA), pursuant to §§54.151 - 54.156 of the Public Utility Regulatory Act (PURA). A summary of the application follows.

Docket Title and Number: Application of CenturyTel Solutions, LLC for a Service Provider Certificate of Operating Authority, Docket Number 24046 before the Public Utility Commission of Texas.

Applicant intends to provide plain old telephone service, ADSL, ISDN, HDSL, SDSL, RADSL, VDSL, Optical Services, T1-Private Line, Switch 56 KBPS, Frame Relay, Fractional T1, long distance and wireless services.

Applicant's requested SPCOA geographic area includes the entire state of Texas.

Persons who wish to comment upon the action sought should contact the Public Utility Commission of Texas, at P.O. Box 13326, Austin, Texas 78711-3326, or call the commission's Customer Protection Division at (512) 936-7150 no later than May 23, 2001. Hearing and speech-impaired individuals with text telephone (TTY) may contact the commission at (512) 936-7136.

TRD-200102526

Rhonda Dempsey

Rules Coordinator

Public Utility Commission of Texas

Filed: May 3, 2001

Notice of Application for Service Provider Certificate of Operating Authority

Notice is given to the public of the filing with the Public Utility Commission of Texas (commission) of an application on May 4, 2001, for a service provider certificate of operating authority SPCOA), pursuant to §§54.151 - 54.156 of the Public Utility Regulatory Act (PURA). A summary of the application follows.

Docket Title and Number: Application of Telcom Supply, Inc. for a Service Provider Certificate of Operating Authority, Docket Number 24062 before the Public Utility Commission of Texas.

Applicant intends to provide plain old telephone service, ADSL, Optical Services, T1-Private Line, and long distance services.

Applicant's requested SPCOA geographic area includes the area of Texas comprising the Austin, Beaumont, Dallas, Hearne, Houston, Longview, and Waco Local Access and Transport Areas.

Persons who wish to comment upon the action sought should contact the Public Utility Commission of Texas, P.O. Box 13326, Austin, Texas 78711-3326, or call the commission's Customer Protection Division at (512) 936-7120 no later than May 23, 2001. Hearing and speech-impaired individuals with text telephone (TTY) may contact the commission at (512) 936-7136.

TRD-200102575

Rhonda Dempsey

Rules Coordinator

Public Utility Commission of Texas

Filed: May 7, 2001

Notice of Application for Waiver to Requirements in P.U.C. Substantive Rule §25.181

Notice is given to the public of the filing with the Public Utility Commission of Texas (P.U.C. or commission) of an application on May 3, 2001, for waiver of the limitation on energy efficiency incentive payments imposed by P.U.C. Substantive Rule §25.181(h)(3).

Docket Title and Number: Application of Southwestern Electric Power Company (SWEPCO) for Waiver of the Limitation on Energy Efficiency Incentive Payment Under P.U.C. Substantive Rule §25.181(h)(3). Docket Number 24052.

The Application: SWEPCO requests the commission to grant its motion for waiver of the 20% limitation imposed by §25.181(h)(3) no later than May 31, 2001. According to the affidavit of Richter L. Tipton, SWEPCO has taken significant steps to promote its Commercial and Industrial (C&I) Standard Offer Program; however, SWEPCO has received no applications for projects and no incentives have been paid to date. Further, Mr. Tipton attests that comments received from several energy service companies (ESCO) indicate that the limitation on incentives available to any one ESCO is a barrier to participation in SWEPCO's program.

Persons who wish to comment upon the action sought should contact the Public Utility Commission of Texas, by mail at P.O. Box 13326, Austin, Texas, 78711-3326, or call the commission's Customer Protection Division at (512) 936-7120 or toll free at 1-888-782-8477. Hearing and speech-impaired individuals with text telephones (TTY) may contact the commission at (512) 936-7136. All comments should reference Docket Number 24052.

TRD-200102577

Rhonda Dempsey

Rules Coordinator

Public Utility Commission of Texas

Filed: May 7, 2001

Notice of Joint Agreement of Verizon Southwest, Inc. to Offer Extended Area Service

Notice is given to the public of the filing with the Public Utility Commission of Texas (P.U.C. or commission) of a joint agreement on April 23, 2001, seeking approval of two-way, mandatory, Extended Area Service between the San Angelo and Sonora Exchanges, pursuant to P.U.C. Substantive Rule §26.217.

Project Title and Number: Joint Petition of Verizon Southwest, Inc., and Governmental Representatives to Provide Two-Way, Non-Optional, Extended Area Service (EAS) between the San Angelo Exchange and the Sonora Exchange, Pursuant to P.U.C. Substantive Rule §26.217(b)(8), Project Number 24009.

The Joint Petition and Agreement: The proposed plan is a two way, mandatory, extended area service offering to which Verizon Southwest's residence and business local exchange customers within the San Angelo and Sonora exchanges will be able to call within the designated calling area for a monthly, flat rate.

The joint applicants have requested that the joint agreement filing be processed administratively pursuant to P.U.C. Substantive Rule §26.217(b)(8). Persons who wish to intervene in the proceeding or comment upon the action sought should contact the Public Utility Commission of Texas, by mail at P.O. Box 13326, Austin, Texas 78711-3326, or call the commission's Customer Protection Division at (512) 936-7120 by March 26, 2001. Hearing and speech-impaired individuals with text telephone (TTY) may contact the commission at (512) 936-7003.

TRD-200102535

Rhonda Dempsey

Rules Coordinator

Public Utility Commission of Texas

Filed: May 4, 2001

Notice of Petition for Expanded Local Calling Service

Notice is given to the public of the filing with the Public Utility Commission of Texas (commission) of a petition on March 30, 2001, for expanded local calling service (ELCS), pursuant to Chapter 55, Subchapter C of the Public Utility Regulatory Act (PURA). A summary of the application follows.

Project Title and Number: Petition of the Waterwood Exchange for Expanded Local Calling Service, Project Number 23886.

The petitioners in the Waterwood Exchange request ELCS to the exchanges of Cold Spring, Livingston, Onalaska, and Point Blank.

Persons who wish to comment upon the action sought should contact the Public Utility Commission of Texas, P.O. Box 13326, Austin, Texas 78711-3326, or call the commission's Customer Protection Division at (512) 936-7120 no later than June 1, 2001. Hearing and speech- impaired individuals with text telephone (TTY) may contact the commission at (512) 936-7136.

TRD-200102568

Rhonda Dempsey

Rules Coordinator

Public Utility Commission of Texas

Filed: May 7, 2001

Notice of Petition for Expanded Local Calling Service

Notice is given to the public of the filing with the Public Utility Commission of Texas (commission) of a petition on April 2, 2001, for expanded local calling service (ELCS), pursuant to Chapter 55, Subchapter C of the Public Utility Regulatory Act (PURA). A summary of the application follows.

Project Title and Number: Petition of the Newton Exchange for Expanded Local Calling Service, Project Number 23891.

The petitioners in the Newton Exchange request ELCS to the exchanges of Buna, Deweyville, and Silsbee.

Persons who wish to comment upon the action sought should contact the Public Utility Commission of Texas, P.O. Box 13326, Austin, Texas 78711-3326, or call the commission's Customer Protection Division at (512) 936-7120 no later than June 1, 2001. Hearing and speech- impaired individuals with text telephone (TTY) may contact the commission at (512) 936-7136.

TRD-200102569

Rhonda Dempsey

Rules Coordinator

Public Utility Commission of Texas

Filed: May 7, 2001

Public Notice of Amendment to Interconnection Agreement

On May 1, 2001, Level 3 Communications, LLC and Verizon Southwest, collectively referred to as applicants, filed a joint application for approval of amendment to an existing interconnection agreement under §252(i) of the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, Public Law Number 104-104, 110 Statute 56, (codified as amended in scattered sections of 15 and 47 United States Code) (FTA) and the Public Utility Regulatory Act, Texas Utilities Code Annotated, Chapters 52 and 60 (Vernon 1998 & Supplement 2001) (PURA). The joint application has been designated Docket Number 24041. The joint application and the underlying interconnection agreement are available for public inspection at the commission's offices in Austin, Texas.

The commission must act to approve the interconnection agreement within 35 days after it is submitted by the parties.

The commission finds that additional public comment should be allowed before the commission issues a final decision approving or rejecting the amendment to the interconnection agreement. Any interested person may file written comments on the joint application by filing ten copies of the comments with the commission's filing clerk. Additionally, a copy of the comments should be served on each of the applicants. The comments should specifically refer to Docket Number 24041. As a part of the comments, an interested person may request that a public hearing be conducted. The comments, including any request for public hearing, shall be filed by May 31, 2001, and shall include:

1) a detailed statement of the person's interests in the agreement, including a description of how approval of the agreement may adversely affect those interests;

2) specific allegations that the agreement, or some portion thereof:

a) discriminates against a telecommunications carrier that is not a party to the agreement; or

b) is not consistent with the public interest, convenience, and necessity; or

c) is not consistent with other requirements of state law; and

3) the specific facts upon which the allegations are based.

After reviewing any comments, the commission will issue a notice of approval, denial, or determine whether to conduct further proceedings concerning the joint application. The commission shall have the authority given to a presiding officer pursuant to P.U.C. Procedural Rule §22.202. The commission may identify issues raised by the joint application and comments and establish a schedule for addressing those issues, including the submission of evidence by the applicants, if necessary, and briefing and oral argument. The commission may conduct a public hearing. Interested persons who file comments are not entitled to participate as intervenors in the public hearing.

Persons with questions about this project or who wish to comment on the joint application should contact the Public Utility Commission of Texas, 1701 North Congress Avenue, P. O. Box 13326, Austin, Texas 78711-3326. You may call the commission's Customer Protection Division at (512) 936-7120 or toll free at 1-888-782-8477. Hearing and speech-impaired individuals with text telephones (TTY) may contact the commission at (512) 936-7136. All correspondence should refer to Docket Number 24041.

TRD-200102536

Rhonda Dempsey

Rules Coordinator

Public Utility Commission of Texas

Filed: May 4, 2001

Public Notice of Amendment to Interconnection Agreement

On May 1, 2001, Southwestern Bell Telephone Company and IP Communications Corporation, collectively referred to as applicants, filed a joint application for approval of amendment to an existing interconnection agreement under §252(i) of the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, Public Law Number 104-104, 110 Statute 56, (codified as amended in scattered sections of 15 and 47 United States Code) (FTA) and the Public Utility Regulatory Act, Texas Utilities Code Annotated, Chapters 52 and 60 (Vernon 1998 & Supplement 2001) (PURA). The joint application has been designated Docket Number 24045. The joint application and the underlying interconnection agreement are available for public inspection at the commission's offices in Austin, Texas.

The commission must act to approve the interconnection agreement within 35 days after it is submitted by the parties.

The commission finds that additional public comment should be allowed before the commission issues a final decision approving or rejecting the amendment to the interconnection agreement. Any interested person may file written comments on the joint application by filing ten copies of the comments with the commission's filing clerk. Additionally, a copy of the comments should be served on each of the applicants. The comments should specifically refer to Docket Number 24045. As a part of the comments, an interested person may request that a public hearing be conducted. The comments, including any request for public hearing, shall be filed by May 31, 2001, and shall include:

1) a detailed statement of the person's interests in the agreement, including a description of how approval of the agreement may adversely affect those interests;

2) specific allegations that the agreement, or some portion thereof:

a) discriminates against a telecommunications carrier that is not a party to the agreement; or

b) is not consistent with the public interest, convenience, and necessity; or

c) is not consistent with other requirements of state law; and

3) the specific facts upon which the allegations are based.

After reviewing any comments, the commission will issue a notice of approval, denial, or determine whether to conduct further proceedings concerning the joint application. The commission shall have the authority given to a presiding officer pursuant to P.U.C. Procedural Rule §22.202. The commission may identify issues raised by the joint application and comments and establish a schedule for addressing those issues, including the submission of evidence by the applicants, if necessary, and briefing and oral argument. The commission may conduct a public hearing. Interested persons who file comments are not entitled to participate as intervenors in the public hearing.

Persons with questions about this project or who wish to comment on the joint application should contact the Public Utility Commission of Texas, 1701 North Congress Avenue, P. O. Box 13326, Austin, Texas 78711-3326. You may call the commission's Customer Protection Division at (512) 936-7120 or toll free at 1-888-782-8477. Hearing and speech-impaired individuals with text telephones (TTY) may contact the commission at (512) 936-7136. All correspondence should refer to Docket Number 24045.

TRD-200102537

Rhonda Dempsey

Rules Coordinator

Public Utility Commission of Texas

Filed: May 4, 2001

Public Notice of Amendment to Interconnection Agreement

On May 2, 2001, Southwestern Bell Telephone Company and Brazos Global Communications, collectively referred to as applicants, filed a joint application for approval of amendment to an existing interconnection agreement under §252(i) of the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, Public Law Number 104-104, 110 Statute 56, (codified as amended in scattered sections of 15 and 47 United States Code) (FTA) and the Public Utility Regulatory Act, Texas Utilities Code Annotated, Chapters 52 and 60 (Vernon 1998 & Supplement 2001) (PURA). The joint application has been designated Docket Number 24049. The joint application and the underlying interconnection agreement are available for public inspection at the commission's offices in Austin, Texas.

The commission must act to approve the interconnection agreement within 35 days after it is submitted by the parties.

The commission finds that additional public comment should be allowed before the commission issues a final decision approving or rejecting the amendment to the interconnection agreement. Any interested person may file written comments on the joint application by filing ten copies of the comments with the commission's filing clerk. Additionally, a copy of the comments should be served on each of the applicants. The comments should specifically refer to Docket Number 24049. As a part of the comments, an interested person may request that a public hearing be conducted. The comments, including any request for public hearing, shall be filed by May 31, 2001, and shall include:

1) a detailed statement of the person's interests in the agreement, including a description of how approval of the agreement may adversely affect those interests;

2) specific allegations that the agreement, or some portion thereof:

a) discriminates against a telecommunications carrier that is not a party to the agreement; or

b) is not consistent with the public interest, convenience, and necessity; or

c) is not consistent with other requirements of state law; and

3) the specific facts upon which the allegations are based.

After reviewing any comments, the commission will issue a notice of approval, denial, or determine whether to conduct further proceedings concerning the joint application. The commission shall have the authority given to a presiding officer pursuant to P.U.C. Procedural Rule §22.202. The commission may identify issues raised by the joint application and comments and establish a schedule for addressing those issues, including the submission of evidence by the applicants, if necessary, and briefing and oral argument. The commission may conduct a public hearing. Interested persons who file comments are not entitled to participate as intervenors in the public hearing.

Persons with questions about this project or who wish to comment on the joint application should contact the Public Utility Commission of Texas, 1701 North Congress Avenue, P. O. Box 13326, Austin, Texas 78711-3326. You may call the commission's Customer Protection Division at (512) 936-7120 or toll free at 1-888-782-8477. Hearing and speech-impaired individuals with text telephones (TTY) may contact the commission at (512) 936-7136. All correspondence should refer to Docket Number 24049.

TRD-200102538

Rhonda Dempsey

Rules Coordinator

Public Utility Commission of Texas

Filed: May 4, 2001

Public Notice of Amendment to Interconnection Agreement

On May 2, 2001, Southwestern Bell Telephone Company and El Paso Networks, LLC, collectively referred to as applicants, filed a joint application for approval of amendment to an existing interconnection agreement under §252(i) of the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, Public Law Number 104-104, 110 Statute 56, (codified as amended in scattered sections of 15 and 47 United States Code) (FTA) and the Public Utility Regulatory Act, Texas Utilities Code Annotated, Chapters 52 and 60 (Vernon 1998 & Supplement 2001) (PURA). The joint application has been designated Docket Number 24050. The joint application and the underlying interconnection agreement are available for public inspection at the commission's offices in Austin, Texas.

The commission must act to approve the interconnection agreement within 35 days after it is submitted by the parties.

The commission finds that additional public comment should be allowed before the commission issues a final decision approving or rejecting the amendment to the interconnection agreement. Any interested person may file written comments on the joint application by filing ten copies of the comments with the commission's filing clerk. Additionally, a copy of the comments should be served on each of the applicants. The comments should specifically refer to Docket Number 24050. As a part of the comments, an interested person may request that a public hearing be conducted. The comments, including any request for public hearing, shall be filed by May 31, 2001, and shall include:

1) a detailed statement of the person's interests in the agreement, including a description of how approval of the agreement may adversely affect those interests;

2) specific allegations that the agreement, or some portion thereof:

a) discriminates against a telecommunications carrier that is not a party to the agreement; or

b) is not consistent with the public interest, convenience, and necessity; or

c) is not consistent with other requirements of state law; and

3) the specific facts upon which the allegations are based.

After reviewing any comments, the commission will issue a notice of approval, denial, or determine whether to conduct further proceedings concerning the joint application. The commission shall have the authority given to a presiding officer pursuant to P.U.C. Procedural Rule §22.202. The commission may identify issues raised by the joint application and comments and establish a schedule for addressing those issues, including the submission of evidence by the applicants, if necessary, and briefing and oral argument. The commission may conduct a public hearing. Interested persons who file comments are not entitled to participate as intervenors in the public hearing.

Persons with questions about this project or who wish to comment on the joint application should contact the Public Utility Commission of Texas, 1701 North Congress Avenue, P. O. Box 13326, Austin, Texas 78711-3326. You may call the commission's Customer Protection Division at (512) 936-7120 or toll free at 1-888-782-8477. Hearing and speech-impaired individuals with text telephones (TTY) may contact the commission at (512) 936-7136. All correspondence should refer to Docket Number 24050.

TRD-200102539

Rhonda Dempsey

Rules Coordinator

Public Utility Commission of Texas

Filed: May 4, 2001

Public Notice of Amendment to Interconnection Agreement

On May 2, 2001, Southwestern Bell Telephone Company and Personal Touch, collectively referred to as applicants, filed a joint application for approval of amendment to an existing interconnection agreement under §252(i) of the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, Public Law Number 104-104, 110 Statute 56, (codified as amended in scattered sections of 15 and 47 United States Code) (FTA) and the Public Utility Regulatory Act, Texas Utilities Code Annotated, Chapters 52 and 60 (Vernon 1998 & Supplement 2001) (PURA). The joint application has been designated Docket Number 24051. The joint application and the underlying interconnection agreement are available for public inspection at the commission's offices in Austin, Texas.

The commission must act to approve the interconnection agreement within 35 days after it is submitted by the parties.

The commission finds that additional public comment should be allowed before the commission issues a final decision approving or rejecting the amendment to the interconnection agreement. Any interested person may file written comments on the joint application by filing ten copies of the comments with the commission's filing clerk. Additionally, a copy of the comments should be served on each of the applicants. The comments should specifically refer to Docket Number 24051. As a part of the comments, an interested person may request that a public hearing be conducted. The comments, including any request for public hearing, shall be filed by May 31, 2001, and shall include:

1) a detailed statement of the person's interests in the agreement, including a description of how approval of the agreement may adversely affect those interests;

2) specific allegations that the agreement, or some portion thereof:

a) discriminates against a telecommunications carrier that is not a party to the agreement; or

b) is not consistent with the public interest, convenience, and necessity; or

c) is not consistent with other requirements of state law; and

3) the specific facts upon which the allegations are based.

After reviewing any comments, the commission will issue a notice of approval, denial, or determine whether to conduct further proceedings concerning the joint application. The commission shall have the authority given to a presiding officer pursuant to P.U.C. Procedural Rule §22.202. The commission may identify issues raised by the joint application and comments and establish a schedule for addressing those issues, including the submission of evidence by the applicants, if necessary, and briefing and oral argument. The commission may conduct a public hearing. Interested persons who file comments are not entitled to participate as intervenors in the public hearing.

Persons with questions about this project or who wish to comment on the joint application should contact the Public Utility Commission of Texas, 1701 North Congress Avenue, P. O. Box 13326, Austin, Texas 78711-3326. You may call the commission's Customer Protection Division at (512) 936-7120 or toll free at 1-888-782-8477. Hearing and speech-impaired individuals with text telephones (TTY) may contact the commission at (512) 936-7136. All correspondence should refer to Docket Number 24051.

TRD-200102540

Rhonda Dempsey

Rules Coordinator

Public Utility Commission of Texas

Filed: May 4, 2001

Public Notice of Collocation Compliance Tariffs

On May 4, 2001, Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, AT&T Communications of Texas, L.P., WorldCom Communications, Inc. and the CLEC Coalition, collectively referred to as applicants, filed joint physical and virtual collocation compliance tariffs pursuant to Sections 251 and 252 of the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, Public Law Number 104-104, 110 Statute 56, (codified as amended in scattered sections of 15 and 47 United States Code) (FTA) and the Public Utility Regulatory Act, Texas Utilities Code Annotated, Chapters 52 and 60 (Vernon 1998 & Supplement 2001) (PURA). The collocation tariffs were filed pursuant to the revised arbitration award issued in Proceeding to Establish Permanent Rates for Southwestern Bell Telephone Company's Revised Physical and Virtual Collocation Tariffs . The application has been designated Docket Number 21333. The arbitration award and the underlying collocation tariffs are available for public inspection at the commission's offices in Austin, Texas.

The commission finds that public comment should be allowed before the commission issues a final decision approving or rejecting the collocation tariffs. Any interested person may file written comments on the collocation tariffs by filing 13 copies of the comments with the commission's filing clerk. Additionally, a copy of the comments should be served on each of the applicants. The comments should specifically refer to Docket Number 21333. The comments shall be filed by May 23, 2001, and shall include:

1) a detailed statement of the person's interests in the agreement, including a description of how approval of the agreement may adversely affect those interests;

2) specific allegations that the agreement, or some portion thereof:

a) discriminates against a telecommunications carrier that is not a party to the agreement; or

b) is not consistent with the public interest, convenience, and necessity; or

c) is not consistent with other requirements of state law; and

3) the specific facts upon which the allegations are based.

After reviewing any comments, the commission will issue a notice of approval, denial, or determine whether to conduct further proceedings concerning the proceeding. The commission shall have the authority given to a presiding officer pursuant to P.U.C. Procedural Rule §22.202. The commission may identify issues raised by the collocation tariffs and comments and establish a schedule for addressing those issues, including the submission of evidence by the applicants, if necessary, and briefing and oral argument. The commission may conduct a public hearing. Interested persons who file comments are not entitled to participate as intervenors in the public hearing.

Persons with questions about this project or who wish to comment on the joint application should contact the Public Utility Commission of Texas, 1701 North Congress Avenue, P. O. Box 13326, Austin, Texas 78711-3326. You may call the commission's Customer Protection Division at (512) 936-7120 or toll free at 1-888-782-8477. Hearing and speech-impaired individuals with text telephones (TTY) may contact the commission at (512) 936-7136. All correspondence should refer to Docket Number 21333.

TRD-200102603

Rhonda Dempsey

Rules Coordinator

Public Utility Commission of Texas

Filed: May 9, 2001

Public Notice of Interconnection Agreement

On May 4, 2001, Southwestern Bell Telephone Company and A-Tech Telecom, Inc., collectively referred to as applicants, filed a joint application for approval of interconnection agreement under §252(i) of the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, Public Law Number 104-104, 110 Statute 56, (codified as amended in scattered sections of 15 and 47 United States Code) (FTA) and the Public Utility Regulatory Act, Texas Utilities Code Annotated, Chapters 52 and 60 (Vernon 1998 & Supplement 2001) (PURA). The joint application has been designated Docket Number 24069. The joint application and the underlying interconnection agreement are available for public inspection at the commission's offices in Austin, Texas.

The commission must act to approve the interconnection agreement within 35 days after it is submitted by the parties.

The commission finds that additional public comment should be allowed before the commission issues a final decision approving or rejecting the interconnection agreement. Any interested person may file written comments on the joint application by filing ten copies of the comments with the commission's filing clerk. Additionally, a copy of the comments should be served on each of the applicants. The comments should specifically refer to Docket Number 24069. As a part of the comments, an interested person may request that a public hearing be conducted. The comments, including any request for public hearing, shall be filed by June 5, 2001, and shall include:

1) a detailed statement of the person's interests in the agreement, including a description of how approval of the agreement may adversely affect those interests;

2) specific allegations that the agreement, or some portion thereof:

a) discriminates against a telecommunications carrier that is not a party to the agreement; or

b) is not consistent with the public interest, convenience, and necessity; or

c) is not consistent with other requirements of state law; and

3) the specific facts upon which the allegations are based.

After reviewing any comments, the commission will issue a notice of approval, denial, or determine whether to conduct further proceedings concerning the joint application. The commission shall have the authority given to a presiding officer pursuant to P.U.C. Procedural Rule §22.202. The commission may identify issues raised by the joint application and comments and establish a schedule for addressing those issues, including the submission of evidence by the applicants, if necessary, and briefing and oral argument. The commission may conduct a public hearing. Interested persons who file comments are not entitled to participate as intervenors in the public hearing.

Persons with questions about this project or who wish to comment on the joint application should contact the Public Utility Commission of Texas, 1701 North Congress Avenue, P. O. Box 13326, Austin, Texas 78711-3326. You may call the commission's Customer Protection Division at (512) 936-7120 or toll free at 1-888-782-8477. Hearing and speech-impaired individuals with text telephones (TTY) may contact the commission at (512) 936-7136. All correspondence should refer to Docket Number 24069.

TRD-200102586

Rhonda Dempsey

Rules Coordinator

Public Utility Commission of Texas

Filed: May 8, 2001

Public Notice of Workshop on Pulse Metering and Request for Comments

The Public Utility Commission of Texas (commission) will hold a workshop regarding pulse metering, on Wednesday, May 30, 2001, at 9:30 a.m. in Hearing Room Gee, located on the 7th floor of the William B. Travis Building, 1701 North Congress Avenue, Austin, Texas 78701. Project Number 23952, Rulemaking Concerning Pulse Metering , has been established for this proceeding. Interested persons are requested to file strawman draft rule language no later than May 21, 2001 and to provide an electronic copy of the language to Shawnee Claiborn-Pinto by email at shawnee.claiborn-pinto@puc.state.tx.us. Persons who wish to file comments on the draft rule language submitted by any party may obtain a copy of the filed strawman language from Central Records. They will also be made available on the Project Number 23952 website no later than May 22, 2001. The strawman language will provide the basis for the workshop discussions.

It is requested that any written comments to the strawman draft rule language be filed by submitting 16 copies to the commission's Filing Clerk, Public Utility Commission of Texas, 1701 North Congress Avenue, P.O. Box 13326, Austin, Texas 78711-3326 by 3:00 p.m. Friday, May 25, 2001. All comments should reference Project Number 23952.

Questions concerning the workshop or this notice should be referred to Shawnee Claiborn- Pinto, Electric Division, (512) 936-7388. Hearing and speech-impaired individuals with text telephones (TTY) may contact the commission at (512) 936-7136.

TRD-200102579

Rhonda Dempsey

Rules Coordinator

Public Utility Commission of Texas

Filed: May 8, 2001

Texas Workforce Commission

State Plan for Child Care and Development Fund Services (Correction of Error)

Public Hearings will be held on the following dates and corrected times to provide the public an opportunity to comment on the provision of child care services under the plan proposed in the April 27, 2001 issue of the Texas Register .

June 4, 2001

1:00 p.m.

North Central Workforce Board

616 Six Flags Drive/Second Floor Board Room

Arlington, Texas

June 5, 2001

9:00 a.m. (Immediately following Commission Meeting)

Texas Workforce Commission

101 East 15th Street, Room 244

Austin, Texas

June 6, 2001

1:00 p.m.

Holiday Inn - San Angelo

441 Rio Concho Drive/Section of the Ballroom

San Angelo, Texas

June 7, 2001

1:00 p.m.

Gulf Coast Workforce Board

3555 Timmons Lane/Second Floor, Conference Room A

Houston, Texas

Policies regarding child care that will be established by local workforce development boards (Boards) for the respective local areas will be established by the Boards for the respective local workforce development areas during open meeting processes which will permit public comment.

TRD-200102592

John Moore

Assistant General Counsel

Texas Workforce Commission

Filed: May 8, 2001