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The firm's Environmental and Administrative practice group provides professional, creative and cost-effective services focused on the impact of administrative laws on our clients' business objectives. We provide compliance counseling, regulatory assistance, transactional advice, and representation in administrative, civil and criminal proceedings.
The group not only has broad legal experience, but valuable technical and regulatory experience as well. A majority of the group's attorneys are former state regulators who can provide unique insight into difficult regulatory issues. Several of our attorneys have held senior management positions at Texas' primary environmental and natural resource agencies, and some attorneys hold engineering or advanced technical degrees. The group's attorneys are often invited to lecture and write on a wide variety of environmental, natural resource and administrative law topics and have served as leaders of State and local bar associations.
Our sophisticated environmental and administrative law practice covers a wide range of substantive areas that include the following:
- hazardous and nonhazardous industrial and municipal solid waste management and permits
- industrial and municipal wastewater and storm water discharge permits and compliance
- Clean Air Act permits and compliance (including Title V, PSD, NSR and state permits; compliance with NESHAPS, NSPS, BACT, RACT and MACT; and Title II regarding-road/non-road motor vehicles and engines)
- oil and gas exploration and production waste management and oil field cleanup
- mining and mineral processing waste management, permitting and remediation
- underground and petroleum storage tank regulation, remediation and reimbursement
- special waste management, including asbestos, PCB's, medical and radioactive wastes
- used oil, tires, and other recycling and reuse programs
- environmental liabilities in real estate, merger/acquisition and lending transactions
- investigation and remediation of contaminated property (including federal and state Superfund and private cleanup actions)
- recovery of costs of remediation from other potentially liable parties, including insurance companies
- Innocent Owner Program, Voluntary Cleanup Program, Dry Cleaner Program and Municipal Setting Designation activities
- endangered species, wetlands, and other land use issues
- surface and subsurface water rights and water supplies
- water and sewer service supply agreements for land development projects, cities and districts
- water and sewer rates and certificates of convenience and necessity
- Public Information Act and Open Meetings Act compliance
- regulatory policy development, agency rulemaking, and legislative issues
The Environmental and Administrative practice group is located in the firm's Austin office.
