Energy & Water 2015 Senate Interim Charges. 2 Committees. 9 Interim Charges.

• Senate Natural Resources
  • ​Follow all the new EPA regulations:  Clean Power Plan, Reduction of Methane & Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) from oil and gas facilities, Ozone standards, Regional Haze, and Waters of the U.S.
  • TERP, specifically mobile source emissions
  • Expidited permitting
  • ERCOT & PUC: monitor the grid. Look at governance, grid safety
  • oil field theft
• Senate Ag. & Water​
  • surface water and groundwater: Ownership, production, and transfer
  • State Water Plan: Improve the process of developing and executing it
  • windblown and waterborne litter
  • brackish groundwater zones