Texas Commission on Environmental Quality - Administrative Orders Issued

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) data on administrative orders issued for enforcement, as published in the Annual Enforcement Report. The dataset includes columns for County, Customer Name, Order Date, Payable Amount, Penalty Assessed, and multiple geographic boundary maps for Texas districts. It was last updated on 2025-11-21 via the data.texas.gov platform.

Use Cases

• Analyzing geographic patterns of enforcement actions using County and Texas Counties Cartographic Boundary Map columns.
• Tracking penalty amounts and order trends over time using Order Date, Penalty Assessed, and Payable Amount columns.
• Mapping regulatory cases to political districts using Texas State House Districts and Texas U.S. Congressional Districts columns.
• Identifying regulated entities and their programs using Customer Name and Program columns from the available data.

Strengths

• Includes multiple geographic boundary columns (e.g., Texas Counties Cartographic Boundary Map, Texas State Senate Districts) for spatial analysis.
• Provides specific financial enforcement details via Payable Amount and Penalty Assessed columns.
• Dataset is updated regularly, with a last update timestamp of 2025-11-21 20:24:58.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), published via data.texas.gov.

Collection Method

Collected for the Annual Enforcement Report, pursuant to Texas Water Code Section 5.126.

Time Range

Temporal coverage is not explicitly stated in the input.

Freshness

Last updated 2025-11-21 20:24:58.

Geography

Texas, United States, with columns for County and multiple Texas district boundaries.