TCEQ issues an amended permit for the City landfill
City financial reports state that, under an amended permit issued by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality dated August 22, 2007, the City's 662-acre landfill site has an estimated total capacity of 43,098,100 tons or 89,787,477 cubic yards. City budget documents record $8.0 million budgeted in 2006/2007 to begin opening a new cell and improve the transfer station, and $2.5 million in 2007/2008 for the new cell's liner. TCEQ's commission database records the amendment as signed August 22, 2007 and mailed September 7, 2007.[1][2][3][4][5]
City financial reports state that the City owns a 662-acre rural landfill site and that, under an amended TCEQ permit dated August 22, 2007, the site has an estimated total capacity of 43,098,100 tons or 89,787,477 cubic yards.[1][2]
Site acres
662
Capacity tons
43,098,100
Capacity cubic yards
89,787,477
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The FY2023/24 budget book says the City budgeted $8.0 million in 2006/2007 to begin opening a new landfill cell and improve the transfer station, $2.5 million in 2007/2008 for the new cell's liner, and $5.5 million in 2016/2017 for the gas collection and control system project, and allocated about $1.0 million a year for improvements and expansion in 2017/2018 and 2018/2019.[3]
New cell 2006 07
$8,000,000
Liner 2007 08
$2,500,000
Gccs 2016 17
$5,500,000
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A June 2018 council transmittal memo identified the landfill permit as 'Landfill MSW Permit 73A' and said groundwater reporting under it involved 25 monitor wells.[6][5]
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TCEQ's Central Registry lists the City of Amarillo Landfill at 16250 Bezner Road as regulated entity RN100237551, owned and operated by the City of Amarillo (customer CN600130942), with Municipal Solid Waste Disposal Permit 73 shown as inactive and Permit 73A as active, along with an active air operating permit (No. 2368) and air new source registration (No. 82403).[5]
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TCEQ's Commissioners' Integrated Database records the permit 73A amendment as granted by the executive director and signed on August 22, 2007 and mailed on September 7, 2007; it lists no comments or hearing requests and one public meeting request for that application.[4]
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As of October 10, 2026, TCEQ's Commissioners' Integrated Database lists four items for the landfill's regulated entity number: the 2007 permit amendment, a minor permit modification signed March 29, 2010, a notice modification signed March 30, 2023, and a 2012 enforcement order on fuel storage tanks.[4]