This Web page was created to keep residents informed about issues of concern related to Exide Technologies, which is a battery recycling plant located south of downtown Frisco. This page will be updated as information becomes available.
What's the latest...
On September 1, 2010 the City of Frisco received a letter from Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) regarding recent news reports about air quality in Frisco neighborhoods and schools.... read the letter.
On August 13, 2010 the City of Frisco sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency regarding “Comments on the Re-designation of the Lead Nonattainment Area of Collin County, Texas” ... read the letter.
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Citizen Cory Jensen submitted the following written inquiry: "Why were they (Exide) given an extension to meet 2009 standards of .15?"
The following is the verbatim response from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ)... read TCEQ response.
On October 30, 2009 Exide Technologies sent a letter to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) asking to withdraw their application to expand the Frisco plant... read the letter.
On October 23, 2009 the City of Frisco received notice Exide Technologies agreed to withdraw an application to expand the Frisco plant... read the press release. View the letter.
On October 20, 2009 during its regularly scheduled city council meeting, the Frisco City Council voted unanimously to authorize City Manager George Purefoy to draft a letter to Exide asking for the company to withdraw its permit application with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) to expand production at the battery recycling plant.
What action has the City of Frisco taken?
On October 19, 2009 Mayor Maher Maso and City Manager George Purefoy drove to Austin to meet with the Executive Director of TCEQ. Click here to read the e-mail from Frisco’s City Manager to the Mayor and Council, summarizing the meeting with TCEQ. *This e-mail was among four documents shared with the public during the Town Hall meeting, October 19, 2009.
On November 24, 2008, the City of Frisco wrote TCEQ about concerns that Exide’s requested permit amendment will authorize lead emissions in excess of the actual current level at Exide’s Frisco facility. The City also specifically requested a contested case hearing on the matter. Click here to read the correspondence in its entirety. *This letter was among four documents shared with the public during the Town Hall meeting, October 19, 2009.
What can I do?
TCEQ advises anyone concerned about the permit amendment can send in a protest letter, adding residents and property owners within a one mile radius of the emissions point (smokestack) should have standing to require an evidentiary hearing at the State Office of Administrative Hearings.
Click here for a sample protest letter. *This sample protest letter was among four documents shared with the public during the Town Hall meeting on October 19, 2009.
Map
Click here to see map detailing one (1) and two (2) mile radius around Exide Technologies. *This map was one of four documents shared with the public during the Town Hall meeting, October 20, 2009.
What is the TCEQ saying?
Click here to read a letter, dated October 20, 2009, from TCEQ to a citizen regarding Exide Technologies. The letter provides explanation of nonattainment area as well as Exide Annual Lead Emissions vs. Ambient Concentrations.