Final Plan for Volkswagen Settlement Funds

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) released the final Beneficiary Mitigation Plan for Texas on November 16, 2018, which determines how Texas will spend approximately $209 million as part of the Volkswagen Settlement. Notable updates from the draft plan to the final plan include increased funding allocated to the Dallas-Fort Worth area, increased transparency on the TCEQ’s funding methodology, increased maximum reimbursement percentages for government-owned projects from 60 to 80 percent, and decreased maximum reimbursement percentages for nongovernment-owned electric projects from 60 to 50 percent. The plan can be viewed in its entirety at www.TexasVWFund.org.