Lydia González Gromatzky
Of Counsel
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- Administrative Law
- Air
- Clean Water Act
- Environmental Audits and Compliance Assessments
- Hazardous Waste/RCRA
- Latin American Practice
- Solid Waste and Resource Recovery
- University of Texas at Austin (B.A.)
- University of Texas School of Law (J.D.)
- Texas (1986)
- American Bar Association
- Austin Bar Association, Environmental Section
- Portuguese
- Spanish
Lydia González Gromatzky is Of Counsel in the Austin, Texas office of Beveridge & Diamond, P.C. with a practice that includes both domestic and international environmental law. Her experience includes advising and representing entities on a broad range of permitting, compliance, enforcement, remediation and other regulatory, transactional and litigation matters. As a member of the Firm’s Latin American practice group, she assists clients with compliance and regulatory issues in Latin American countries including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru.
Prior to joining the firm, Ms. González Gromatzky served as chief legal advisor to the Executive Director of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). In that capacity, she provided legal advice and counsel on all matters within the agency’s jurisdiction. During her seventeen-year tenure at the TCEQ, she served as lead counsel on numerous contested agency proceedings, managed litigation involving the TCEQ, and provided legal representation on a wide variety of complex and controversial issues facing the state in all environmental media.
In private practice, Ms. González Gromatzky has broad experience counseling clients in a number of different sectors regarding regulatory compliance, defense of environmental enforcement actions, permitting issues and environmental transactions. She has also assisted multinational corporations and trade associations with compliance and regulatory issues arising under Latin American domestic laws including the tracking and analysis of pending and enacted chemicals, waste and product stewardship laws.
Ms. González Gromatzky is a graduate of the University of Texas School of Law.
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Practice Contacts
- "Emerging Environmental Regimes for Contaminated Land in Latin America,” BNA International Reporter, Vol. 31, No. 21
- TCEQ Considers Potential Compliance History and Penalty Policy Rulemaking
- TCEQ Initiates Revisions to Texas Surface Water Quality Standards
- TCEQ Seeks Comment of Draft Revised Standard Permit for Oil and Gas Facilities
- Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Develops New Enforcement Tool Field Citation Pilot Program
Emerging Environmental Regimes for Contaminated Land in Latin America, BNA Inc., International Environment Reporter (October 2008)
Growing Attention to Product Stewardship Initiatives Seen in Latin America, BNA Inc., International Environment Reporter (August 2006)
A Look Back: Twenty Years of the Clean Water Act's Whole Effluent Toxicity Biomonitoring Program, Eastern Water Law (June 2006)