Ashley Forbes

Director of the Radioactive Materials Division in the Office of Waste at Texas Commission on Environmental Quality

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Ashley Forbes is the Director of the Radioactive Materials Division in the Office of Waste. In this role, Ms. Forbes oversees licensing and permitting programs associated with radioactive materials and underground injection control (UIC) activities in Texas. Specific programs include the disposal of low-level radioactive wastes and by-product material waste; recovery of uranium by the in-situ solution mining process; commercial processing and treatment of radioactive substances; and Class I, III, IV and V UIC wells.

Ms. Forbes was previously the Special Assistant to the Deputy Director of the Office of Waste, assisting the Deputy Director with the oversight of the state’s waste, remediation, and environmental occupational licensing programs. She has also served as the Assistant Director of the Remediation Division, Manager of the the Voluntary Cleanup Program & Corrective Action Section of the Remediation Division, and as the Stationary Source Programs Team Leader in the Air Quality Division. Ms. Forbes worked in the private sector as an environmental consultant before she joined the TCEQ in 1999. Ms. Forbes has a Bachelor of Science degree in Resource & Environmental Studies, Geography, from Southwest Texas State University.