Digital permit application gateway
Start with the issuing authority’s own submission lane. A complete application package, accurate valuation, and accessible inspection path are the fastest route through statutory plan review.
Recommended first click
Use the official digital gateway to submit plans, monitor review comments, pay required charges, and request inspections when the permit is issued. If the link is unavailable, use the agency website or phone number on the administrative profile to confirm the current lane.
Typical review lane
Complete OSSF planning materials and the application must be approved or denied within 30 days under 30 TAC Chapter 285. No county floodplain or ordinary OSSF inspection-scheduling target is published. A county-right-of-way pipeline/utility-crossing permit allows a maximum two-week construction period unless Commissioners Court expressly extends it; this is a work-duration limit, not a published application-review promise.
Treat this as a planning signal, not a guaranteed approval date. Completeness, corrections, resubmittals, and agency workload control the actual clock.
Verify the parcel is inside this agency’s service area and note whether a city, state, fire marshal, septic authority, or utility district also has approval authority.
Prepare legible plans, site information, project valuation, ownership authorization, contractor information, and any energy, floodplain, zoning, or utility documentation the issuing office requires.
Keep the permit number, approved plan set, correction comments, fee receipts, and inspection results together. Those records establish the compliance trail for the next trade.
Application documents
Before submission, call County Judge, Commissioners Court, OSSF, and floodplain inquiries: 432-693-2321; County Judge/Floodplain Administrator Dusty Kilgore: 432-693-2321 if the project involves a change of occupancy, structural alteration, accessory structure, demolition, or work near a regulated environmental feature.
Source trail
Use these direct agency or licensing links to confirm current instructions before you file, pay, or schedule work. External pages control if their information differs from this directory.
Project questions
Upton County Commissioners Court and Upton County Emergency Management is the identified county-level authority for this profile. Confirm that the property is in its service area before filing.
No verified online portal was located in the reviewed public materials. Contact County Judge, Commissioners Court, OSSF, and floodplain inquiries: 432-693-2321; County Judge/Floodplain Administrator Dusty Kilgore: 432-693-2321 and request the current application route before preparing a final submittal.
Complete OSSF planning materials and the application must be approved or denied within 30 days under 30 TAC Chapter 285. No county floodplain or ordinary OSSF inspection-scheduling target is published. A county-right-of-way pipeline/utility-crossing permit allows a maximum two-week construction period unless Commissioners Court expressly extends it; this is a work-duration limit, not a published application-review promise.
Submit the county's OSSF instructions/application packet and required site evaluation and planning materials through the County Judge/Commissioners Court office at 432-693-2321. Do not begin OSSF construction before written Authorization to Construct, and coordinate the required installation inspection before covering or operating the system. Contact County Judge and floodplain administrator Dusty Kilgore at the same number before unincorporated development in or near a mapped flood hazard area. For approved county-right-of-way work, notify the County Judge at least 48 hours before starting; the county may inspect during construction and afterward and require repairs or maintenance.
Upton County publishes a county OSSF instructions/application packet and administers on-site sewage under Texas Health and Safety Code Chapter 366 and 30 TAC Chapters 30 and 285. Its Emergency Management Coordinator serves as the county floodplain administrator, administering the county's NFIP floodplain requirements for unincorporated development. Commissioners Court separately permits pipeline and utility crossings in county rights-of-way and requires the current Texas Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices plus its boring, casing, cover, backfill, compaction, restoration, and safety specifications. The county publishes no adopted general countywide IRC, IBC, electrical, plumbing, mechanical, or fire-code edition for ordinary construction. Rankin and McCamey impose their own municipal rules. Under the state OSSF rules applied by the county, a qualifying system serving the only single-family dwelling on a tract of at least 10 acres may be permit-exempt after a licensed site evaluation if every component is at least 100 feet from property lines, effluent stays on the tract, and the system causes no nuisance or groundwater pollution. Listed emergency OSSF repairs do not require advance permitting but must be reported in writing within 72 hours. No pipeline may be installed, rebuilt, relocated, enlarged, or modified in a county-road right-of-way without a county permit; no general cosmetic-work or small-structure exemption is published.
What makes an application complete
Before you click submit, make sure the drawings agree with the site plan, project description, valuation, ownership authorization, and contractor information. If the work changes structure, occupancy, drainage, fire protection, energy performance, or utility demand, describe that scope plainly. Ambiguous narratives create correction cycles and delay the field schedule.
Save the confirmation number, payment receipt, uploaded plan set, and every correction comment. Those records are the backbone of a defensible compliance file when multiple trades or agencies share responsibility.
Submission quality check
Site: address, parcel, access, setbacks, and existing conditions are consistent.
Scope: structural, mechanical, plumbing, electrical, fire, and energy work is identified.
Closeout: inspection contacts and the final approval path are understood before work begins.