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Fort Bend County Health & Human Services, Environmental Health

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Fort Bend County Health & Human Services, Environmental Health issues 4 permits we publish for Fort Bend County, last verified 2026-09-29. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.

What this agency issues

Permits required, with issuing agency, fee, renewal term and the date each record was last verified against its source
Temporary Food Establishment Permit, Multiple-Eventonly if it applies to youFort Bend County Health & Human Services, Environmental Health$150 a year for one booth operating at multiple events, each lasting 14 days or lessone year from the effective date of the permit2026-09-29
Food Establishment Permit (Category A and Category B)Fort Bend County Health & Human Services, Environmental Health$275–$550 a year, county fee only (no state fee added): Category A $550, Category B $275annual; Food Regulations §4.2(c) requires renewal every year2026-09-29
Swimming Pool / Spa Permitonly if it applies to youFort Bend County Health & Human Services, Environmental Health$150 a year per separate filter system; re-inspection $225one year from the date of issuance, renewed annually (Pool Regulations §2.1(c) and (d))2026-09-29
On-Site Sewage Facility (OSSF) Permit, Commercial & Industrialonly if it applies to youFort Bend County Health & Human Services, Environmental Health$650 per Commercial & Industrial OSSF permit; includes the $10 TCEQ fee, plan review and two inspections; each additional inspection $225the application expires after one year2026-09-29

Fees shown as a range or formula are set that way by the issuing agency — we do not average them into a single number.

About each permit

Temporary Food Establishment Permit, Multiple-Event

A vendor that sets up one booth at several events in the unincorporated area of Fort Bend County, each event lasting 14 days or less, buys this annual multiple-event temporary permit from Environmental Health for $150 under the fee order effective September 23, 2025. It fits food vendors working fairs, festivals and pop-ups, including food trucks operating as event booths, and restaurants, coffee shops and retail stores that sell food at events. This is a county permit only; a vendor operating a mobile food unit needs the DSHS mobile food vendor license that replaced local mobile permits on July 1, 2026, and a vendor working inside a city that runs its own food programme (for example Sugar Land) deals with that city. The interlocal cities served by the county for food are Kendleton, Needville, Weston Lakes, Simonton, Pleak, Meadows Place and Beasley.

Food Establishment Permit (Category A and Category B)

Fort Bend County Environmental Health permits food establishments in the unincorporated area, including areas in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of cities unless a city has its own agreement, under the county's Commissioners Court fee order effective September 23, 2025. Category A ($550 a year) covers any place that processes or prepares unpackaged food or a commercial kitchen shared by several establishments; Category B ($275 a year) covers only prepackaged temperature-controlled foods and limited non-TCS items, and the order's Category B entry also lists daycares. The county serves these interlocal cities for food permits: Kendleton, Needville, Weston Lakes, Simonton, Pleak, Meadows Place and Beasley. Cities such as Sugar Land, Missouri City and Fulshear run their own food programmes, so a business inside them applies to the city. The fees are county-only; both figures sit below the state DSHS retail food permit fees that cap county fees under SB 1008.

Swimming Pool / Spa Permit

A gym, club or fitness studio in unincorporated Fort Bend County that operates a swimming pool or spa needs a pool permit from Environmental Health: $150 a year for each separate filter system, valid one year from issuance and renewed annually. The initial inspection is included in the permit fee, and a re-inspection costs $225. The regulations require the permit for pool facilities on property in the unincorporated areas of the county, and reach cities only where a city has elected to use the county's pool rules. A studio without a pool or spa has no pool permit. The pool exhibit also sets separate plan review and inspection fees for a new facility or change of ownership; contact Environmental Health at 281-342-7469 for those.

On-Site Sewage Facility (OSSF) Permit, Commercial & Industrial

A commercial or industrial property in unincorporated Fort Bend County that treats wastewater with a septic system rather than a public sewer needs an OSSF permit from Environmental Health. The county's fee page lists $650 for Commercial & Industrial systems, which includes the $10 TCEQ fee, plan review and two inspections; additional inspections are $225 each, and the application expires after one year. The county also permits septic systems in these interlocal cities: Fairchilds, Fulshear, Simonton, Weston Lakes, Pleak and Beasley. The county's Commissioners Court approving order for the current schedule is an image-only scan, so the fee page is the source for the figures. Any of the ten industries on unsewered property is affected; a business on a public sewer connection has no OSSF trigger.

Contact

Jurisdiction
Fort Bend County
Phone
281-342-7469

Contact details are taken from the agency’s own site or its published fee schedule. Where we have not verified a phone number we leave it blank rather than guess.

Sources

Every fee and term above was read from one of these government pages on the date shown.

  1. Environmental Health permit fees (including OSSF Commercial & Industrial)Fort Bend County Health & Human Services · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-29
  2. Environmental Health service area (unincorporated areas and interlocal city lists for food and OSSF)Fort Bend County Health & Human Services · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-29
  3. Fort Bend County Regulations for Swimming Pools and Spas, adopted May 23, 2023 (Exhibit A fees)Fort Bend County Commissioners Court · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-29
  4. Fort Bend County Rules for Regulation of Food Establishments, adopted May 23, 2023Fort Bend County Commissioners Court · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-29
  5. Order Setting Fees for Food Establishments, effective September 23, 2025 (Exhibit A)Fort Bend County Commissioners Court · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-29
  6. S.B. 1008, 89th Legislature, enrolled text (Health & Safety Code §437.003 county permits and §437.0126 fee cap)Texas Legislature Online · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-29

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