Texas Parks and Wildlife Code
§ 11.082 — STATE AQUATIC VEGETATION MANAGEMENT PLAN
PW § 11.082Title 2. PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT · Ch. 11. PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT · Art. G. AQUATIC VEGETATION MANAGEMENT
Statute text
View on source(a)The department shall develop and by rule adopt a state aquatic vegetation management plan following the generally accepted principles of integrated pest management. The state plan shall apply throughout the state unless a governmental entity has adopted an approved local plan.
(b)The department shall develop the state plan in coordination with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the Department of Agriculture, water districts and other political subdivisions of the state with jurisdiction over public bodies of surface water, and public drinking water providers.
(c)The state plan must:
(1)establish minimum standards for a governing entity that regulates a public body of surface water;
(2)require that any application of aquatic herbicide complies with label rates approved by the United States Environmental Protection Agency;
(3)ensure that any public drinking water provider that has an intake within two river miles of a site at which an application of aquatic herbicide is proposed to occur receives notice of the proposed application not later than the 14th day before the date the application is to occur;
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Legislative history
Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 986 (S.B. 766), Sec. 51, eff. September 1, 2025.