Texas Water Code

§ 26.042 — MONITORING AND REPORTING

WA § 26.042Title 2. WATER ADMINISTRATION · Part D. WATER QUALITY CONTROL · Ch. 26. WATER QUALITY CONTROL · Art. B. GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES

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(a)The commission may prescribe reasonable requirements for a person making discharges of any waste or of any pollutant to monitor and report on his activities concerning collection, treatment, and disposal of the waste or pollutant.

(b)The commission may, by regulation, order, permit, or otherwise require the owner or operator of any source of a discharge of pollutants into any water in the state or of any source which is an industrial user of a publicly owned treatment works to:

(1)establish and maintain such records;

(2)make such reports;

(3)sample any discharges in accordance with such methods, at such locations, at such intervals, and in such manner as the commission shall prescribe; and

(4)provide such other information relating to discharges of pollutants into any water in the state or to introductions of pollutants into publicly owned treatment works as the commission may reasonably require.

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Legislative history

Amended by Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 1640, ch. 644, Sec. 1. Renumbered from Sec. 21.094 and amended by Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 2207, ch. 870, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1977. Amended by Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 795, Sec. 1.088, eff. Sept. 1, 1985.