Texas Water Code

§ 5.515 — EMERGENCY ORDER BECAUSE OF CATASTROPHE

WA § 5.515Title 2. WATER ADMINISTRATION · Part A. EXECUTIVE AGENCIES · Ch. 5. TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY · Art. L. EMERGENCY AND TEMPORARY ORDERS

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(a)The commission may issue an emergency order authorizing immediate action for the addition, replacement, or repair of facilities or control equipment or the repair or replacement of roads, bridges, or other infrastructure improvements necessitated by a catastrophe occurring in this state and the emission of air contaminants during the addition, replacement, or repair of those facilities, that equipment, or those improvements if the actions and emissions are otherwise precluded under Chapter 382, Health and Safety Code.

(b)An order issued under this section:

(1)may authorize action only:

(A)on property on which a catastrophe has occurred;

(B)on other property that is owned by the owner or operator of the damaged facility and that produces the same intermediates, products, or by-products; or

(C)for a public works project needed to repair or replace a damaged road, bridge, or other infrastructure improvement destroyed during a catastrophe; and

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Legislative history

Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1072, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.