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Texas Water Code § 26.554

Financial Responsibility for Discharges of Certain Wastes Within Water Quality Protection Area

Water Quality Control · Water Quality Protection Areas

(a) The commission by rule shall adopt requirements for:

(1) maintaining evidence of financial responsibility for restoration of a water body affected by an unauthorized discharge from a permitted quarry; or

(2) taking corrective action and compensating for water quality effects caused by an unauthorized discharge resulting from quarrying.

(b) A responsible party commits a violation if the responsible party operates a permitted quarry knowing that financial responsibility required by a permit does not exist.

Official text of the Texas Water Code as published by the Texas Legislative Council.

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Legislative history

Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 374 (S.B. 1354), Sec. 2, eff. June 17, 2005.