Tex. Health & Safety Code § 370.005 · Chapter 370. TOXIC CHEMICAL RELEASE REPORTING
USE OF AVAILABLE DATA.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) To provide the information required on the toxic chemical release form, the owner or operator of a facility may use:
(1) readily available data, including monitoring data, collected under other law; or
(2) reasonable estimates of the amounts involved if data under Subdivision (1) are not readily available.
(b) This section does not require monitoring or measurement of the quantities, concentration, or frequency of a toxic chemical released into the environment beyond the monitoring and measurement required under other law or regulation.
(c) To ensure consistency, data must be expressed in common units, as designated by the administrator.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 14, Sec. 132, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.370.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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