Tex. Water Code § 26.0282 · Subchapter B. GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES
CONSIDERATION OF NEED AND REGIONAL TREATMENT OPTIONS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
In considering the issuance, amendment, or renewal of a permit to discharge waste, the commission may deny or alter the terms and conditions of the proposed permit, amendment, or renewal based on consideration of need, including the expected volume and quality of the influent and the availability of existing or proposed areawide or regional waste collection, treatment, and disposal systems not designated as such by commission order pursuant to provisions of this subchapter. This section is expressly directed to the control and treatment of conventional pollutants normally found in domestic wastewater.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 757, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/WA/htm/WA.26.htm
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