Tex. Water Code § 26.0345 · Subchapter B. GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES
DISCHARGE FROM AQUACULTURE FACILITIES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) In addition to wastewater permit conditions established under the authority of Sections 5.102, 5.103, 5.120, and 26.040, the commission, in consultation with the Department of Agriculture and the Parks and Wildlife Department, shall establish permit conditions relating to suspended solids in a discharge permit for an aquaculture facility located within the coastal zone and engaged in shrimp production that are based on levels and measures adequate to prevent:
(1) potential significant adverse responses in aquatic organisms, changes in flow patterns of receiving waters, or untimely filling of bays with settled solids; or
(2) a potential significant adverse response in aquatic plants from attenuation of light by suspended solids in discharges.
(b) In this section, "coastal zone" has the meaning assigned by Section 33.004, Natural Resources Code.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1239, Sec. 9, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Amended by:
Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 986 (S.B. 766), Sec. 79, eff. September 1, 2025.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/WA/htm/WA.26.htm
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Natural Resources Code
Water Code
- Tex. Water Code § 5.102GENERAL POWERS.Printed as Sections 5.102, 5.103, 5.120, and 26.040
- Tex. Water Code § 5.103RULES.Printed as Sections 5.102, 5.103, 5.120, and 26.040
- Tex. Water Code § 5.120CONSERVATION AND QUALITY OF ENVIRONMENT.Printed as Sections 5.102, 5.103, 5.120, and 26.040
- Tex. Water Code § 26.040GENERAL PERMITS.Printed as Sections 5.102, 5.103, 5.120, and 26.040
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