Tex. Water Code § 26.3476 · Subchapter I. UNDERGROUND AND ABOVEGROUND STORAGE
SECONDARY CONTAINMENT REQUIRED FOR TANKS LOCATED OVER CERTAIN AQUIFERS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) In this section, "secondary containment" means a method by which a secondary wall or barrier is installed around an underground storage tank system in a manner designed to prevent a release of a regulated substance from migrating beyond the secondary wall or barrier before the release can be detected. A secondary containment system may include an impervious liner or vault surrounding a primary tank or piping system or a double-wall tank or piping system.
(b) An underground storage tank system, at a minimum, shall incorporate a method for secondary containment if the system is located in:
(1) the outcrop of a major aquifer composed of limestone and associated carbonate rocks of Cretaceous age or older; and
(2) a county that:
(A) has a population of at least 1.2 million and relies on groundwater for at least 75 percent of the county's water supply; or
(B) has a population of at least 75,000 and is adjacent to a county described by Paragraph (A).
(c) Section 26.3475(e) applies to an underground storage tank system that is subject to this section as if a violation of this section were a violation of Section 26.3475.
(d) Notwithstanding Section 26.359(b), a political subdivision under this section may adopt standards for the containment of underground storage tank systems.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 965, Sec. 13.01, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.
Amended by:
Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 644 (H.B. 4559), Sec. 279, eff. September 1, 2023.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/WA/htm/WA.26.htm
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