Texas Natural Resources Code - Section 40.152. Use Of Fund
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§ 40.152. USE OF FUND. (a) Money in the fund may be
disbursed for the following purposes and no others:
(1) administrative expenses, personnel and training
expenses, and equipment maintenance and operating costs related to
implementation and enforcement of this chapter;
(2) response costs related to abatement and
containment of actual or threatened unauthorized discharges of oil
incidental to unauthorized discharges of hazardous substances;
(3) response costs and damages related to actual or
threatened unauthorized discharges of oil;
(4) assessment, restoration, rehabilitation, or
replacement of or mitigation of damage to natural resources damaged
by an unauthorized discharge of oil;
(5) in an amount not to exceed $50,000 annually, the
small spill education program;
(6) in an amount not to exceed $1,250,000 annually,
interagency contracts under Section 40.302;
(7) the purchase of response equipment under Section
40.105 within two years of the effective date of this chapter, in an
amount not to exceed $4 million; thereafter, for the purchase of
equipment to replace equipment that is worn or obsolete;
(8) other costs and damages authorized by this
chapter;
(9) in an amount not to exceed the interest accruing to
the fund annually, erosion response projects under Subchapter H,
Chapter 33; and
(10) in conjunction with the Railroad Commission of
Texas, costs related to the plugging of abandoned or orphaned oil
wells located on state-owned submerged lands.
(b) There is hereby appropriated from the fund to the
General Land Office, subject to this section, the amounts specified
for the purposes of Subdivisions (5) and (6) of Subsection (a) of
this section, $2.5 million for administrative costs under this
chapter for the two-year period beginning with the effective date
of this chapter, and the actual amounts necessary to pay response
costs and damages as provided in this chapter.
(c) Notwithstanding Subsection (a)(9) and the other
provisions of this subchapter, the legislature may appropriate to
the General Land Office for implementation of the coastal
management program under Subchapter F, Chapter 33, and for erosion
response projects under Subchapter H, Chapter 33, money from the
fund in an amount that exceeds the amount of interest accruing to
the fund annually. This subsection expires September 1, 2007.
Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 10, § 1, eff. March 28, 1991.
Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 776, § 7, eff. Sept. 1,
1993; Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 508, § 7, eff. Sept. 1, 1999;
Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 146, § 12, eff. Sept. 1, 2003; Acts
2005, 79th Leg., ch. 899, § 15.01, eff. Aug. 29, 2005.
Section: 40.111 40.112 40.113 40.114 40.116 40.117 40.151 40.152 40.153 40.154 40.155 40.156 40.157 40.158 40.159
Last modified: August 10, 2007
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