Texas Natural Resources Code - Section 91.112. Purpose Of The Fund
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§ 91.112. PURPOSE OF THE FUND. (a) Money in the fund may
be used by the commission or its employees or agents for:
(1) conducting a site investigation or environmental
assessment to determine:
(A) the nature and extent of contamination caused
by oil and gas wastes or other substances or materials regulated by
the commission under Section 91.101; and
(B) the measures that should be taken to control
or clean up the wastes, substances, or materials described in
Paragraph (A);
(2) controlling or cleaning up oil and gas wastes or
other substances or materials regulated by the commission under
Section 91.101 that are causing or are likely to cause the pollution
of surface or subsurface water, consistent with Section 91.113;
(3) plugging abandoned wells and administering or
enforcing permits, orders, and rules relating to the commission's
authority to prevent pollution under this chapter, Chapter 89, or
any other law administered or enforced by the commission under
Title 3;
(4) implementing Subchapter N and enforcing rules,
orders, and permits adopted or issued under that subchapter;
(5) implementing the voluntary cleanup program under
Subchapter O;
(6) preparing the report required under Subsection
(b);
(7) making payments to eligible operators under
Section 89.047; and
(8) making payments to eligible surface estate owners
under Section 89.048.
(b) The commission shall submit to the legislature and make
available to the public, annually, a report that reviews the extent
to which money provided under Section 91.111 has enabled the
commission to better protect the environment and enhance the income
of the oil-field cleanup fund. The report shall include:
(1) the number of wells plugged, by region;
(2) the number of wells abandoned, by region;
(3) the number of inactive wells not currently in
compliance with commission rules, by region;
(4) the status of enforcement proceedings for all
wells in violation of commission rules and the time period during
which the wells have been in violation, by region in which the wells
are located;
(5) the number of surface locations remediated, by
region;
(6) a detailed accounting of expenditures of money in
the fund, including expenditures for site investigations and
environmental assessments, plugging of abandoned wells,
remediation of surface locations, and staff salaries and other
administrative expenses;
(7) the method by which the commission sets priorities
by which it determines the order in which abandoned wells are
plugged;
(8) a projection of the amount of money needed for the
next biennium for conducting site investigations and environmental
assessments, plugging abandoned wells, and remediating surface
locations;
(9) the status of implementation of the provisions of
Section 89.085 relating to possession and sale of equipment to
recover plugging costs; and
(10) the number of sites successfully remediated under
the voluntary cleanup program under Subchapter O, by region.
Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 603, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.
Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 120, § 1, eff. Sept. 1,
1997; Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1233, § 31, eff. Sept. 1, 2001;
Acts 2005, 79th Leg., ch. 267, § 5, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.
Section: 91.106 91.107 91.108 91.109 91.1091 91.110 91.111 91.112 91.113 91.1131 91.1132 91.1135 91.114 91.115 91.116
Last modified: August 10, 2007
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