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Texas Water Code - Section 5.506. Emergency Suspension Of Permit Condition Relating To Beneficial Inflows To Affected Bays And Estuaries And Instream Uses

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§ 5.506. EMERGENCY SUSPENSION OF PERMIT CONDITION 
RELATING TO BENEFICIAL INFLOWS TO AFFECTED BAYS AND ESTUARIES AND 
INSTREAM USES.  (a) The commission by emergency or temporary order 
may suspend a permit condition relating to beneficial inflows to 
affected bays and estuaries and instream uses if the commission 
finds that an emergency exists that cannot practicably be resolved 
in another way.
	(b)  The commission must give written notice of the proposed 
suspension to the Parks and Wildlife Department before the 
commission suspends a permit condition under this section.  The 
commission shall give the Parks and Wildlife Department an 
opportunity to submit comments on the proposed suspension for a 
period of 72 hours from receipt of the notice and must consider 
those comments before issuing an order imposing the suspension.
	(c)  The commission may suspend a permit condition under this 
section without notice except as required by Subsection (b).
	(d)  The commission shall notify all affected persons 
immediately by publication.

Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1072, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.          

Last modified: August 10, 2007