Texas Water Code 7.00251 – Initiation of Certain Clean Air Act Enforcement Actions Using Information Provided by a Person
Terms Used In Texas Water Code 7.00251
- Person: includes corporation, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, and any other legal entity. See Texas Government Code 311.005
If the commission determines that there are multiple violations based on information it receives as required by Title V of the federal Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. § 7661 et seq.) from a person, as defined in § 382.003, Health and Safety Code, only those that require initiation of formal enforcement will be included in any proposed enforcement action. For all other violations that do not require initiation of formal enforcement, the commission may not include in the enforcement action the following:
(1) violations that are not repeat violations due to the same root cause from two consecutive investigations within the most recent five-year period; or
(2) violations that have been corrected within the time frame specified by the commission or for which the facility has not had the time specified by the commission to correct the violations.