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TITLE 30ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
PART 1TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
CHAPTER 218BRINE EVAPORATION PITS
RULE §218.10Applicability

(a) This subchapter applies to a brine evaporation pit:

  (1) operated for the commercial production of brine product by solar evaporation; and

  (2) in operation on or after the effective date of this rule, regardless of the date the facility began operation.

(b) This subchapter does not apply to:

  (1) operations associated with oil and gas production and regulated under the authority of the Texas Railroad Commission; in accordance with 16 TAC §3.30 (relating to Memorandum of Understanding between the Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality); or as is in 16 TAC §3.30; or

  (2) the recovery of brine product via evaporation of water sources other than groundwater and incidental storm water.


Source Note: The provisions of this §218.10 adopted to be effective October 16, 2008, 33 TexReg 8530

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