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27A OK Stat § 27A-2-5-116 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 27A. Environment and Natural Resources|§27A-2-5-116. Violations - Penalties.

|A. Any person who knowingly and willfully: |1. Violates any applicable provision of the Oklahoma Clean Air Act or any rule or standard promulgated thereunder;2. Violates any order issued or permit condition prescribed pursuant to the Oklahoma Clean Air Act;3. Violates any emission limitation or any substantive provision or condition of any permit;4. Makes any false material statement, representation, or certification in, or omits material information from, or knowingly alters, conceals, or fails to file or maintain any notice, application, record, report, plan or other document, except for monitoring data, required pursuant to the Oklahoma Clean Air Act to be either filed or maintained;5. Fails to notify or report as required by the Oklahoma Clean Air Act, rules promulgated thereunder or orders or permits issued pursuant thereto; or6. Fails to install any monitoring device or method required to be maintained or followed pursuant to the Oklahoma Clean Air Act;shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine not to exceed Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00) per day of violation or for not more than one (1) year imprisonment in the county jail, or both such fine and imprisonment.B. Any person who knowingly and willfully:1. Violates any applicable provision of the Oklahoma Clean Air Act or any rule promulgated thereunder, or any order of the Department or any emission limitation or substantive provision or condition of any permit, and who knows at the time that he thereby places another in danger of death or serious bodily injury;2. Tampers with or renders inaccurate any monitoring device; or3. Falsifies any monitoring information required to be maintained or submitted to the Department pursuant to the Oklahoma Clean Air Act;shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a felony and subject to a fine of not more than Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($250,000.00) or for not more than ten (10) years imprisonment, or both such fine and imprisonment.Added by Laws 1992, c. 215, § 16, emerg. eff. May 15, 1992. Amended by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 53, eff. July 1, 1993. Renumbered from § 1-1817 of Title 63 by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 359, eff. July 1, 1993.
27A OK Stat § 27A-2-5-117 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 27A. Environment and Natural Resources|§27A-2-5-117. Civil actions - Injunctions - Abatement - Civil penalties.

|A. The Department shall have the authority to commence a civil action for a permanent or temporary injunction or other appropriate relief, or to require abatement of any emission or correction of any contamination, or to seek and recover a civil penalty of not more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) per day for each violation, or all of the above, in any of the following instances: |1. Whenever any person has violated or is in violation of any applicable provision of the Oklahoma Clean Air Act, or any rule promulgated thereunder;2. Whenever any person has commenced construction, modification or operation of any source, or operates any source in violation of the requirement to have a permit, or violates or is in violation of any substantive provision or condition of any permit issued pursuant to the Oklahoma Clean Air Act; or3. Whenever any person has violated any order of the Department or the Council or any requirement to pay any fee, fine or penalty owed to the state pursuant to the Oklahoma Clean Air Act.B. The district attorney or attorneys having jurisdiction shall have primary authority and responsibility for prosecution of any civil or criminal violations under the Oklahoma Clean Air Act and for the collection of any delinquent fees, penalties or fines assessed pursuant to the Oklahoma Clean Air Act and shall be entitled to recover reasonable costs of collection, including attorney fees, and an appropriate fee of up to fifty percent (50%) for collecting delinquent fees, penalties or fines.Added by Laws 1992, c. 215, § 17, emerg. eff. May 15, 1992. Amended by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 54, eff. July 1, 1993. Renumbered from § 1-1818 of Title 63 by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 359, eff. July 1, 1993.
27A OK Stat § 27A-2-5-130 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 27A. Environment and Natural Resources|§27A-2-5-130. Air curtain incinerators – Limitations on required use.

|A. 1. The Department of Environmental Quality shall not require the use of an air curtain incinerator for fires purposely set for land clearing operations except in counties or areas within a county that: |a.are or have been designated nonattainment for National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) or where the Department-certified ambient air quality monitoring data documents a violation of primary NAAQS prior to such determination, orb.have a population of greater than five hundred thousand (500,000) people according to the latest Federal Decennial Census.2. For the purposes of this section, "air curtain incinerator" means an incineration unit, operating by forcefully projecting a curtain of air across an open integrated combustion chamber or open pit or trench, in which combustion occurs.B. The Department shall not require the use of an air curtain incinerator for fires purposely set for the burning of clean wood waste or yard brush except in counties or areas within a county that:1. Are or have been designated nonattainment for National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) or where the Department-certified ambient air quality monitoring data documents a violation of primary NAAQS prior to such determination; or2. Have a population of greater than five hundred thousand (500,000) people according to the latest Federal Decennial Census.C. The Department may promulgate rules to limit accumulation of clean wood waste or yard brush.D. The burning of clean wood waste or yard brush shall not create a public nuisance.E. The Department shall promulgate rules to carry out the provisions of this section.Added by Laws 2019, c. 230, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2019. Amended by Laws 2021, c. 399, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2021.
27A OK Stat § 27A-2-6-101 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 27A. Environment and Natural Resources|§27A-2-6-101. Definitions.

|For purposes of this article: |1. "Aquifer storage and recovery (ASR)" means delivery of water into an aquifer for later recovery and use;2. "Disposal system" means pipelines or conduits, pumping stations and force mains and all other devices, construction, appurtenances and facilities used for collecting, conducting or disposing of wastewater, including treatment systems;3. "Drainage basin" means all of the water collection area adjacent to the highest water line of a reservoir which may be considered by the Department to be necessary to protect adequately the waters of the reservoir. The area may extend upstream on any watercourse to any point within six hundred (600) feet of the highest water line of the reservoir;4. "Indirect discharge" means the introduction of pollutants to a publicly owned treatment works from a nondomestic source;5. "Pollutant" means dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal, and agribusiness waste discharged into waters of the state;6. "Public water supply" means water supplied to the public for domestic or drinking purposes;7. "Reservoir" means any reservoir, whether completed or in the process of construction, whether or not used as a water supply, and whether or not constructed by any recipient of water therefrom;8. "Sludge" means nonhazardous solid, semi-solid, or liquid residue generated by the treatment of domestic sewage or wastewater by a treatment works, or water by a water supply system, or manure, or such residue, treated or untreated, which results from industrial, nonindustrial, commercial, or agribusiness activities or industrial or manufacturing processes and which is within the jurisdiction of the Department;9. "Small public sewage system" means a nonindustrial wastewater treatment system which has an average flow of five thousand (5,000) gallons per day or less;10. "Treatment works" means any facility used for the purpose of treating or stabilizing wastes or wastewater. "Treatment works" shall be synonymous with "wastewater works"; and11. "Water supply system" means a water treatment plant, water wells, and all related pipelines or conduits, pumping stations and mains and all other appurtenances and devices used for distributing drinking water to the public and, as such, shall be synonymous with waterworks.Added by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 56, eff. July 1, 1993. Amended by Laws 1993, c. 324, § 19, eff. July 1, 1993; Laws 1994, c. 353, § 8, eff. July 1, 1994; Laws 1997, c. 217, § 2, eff. July 1, 1997; Laws 1999, c. 413, § 5, eff. Nov. 1, 1999; Laws 2002, c. 227, § 1, emerg. eff. May 9, 2002; Laws 2005, c. 138, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2005; Laws 2017, c. 318, § 1, emerg. eff. May 22, 2017.
27A OK Stat § 27A-2-6-102 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 27A. Environment and Natural Resources|§27A-2-6-102. Declaration of policy.

|Whereas the pollution of the waters of this state constitutes a menace to public health and welfare, creates public nuisances, is harmful to wildlife, fish and aquatic life, and impairs domestic, agricultural, industrial, recreational and other legitimate beneficial uses of water, and whereas the problem of water pollution of this state is closely related to the problem of water pollution in adjoining states, it is hereby declared to be the public policy of this state to conserve the waters of the state and to protect, maintain and improve the quality thereof for public water supplies, for the propagation of wildlife, fish and aquatic life and for domestic, agricultural, industrial, recreational and other legitimate beneficial uses; to provide that no waste or pollutant be discharged into any waters of the state or otherwise placed in a location likely to affect such waters without first being given the degree of treatment or taking such other measures as necessary to protect the legitimate beneficial uses of such waters; to provide for the prevention, abatement and control of new or existing water pollution; and to cooperate with other agencies of this state, agencies of other states and the federal government in carrying out these objectives. |Added by Laws 1972, c. 242, § 2. Amended by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 57, eff. July 1, 1993. Renumbered from § 926.2 of Title 82 by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 359, eff. July 1, 1993.
27A OK Stat § 27A-2-6-103.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 27A. Environment and Natural Resources|§27A-2-6-103.1. Contracts for technical assistance programs.

|The Department of Environmental Quality may, to the extent funds are available, contract with the Oklahoma Rural Water Association for technical assistance programs to rural water and wastewater system operators throughout the state. The Department may contract with other nonprofit entities in addition to the Oklahoma Rural Water Association for this purpose if the Department, in its discretion, determines that those entities can and will provide equally effective and efficient technical assistance services to rural water and wastewater system operators throughout the state. |Added by Laws 2016, c. 161, § 1, eff. July 1, 2016.
27A OK Stat § 27A-2-6-104 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 27A. Environment and Natural Resources|§27A-2-6-104. Purpose and construction.

|It is the purpose of this article to provide additional and cumulative remedies to prevent, abate and control the pollution of the waters of the state. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to abridge or alter rights of action or remedies under the common law or statutory law, criminal or civil; nor shall any provision of this article, or any act done by virtue thereof, be construed as estopping the state, or any municipality or person, as riparian owners or otherwise, in the exercise of their rights under the common law to suppress nuisances or to abate pollution. |Added by Laws 1972, c. 242, § 13. Amended by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 59, eff. July 1, 1993. Renumbered from § 926.13 of Title 82 by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 359, eff. July 1, 1993.
27A OK Stat § 27A-2-6-105 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 27A. Environment and Natural Resources|§27A-2-6-105. Pollution of state air, land or waters - Order to cease.

|A. It shall be unlawful for any person to cause pollution of any waters of the state or to place or cause to be placed any wastes in a location where they are likely to cause pollution of any air, land or waters of the state. Any such action is hereby declared to be a public nuisance. |B. If the Executive Director finds that any of the air, land or waters of the state have been, or are being, polluted, the Executive Director shall make an order requiring such pollution to cease within a reasonable time, or requiring such manner of treatment or of disposition of the sewage or other polluting material as may in his judgment be necessary to prevent further pollution. It shall be the duty of the person to whom such order is directed to fully comply with the order of the Executive Director.Added by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 60, eff. July 1, 1993.
27A OK Stat § 27A-2-6-107 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 27A. Environment and Natural Resources|§27A-2-6-107. Definition – Gray water.

|A. "Gray water" means untreated household wastewater that has not come in contact with toilet waste and includes wastewater from bathtubs, showers, washbasins, clothes washing machines and laundry tubs and untreated municipal wastewater limited to wastewater captured from municipal splash pads and water used by fire departments for cleaning equipment and vehicles. Gray water shall not include wastewater from kitchen sinks, kitchen dishwashers or laundry water from the washing of material soiled with human excreta, such as diapers. |B. The definition of gray water in subsection A of this section shall apply only in municipalities enacting ordinances regulating the use of gray water within the limits of their municipal boundaries.C. The Department of Environmental Quality shall not require a permit for reusing captured wastewater from a splash pad for irrigation or land application, with or without intermediary storage units, if the splash pad is within the jurisdictional boundaries of a municipality or county that has enacted an ordinance or resolution regulating the management of wastewater from splash pads and the ordinance or resolution, at a minimum, includes the same conditions and restrictions as set forth in paragraphs 5, 8, 11, and 12 of subsection A of Section 2-6-108 of this title. For purposes of this subsection, the term "splash pad" shall also include facilities known as spray pools, spray pads, and spray grounds.Added by Laws 2011, c. 210, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2011. Amended by Laws 2015, c. 260, § 1, emerg. eff. May 6, 2015.
27A OK Stat § 27A-2-6-108 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 27A. Environment and Natural Resources|§27A-2-6-108. Application of less than 250 gallons of private residential gray water - Permitting.

|A. The Department of Environmental Quality shall not require a permit for applying less than two hundred fifty (250) gallons per day of private residential gray water originating from a residence for the household gardening, composting or landscape irrigation of the resident if: |1. A constructed gray water distribution system provides for overflow into the sewer system or on-site wastewater treatment and disposal system;2. A gray water storage tank is covered to restrict access and to eliminate habitat for mosquitoes or other vectors;3. A gray water system is sited outside of a floodway;4. Gray water is vertically separated at least five (5) feet above the groundwater table;5. Gray water pressure piping is clearly identified as a nonpotable water conduit;6. Gray water is used on the site where it is generated and does not run off the property lines;7. Gray water is applied in a manner that minimizes the potential for contact with people or domestic pets;8. Ponding is prohibited, application of gray water is managed to minimize standing water on the surface and to ensure that the hydraulic capacity of the soil is not exceeded;9. Gray water is not sprayed;10. Gray water is not discharged to a waterway;11. Gray water use within municipalities or counties complies with all applicable municipal or county ordinances enacted pursuant to law; and12. A gray water storage system which complies with the provisions of this section may allow for rainwater to be introduced into the system.B. For purposes of this section, “gray water” shall be deferred as provided for in Section 2-6-107 of Title 27A of the Oklahoma Statutes.Added by Laws 2012, c. 203, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2012.
27A OK Stat § 27A-2-6-109 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 27A. Environment and Natural Resources|§27A-2-6-109. Potable reuse of treated wastewater - Storage.

|A. No later than August 31, 2012, the Department of Environmental Quality shall convene a working group including municipalities, consulting engineers, technical experts, and the general public to explore opportunities for water reuse and define the process for variances from the construction and operations standards relating to indirect potable reuse, Category 2, and Category 3 reuse waters. |B. No later than July 1, 2013, the Board of Environmental Quality shall promulgate rules for the indirect potable reuse of treated wastewater. The rules shall contain a variance process from the water reuse construction and operation standards.C. No later than July 1, 2013, the Board shall promulgate rules to develop a variance process from the water reuse construction and operations standards for Category 2 and Category 3 reuse water to authorize the storage of such waters within existing surface impoundments.D. Rules promulgated pursuant to this section shall protect public health and the environment.Added by Laws 2012, c. 50, § 1, emerg. eff. April 16, 2012.
27A OK Stat § 27A-2-6-110 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 27A. Environment and Natural Resources|§27A-2-6-110. Pilot projects for aquifer storage and recovery.

|The Department of Environmental Quality is authorized to issue permits for limited-scale pilot projects for the purpose of aquifer storage and recovery. The applications for such projects shall be Tier II applications under the Oklahoma Uniform Environmental Permitting Act. The Department shall determine pilot project criteria and establish a process for the consideration of applications. Each permit shall include any permit conditions the Department deems necessary or appropriate for protection of the aquifer quality. At a minimum these permits must meet the provisions of paragraph 21 of subsection B of Section 1-3-101 of Title 27A of the Oklahoma Statutes. |Added by Laws 2017, c. 318, § 3, emerg. eff. May 22, 2017.
27A OK Stat § 27A-2-6-111 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 27A. Environment and Natural Resources|§27A-2-6-111. Moratorium on permitting of discharge to water emanating from sensitive sole source groundwater basins or subbasins.

|A. For purposes of this section, a "subject mine" shall mean a mine, as defined in paragraph 2 of Section 723 of Title 45 of the Oklahoma Statutes, proposed for a location overlying a sensitive sole source groundwater basin or subbasin, exclusive of any mine that meets at least one of the following conditions: |1. As of November 1, 2019, is engaged in the permitted extraction of minerals from natural deposits; or2. Satisfies the criteria of paragraph 1 or 2 of subsection C of Section 1020.2 of Title 82 of the Oklahoma Statutes; or3. Is not to be permitted to operate for a period of more than five (5) years, with no extensions or renewals; or4. The operation of which will not result in more than five (5) acre-feet per year of groundwater emanating from a sensitive sole source groundwater basin or subbasin to infiltrate its pit, as that term is defined in paragraph 12 of Section 723 of Title 45 of the Oklahoma Statutes.B. Due to the inadequacy of existing technical resources, analytic tools and regulatory systems for purposes of the effective implementation of statutes relating to the operation of mines that overlies a sensitive sole source groundwater basin or subbasin, the Legislature hereby declares and establishes a moratorium on the Department of Environmental Quality permitting of any discharge from a subject mine to streams fed or supported by water emanating from sensitive sole source groundwater basins or subbasins.C. The moratorium shall remain in effect until such time as:1. The conditions of subsection C of Section 3 of this act have been satisfied; and2. The Department of Environmental Quality promulgates final rules to provide for effective interagency consultation and coordination of activities among the Department, the Oklahoma Water Resources Board and the Department of Mines on all administrative matters relating to the operation of mines at locations that overlie a sensitive sole source groundwater basin or subbasin.D. Notwithstanding the moratorium, the Department of Environmental Quality may issue any new permits, permit modifications, permit amendments, permit revisions or permit renewals necessary to maintain compliance or remedy identified compliance issues pursuant to Title 27A of the Oklahoma Statutes to operators of any mines lawfully engaged in mining, as defined in paragraph 3 of Section 723 of Title 45 of the Oklahoma Statutes.E. The Department of Environmental Quality is hereby authorized and instructed to promulgate rules to implement the provisions of this section.F. The Department of Environmental Quality is hereby authorized to cooperate with federal, tribal and any other agency in this state in performing its responsibilities under this section.Added by Laws 2019, c. 349, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2019.
27A OK Stat § 27A-2-6-201 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 27A. Environment and Natural Resources|§27A-2-6-201. Short title - Construction and application.

|A. This part shall be known and may be cited as the "Oklahoma Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Act". |B. Nothing contained in the Oklahoma Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Act shall expand the authority of the Department of Environmental Quality beyond jurisdictional areas specified in the Oklahoma Environmental Quality Act. Agricultural and oil and gas activities shall not be subject to the Oklahoma Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Act except as specifically provided in Section 1-3-101 of this title.Added by Laws 1992, c. 398, § 13, eff. July 1, 1993. Amended by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 62, eff. July 1, 1993. Renumbered from § 1001 of this title by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 359, eff. July 1, 1993. Amended by Laws 2007, c. 146, § 5, eff. July 1, 2007.