Texas Administrative Code › Title 16 - ECONOMIC REGULATION › Part 1 - RAILROAD COMMISSION OF TEXAS › Chapter 5 - CARBON DIOXIDE (CO2) › Subchapter B - GEOLOGIC STORAGE AND ASSOCIATED INJECTION OF ANTHROPOGENIC CARBON DIOXIDE (CO2) › Section 5.203 - Application Requirements

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
(a) General.
(1) Form and filing; signatories;
				  certification.
(A) Form and filing. Each
				  applicant for a permit to construct and operate a geologic storage facility
				  must file an application with the division in Austin on a form prescribed by
				  the Commission. The applicant must file the application and all attachments
				  with the division and with EPA Region 6 in an electronic format approved by
				  EPA. On the same date, the applicant must file one copy with each appropriate
				  district office and one copy with the Executive Director of the Texas
				  Commission on Environmental Quality.
(B) Signatories to permit applications. An
				  applicant must ensure that the application is executed by a party having
				  knowledge of the facts entered on the form and included in the required
				  attachments. All permit applications shall be signed as specified in this
				  subparagraph:
(i) For a corporation, the
				  permit application shall be signed by a responsible corporate officer. For the
				  purpose of this section, a responsible corporate officer means a president,
				  secretary, treasurer, or vice president of the corporation in charge of a
				  principal business function, or any other person who performs similar policy-
				  or decision-making functions for the corporation, or the manager of one or more
				  manufacturing, production, or operating facilities employing more than 250
				  persons or having gross annual sales or expenditures exceeding $25 million (in
				  second-quarter 1980 dollars), if authority to sign documents has been assigned
				  or delegated to the manager in accordance with corporate procedures.
(ii) For a partnership or sole
				  proprietorship, the permit application shall be signed by a general partner or
				  the proprietor, respectively.
(iii)
				  For a municipality, State, Federal, or other public agency, the permit
				  application shall be signed by either a principal executive officer or ranking
				  elected official. For purposes of this section, a principal executive officer
				  of a federal agency includes the chief executive officer of the agency or a
				  senior executive officer having responsibility for the overall operations of a
				  principal geographic unit of the agency.
(C) Certification. Any person signing a
				  permit application or permit amendment application shall make the following
				  certification: "I certify under penalty of law that this document and all
				  attachments were prepared under my direction or supervision in accordance with
				  a system designed to assure that qualified personnel properly gather and
				  evaluate the information submitted. Based on my inquiry of the person or
				  persons who manage the system, or those persons directly responsible for
				  gathering the information, the information submitted is, to the best of my
				  knowledge and belief, true, accurate, and complete. I am aware that there are
				  significant penalties for submitting false information, including the
				  possibility of fine and imprisonment for knowing violations."