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TITLE 16 - ECONOMIC REGULATION
PART 4 - TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF LICENSING AND REGULATION
CHAPTER 76 - WATER WELL DRILLERS AND WATER WELL PUMP INSTALLERS
SUBCHAPTER 76.71.html - null
SECTION/RULE §76.71 - Responsibilities of the Licensee--Reporting Injurious Water or Constituents
Chapter Review Date 03/15/2021

Each well driller or installer shall, within twenty-four (24) hours of becoming aware of the existence of injurious water or constituents, inform the landowner or person having a well drilled, deepened, or otherwise altered. The well driller or installer shall, within thirty (30) days of becoming aware of the existence of injurious water or constituents transmit electronically through the Texas Well Report Submission and Retrieval System or deliver or send by certified mail, the original of the Injurious Water or Constituents Report to the department. The well driller or installer shall also deliver or send by first-class mail a copy of the Injurious Water or Constituents Report to the groundwater conservation district in which the well is located, if any, and the landowner or person having the well drilled, deepened, or altered.

Source Note: The provisions of this §76.71 adopted to be effective March 1, 2013, 38 TexReg 1142; amended to be effective September 15, 2014, 39 TexReg 7090.

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