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TITLE 30 - ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
PART 1 - TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
CHAPTER 331 - UNDERGROUND INJECTION CONTROL
SUBCHAPTER A - GENERAL PROVISIONS
SECTION/RULE §331.14 - Prohibition of Disposal of Certain Wastes into Certain Geological Formations
Chapter Review Date 02/14/2024

(a) Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in this chapter, Chapter 335 of this title (relating to Industrial Solid Waste and Municipal Hazardous Waste), or any other chapter of this title, the storage, processing, or disposal of hazardous waste in a solution-mined salt dome cavern, bedded salt cavern, or a sulphur mine is prohibited.(b) Waste streams other than nonhazardous drinking water treatment residuals are prohibited from injection into a Class I salt cavern disposal well located in horizontally bedded or non-domal salt and its associated salt cavern.

Source Note: The provisions of this §331.14 adopted to be effective June 22, 1992, 17 TexReg 4097; amended to be effective May 30, 2002, 27 TexReg 4576; amended to be effective August 16, 2012, 37 TexReg 6078.

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