Okla. Stat. tit. 27A, § 27A-2-14-202
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Department of Environmental Quality - Powers and
Official statutory text
duties.
A. The Department is hereby authorized to implement and enforce
the provisions of the Oklahoma Uniform Environmental Permitting Act
and rules promulgated thereunder.
B. In addition to authority under the Oklahoma Environmental
Quality Code, the Department shall have the power and duty to:
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 27A. Environment and Natural Resources Page 311
1. Evaluate applications for administrative and technical
completeness pursuant to requirements of the Code and rules
promulgated thereunder and, when necessary to determine such
completeness, request changes, revisions, corrections, or
supplemental submissions;
2. Evaluate notices related to applications for sufficiency of
content and compliance and require that omissions or inaccuracies be
cured;
3. Consider timely and relevant comments received;
4. Prepare responses to comments, draft and final denials, and
draft, proposed and final permits;
5. Cooperate with federal agencies as is required for federal
review or oversight of state permitting programs;
6. Consolidate processes related to multiple, pending
applications filed by the same applicant for the same facility or
site in accordance with rules of the Board; and
7. Otherwise exercise all incidental powers as necessary and
proper to implement the provisions of the Oklahoma Uniform
Environmental Permitting Act and rules promulgated thereunder.
A. The Department is hereby authorized to implement and enforce
the provisions of the Oklahoma Uniform Environmental Permitting Act
and rules promulgated thereunder.
B. In addition to authority under the Oklahoma Environmental
Quality Code, the Department shall have the power and duty to:
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 27A. Environment and Natural Resources Page 311
1. Evaluate applications for administrative and technical
completeness pursuant to requirements of the Code and rules
promulgated thereunder and, when necessary to determine such
completeness, request changes, revisions, corrections, or
supplemental submissions;
2. Evaluate notices related to applications for sufficiency of
content and compliance and require that omissions or inaccuracies be
cured;
3. Consider timely and relevant comments received;
4. Prepare responses to comments, draft and final denials, and
draft, proposed and final permits;
5. Cooperate with federal agencies as is required for federal
review or oversight of state permitting programs;
6. Consolidate processes related to multiple, pending
applications filed by the same applicant for the same facility or
site in accordance with rules of the Board; and
7. Otherwise exercise all incidental powers as necessary and
proper to implement the provisions of the Oklahoma Uniform
Environmental Permitting Act and rules promulgated thereunder.
Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site
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