Okla. Stat. tit. 27A, § 27A-2-5-105

The Department of Environmental Quality is hereby designated the

administrative agency for the Oklahoma Clean Air Act for the state.

The Department is empowered to:

1. Establish, in accordance with its provisions, those programs

specified elsewhere in the Oklahoma Clean Air Act;

2. Establish, in accordance with the Oklahoma Clean Air Act, a

permitting program for the state which will contain the flexible

source operation provisions required by Section 502(b)(10) of the

Federal Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990;

3. Prepare and develop a general plan for proper air quality

management in the state in accordance with the Oklahoma Clean Air

Act;

4. Enforce rules of the Board and orders of the Department and

the Council;

5. Advise, consult and cooperate with other agencies of the

state, towns, cities and counties, industries, other states and the

federal government, and with affected groups in the prevention and

control of new and existing air contamination sources within the

state;

6. Encourage and conduct studies, seminars, workshops,

investigations and research relating to air pollution and its

causes, effects, prevention, control and abatement;

7. Collect and disseminate information relating to air

pollution, its prevention and control;

8. Encourage voluntary cooperation by persons, towns, cities

and counties, or other affected groups in restoring and preserving a

reasonable degree of purity of air within the state;

9. Represent the State of Oklahoma in any and all matters

pertaining to plans, procedures or negotiations for the interstate

compacts in relation to the control of air pollution;

10. Provide such technical, scientific or other services,

including laboratory and other facilities, as may be required for

the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the Oklahoma Clean Air

Act, from funds available for such purposes;

11. Employ and compensate, within funds available therefor,

such consultants and technical assistants and such other employees

on a full- or part-time basis as may be necessary to carry out the

provisions of the Oklahoma Clean Air Act and prescribe their powers

and duties;

12. Accept and administer grants or other funds or gifts for

the purpose of carrying out any of the functions of the Oklahoma

Clean Air Act;

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13. Budget and receive duly appropriated monies and all other

monies available for expenditures to carry out the provisions and

purposes of the Oklahoma Clean Air Act;

14. Bring appropriate court action to enforce the Oklahoma

Clean Air Act and final orders of the Department, and to obtain

injunctive or other proper relief in the district court of the

county where any alleged violation occurs or where such relief is

determined necessary. The Department, in furtherance of its

statutory powers, shall have the independent authority to file an

action pursuant to the Oklahoma Clean Air Act in district court.

Such action shall be brought in the name of the Department of

Environmental Quality;

15. Take such action as may be necessary to abate the alleged

pollution upon receipt of evidence that a source of pollution or a

combination of sources of pollution is presenting an immediate,

imminent and substantial endangerment to the health of persons;

16. Periodically enter and inspect at reasonable times or

during regular business hours, any source, facility or premises

permitted or regulated by the Department, for the purpose of

obtaining samples or determining compliance with the Oklahoma Clean

Air Act or any rule promulgated thereunder or permit condition

prescribed pursuant thereto, or to examine any records kept or

required to be kept pursuant to the Oklahoma Clean Air Act. Such

inspections shall be conducted with reasonable promptness and shall

be confined to those areas, sources, facilities or premises
pose of

obtaining samples or determining compliance with the Oklahoma Clean

Air Act or any rule promulgated thereunder or permit condition

prescribed pursuant thereto, or to examine any records kept or

required to be kept pursuant to the Oklahoma Clean Air Act. Such

inspections shall be conducted with reasonable promptness and shall

be confined to those areas, sources, facilities or premises

reasonably expected to emit, control, or contribute to the emission

of any air contaminant;

17. Require the submission or the production and examination,

within a reasonable amount of time, of any information, record,

document, test or monitoring results or emission data, including

trade secrets necessary to determine compliance with the Oklahoma

Clean Air Act or any rule promulgated thereunder, or any permit

condition prescribed or order issued pursuant thereto. The

Department shall hold and keep as confidential any information

declared by the provider to be a trade secret and may only release

such information upon authorization by the person providing such

information, or as directed by court order. Any documents submitted

pursuant to the Oklahoma Clean Air Act and declared to be trade

secrets, to be so considered, must be plainly labeled by the

provider, and be in a form whereby the confidential information may

be easily removed intact without disturbing the continuity of any

remaining documents. The remaining document, or documents, as

submitted, shall contain a notation indicating, at the place where

the particular information was originally located, that confidential

information has been removed. Nothing in this section shall

preclude an in-camera examination of confidential information by an

Administrative Law Judge during the course of a contested hearing;

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18. Maintain and update at least annually an inventory of air

emissions from stationary sources;

19. Accept any authority delegated from the federal government

necessary to carry out any portion of the Oklahoma Clean Air Act;

and

20. Carry out all other duties, requirements and

responsibilities necessary and proper for the implementation of the

Oklahoma Clean Air Act and fulfilling the requirements of the

Federal Clean Air Act.