Section 26.405 - Powers and Duties of Committee The committee shall, on a continuing basis:
(1) coordinate groundwater protection activities of the agencies represented on the committee;(2) develop and update a comprehensive groundwater protection strategy for the state that provides guidelines for the prevention of contamination and for the conservation of groundwater and that provides for the coordination of the groundwater protection activities of the agencies represented on the committee;(3) study and recommend to the legislature groundwater protection programs for each area in which groundwater is not protected by current regulation;(4) file with the governor, lieutenant governor, and speaker of the house of representatives before the date that each regular legislative session convenes a report of the committee's activities during the two preceding years and any recommendations for legislation for groundwater protection; and(5) publish the joint groundwater monitoring and contamination report required by Section 26.406(c) of this code.Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 768, Sec. 1, eff. 9/1/1989.