Okla. Stat. tit. 27A, § 27A-1-2-101: Secretary of Environment or successor cabinet

position - Powers, duties and responsibilities.

A. The Secretary of Environment or successor cabinet position

having authority over the Department of Environmental Quality shall

have the following jurisdictional areas of environmental

responsibility:

1. Powers and duties for environmental areas designated to such

position by the Governor;

2. The recipient of federal funds disbursed pursuant to the

Federal Water Pollution Control Act, provided the Oklahoma Water

Resources Board is authorized to be the recipient of federal funds

to administer the State Revolving Fund Program. The federal funds

received by the Secretary of Environment shall be disbursed to each

state environmental agency and state agency with limited

environmental responsibilities based upon its statutory duties and

responsibilities relating to environmental areas as determined by

the Secretary of Environment in consultation with the Secretary of

Agriculture. Such funds shall be distributed to the appropriate

state environmental agency or state agency with limited

environmental responsibilities within thirty (30) days of its

receipt by the Secretary or as otherwise provided by grant or

contract terms without any assessment of administrative fees or

costs. Disbursement of other federal environmental funds shall not

be subject to this section. The Secretary of Environment shall make

an annual written report no later than November 1 to the President

Pro Tempore of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of

Representatives, and the Chair of each environmental committee of

both the House of Representatives and Senate detailing the

disbursement of federal funds;

3. Coordinate pollution control and complaint management

activities of the state carried on by all state agencies to avoid

duplication of effort including but not limited to the development

of a common data base for water quality information with a uniform

format for use by all state agencies and the public; and

4. Act on behalf of the public as trustee for natural resources

under the federal Oil Pollution Act of 1990, the federal

Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act

of 1980, as amended, the federal Water Pollution Control Act and any

other federal laws providing that a trustee for the natural

resources is to be designated. The Secretary is authorized to make

claims against federal funds, receive federal payments, establish

and manage a revolving fund in relation to duties as the natural

resources trustee consistent with the federal enabling acts and to

coordinate, monitor and gather information from and enter into

agreements with the appropriate state environmental agencies or

state agencies with limited environmental responsibilities in

carrying out the duties and functions of the trustee for the natural

resources of this state.

B. 1. The Secretary of the Environment or successor cabinet

position having authority over the Department of Environmental

Quality shall develop and implement, by January 1, 2000, public

participation procedures for the development and/or modification of:

a. the federally required list of impaired waters (303(d)

report),

b. the federally required water quality assessment

(305(b) report),

c. the federally required nonpoint source state

assessment (319 report), and

d. the continuing planning process document.

2. The procedures shall provide for the documents to be

submitted for formal public review with a published notice

consistent with the Administrative Procedures Act, providing for a

thirty-day comment period and the preparation of a responsiveness

summary by the applicable state environmental agency.

3. Information from current research shall be considered when

made available to the agency.