{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-27a-27a-1-2-101","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 27A, § 27A-1-2-101","heading":"Secretary of Environment or successor cabinet","body":"position - Powers, duties and responsibilities.\n\nA. The Secretary of Environment or successor cabinet position\n\nhaving authority over the Department of Environmental Quality shall\n\nhave the following jurisdictional areas of environmental\n\nresponsibility:\n\n1. Powers and duties for environmental areas designated to such\n\nposition by the Governor;\n\n2. The recipient of federal funds disbursed pursuant to the\n\nFederal Water Pollution Control Act, provided the Oklahoma Water\n\nResources Board is authorized to be the recipient of federal funds\n\nto administer the State Revolving Fund Program. The federal funds\n\nreceived by the Secretary of Environment shall be disbursed to each\n\nstate environmental agency and state agency with limited\n\nenvironmental responsibilities based upon its statutory duties and\n\nresponsibilities relating to environmental areas as determined by\n\nthe Secretary of Environment in consultation with the Secretary of\n\nAgriculture. Such funds shall be distributed to the appropriate\n\nstate environmental agency or state agency with limited\n\nenvironmental responsibilities within thirty (30) days of its\n\nreceipt by the Secretary or as otherwise provided by grant or\n\ncontract terms without any assessment of administrative fees or\n\ncosts. Disbursement of other federal environmental funds shall not\n\nbe subject to this section. The Secretary of Environment shall make\n\nan annual written report no later than November 1 to the President\n\nPro Tempore of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of\n\nRepresentatives, and the Chair of each environmental committee of\n\nboth the House of Representatives and Senate detailing the\n\ndisbursement of federal funds;\n\n3. Coordinate pollution control and complaint management\n\nactivities of the state carried on by all state agencies to avoid\n\nduplication of effort including but not limited to the development\n\nof a common data base for water quality information with a uniform\n\nformat for use by all state agencies and the public; and\n\n4. Act on behalf of the public as trustee for natural resources\n\nunder the federal Oil Pollution Act of 1990, the federal\n\nComprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act\n\nof 1980, as amended, the federal Water Pollution Control Act and any\n\nother federal laws providing that a trustee for the natural\n\nresources is to be designated. The Secretary is authorized to make\n\nclaims against federal funds, receive federal payments, establish\n\nand manage a revolving fund in relation to duties as the natural\n\nresources trustee consistent with the federal enabling acts and to\n\ncoordinate, monitor and gather information from and enter into\n\nagreements with the appropriate state environmental agencies or\n\nstate agencies with limited environmental responsibilities in\n\ncarrying out the duties and functions of the trustee for the natural\n\nresources of this state.\n\nB. 1. The Secretary of the Environment or successor cabinet\n\nposition having authority over the Department of Environmental\n\nQuality shall develop and implement, by January 1, 2000, public\n\nparticipation procedures for the development and/or modification of:\n\na. the federally required list of impaired waters (303(d)\n\nreport),\n\nb. the federally required water quality assessment\n\n(305(b) report),\n\nc. the federally required nonpoint source state\n\nassessment (319 report), and\n\nd. the continuing planning process document.\n\n2. The procedures shall provide for the documents to be\n\nsubmitted for formal public review with a published notice\n\nconsistent with the Administrative Procedures Act, providing for a\n\nthirty-day comment period and the preparation of a responsiveness\n\nsummary by the applicable state environmental agency.\n\n3. Information from current research shall be considered when\n\nmade available to the agency.","path":["OK Code","Title 27A"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os27A.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"d7f0ae3a98ed7f14bded0e288a75120d210341f16f6d11bec204ad4c69caf13f","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-27a-27a-1-1-207","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-27a-27a-1-2-102"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}