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:
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.
Added by Laws 1994, c. 373, § 6, eff. July 1, 1996. Amended by Laws 1995, c. 285, § 15, eff. July 1, 1996.
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