(a) If a release or a potential release poses a threat to human health or to the environment, the commission shall:
- (1) investigate and assess the extent of the resulting contamination; and
- (2) take necessary or appropriate emergency action to ensure that human health or safety is not threatened by the release or the potential release.
- (b) Emergency action under Subsection (a)(2) may include the treatment, restoration, or replacement of drinking water supplies.
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 540, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.