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The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality ensures compliance with federal and state drinking water
standards through self-reported monitoring, conducting compliance and complaint inspections, issuing notices of violation, and seeking administrative orders and penalties when violations are
not corrected. If administrative orders and penalties issued by the TCEQ do not achieve compliance, then the agency may pursue compliance through the Texas Attorney General's Office.
In fiscal year 2001, the public water supply division conducted 5,594 compliance inspections, 913 complaint
investigations, issued 6,420 notices of violations, and issued 185 administrative orders with penalties worth $391,895, collecting a total of $214,068 while some penalties were deferred.* In general, the number of administrative orders has increased over the last five years, although the average penalty has declined.
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