Each constituent agency shall administer regulations adopted pursuant to the Water Quality Act, responsibility for the administration of which has been assigned to it by the commission.
History: 1953 Comp., § 75-39-7, enacted by Laws 1967, ch. 190, § 7.
ANNOTATIONSCommission may delegate authority to administer regulations. — Where the commission gives the environmental improvement division the authority to administer certain regulations, there is no unlawful delegation of authority. Kerr-McGee Nuclear Corp. v. New Mexico Water Quality Control Comm'n, 1982-NMCA-015, 98 N.M. 240, 647 P.2d 873.
Law reviews. — For article, "The Assurance of Reasonable Toxic Risk?," see 24 Nat. Resources J. 549 (1984).