The Department of Environmental Quality may, to the extent funds are available, contract with the Oklahoma Rural Water Association for technical assistance programs to rural water and wastewater system operators throughout the state. The Department may contract with other nonprofit entities in addition to the Oklahoma Rural Water Association for this purpose if the Department, in its discretion, determines that those entities can and will provide equally effective and efficient technical assistance services to rural water and wastewater system operators throughout the state.
Added by Laws 2016, c. 161, § 1, eff. July 1, 2016.