Texas Natural Resources Code - NAT RES § 40.152. Use of Fund

(1) administrative expenses, personnel and training expenses, and equipment maintenance and operating costs related to implementation and enforcement of this chapter;

(2) response costs related to abatement and containment of actual or threatened unauthorized discharges of oil incidental to unauthorized discharges of hazardous substances;

(3) response costs and damages related to actual or threatened unauthorized discharges of oil;

(4) assessment, restoration, rehabilitation, or replacement of or mitigation of damage to natural resources damaged by an unauthorized discharge of oil;

(5) in an amount not to exceed $50,000 annually, the small spill education program;

(6) in an amount not to exceed $1,250,000 annually, interagency contracts under Section 40.302;

(7) the purchase of response equipment under Section 40.105 within two years of the effective date of this chapter, in an amount not to exceed $4 million;  thereafter, for the purchase of equipment to replace equipment that is worn or obsolete;

(8) other costs and damages authorized by this chapter;

(9) in an amount not to exceed the interest accruing to the fund annually, erosion response projects under Subchapter H, Chapter 33;  1  and

(10) in conjunction with the Railroad Commission of Texas, costs related to the plugging of abandoned or orphaned oil wells located on state-owned submerged lands.