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The Honorable Charles R. Barden, page 4 (H-222)
itself would be authorized to issue, it may not issue an identical regu- lation and enforce it as its own. Our answer to the first two questions answers the third and fourth. SUMMARY The Texas Air Control Board, being a creature of the Legislature, is limited in its authority granted it by statute. It has no authority, absent legislative authority, to enforce or to administer a proposed regu- lation of the Environmental Protection Agency which is not within its statutory jurisdiction and which it has not adopted as its own regulation. Very truly yours, JOHN L. HILL Attorney General of Texas APP VED: LA Y F. RK, Fir t Assistant DAVID M. KENDALL, Chairman Opinion Committee