Texas Administrative Code
Title 30 - ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
Part 1 - TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
Chapter 319 - GENERAL REGULATIONS INCORPORATED INTO PERMITS
Subchapter C - PUBLIC NOTICE OF SPILLS OR ACCIDENTAL DISCHARGES FROM WASTEWATER FACILITIES OWNED OR OPERATED BY LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
Section 319.301 - Definitions

(1) Alluvial well--A well completed in sedimentary deposits resulting from modern rivers.

(2) Appropriate local government officials--

(3) Drinking water--All water:

(4) Facility--A wastewater treatment plant, collection facility, pumping station, or sewer pipeline owned or operated by a local government.

(5) Groundwater recharge area--An area where there is direct and rapid communication of flow from the surface downward to the drinking-water aquifer.

(6) Karst--A type of topography that is formed over limestone, dolomite, or gypsum by dissolving or solution, and that is characterized by closed depressions or sinkholes, caves, and underground drainage.

(7) Local government--An incorporated city, a county, a river authority, or a water district or authority acting under the Texas Constitution, Article III, §52 or Article XVI, §59.

(8) Local media--The daily newspapers and the radio and television media serving the counties and cities served by a facility or the aquifer area in which a spill or accidental discharge occurs, as well as these news organizations in the nearest metropolitan area.

(9) Private source of drinking water--A drinking water supply that is not a public source of drinking water.

(10) Public source of drinking water--A public water system which provides the public piped water for human consumption, which includes all uses described under the definition of drinking water in paragraph (3) of this section. Such a system must have a potential for at least 15 service connections or serve at least 25 individuals at least 60 days out of the year.

(11) Responsible individual--The individual designated by the owner of a facility to give the notices required by § 319.302 of this title.

(12) Spill--An act or omission through which waste or other substances:

(13) Water in the state--Groundwater, percolating or otherwise, lakes, bays, ponds, impounding reservoirs, springs, rivers, streams, creeks, estuaries, marshes, inlets, canals, the Gulf of Mexico inside the territorial limits of the state, and all other bodies of surface water, natural or artificial, inland or coastal, fresh or salt, navigable or nonnavigable, and including the beds and banks of all watercourses and bodies of surface water, that are wholly or partially inside or bordering the state or inside the jurisdiction of the state.