30 Tex. Admin. Code § 303.2 Definitions

• Library: Texas Administrative Code
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through Reg. 48, No. 52; December 29, 2023
• Citation: 30 Tex. Admin. Code § 303.2
• Year: 2023

The following words and terms when used in this chapter shall have the following meanings.

(1) Account--The record of municipal and operating reserves; or the record of an allottee's water in storage in the Amistad-Falcon system, and the diversion of such water.

(2) Accounting period--From the last Saturday of a month at midnight to the last Saturday of the following month at midnight.

(3) Agent--A person designated by a water right holder to have the authority to request certification to divert, make diversions, and/or pay assessment charges.

(4) Allocation--The distribution of the United States' share of water stored in the Amistad-Falcon system to the various accounts.

(5) Allottee--A water right holder who has an account and who has the right to call on releases of water from the associated accounts.

(6) Assessment--The authorized charges against water rights holders levied by the commission to finance watermaster operations.

(7) Certification--Written authorization issued by the watermaster to divert water from the Rio Grande or its tributaries for a specific period of time.

(8) Diversion facility--Any pump, canal system, or other device.

(9) Diverter--A water right holder, an agent, or an exempt domestic and livestock user who takes water from the Rio Grande or its tributaries.

(10) Hydroelectric rights--A water right that authorizes the use of available flow for hydroelectric power generation. No account will be established for the holders of hydroelectric rights.

(11) Lower Rio Grande Valley--That portion of the Rio Grande Basin, including tributaries, in Texas from Falcon Dam downstream to the Gulf of Mexico, including that portion of the Nueces-Rio Grande Coastal Basin located in Starr, Hidalgo, Willacy, and Cameron Counties, Texas, whose source of water is the Rio Grande.

(A) Reach I is that portion of the Lower Rio Grande between Falcon Dam and the International Boundary and Water Commission streamflow gage at Fort Ringgold.

(B) Reach II is that portion of the Lower Rio Grande between the International Boundary and Water Commission streamflow gage at Fort Ringgold and Anzalduas Dam.

(C) Reach III is that portion of the Lower Rio Grande between Anzalduas Dam and the Progreso Bridge.

(D) Reach IV is that portion of the Lower Rio Grande between the Progreso Bridge and...