Texas Administrative Code › Title 13 - CULTURAL RESOURCES › Part 2 - TEXAS HISTORICAL COMMISSION › Chapter 24 - RESTRICTED CULTURAL RESOURCE INFORMATION › Section 24.7 - Definitions

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
				  shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise.
(1) Access
				account--Confidential transaction record verifying an individual's identity and
				authority to access the restricted information within the THSA
				database.
(2) Access agreement--A
				contract signed or otherwise accepted by all users of RCRI, which states that
				they agree to comply with the rules governing the use of RCRI, including the
				restricted data contained within the THSA database.
(3) Access committee--The RCRI Access
				Committee. A standing committee composed of the Director of the Archeology
				Division, the Director of the History Programs Division, the State Marine
				Archeologist, and the Director of the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory
				of the University of Texas at Austin, or their designees, which has the
				authority to determine an applicant's qualification for access to restricted
				information, and the ability to grant or deny such access.
(4) Agency--A department, commission, board,
				office or other federal or state governmental agency body.
(5) Applicant--An individual who submits an
				application request for access to RCRI data sources, including the THSA
				database.
(6) Application --The
				personal data submitted by an applicant being considered for access privileges
				to RCRI.
(7) Cultural resource
				information--Data pertaining to cultural resources, including but not limited
				to site records, reports, location information, notes, photographs, and
				maps.
(8) Atlas--The Texas Historic
				Sites Atlas (THSA).
(9) Cultural
				resource--A site or place where there is physical evidence of past human
				activities, such as structures, shipwrecks, artifacts or alterations of the
				natural environment, and which is fifty or more years old.
(10) Curriculum vitae--Brief account of the
				applicant's career and qualifications.
(11) Database--Structured information and
				data contained in a computer file.
(12) Legitimate scientific or legal
				interest--An interest based on specific research goals associated with
				professional archeological, historical, or architectural research as defined in
				Chapter 191 of the Texas Natural Resources Code, or ownership and management of
				sites classified as restricted under this title.
(13) Political subdivision--A political
				subdivision of the State, as defined in §
									RSA 191.003 of the Texas
				Natural Resources Code.
(14)
				RCRI--Restricted Cultural Resource Information contained within the THSA
				database, the libraries, files, documents and maps held by the
				commission.
(15) RCRI user--An
				individual who accesses and uses restricted information contained within the
				THSA database or within the libraries, files, documents, and maps held by the
				commission.
(16) Site--A cultural
				resource location containing physical evidence of either a prehistoric and/or
				historic occupation, or activity, building, or structure, whether standing, in
				ruin, or vanished, where the location itself maintains historical or
				archeological integrity regardless of the integrity of any existing
				structure.
(17) Site
				location--Information concerning the location, placement, or locality of a
				cultural resource.
(18) Site
				records--All data and information relating to the character, condition, and
				location of any archeological site or other cultural resource, and all data and
				information pertinent to collections of material remains. Site records include,
				but are not limited to, digital and hard copy images, photographs, maps, notes,
				drawings, site data forms, documents, sound tapes, spatial imagery and other
				forms of electronic data.
(19)
				Spatial imagery--Imagery used to illustrate and indicate locations on the
				surface of the earth, including but not limited to geographic maps; plotting;
				aerial, satellite and remote sensing imagery; georeferenced images.
(20) Steward--A current member of the Texas
				Archeological Stewardship Network.
(21) Texas Historic Sites Atlas--The
				electronic database documenting historical and archeological sites and
				properties in the state of Texas, survey locational data, as well as the
				computer database server on which this information resides and the system that
				provides access to this database through the Internet.
(22) THSA Coordinator--A member of the
				commission staff appointed by the Executive Director to have primary
				responsibility for operation and maintenance of THSA.