Texas Administrative Code › Title 30 - ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Part 1 - TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 303 - OPERATION OF THE RIO GRANDE › Subchapter A - INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS › Section 303.2 - 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.
(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 the International Boundary and Water
				  Commission streamflow gage near San Benito.
(E) Reach V is that portion of the Lower Rio
				  Grande between the International Boundary and Water Commission streamflow gage
				  near San Benito and the Cameron County Water Control and Improvement District 6
				  river pumps.
(F) Reach VI is that
				  portion of the Lower Rio Grande between Cameron County Water Control and
				  Improvement District 6 river pumps and the International Boundary and Water
				  Commission streamflow gage near Brownsville.
(G) Reach VII is that portion of the Lower
				  Rio Grande between the International Boundary and Water Commission streamflow
				  gage near Brownsville and the Gulf of Mexico.