Texas Administrative Code › Title 30 - ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Part 1 - TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 321 - CONTROL OF CERTAIN ACTIVITIES BY RULE › Subchapter A - BOAT SEWAGE DISPOSAL › Section 321.2 - Definitions

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this
					 subchapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly
					 indicates otherwise.
(1) Boat--Any
				  vessel or other watercraft, whether moved by oars, paddles, sails, or other
				  power mechanism, inboard or outboard, or any other vessel or structure floating
				  on surface water in the state, whether or not capable of self-locomotion,
				  including but not limited to cabin cruisers, houseboats, barges, marinas, and
				  similar floating objects. The term does not include a vessel subject to
				  inspection under
				  46 United States Code,
				  §3301.
(2) Boat pump-out station--Any private or
				  public shoreside, mobile, or floating installation either independent of or in
				  addition to an organized waste collection, treatment, and disposal system used
				  to receive boat sewage.
(3) Clear
				  Lake--That body of water located in Harris and Galveston Counties and commonly
				  referred to as "Clear Lake" and its immediate tributaries including: Clear
				  Creek east of Interstate Highway 45; Cow Bayou south of NASA Road 1; Horsepen
				  and Armand Bayous south of Bay Area Boulevard; Taylor Lake south of Red Bluff
				  Road; and to the confluence with Galveston Bay at the navigation light in
				  Kemah.
(4) Holding tank--Any tank
				  or receptacle used for retaining sewage.
(5) Houseboat--Any boat or floating structure
				  on surface water in the state, capable of being used as a stationary and/or
				  mobile residence that usually, but not necessarily, contains plumbing
				  fixtures.
(6) Marine sanitation
				  device--Any sanitation device for use on any boat, which is designed to
				  receive, retain, treat or dispose of sewage. Marine sanitation device Types I,
				  II, and III shall be defined as provided in 33 Code of Federal Regulations Part
				  159.
(7) No discharge zone--Any
				  surface water in the state where the discharge of boat sewage is
				  prohibited.
(8) Sewage--Human body
				  wastes and wastes derived from domestic activities, such as washing, bathing,
				  and food preparation, discharged into marine sanitation devices and boat
				  pump-out stations.
(9) Shoreside,
				  mobile, or floating installation--Marinas and other installations servicing
				  boats on surface water in the state.
(10) Surface water in the state--All lakes,
				  bays, ponds, impounding reservoirs, springs, rivers, streams, creeks,
				  estuaries, marshes, inlets, canals, the Gulf of Mexico out three nautical miles
				  into the Gulf, 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, except waters beyond three nautical miles of any shore in the
				  state.
(11) Toilet--Any sanitation
				  device used on a boat which is designed to receive, retain, or dispose of
				  sewage when connected to a marine sanitation device.