Texas Administrative Code › Title 30 - ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Part 1 - TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 327 - SPILL PREVENTION AND CONTROL › Section 327.2 - 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, unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise.
(1) Agency on-scene
				coordinator--The official designated by the executive director to coordinate
				and direct agency responses, or to oversee private responses to discharges or
				spills.
(2) Coastal waters--The
				definition of Coastal waters as it appears in Title 31, Texas Administrative
				Code, §19.2(Definitions) of the Texas General Land Office rules.
(3) Discharge or spill--An act or omission by
				which oil, hazardous substances, waste, or other substances are spilled,
				leaked, pumped, poured, emitted, entered, or dumped onto or into waters in the
				State of Texas or by which those substances are deposited where, unless
				controlled or removed, they may drain, seep, run, or otherwise enter water in
				the State of Texas.
(4) Emergency
				response team--A unit of the agency that is responsible for the coordination of
				response to spills and discharges under the agency's jurisdiction.
(5) Environment--Waters in the state, land
				surface or subsurface strata, for purposes of this chapter only.
(6) Facility--Any structure or building,
				including contiguous land, or equipment, pipe or pipeline, well, pit, pond,
				lagoon, impoundment, ditch, landfill, storage container, motor vehicle, rolling
				stock, aircraft, or any site or area where a discharge or spill has occurred or
				may occur.
(7) Hazardous
				substance--Any substance designated as such by the administrator of the United
				States Environmental Protection Agency under the Comprehensive Environmental
				Response, Compensation, and Liability Act,
				42
				USC 9601 -
				9675,
				regulated under the Clean Water Act, §311,
				33 USC
				1321, or designated by the
				commission.
(8) Industrial solid
				waste--Solid waste, as defined in §
									335.1(Definitions)
				of this title (relating to Definitions), resulting from or incidental to any
				process of industry or manufacturing, or mining, or agricultural operations,
				which may include hazardous waste as defined in §
									335.1 of
				this title.
(9) Oil--Oil of any
				kind or in any form including but not limited to petroleum, fuel oil, sludge,
				oil refuse, and oil mixed with wastes other than dredged spoil. Oil does not
				include used oil, petroleum product, or oil designated as a hazardous substance
				in
				40 CFR
				§302.4.
(10) Other substances--Substances that may be
				useful or valuable and therefore are not ordinarily considered to be waste, but
				that will cause pollution if discharged into water in the state.
(11) Petroleum product--A petroleum substance
				obtained from distilling and processing crude oil that is liquid at standard
				conditions of temperature and pressure, and that is capable of being used as a
				fuel for the propulsion of a motor vehicle or aircraft, including but not
				necessarily limited to motor gasoline, gasohol, other alcohol blended fuels,
				aviation gasoline, kerosene, distillate fuel oil, and #1 and #2 diesel. The
				term does not include naphtha-type jet fuel, kerosene-type jet fuel, or a
				petroleum product destined for use in chemical manufacturing or feedstock of
				that manufacturing.
(12) Petroleum
				storage tank (PST) exempted facilities--Electric service facilities including
				generation, transmission, distribution equipment and transformers;
				petrochemical plants; petroleum refineries; bulk loading facilities; and
				pipelines that are exempted from the Aboveground Storage Tank (AST) program
				under §
									334.123(a)(9)
				and (b) of this title (relating to Statutory
				Exemptions for ASTs), and §
									334.124(a)(4)
				of this title (relating to Commission Exclusions for ASTs).
(13) Pipeline--A pipeline is:
(A) an interstate pipeline facility,
				including gathering lines and any aboveground storage tank connected to such
				facility, if the pipeline facility is regulated under:
(i) the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of
				1968 (49 United States Code §§1671, et seq); or
(ii) the Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Act
				of 1979 (49 United States Code §§2001, et seq).