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TITLE 16ECONOMIC REGULATION
PART 1RAILROAD COMMISSION OF TEXAS
CHAPTER 3OIL AND GAS DIVISION
RULE §3.79Definitions

  (24) Texas offshore--This term embraces the area in the Gulf of Mexico seaward of the coast line of Texas comprised of:

    (A) the three league area confirmed to the State of Texas by the Submerged Land Act (43 United States Code §§1301-1315); and

    (B) the area seaward of such three league area owned by the United States.

  (25) Transportation or to transport--The movement of any crude petroleum oil or products of crude petroleum oil or the products of either from any receptacle in which any such crude petroleum or products of crude petroleum oil or the products of either has been stored to any other receptacle by any means or method whatsoever, including the movement by any pipeline, railway, truck, motor vehicle, barge, boat, or railway tank car. It is the purpose of this definition to include the movement or transportation of crude petroleum oil and products of crude petroleum oil and the products of either by any means whatsoever from any receptacle containing the same to any other receptacle anywhere within or from the State of Texas, regardless of whether or not possession or control or ownership change.

  (26) Transporter or transporting agency--Includes any common carrier by pipeline, railway, truck, motor vehicle, boat, or barge, and/or any person transporting oil or a product by pipeline, railway, truck, motor vehicle, boat, or barge.

  (27) Underground source of drinking water--An aquifer or its portion which is not an exempt aquifer as defined in 40 Code of Federal Regulations §146.4 and which:

    (A) supplies any public water system; or

    (B) contains a sufficient quantity of ground water to supply a public water system; and

      (i) currently supplies drinking water for human consumption; or

      (ii) contains fewer than 10,000 milligrams per liter (mg/l) total dissolved solids.


Source Note: The provisions of this §3.79 adopted to be effective August 25, 2003, 28 TexReg 6816; amended to be effective July 2, 2012, 37 TexReg 4892

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