| (47) Saltwater pipeline--A pipeline that carries saltwater.
The term includes a pipeline that carries water and water based solutions
from an oil or gas well on which hydraulic fracturing treatment has
been performed to a waste disposal well.
(48) Saltwater pipeline operator--A person, firm, corporation
or other entity that owns, installs, manages, operates, leases, or
controls a saltwater pipeline that is not a public utility.
(49) Service line--A utility facility that conveys
electricity, gas, water, or telecommunication services from a main
or conduit located in the right of way to a meter or other measuring
device that services a customer or to the outside wall of a structure,
whichever is applicable and nearer the right of way.
(50) Temporary Saltwater Pipeline--An above-ground
saltwater pipeline that satisfies the requirements of §21.57
of this subchapter.
(51) TMUTCD--The most recent edition of Texas Manual
on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways.
(52) Traffic impact analysis--A traffic engineering
study that determines the potential current and future traffic impacts
of a proposed traffic generator and that is signed, sealed, and dated
by an engineer licensed to practice in the state of Texas.
(53) Transmission line--That part of a utility system
connecting a main energy or material source with a distribution system.
(54) Use and occupancy agreement--The written document,
whether in the form of an agreement, acknowledgment, notice, or request,
by which the department approves the use and occupancy of highway
right of way by utility facilities.
(55) Utility --Any entity owning a utility facility.
(56) Utility appurtenances--Any attachments or integral
parts of a utility facility, including fire hydrants, valves, communication
controller boxes and pedestals, electric boxes, and gas regulators.
(57) Utility facilities--All utility lines, pipelines,
saltwater pipelines, conduits, cables, and their appurtenances within
the highway right of way except those for highway-oriented needs,
including underground, surface, or overhead facilities either singularly
or in combination, which may be transmission, distribution, service,
or gathering lines.
(58) Utility product--The product, such as water, saltwater,
steam, electricity, gas, oil, crude resources, communications, cable
television, or waste disposal services, or broadband service, carried
by the utility facility.
(59) Utility strip--The area of land established within
a control of access highway, located longitudinally within the area
between the outer traveled way and the right of way line, for the
nonexclusive use, occupancy, and access by one or more authorized
utilities.
(60) Utility structure--A pole, bridge, tower, or other
aboveground structure on which a conduit, line, pipeline, or other
utility facility is attached.
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| Source Note: The provisions of this §21.31 adopted to be effective March 17, 2005, 30 TexReg 1455; amended to be effective December 11, 2008, 33 TexReg 10064; amended to be effective December 10, 2009, 34 TexReg 8795; amended to be effective October 12, 2014, 39 TexReg 7946; amended to be effective April 20, 2016, 41 TexReg 2777; amended to be effective October 12, 2022, 47 TexReg 6617 |
