13 Tex. Admin. Code § 24.7 - Definitions
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
(1) Access
account--Confidential transaction record verifying an individual's identity and
authority to access the restricted information within the THSA
database.
(2) Access agreement--A
contract signed or otherwise accepted by all users of RCRI, which states that
they agree to comply with the rules governing the use of RCRI, including the
restricted data contained within the THSA database.
(3) Access committee--The RCRI Access
Committee. A standing committee composed of the Director of the Archeology
Division, the Director of the History Programs Division, the State Marine
Archeologist, and the Director of the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory
of the University of Texas at Austin, or their designees, which has the
authority to determine an applicant's qualification for access to restricted
information, and the ability to grant or deny such access.
(4) Agency--A department, commission, board,
office or other federal or state governmental agency body.
(5) Applicant--An individual who submits an
application request for access to RCRI data sources, including the THSA
database.
(6) Application --The
personal data submitted by an applicant being considered for access privileges
to RCRI.
(7) Cultural resource
information--Data pertaining to cultural resources, including but not limited
to site records, reports, location information, notes, photographs, and
maps.
(8) Atlas--The Texas Historic
Sites Atlas (THSA).
(9) Cultural
resource--A site or place where there is physical evidence of past human
activities, such as structures, shipwrecks, artifacts or alterations of the
natural environment, and which is fifty or more years old.
(10) Curriculum vitae--Brief account of the
applicant's career and qualifications.
(11) Database--Structured information and
data contained in a computer file.
(12) Legitimate scientific or legal
interest--An interest based on specific research goals associated with
professional archeological, historical, or architectural research as defined in
Chapter 191 of the Texas Natural Resources Code, or ownership and management of
sites classified as restricted under this title.
(13) Political subdivision--A political
subdivision of the State, as defined in §
191.003 of the
Texas Natural Resources Code.
(14)
RCRI--Restricted Cultural Resource Information contained within the THSA
database, the libraries, files, documents and maps held by the
commission.
(15) RCRI user--An
individual who accesses and uses restricted information contained within the
THSA database or within the libraries, files, documents, and maps held by the
commission.
(16) Site--A cultural
resource location containing physical evidence of either a prehistoric and/or
historic occupation, or activity, building, or structure, whether standing, in
ruin, or vanished, where the location itself maintains historical or
archeological integrity regardless of the integrity of any existing
structure.
(17) Site
location--Information concerning the location, placement, or locality of a
cultural resource.
(18) Site
records--All data and information relating to the character, condition, and
location of any archeological site or other cultural resource, and all data and
information pertinent to collections of material remains. Site records include,
but are not limited to, digital and hard copy images, photographs, maps, notes,
drawings, site data forms, documents, sound tapes, spatial imagery and other
forms of electronic data.
(19)
Spatial imagery--Imagery used to illustrate and indicate locations on the
surface of the earth, including but not limited to geographic maps; plotting;
aerial, satellite and remote sensing imagery; georeferenced images.
(20) Steward--A current member of the Texas
Archeological Stewardship Network.
(21) Texas Historic Sites Atlas--The
electronic database documenting historical and archeological sites and
properties in the state of Texas, survey locational data, as well as the
computer database server on which this information resides and the system that
provides access to this database through the Internet.
(22) THSA Coordinator--A member of the
commission staff appointed by the Executive Director to have primary
responsibility for operation and maintenance of THSA.
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