31 Tex. Admin. Code § 357.10 - Definitions and Acronyms
The following words, used in this chapter, have the following meanings.
(1) Agricultural
Water Conservation--Defined in §
363.1302 of this title (relating
to Definition of Terms).
(2)
Alternative Water Management Strategy--A fully evaluated Water Management
Strategy that may be substituted into a Regional Water Plan in the event that a
recommended Water Management Strategy is no longer recommended.
(3) Availability--Maximum amount of raw water
that could be produced by a source during a repeat of the Drought of Record,
regardless of whether the supply is physically connected to or legally
accessible by Water User Groups.
(4) Board--The Texas Water Development
Board.
(5) Collective Reporting
Unit--A grouping of utilities located in the Regional Water Planning Area.
Utilities within a Collective Reporting Unit must have a logical relationship,
such as being served by common Wholesale Water Providers, having common
sources, or other appropriate associations.
(6) Commission--The Texas Commission on
Environmental Quality.
(7)
County-Other--An aggregation of utilities and individual water users within a
county and not included in paragraph (43)(A) - (D) of this section.
(8) Drought Contingency Plan--A plan required
from wholesale and retail public water suppliers and irrigation districts
pursuant to Texas Water Code §
11.1272 (relating to
Drought Contingency Plans for Certain Applicants and Water Right Holders). The
plan may consist of one or more strategies for temporary supply and demand
management and demand management responses to temporary and potentially
recurring water supply shortages and other water supply emergencies as required
by the Commission.
(9) Drought
Management Measures--Demand management activities to be implemented during
drought that may be evaluated and included as Water Management
Strategies.
(10) Drought Management
Water Management Strategy--A drought management measure or measures evaluated
and/or recommended in a State or Regional Water Plan that quantifies temporary
reductions in demand during drought conditions.
(11) Drought of Record--The period of time
when historical records indicate that natural hydrological conditions would
have provided the least amount of water supply.
(12) Executive Administrator (EA)--The
Executive Administrator of the Board or a designated representative.
(13) Existing Water Supply--Maximum amount of
water that is physically and legally accessible from existing sources for
immediate use by a Water User Group under a repeat of Drought of Record
conditions.
(14) Firm
Yield--Maximum water volume a reservoir can provide each year under a repeat of
the Drought of Record using anticipated sedimentation rates and assuming that
all senior water rights will be totally utilized and all applicable permit
conditions met.
(15) Interbasin
Transfer of Surface Water--Defined and governed in Texas Water Code §
11.085 (relating to
Interbasin Transfers) as the diverting of any state water from a river basin
and transfer of that water to any other river basin.
(16) Interregional Conflict--An interregional
conflict exists when:
(A) more than one
Regional Water Plan includes the same source of water supply for identified and
quantified recommended Water Management Strategies and there is insufficient
water available to implement such Water Management Strategies; or
(B) in the instance of a recommended Water
Management Strategy proposed to be supplied from a different Regional Water
Planning Area, the Regional Water Planning Group with the location of the
strategy has studied the impacts of the recommended Water Management Strategy
on its economic, agricultural, and natural resources, and demonstrates to the
Board that there is a potential for a substantial adverse effect on the region
as a result of those impacts.
(17) Intraregional Conflict--A conflict
between two or more identified, quantified, and recommended Water Management
Strategies in the same Initially Prepared Plan that rely upon the same water
source, so that there is not sufficient water available to fully implement all
Water Management Strategies and thereby creating an over-allocation of that
source.
(18) Initially Prepared
Plan (IPP)--Draft Regional Water Plan that is presented at a public hearing in
accordance with §
357.21(h) of
this title (relating to Notice and Public Participation) and submitted for
Board review and comment.
(19)
Major Water Provider (MWP)--A Water User Group or a Wholesale Water Provider of
particular significance to the region's water supply as determined by the
Regional Water Planning Group. This may include public or private entities that
provide water for any water use category.
(20) Modeled Available Groundwater (MAG) Peak
Factor--A percentage (e.g., greater than 100 percent) that is applied to a
modeled available groundwater value reflecting the annual groundwater
availability that, for planning purposes, shall be considered temporarily
available for pumping consistent with desired future conditions. The approval
of a MAG Peak Factor is not intended as a limit to permits or as guaranteed
approval or pre-approval of any future permit application.
(21) Planning Decades--Temporal snapshots of
conditions anticipated to occur and presented at even intervals over the
planning horizon used to present simultaneous demands, supplies, needs, and
strategy volume data. A Water Management Strategy that is shown as providing a
supply in the 2040 decade, for example, is assumed to come online in or prior
to the year 2040.
(22) Political
Subdivision--City, county, district, or authority created under the Texas
Constitution, Article III, §52, or Article XVI, §59, any other Political
Subdivision of the state, any interstate compact commission to which the state
is a party, and any nonprofit water supply corporation created and operating
under Texas Water Code Chapter 67 (relating to Nonprofit Water Supply or Sewer
Service Corporations).
(23)
Regional Water Plan (RWP)--The plan adopted or amended by a Regional Water
Planning Group pursuant to Texas Water Code §
16.053 (relating to
Regional Water Plans) and this chapter.
(24) Regional Water Planning Area
(RWPA)--Area designated pursuant to Texas Water Code §
16.053.
(25) Regional Water Planning Gallons Per
Capita Per Day--For Regional Water Planning purposes, Gallons Per Capita Per
Day is the annual volume of water pumped, diverted, or purchased minus the
volume exported (sold) to other water systems or large industrial facilities
divided by 365 and divided by the permanent resident population of the
Municipal Water User Group in the regional water planning process. Coastal
saline and reused/recycled water is not included in this volume.
(26) Regional Water Planning Group
(RWPG)--Group designated pursuant to Texas Water Code §
16.053.
(27) RWPG-Estimated Groundwater
Availability--The groundwater Availability used for planning purposes as
determined by RWPGs to which §
357.32(d)(2) of
this title (relating to Water Supply Analysis) is applicable or where no
desired future condition has been adopted.
(28) Retail Public Utility--Defined in Texas
Water Code §
13.002 (relating to Water
Rates and Services) as "any person, corporation, public utility, water supply
or sewer service corporation, municipality, Political Subdivision or agency
operating, maintaining, or controlling in this state facilities for providing
potable water service or sewer service, or both, for compensation."
(29) Reuse--Defined in §
363.1302 of this title (relating
to Definition of Terms).
(30) State
Drought Preparedness Plan--A plan, separate from the State Water Plan, that is
developed by the Drought Preparedness Council for the purpose of mitigating the
effects of drought pursuant to Texas Water Code §
16.0551 (relating to State
Drought Preparedness Plan).
(31)
State Drought Response Plan--A plan prepared and directed by the chief of the
Texas Division of Emergency Management for the purpose of managing and
coordinating the drought response component of the State Water Plan and the
State Drought Preparedness Plan pursuant to Texas Water Code §
16.055 (relating to
Drought Response Plan).
(32) State
Water Plan--The most recent state water plan adopted by the Board under the
Texas Water Code §
16.051 (relating to State
Water Plan).
(33) State Water
Planning Database--Database maintained by TWDB that stores data related to
population and Water Demand projections, water Availability, Existing Water
Supplies, Water Management Strategy supplies, and Water Management Strategy
Projects. It is used to collect, analyze, and disseminate regional and
statewide water planning data.
(34)
Technical Memorandum--Documentation of the RWPG's preliminary analysis of Water
Demand projections, water Availability, Existing Water Supplies, and Water
Needs and declaration of the RWPG's intent of whether or not to pursue
simplified planning.
(35) Unmet
Water Need--The portion of an identified Water Need that is not met by
recommended Water Management Strategies.
(36) Water Conservation Measures--Practices,
techniques, programs, and technologies that will protect water resources,
reduce the consumption of water, reduce the loss or waste of water, or improve
the efficiency in the use of water that may be presented as Water Management
Strategies, so that a water supply is made available for future or alternative
uses. For planning purposes, Water Conservation Measures do not include
reservoirs, aquifer storage and recovery, or other types of projects that
develop new water supplies.
(37)
Water Conservation Plan--The most current plan required by Texas Water Code §
11.1271 (relating to Water
Conservation Plans) from an applicant for a new or amended water rights permit
and from any holder of a permit, certificate, etc. who is authorized to
appropriate 1,000 acre-feet per year or more for municipal, industrial, and
other non-irrigation uses and for those who are authorized to appropriate
10,000 acre-feet per year or more for irrigation, and the most current plan
required by Texas Water Code §
13.146 from a Retail
Public Utility that provides potable water service to 3,300 or more
connections. These plans must include specific, quantified 5-year and 10-year
targets for water savings.
(38)
Water Conservation Strategy--A Water Management Strategy with quantified
volumes of water associated with Water Conservation Measures.
(39) Water Demand--Volume of water required
to carry out the anticipated domestic, public, and/or economic activities of a
Water User Group during drought conditions.
(40) Water Management Strategy (WMS)--A plan
to meet a need for additional water by a discrete Water User Group, which can
mean increasing the total water supply or maximizing an existing supply,
including through reducing demands. A Water Management Strategy may or may not
require associated Water Management Strategy Projects to be
implemented.
(41) Water Management
Strategy Project (WMSP)--Water project that has a non-zero capital costs and
that when implemented, would develop, deliver, or treat additional water supply
volumes, or conserve water for Water User Groups or Wholesale Water Providers.
One WMSP may be associated with multiple WMSs.
(42) Water Need--A potential water supply
shortage based on the difference between projected Water Demands and Existing
Water Supplies.
(43) Water User
Group (WUG)--Identified user or group of users for which Water Demands and
Existing Water Supplies have been identified and analyzed and plans developed
to meet Water Needs. These include:
(A)
Privately-owned utilities that provide an average of more than 100 acre-feet
per year for municipal use for all owned water systems;
(B) Water systems serving institutions or
facilities owned by the state or federal government that provide more than 100
acre-feet per year for municipal use;
(C) All other Retail Public Utilities not
covered in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of this paragraph that provide more than
100 acre-feet per year for municipal use;
(D) Collective Reporting Units, or groups of
Retail Public Utilities that have a common association and are requested for
inclusion by the RWPG;
(E)
Municipal and domestic water use, referred to as County-Other, not included in
subparagraphs (A) - (D) of this paragraph; and
(F) Non-municipal water use including
manufacturing, irrigation, steam electric power generation, mining, and
livestock for each county or portion of a county in an RWPA.
(44) Wholesale Water Provider
(WWP)--Any person or entity, including river authorities and irrigation
districts, that delivers or sells water wholesale (treated or raw) to WUGs or
other WWPs or that the RWPG expects or recommends to deliver or sell water
wholesale to WUGs or other WWPs during the period covered by the plan. The
RWPGs shall identify the WWPs within each region to be evaluated for plan
development.
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