Texas Water Code

§ 26.551 — DEFINITIONS

WA § 26.551Title 2. WATER ADMINISTRATION · Part D. WATER QUALITY CONTROL · Ch. 26. WATER QUALITY CONTROL · Art. M. WATER QUALITY PROTECTION AREAS

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In this subchapter:

(1)"Aggregates" means any commonly recognized construction material originating from a quarry or pit by the disturbance of the surface, including dirt, soil, rock asphalt, granite, gravel, gypsum, marble, sand, stone, caliche, limestone, dolomite, rock, riprap, or other nonmineral substance. The term does not include clay or shale mined for use in manufacturing structural clay products. (1-a) "Coke Stevenson Scenic Riverway" means the South Llano River in Kimble County, located upstream of the river's confluence with the North Llano River at the city of Junction.

(2)"John Graves Scenic Riverway" means that portion of the Brazos River Basin, and its contributing watershed, located downstream of the Morris Shepard Dam on the Possum Kingdom Reservoir in Palo Pinto County, Texas, and extending to the county line between Parker and Hood Counties, Texas.

(3)"Operator" means any person engaged in or responsible for the physical operation and control of a quarry.

(4)"Overburden" means all materials displaced in an aggregates extraction operation that are not, or reasonably would not be expected to be, removed from the affected area.

(5)"Owner" means any person having title, wholly or partly, to the land on which a quarry exists or has existed.

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Legislative history

Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 698 (H.B. 1688), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2023.