Texas Health and Safety Code 386.001 – Definitions
Terms Used In Texas Health and Safety Code 386.001
- Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
- Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
- Person: includes corporation, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, and any other legal entity. See Texas Government Code 311.005
- Rule: includes regulation. See Texas Government Code 311.005
In this chapter:
(1) “Account” means the Texas emissions reduction plan account established under § 386.251.
(2) “Affected county” includes:
(A) Bastrop County;
(B) Bexar County;
(C) Caldwell County;
(D) Comal County;
(E) Ellis County;
(F) Gregg County;
(G) Guadalupe County;
(H) Harrison County;
(I) Hays County;
(J) Henderson County;
(K) Hood County;
(L) Hunt County;
(M) Johnson County;
(N) Kaufman County;
(O) Nueces County;
(P) Parker County;
(Q) Rockwall County;
(R) Rusk County;
(S) San Patricio County;
(T) Smith County;
(U) Travis County;
(V) Upshur County;
(W) Williamson County;
(X) Wilson County; and
(Y) any other county designated as an affected county by commission rule because of deteriorating air quality.
(3) “Commission” means the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
(4) Repealed by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 1125, Sec. 22, eff. September 1, 2005.
(5) “Fund” means the Texas emissions reduction plan fund established under § 386.250.
(6) “Incremental cost” means the cost of an applicant’s project less a baseline cost that would otherwise be incurred by an applicant in the normal course of business. Incremental costs may include added lease or fuel costs as well as additional capital costs.
(7) “Laboratory” means the Energy Systems Laboratory at the Texas Engineering Experiment Station of The Texas A&M University System.
(8) “Nonattainment area” means an area so designated under Section 107(d) of the federal Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. § 7407), as amended.
(9) “Plan” means the Texas emissions reduction plan.
(10) “Site” means the total of all stationary sources located on one or more contiguous or adjacent properties, which are under common control of the same person or persons under common control.
(10-a) “Stationary engine” means a machine used in a nonmobile application that converts fuel into mechanical motion, including turbines and other internal combustion devices.
(11) “Utility commission” means the Public Utility Commission of Texas.