SECTION 294.40. Definitions

The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

(1) Affected person--A landowner, water well owner, or other user of groundwater in the proposed priority groundwater management area (PGMA), a groundwater conservation district adjacent to the proposed PGMA, a regional water planning group with a water management strategy in the proposed PGMA, or a person who has groundwater rights in the proposed PGMA.

(2) Executive administrator--The executive administrator of the Texas Water Development Board.

(3) Priority groundwater management area (PGMA)--An area designated and delineated by the commission that is experiencing or is expected to experience, within the immediately following 50-year period, critical groundwater problems including shortages of surface water or groundwater, land subsidence resulting from groundwater withdrawal, or contamination of groundwater supplies.

(4) Texas Water Development Board (TWDB)--The agency responsible for water planning and administration of financial programs for the planning, design, and construction of water supply, wastewater treatment, flood control, and agricultural water conservation projects.

Source Note: The provisions of this §294.40 adopted to be effective February 21, 1999, 24 TexReg 965; amended to be effective August 29, 2002, 27 TexReg 7954; amended to be effective August 16, 2012, 37 TexReg 6068