Texas Natural Resources Code - Section 91.173. Definitions
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§ 91.173. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter:
(1) "Person" means any natural person, partnership or
other combination of natural persons, corporation, group of
corporations, trust, or governmental entity.
(2) "Gas utility" means a gas utility as defined in
Section 101.003, Utilities Code, or Subchapter A, Chapter 121,
Utilities Code.
(3) "Natural gas" means any gaseous material composed
predominantly of the following hydrocarbons or mixtures thereof:
methane, ethane, propane, butane (normal or isobutane), in either
its original or manufactured state, or gas which has been processed
to separate it into one or more of its component parts after its
withdrawal from the earth.
(4) "Native gas" means:
(A) natural gas which has not previously been
withdrawn from the earth; or
(B) natural gas which has been withdrawn from the
storage facility, processed, and reinjected into the storage
facility.
(5) "Storage facility" means any subsurface sand,
stratum, or formation used or to be used for the underground storage
of natural gas and all surface and subsurface rights and
appurtenances necessary to the operation of a facility for the
underground storage of natural gas.
(6) "Storer" means (A) a gas utility, (B) a wholly
owned subsidiary of a gas utility, (C) the parent corporation of a
gas utility, or (D) a wholly owned subsidiary of a parent
corporation which also wholly owns a subsidiary gas utility, but a
nonutility storer included in category (B), (C), or (D) must
operate the storage facility pursuant to a contract with its
affiliated gas utility that provides that all withdrawals of
natural gas from the storage facility must be delivered to the
affiliated gas utility.
(7) "Substantially depleted" means that at least 75
percent of the estimated volume of recoverable native gas reserves
originally in place in any gas-bearing sand, formation, or stratum
have been withdrawn from the sand, formation, or stratum.
(8) "Interested person" means any person who enters an
appearance at the commission hearing required by Section 91.174 of
this code.
(9) "Commission" means the Railroad Commission of
Texas.
Added by Acts 1979, 66th Leg., p. 1996, ch. 785, § 3, eff. June
13, 1979. Amended by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 62, § 18.41, eff.
Sept. 1, 1999.
Section: 91.116 91.117 91.141 91.142 91.143 91.171 91.172 91.173 91.174 91.175 91.176 91.177 91.178 91.179 91.180
Last modified: August 10, 2007
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