In this chapter:

1. (1) "Commission" means the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

2. (2) "Commercial, industrial, or municipal waste":

   1. (A) means any water-dominant liquid waste substance that may cause or might reasonably be expected to cause pollution of fresh water and that may result from:

      1. (i) processes of industry, manufacturing, trade, or business;
      2. (ii) development or recovery of natural resources, except as provided by Paragraph (B); or
      3. (iii) disposal of sewage or other wastes of cities, towns, villages, communities, water districts, other municipal corporations, educational facilities, apartment complexes, and other commercial facilities; and

   2. (B) does not include:

      1. (i) oil and gas waste, as defined by Section 27.002;
      2. (ii) tar sands;
      3. (iii) sulfur;
      4. (iv) brine from desalination; or
      5. (v) hazardous waste, as defined by Section 361.003, Health and Safety Code.
3. (3) "Department" means the Department of State Health Services.
4. (4) "Executive director" means the executive director of the commission.
5. (5) "Fresh water" has the meaning assigned by Section 27.002.
6. (6) "Pollution" has the meaning assigned by Section 27.002.
7. (7) "Processed" means the action of reducing liquid waste to a state that will allow injection by subsurface drip dispersal into an area without creating pollution.
8. (8) "Subsurface area drip dispersal system" means a waste disposal system that injects processed commercial, industrial, or municipal waste into the ground at a depth of not more than 48 inches and spreads the waste over a large enough area that the soil hydrologic absorption rate and crop/plant root absorption rate are not exceeded.

Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 637 (H.B. 2651), Sec. 1, eff. June 17, 2005.