The following words and terms shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

1. (1) Auxiliary enterprise buildings or facilities--Income generating structures such as dormitories, cafeterias, student union buildings, stadiums, and alumni centers used solely for those purposes.
2. (2) Board or Coordinating Board--The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board members and the agency.
3. (3) Campus Planning Committee--The members of the Board appointed to oversee facility-related issues.
4. (4) Commissioner--The chief executive officer of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
5. (5) Critical deferred maintenance--The physical conditions of a building or facility that places its occupants at risk of harm or the facility at risk of not fulfilling its functions.
6. (6) Deferred maintenance--An existing or imminent building maintenance-related deficiency from prior years or the current year that needs to be corrected, or scheduled preventive maintenance tasks that were not performed because of perceived lower priority status than those funded within the budget.
7. (7) Educational and general (E&G) buildings and facilities--Buildings and facilities associated with teaching, research, or the preservation of knowledge, including the proportional share used for those activities in any building of facility used jointly with auxiliary enterprise, or space that is permanently unassigned.
8. (8) Facilities inventory--A collection of building and room records that reflects the type of space and how it is being used. The records contain codes that are uniformly defined by the Coordinating Board and the United States Department of Education and reported by the institutions on an on-going basis to reflect a current facilities inventory.
9. (9) Gross square feet (GSF)--The sum of all square feet of floor areas within the outside faces of a building's exterior walls.
10. (10) Major repair and rehabilitation (R&R)--Construction upgrades to an existing building, facility, or infrastructure that currently exist on campus. R&R does not add space to a building or facility's overall gross square footage.
11. (11) Net assignable square feet (NASF)--The amount of space that can be used for programs within interior walls of a room. Major room use categories are: classrooms, laboratories, offices, study areas, general use areas, support rooms, health care, residential, and unclassified space (stairways, hallways, corridors). NASF includes auxiliary space and E&G space.
12. (12) New construction--A new building or facility, the addition to an existing building or facility, or new infrastructure that does not currently exist on campus. New construction would add square footage to an institution's physical plant.
13. (13) Tuition revenue bond projects--A project for which an institution has legislative authority to pledge tuition income to finance a construction or land acquisition project.

Source Note:The provisions of this §17.2 adopted to be effective August 14, 2001, 26 TexReg 6013.