Texas Administrative Code|§24.7 Definitions

                                                
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
   (1) Access account--Confidential transaction record verifying an individual's identity and authority to access the restricted information within the THSA database.    (2) Access agreement--A contract signed or otherwise accepted by all users of RCRI, which states that they agree to comply with the rules governing the use of RCRI, including the restricted data contained within the THSA database.    (3) Access committee--The RCRI Access Committee. A standing committee composed of the Director of the Archeology Division, the Director of the History Programs Division, the State Marine Archeologist, and the Director of the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory of the University of Texas at Austin, or their designees, which has the authority to determine an applicant's qualification for access to restricted information, and the ability to grant or deny such access.    (4) Agency--A department, commission, board, office or other federal or state governmental agency body.    (5) Applicant--An individual who submits an application request for access to RCRI data sources, including the THSA database.    (6) Application--The personal data submitted by an applicant being considered for access privileges to RCRI.    (7) Cultural resource information--Data pertaining to cultural resources, including but not limited to site records, reports, location information, notes, photographs, and maps.    (8) Atlas--The Texas Historic Sites Atlas (THSA).    (9) Cultural resource--A site or place where there is physical evidence of past human activities, such as structures, shipwrecks, artifacts or alterations of the natural environment, and which is fifty or more years old.    (10) Curriculum vitae--Brief account of the applicant's career and qualifications.    (11) Database--Structured information and data contained in a computer file.    (12) Legitimate scientific or legal interest--An interest based on specific research goals associated with professional archeological, historical, or architectural research as defined in Chapter 191 of the Texas Natural Resources Code, or ownership and management of sites classified as restricted under this title.    (13) Political subdivision--A political subdivision of the State, as defined in §191.003 of the Texas Natural Resources Code.    (14) RCRI--Restricted Cultural Resource Information contained within the THSA database, the libraries, files, documents and maps held by the commission.    (15) RCRI user--An individual who accesses and uses restricted information contained within the THSA database or within the libraries, files, documents, and maps held by the commission.    (16) Site--A cultural resource location containing physical evidence of either a prehistoric and/or historic occupation, or activity, building, or structure, whether standing, in ruin, or vanished, where the location itself maintains historical or archeological integrity regardless of the integrity of any existing structure.    (17) Site location--Information concerning the location, placement, or locality of a cultural resource.    (18) Site records--All data and information relating to the character, condition, and location of any archeological site or other cultural resource, and all data and information pertinent to collections of material remains. Site records include, but are not limited to, digital and hard copy images, photographs, maps, notes, drawings, site data forms, documents, sound tapes, spatial imagery and other forms of electronic data.    (19) Spatial imagery--Imagery used to illustrate and indicate locations on the surface of the earth, including but not limited to geographic maps; plotting; aerial, satellite and remote sensing imagery; georeferenced images.    (20) Steward--A current member of the Texas Archeological Stewardship Network.    (21) Texas Historic Sites Atlas--The electronic database documenting historical and archeological sites and properties in the state of Texas, survey locational data, as well as the computer database server on which this information resides and the system that provides access to this database through the Internet.    (22) THSA Coordinator--A member of the commission staff appointed by the Executive Director to have primary responsibility for operation and maintenance of THSA.