Section 120.001 - Definitions In this chapter:
(1) "Bureau" means the Bureau of Economic Geology of The University of Texas at Austin.(2) "Clean energy project" means a project to construct a coal-fueled, natural gas-fueled, or petroleum coke-fueled electric generating facility, including a facility in which the fuel is gasified before combustion, that will:(A) have a capacity of at least 200 megawatts;(B) meet the emissions profile for an advanced clean energy project under Section 382.003(1-a)(B), Health and Safety Code;(C) capture at least 70 percent of the carbon dioxide resulting from or associated with the generation of electricity by the facility;(D) be capable of permanently sequestering in a geological formation the carbon dioxide captured; and(E) be capable of supplying the carbon dioxide captured for purposes of an enhanced oil recovery project.(3) "Commission" means the Railroad Commission of Texas.(4) "Sequester" means to inject carbon dioxide into a geological formation in a manner and under conditions that create a reasonable expectation that at least 99 percent of the carbon dioxide injected will remain sequestered from the atmosphere for at least 1,000 years.Tex. Nat. Res. Code § 120.001
Amended by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg. - Regular Session, ch. 1003,Sec. 3, eff. 6/14/2013.Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1109, Sec. 3, eff. 9/1/2009.