The Texas Department of Information Resources has proposed rules that reflect the organizational relationship between the department and the Texas Water Development Board where the executive administrator of the Texas Water Development Board makes recommendations to the department to adopt and promote standards that facilitate the sharing of digital natural resource data. Changes include the repeal of 1 TAC Chapter 205, concerning Geographic Information Standards, §§205.1 – 205.3, 205.10, and 205.20, and new 1 TAC Chapter 205, §§205.1 – 205.3, 205.10, and 205.20, to ensure the rules more accurately reflect legislative actions and changes in the technology and use of geographic information. The repeal is necessary, in part, as the result of passage of Senate Bill 660 (82R), effective as of September 1, 2011, which amended §16.021, Water Code, to eliminate the Texas Geographic Information Council, the basis upon which a section of these rules was originally promulgated. The passage of Senate Bill 660 also amended §16.021, Water Code, concerning the role of the director of the Texas Natural Resources Information System (TNRIS), also designated as the state geographic information officer (GIO).
To view the Texas Register posting, please visit: http://www.sos.state.tx.us/texreg/archive/March142014/Proposed%20Rules/1.ADMINISTRATION.html#3 .