HOUSE BILL 1231 |
HOUSE AUTHOR: Geren et al. |
EFFECTIVE: 9-1-03 |
SENATE SPONSOR: Lucio |
House Bill 1231 amends the Transportation Code to prohibit the Texas Transportation Commission from condemning private property along certain reaches of the Laguna Madre section of the Gulf Coast Intracoastal Waterway (GCIW) for use as a disposal site for dredged material, unless the commission determines that no other state or federal land is available for that purpose and failure to acquire the property will close a segment of the GCIW. In condemning land, the Texas Department of Transportation must follow a specified draft dredged material management plan and must obtain legislative approval for any substantive changes to the final management plan. The bill authorizes the commission to contract with a landowner for the use of land as a dredged material disposal site.