By: Jackson S.B. No. 2380

(In the Senate - Filed March 13, 2009; March 31, 2009, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources; April 20, 2009, reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 20, 2009, sent to printer.)

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 2380 By: Estes

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to contracts for the disposal of dredged material from a portion of the Gulf Coast Intracoastal Waterway.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 51.013, Transportation Code, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 51.013. DREDGED MATERIAL DISPOSAL. (a) The department shall condemn land for disposal of dredged material for the Laguna Madre section of the Gulf Coast Intracoastal Waterway only in accordance with the Draft Laguna Madre GIWW Dredged Material Management Plan prepared by the Army Corps of Engineers and the Interagency Coordination Team dated October 11, 2002.

(b) On request by a political subdivision, the commission may enter into a contract with a political subdivision to dispose of dredged material from the Highland Bayou Diversionary Canal on Placement Area 58A of the Gulf Coast Intracoastal Waterway.

(c) The commission may not charge a fee for disposal under Subsection (b).

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.

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