Bill Text: TX SCR24 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Expressing support for a revised Coastal Texas Protection and Restoration Feasibility Study.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-21 - Referred to Natural Resources & Economic Development [SCR24 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SCR24-Introduced.html
By: Creighton | S.C.R. No. 24 | |
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WHEREAS, Bolivar Peninsula was named for Simon Bolivar, | ||
liberator of Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, and Panama and | ||
founder and president of Bolivia; the Peninsula has been known as a | ||
destination famous for fishing, birding, shelling, and sea bathing | ||
where many people call home for their families and their | ||
businesses; and | ||
WHEREAS, Throughout history, Bolivar Peninsula has weathered | ||
tremendous storms, each time rebuilding as a stronger and more | ||
resilient community; and | ||
WHEREAS, the Texas coastal region fuels the nation as the top | ||
state for waterborne commerce and is home to critical | ||
infrastructure that is integral to the national economy and to | ||
national security; and | ||
WHEREAS, the United States Army Corps of Engineers has | ||
initiated the Coastal Texas Protection and Restoration Feasibility | ||
Study to determine the feasibility of constructing coastal storm | ||
risk management and ecosystem restoration projects along the Texas | ||
Coast; The United States Army Corps of Engineers has recently | ||
concluded the public comment period on the Draft Integrated | ||
Feasibility Report and Environmental Impact Statement where the | ||
tentatively selected plan includes structures along Bolivar | ||
Peninsula and Galveston Island; and | ||
WHEREAS, comments from the public expressed concern with the | ||
tentatively selected plan due to consequences to homes, businesses, | ||
and the environment resulting from structures through the middle of | ||
the Peninsula; now, therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the 86th Legislature of the State of Texas, | ||
supports a revised Coastal Texas Protection and Restoration | ||
Feasibility Study tentatively selected plan that reflects | ||
community input from the Bolivar Peninsula received during the | ||
public comment period and ; and, be it further | ||
RESOLVED, The State of Texas recognizes the need of | ||
protecting the Texas coast; any structure on Bolivar Peninsula | ||
should protect not damage the community; and, be it further | ||
RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official | ||
copies of this resolution to the commissioner of the Texas General | ||
Land Office, the United States Army Corps of Engineers, and to all | ||
members of the Texas delegation to Congress with the request that | ||
this resolution be officially entered in the Congressional Record. | ||
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Rejecting any coastal storm risk management project which includes | ||
infrastructure that negatively impacts Bolivar Peninsula. | ||
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