The goals of the Texas Coastal Management Program (CMP) are:
(1) to protect, preserve, restore, and enhance the
diversity, quality, quantity, functions, and values of coastal natural
resource areas (CNRAs);
(2) to ensure sound management of all coastal resources
by allowing for compatible economic development and multiple human
uses of the coastal zone;
(3) to minimize loss of human life and property due
to the impairment and loss of protective features of CNRAs;
(4) to ensure and enhance planned public access to
and enjoyment of the coastal zone in a manner that is compatible
with private property rights and other uses of the coastal zone;
(5) to balance the benefits from economic development
and multiple human uses of the coastal zone, the benefits from protecting,
preserving, restoring, and enhancing CNRAs, the benefits from minimizing
loss of human life and property, and the benefits from public access
to and enjoyment of the coastal zone;
(6) to coordinate agency and subdivision decision-making
affecting CNRAs by establishing clear, objective policies for the
management of CNRAs;
(7) to make agency and subdivision decision-making
affecting CNRAs efficient by identifying and addressing duplication
and conflicts among local, state, and federal regulatory and other
programs for the management of CNRAs;
(8) to make agency and subdivision decision-making
affecting CNRAs more effective by employing the most comprehensive,
accurate, and reliable information and scientific data available and
by developing, distributing for public comment, and maintaining a
coordinated, publicly accessible geographic information system of
maps of the coastal zone and CNRAs at the earliest possible date;
(9) to make coastal management processes visible, coherent,
accessible, and accountable to the people of Texas by providing for
public participation in the ongoing development and implementation
of the Texas CMP; and
(10) to educate the public about the principal coastal
problems of state concern and technology available for the protection
and improved management of CNRAs.
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| Source Note: The provisions of this §26.12 adopted to be effective June 15, 1995, 19 TexReg 7606; amended to be effective November 3, 1995, 20 TexReg 8643; transferred effective December 1, 2022, as published in the Texas Register October 28, 2022, 47 TexReg 7301 |
