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TITLE 31NATURAL RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION
PART 1GENERAL LAND OFFICE
CHAPTER 29PROCEDURES FOR STATE CONSISTENCY WITH COASTAL MANAGEMENT PROGRAM GOALS AND POLICIES
SUBCHAPTER ECONSISTENCY AND COMMISSIONER REVIEW OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACTIONS
RULE §29.60Subdivision Actions Subject to the Coastal Management Program

For purposes of this chapter and Chapter 26 of this title (relating to Coastal Management Program), issuance of a dune protection permit or beachfront construction certificate are the only proposed actions by a subdivision that may adversely affect a coastal natural resource area and that therefore must be consistent with the CMP goals and policies provided such actions authorize:

  (1) construction activity that is located 200 feet or less landward of the line of vegetation and that results in the disturbance of more than 7,000 square feet of dunes or dune vegetation;

  (2) construction activity that results in the disturbance of more than 7,500 cubic yards of dunes;

  (3) a coastal shore protection project undertaken on a Gulf beach or 200 feet or less landward of the line of vegetation and that affects more than 500 linear feet of Gulf beach; or

  (4) a closure, relocation, or reduction in existing public beach access or public beach access designated in an approved local government beach access plan, other than for a short term.


Source Note: The provisions of this §29.60 adopted to be effective June 15, 1995, 19 TexReg 7670; amended to be effective November 3, 1995, 20 TexReg 8664; transferred effective December 1, 2022, as published in the Texas Register October 28, 2022, 47 TexReg 7301; amended to be effective July 10, 2023, 48 TexReg 3675

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