[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5897 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5897

  To require the Secretary of the Army to expedite the completion of 
   certain feasibility studies and reports and to amend the Coastal 
 Barrier Resources Act to ensure public safety, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 21, 2018

Mr. Weber of Texas (for himself, Mr. Marchant, Mr. Smith of Texas, Mr. 
 Flores, Mr. Brady of Texas, Mr. Hurd, Mr. Sessions, Mr. Conaway, Mr. 
  Babin, Mr. Culberson, Mr. Williams, Mr. Olson, Mr. Hensarling, Mr. 
    McCaul, Mr. Barton, Mr. Gene Green of Texas, Mr. O'Rourke, Mr. 
 Ratcliffe, Mr. Carter of Texas, Mr. Poe of Texas, and Mr. Gonzalez of 
    Texas) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the 
    Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require the Secretary of the Army to expedite the completion of 
   certain feasibility studies and reports and to amend the Coastal 
 Barrier Resources Act to ensure public safety, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Coastal Texas Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. COASTAL TEXAS PROTECTION AND RESTORATION.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of the 
Army shall expedite the completion of feasibility studies for flood 
damage reduction, hurricane and storm damage reduction, and ecosystem 
restoration in the coastal areas of Texas that are identified in the 
interim report due to be published in 2018 that describes the 
tentatively selected plan developed in accordance with section 4091 of 
the Water Resources Development Act of 2007 (121 Stat. 1187).

SEC. 3. PUBLIC SAFETY EXCEPTIONS UNDER COASTAL BARRIER RESOURCES ACT.

    Section 5(a)(3) of the Coastal Barrier Resources Act (16 U.S.C. 
3504(a)(3)) is amended by inserting ``, T-02A, T-03A, T-04 through T-
07, T-11,'' after ``S08''.
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