[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2866 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2866

  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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 16, 2018

 Mr. Cornyn (for himself and Mr. Cruz) introduced the following bill; 
 which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and 
                              Public Works

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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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