Regulación sobre el Acta Jones y la Erosión Costera en Texas

Sec. 15.0181. JONES ACT. (a) In this section: (1) "Coastal county" means: (A) a county in a coastal area, as defined by Section 33.004, Natural Resources Code; or (B) a county having a United States Customs port through which waterborne freight is transported. (2) "Coastal erosion" means the loss of land, marshes, wetlands, beaches, or other coastal features because of the actions of wind, waves, tides, storm surges, subsidence, or other forces. (3) "Erosion response project" means an action intended to address or mitigate coastal erosion, including beach nourishment, sediment management, beneficial use of dredged material, creation or enhancement of a dune, wetland, or marsh, and construction of a breakwater, bulkhead, groin, jetty, or other structure. (4) "Gulf Coast state" means Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, or Florida. (5) "Inland waters" means the navigable waters shoreward of the navigational demarcation lines dividing the high seas from harbors, rivers, the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, and other inland waters of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, or Indiana or of Florida along the Gulf of Mexico shoreline of Florida from the Florida- Alabama border down to and including the shoreline of Key West, Florida. The term does not include the Great Lakes. (b) This section applies only to suits brought under the Jones Act (46 U.S.C. Section 30104). (c) Except as provided by this section, a suit brought under Statute text