Regulación de Proyectos Federales de Agua en Texas

Sec. 12.051. FEDERAL PROJECTS. (a) In this section: (1) "Federal project" means an engineering undertaking or work to construct, enlarge, or extend a dam, lake, reservoir, or other water-storage or flood-control work or a drainage, reclamation, or canalization undertaking or any combination of these financed in whole or in part with funds of the United States. (2) "Engineering report" means the plans, data, profiles, maps, estimates, and drawings prepared in connection with a federal project. (3) "Federal agency" means the Corps of Engineers of the United States Army, the Bureau of Reclamation of the Department of Geistior, the Soil Conservation Service of the Department of Agriculture, the United States Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission, or any other agency of the United States, the function of which includes the conservation, development, retardation by impounding, control, or study of the water resources of Texas or the United States. (b) When the governor receives an engineering report submitted by a federal agency seeking the governor's approval of a federal project, he shall immediately forward the report to the board for its study concerning the feasibility of the federal project. (c) The board shall hold a public hearing to receive the views of persons and groups who might be affected by the proposed federal project. The board shall publish notice of the time, date, place, nature, and purpose of the public hearing once each week for two consec