Support reauthorizing Texas artificial reef program

What the proposal said, and what the decision did

No figure from the proposal has been checked against the decision on this fight yet. What the record does hold is the issues ledger below.

Renewing this permit keeps Texas Parks and Wildlife building fish habitat in Gulf of Mexico waters.

Our plain-English read of the official notice ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words below.

In the agency’s own words

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Galveston District is proposing to reissue regional General Permit (RGP) SWG-1994-00026 pursuant to Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 (33 U.S.C. 403). This RGP would authorize the work and placement of structures in navigable waters of the US for the construction, maintenance, and repair of artificial reefs as part of work conducted by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD). For authorization under the RGP, TPWD must submit a Preconstruction Notification (PCN) for project-specific verification.

Army Corps public notice ↗

The groups on this fight

4 groups predicted likely to care in Texas

Predicted likely to care is a guess from the group's sourced work in Texas, with no link to this decision. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.

• Big Bend Conservancy

  Predicted likely to care · a guess

  Big Bend National Park, Texas: A nonprofit partner of Big Bend National Park.

• Friends of Balcones Canyonlands NWR

  Predicted likely to care · a guess

  Works Texas: They work only in Texas.

• National Parks Conservation Association

  Predicted likely to care · a guess

  Padre Island National Seashore, Texas: Plaintiff in the challenge to the blanket Gulf oil and gas endangered species exemption, naming Padre Island among the threatened parks.

• Southern Environmental Law Center

  Predicted likely to care · a guess

  Padre Island National Seashore, Texas: Filed the D.C. Circuit challenge to the Gulf-wide exemption for the plaintiff coalition.

Every group above is on STAND for Public Lands, with its court record, its filings and who backs it.

Who signs it

The notice names no signer PLAN could read. PLAN names a decision-maker only when the document names one.

The ground

The window has closed, so there’s no watch to set on it here.

In court on this ground

This fight isn’t bound to a land unit in PLAN’s record yet, so there are no court cases to show for its ground.

Who holds the vote

PLAN’s record doesn’t tie a member of Congress to this fight yet. The scorecard grades the votes and bills that decide public lands; nothing joins a vote or a bill to this decision, so there’s no member to name here without guessing.