Texas Natural Resources Code Title 12, Chapter 221 - Wetland Mitigation

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 221.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Buffer zone" means a strip of land adjoining a wetland mitigation bank to protect the wetland habitat and wildlife within the...
• Texas Section 221.002 - Use Of Money
  A state agency or an eligible political subdivision may use any money to accomplish a purpose of this chapter. Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg.,...

SUBCHAPTER B WETLAND MITIGATION BANKING AND CONTRACTS

• Texas Section 221.003 - Cost Of Moving Or Changing Facility
  If a state agency, eligible political subdivision, or nonprofit corporation, in exercising a power under this chapter, makes it necessary to move, raise, lower, reroute,...
• Texas Section 221.021 - Actions To Establish Or Maintain Mitigation Bank
  (a) With the approval of the General Land Office, a state agency or eligible political subdivision may take any necessary and reasonable action to comply...
• Texas Section 221.022 - Optional Mitigation Bank Provisions
  A mitigation bank project may include a provision for: (1) a park; (2) recreation; (3) a scenic area; or (4) flood control. Added by Acts...

SUBCHAPTER C PROVISIONS FOR POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS

• Texas Section 221.023 - Mitigation Bank Contracts; Contract Payments
  (a) A state agency or eligible political subdivision may contract with another state agency or eligible political subdivision to pay jointly any part of the...
• Texas Section 221.041 - Application To Federal Agency
  On behalf of an eligible political subdivision that proposes to administer its own individual or general wetland regulation program, the governor may apply to the...
• Texas Section 221.042 - Compliance With Federal Program
  An eligible political subdivision authorized to implement a wetland mitigation program may comply with a program established by the federal government with respect to the...
• Texas Section 221.043 - County Approval Of Political Subdivision Program
  An eligible political subdivision may not institute a wetland regulation program unless the commissioners court of each county in which the eligible political subdivision lies...
• Texas Section 221.044 - Rules For Wetland Delineation
  (a) An eligible political subdivision authorized to implement a wetland mitigation program may adopt and compile reasonably necessary rules. (b) An eligible political subdivision by...
• Texas Section 221.045 - Permit
  (a) An eligible political subdivision authorized to implement a wetland mitigation program may issue a permit that incorporates, and assures compliance with, an applicable: (1)...
• Texas Section 221.046 - Mitigation Bank Financing
  (a) A mitigation project participant may issue a bond, note, or other obligation to acquire land for, to pay any part of the cost of,...
• Texas Section 221.047 - Bond Requirements
  (a) A bond issued under Section 221.046 is a negotiable instrument within the meaning and for purposes of the Business & Commerce Code. (b) The...
• Texas Section 221.048 - Bond Proceeds
  If the use authorized by the order or resolution authorizing the issuance of a bond under Section 221.046, the bond proceeds may be used to:...

Last modified: September 28, 2016