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Item 27th Annual Spring Cleanup(2013-04) Texas General Land OfficeItem 5th Biennial Texas Coastal Issues Conference Bios & Abstracts(Texas General Land Office, 2004) Texas General Land OfficeBio[graphie]s and abstracts from the 5th Biennial Texas Coastal Issues Conferences.Item Assessing wetland regulations on Texas coastal public lands(Texas General Land Office, 1991) Texas General Land Office;This report is a part of a growing effort to protect and enhance wetlands in Texas. The Texas Water Commission (TWC), the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD), and the General Land Office (GLO) have adopted the goal no overall net loss of wetlands. The GLO drafted wetland's legislation passed by the 72nd Texas Legislature, that directs the GLO and the TPWD to promulgate a plan for protecting and enhancing coastal public wetlands. The legislation also amends current law to encourage acquisition of wetlands by TPWD. In addition, the TWC has proposed new surface water quality standards that include wetlands as surface waters of the state. This is also a time of growing federal concern about wetlands, as evidenced by the newly proposed Coastal America Program, the 1990 Wetland action Plan of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), the EPA Gulf of Mexico Program, and the presidents commitment to no net loss of wetlands. The purpose of this study, conducted by the GLO under a cooperative agreement with the EPA-Region 6, is to examine current processes for permitting activities that may affect Texas wetlands and to strengthen and expand the state's role in wetland protection.Item Brazoria County(Texas General Land Office, 1989) Texas General Land Office;This map depicts property titles dating back to the early 1800's.Item Chambers County(Texas General Land Office, 1989) Texas General Land Office;This map depicts property titles dating back to the early 1800's.Item Coastal Dunes: Dune Protection and Improvement Manual for Texas Gulf Coast. 4th edition.(Texas General Land Office, 2004) Texas General Land Office;Through helpful definitions, concise standards and photographic examples, this book aims to raise awareness of the fragile beach/dune system and provide concise guidelines for dune protections and improvement along the Texas Gulf Coast.Item Item Coastal policy division procedures manual(Texas General Land Office, 1986) Texas General Land Office;No abstract availableItem Coastal Texas 2020: A Clear Vision for the Texas Coast - Executive Summary(Prepared for Members of the 109th U.S. Congress and 79th Texas Legislature, 2005) Texas General Land OfficeThe Texas coast's environmental diversity and economic vitality is threatened by erosion from natural and man-made causes. The Texas General Land Office has created Coastal Texas 2020 to lead a long-term, statewide initiative to unite local, state and federal efforts to promote the economic and environmental health of the Texas coast.Item Ecological Risk Assessment Principles Applied to Oil Spill Responsible Planning in Texas Waters.(1999) Texas General Land Office; ;No abstract availableItem Information transfer meeting: Oil spill prevention and response division(Texas General Land Office, 1997) Texas General Land Office;This report discusses the Oil Spill Prevention and Response Division's fifth annual series of Information Transfer Meetings. It contains information on the latest developments in research, including the Coastal Oil spill Simulation System and the Texas Automated Buoy System. It also includes updates on compliance, prevention, natural resources inventory, oil spill events, oil spill response, and the Coastal Protection Fund.Item Information transfer meetings(Texas General Land Office, 1996) Texas General Land Office;This is a report discusses the Texas General Land Office's fourth annual series of Information Transfer Meetings. Discussed at the meetings were the latest developments in oil spill prevention and response. Although the Oil Spill Program stresses prevention, it also plays a part in research and development, regional response offices, natural resource protection, and compliance. Therefore, updates in each of these areas were presented, including existing clean-up and enforcement plans, an oil spill update (1992-1996) and equipment inventory. A home page for the Texas Coastal Natural Resources Inventory Program was described in detail.Item Matagorda Island Environmental Assessment (v.1); Matagorda Island Comprehensive Management Plan (v.2)(US Fish and Wildlife Service, 1990) US Fish and Wildlife Services, Region 2; Texas General Land Office; Texas Parks and Wildlife Department;Matagorda Island (Island) is a largely undeveloped coastal barrier island off the middle Texas coast. It consists of approximately 56,668 acres located in Calhoun County, approximately 9 miles southwest of Port O'Connor and 48 miles southeast of Victoria, Texas. The Island is 38 miles long and varies between 0.75 and 4.5 miles in width. It is composed of Gulf beach front and adjacent sand dunes, flattened ridges interspersed with numerous freshwater wetlands, and brackish marshes along the Bay. The north end of the Island consists of 19.000 acres of Federal lands and 24, 893 acres of State (Texas General Land Office (GLO)) wetlands and Gulf lands. It is part of the National Wildlife Refuge System (Refuge System) presently managed by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) as a State Park and Wildlife Management Area. The south end consists of 11, 502 acres of Federal lands recently purchased from the Nature Conservancy. It is presently managed by the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and also is part of the Refuge System. Five alternatives for management of the Island have been considered: (A) no action, (B) total State management of the entire Island, (C) total Federal management, (D) separate Federal/State management based on ownership, and (E) cooperative management, which is the proposed action. The proposed action implements a new Memorandum of Agreement for management of the entire Island. The Island will continue to be managed under a formalized agreement between the FWS, GLO, and TPWD. Management will be based on a jointly prepared Comprehensive Management Plan (Plan) for the entire Island. FWS will have primary responsibility for wildlife and habitat management. TPWD will have principal responsibility for compatible public use management. The GLO will retain primary jurisdiction over all State lands on the Island, subject to exisiting easements. A separate agreement between the FWS and The Nature Conservancy is proposed for use of several existing buildings on the south end of the Island for environmental education and research purposes. TPWD will have prinicpal responsibility for environmental education and will receive assistance from FWS and The Nature Conservancy. The proposed action is the only alternative that allows a truly integrated management scheme for all of Matagorda Island that is based on the expertise of all the cooperating parties. This option also appears to be the most acceptable to the State and Federal governments.Item Memorandum of Agreement(2001) Department of the Army; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Texas General Land Office;No abstract availableItem Natural Heritage of Texas(Texas General Land Office; Texas Nature Conservancy, 1987) Texas General Land Office; Texas Nature ConservancyTexas possesses the richest natural heritage of any state in the Union. Among its many natural resources are 5,000 species of plants, including 2,000 different wildflowers, 550 species of birds, mountains, deserts, prairies, marshes and some of the longest barrier islands in the world. Until recently, Texans have known very little about this rich natural heritage that surrounds them. Even now, as we celebrate 150 years of Texas history, we face the very real possibility that remnants of our native Texas landscape may not survive this generation. At the same time, our lack of knowledge concerning the location of rare or endangered biological "elements" has been a major factor in conflicts between developers and preservationists. All too often in the past, major environmental disputes have been the direct result of our ignorance. In order to bridge this biological information gap, the Texas General Land Office joined with The Nature Conservancy and private contributors in 1983 to create the Texas Natural Heritage Program - a two-year effort to inventory the most rare and unique elements in Texas. The result is the Texas Natural Heritage Program information system, which makes possible a more objective evaluation of lands and ecological resources in Texas. The system was designed for simple use and easy access (call toll-free, 1-800-252-RARE) so that decision makers with diverse needs can use the information for their own purposes: whether for identifying potential state parks, or for evaluating alternate routes for a future higheay. The result is a program that will help us protect both public and private lands for all time for all Texans.Item Offshore oil: dialogues toward understanding. Proceedings of a national conference on the effects of OCS oil and gas development on coastal states. Held June 22-24, 1977 in Galveston, Texas.(Texas General Land Office, 1978) Texas General Land Office;During the three days of these proceedings, participants examined the techniques used and problems associated with assessing onshore and nearshore effects of offshore oil and gas activities. The purpose of the conference was to provide the forum for increasing communication among all affected interests and increasing understanding of the problems and needs being faced by coastal communities and industries.Item Oil spill planning and response atlas: Upper coast of Texas(Texas General Land Office; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 1996) Texas General Land Office;This atlas includes 63 maps of the upper coast of Texas (Texas-Louisiana border to the mouth of the Colorado River) which are used by the General Land Office for Oil Spill Prevention and Response. Information is provided on each of the projects whose data collection was used to generate these maps. The maps are arranged into three categories: Sabine Lake, Galveston Bay, and East Matagorda Bay. This atlas was created to aid spill responders with the most relevant data necessary in making planning and response judgments. Therefore, they are not maps suitable for navigational purposes, and they do not accurately delineate the boundaries between public and private lands. A data supplement accompanies this atlas and provides resource data and priority protection area data for each map.Item Oil spills can affect Texas environment, economy(1993) Texas General Land Office; ; EnviroNomicsNo abstract availableItem Preparedness partnership project: a cooperative effort between government and industry. Final report.(Texas General Land Office, 1998) Texas General Land Office;This report discusses the different aspects of the Preparedness Partnership Project, a cooperative effort between government and industry. Topics covered include in-situ burning, remote sensing and oil spill tracking, OPA planning figures, equipment availability and rapid response, dispersants, remote area response, contingency plans, large scale equipment deployment exercises, and prevention.Item Project Manual for Beach Dune System Restoration at West Galveston Island(2010-08-16) Texas General Land OfficeRFP (Request for Proposal) outlines the scope and nature of a dredging project, to take place immediately west of the Galveston Seawall. Special care is to be taken to ensure the safety of sea turtles in the area of the project.
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