Baker, William B.Proceedings: The State of the Bay Symposium, III. January 10-11, 19972010-02-152010-02-151997http://hdl.handle.net/1969.3/25576pgs. 67-76Houston Lighting & Power Company, The Port of Houston Authority, and the National Marine Fisheries Service jointly sponsored a Galveston Bay National Estuary Program Action Plan Demonstration Project to construct a 5-acre oyster reef in Galveston Bay utilizing 12,100 cubic yards of coal combustion byproduct pellets in the spring of 1993. The primary objective of the product was to demonstrate that a relatively large oyster reef constructed with coal combustion product in Galveston Bay could be both biologically successful and cost effective, relative to natural shell.oyster reefsartificial reefshabitat restorationcoal combustion byproduct pellets (CCB)Chapter