Tex.
Water Code Section 66.202
Plan for Facilities
(a)
Before the district begins to acquire land and construct facilities, the district engineer under the supervision of the board shall prepare a detailed plan for the location of stormwater retention and detention ponds and outfall drainage ditches or other similar facilities within the district and for the acquisition of land and construction of those works and facilities.(b)
In preparing the plan, the district shall attempt to locate stormwater retention and detention ponds and outfall drainage ditches and other similar facilities so that they will provide the minimum amount of runoff in the district while at the same time providing the maximum amount of protection from area and downstream flooding.(c)
On completion of the plan by the employees, the board shall approve the plan as the tentative plan and shall submit the plan to the commission and to the commissioners court of each county in which all or part of the district is located.(d)
The commission and each commissioners court shall review the plan.(e)
Within 60 days after the date on which a plan is submitted to a commissioners court, the commissioners court shall prepare its suggestions for change in the plan and shall submit those suggestions in writing to the commission.(f)
Not later than 10 days after the first day on which the commission has received written suggestions from all commissioners courts to which the plan was submitted, the commission shall give notice and hold a hearing to consider the plan together with its suggestions and the suggestions for change from the commissioners courts. Notice shall be given and the hearing held as provided by Chapter 2001 (Administrative Procedure), Government Code.(g)
At the conclusion of the hearing, the commission shall issue an order stating the changes made in the plan, if any, and approving the plan.(h)
An order of the commission under this section may not be appealed.(i)
Amendments and modifications to a plan shall be made in the manner provided by this section for preparation and approval of the original plan.
Source:
Section 66.202 — Plan for Facilities, https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/WA/htm/WA.66.htm#66.202 (accessed Apr. 13, 2024).
