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projects, and the feasibility of flow augmentation tlirougti managed releases from 

 upstream reservoirs as an aid to quality maintenance. 



Sec. 2. The Interagency Natural Resources Council may receive grants and 

 matching funds from and may contract with such state, federal, or local public 

 agencies or private agencies, entities, or educational institutions as ic deems 

 necessary for the rendition and affording of such management and technical 

 services, facilities, studies, and reports, and personal services and operating 

 expenses as will best assist it to carry out the purposes of this concurrent 

 Resolution. 



Sec. 3. The Interagency Natural Resources Council of Texas is directed to call 

 on the advice, counsel, and guidance, and participation of appropriate local, state, 

 and federal departments, boards, agencies, and educational institutions. The 

 council shall, to the fullest practicable extent, cooperate and coordinate its work 

 with all departments, boards, and agencies undertaking planning and technical 

 investigations pertinent to this study. The Interagency Natural Resources Council 

 is directed to coordinate its study and, in order to avoid duplication of work, 

 siiall make maximum use of data and information available from state agencies 

 and boards and federal agencies, including but not limited to the United States 

 Public Health Service, the United States Corps of Engineers, the United States 

 Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Federal "Water Pollution 

 Control Administration, the United States Soil Conservation Service, the United 

 States Fish and Wildlife Service, the United States Bureau of Reclamation, the 

 United States Geological Survey, the United States Department of the Interior, 

 the School Land Board of Texas, and the Bureau of Economic Geology of the 

 University of Texas. 



Sec. 4. The Interagency Natural Resources Council is authorized to hold one oi 

 more public hearings which it deems necessary or desirable for the full develop- 

 ment of all facts pertinent to its studies. City, county and state oflScials, ofBcers 

 and employees and those of any other political subdivision of the state and of the 

 state government are directed to furnish the Council, upon its request and within 

 the limits of their respective facilities, such data, reports, and any other informa- 

 tion it may require in connection with its studies, without any cost, fee, or charge 

 whatsoever. 



Sec. 5. On or before the first day of December, 1970, preceding the 1971 Regular 

 Session of the Legislature, the Interagency Natural Resources Council shall sub- 

 mit to the Governor of Texas and to the Legislature a progress report indicating 

 the status of its studies to date together with any I'ecommendations for emergency 

 legislation at that time to carry out the purposes of its studies as herein defined. 



Sec. 6. The Interagency Natural Resources Council shall submit its final report 

 to the Governor of Texas and to the Legislature on or before the first day of 

 December, 1972, preceding the 1973 Regular Session of the Legislature, together 

 with its findings and recommendations for appropriate legislation to carry out 

 the purposes of its studies as herein defined. 



Public Beaches — IMaintenance — State Policy 



CHAPTER 17" 



S.B. No. 16 



AN ACT Declaring the public policy of the State of Texas concerning the maintenance and 

 cleaning of public beaches ; authorizing certain cities and counties to apply for state 

 funds ; providing certain requisites for an application for state funds by a city or county ; 

 allocating duties and responsibilities relating to the maintenance and cleaning of public 

 beaches ; providing for payment of state funds to certain cities and counties through the 

 Parks and Wildlife Department : proAiiding certain restrictions and limitations ; author- 

 izing contracts between certain cities and counties and between certain counties relating 

 to cleaning of beaches ; defining certain terms ; providing certain exemptions ; providing 

 for severability ; and declaring an emergency 



Be it enacted hy the Legislature of the State of Texas: 



Section 1. (a) It is the purpose of this Act to allocate responsibility for 

 cleaning the beaches of this state, and to preserve and protect local initiative in 

 the maintenance and administration of beaches. 



(b) The public policy of this state that the public, individually and collectively, 

 shall have the free and unrestricted right of ingress and egress to and from 

 the state-owned beaches bordering on the seaward shore of the Gulf of Mexico 

 in the event the public has acquired a right of use or easement to or over such 



2 Vernon's Ann. Civ. St. art. 5415d-l, §§ 1-12. 



