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SWG-2023-00688 - Texas General Land Office (GLO) - Gulf of Mexico - various coastal Texas counties

USACE Galveston District
Published June 18, 2024
Expiration date: 7/22/2024
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This single user RGP authorizes the GLO to perform beach nourishment activities along public, Gulf-facing beaches that are currently or historically critically eroding; specifically, Gulf-facing beaches that are accessible by public road or ferry and have a public beach easement experiencing greater than 2 feet of erosion per year.  The RGP is intended to provide authorization for nourishment projects only on the public beach easement.  Beach quality sand will be placed along the public beach front for beach nourishment.  The discharge of beach quality sand within the project area will create a more stable shoreline, reduce erosion, provide greater environmental and economic benefits, and improve resilience.  Eligible RGP activities will either be classified as RGP standard maintenance nourishment or RGP storm response nourishment with their own separate eligibility criteria.  RGP standard maintenance nourishment activities will occur on areas that do not currently have an individual permit (IP) for beach nourishment.  RGP storm response nourishment may occur at any publicly accessible beach, regardless of whether authorized by an IP or not, based upon a post-storm assessment either using light detection and ranging (LIDAR) elevation data or aerial imagery to demonstrate a substantial erosive event to the shoreline (10 feet or greater loss).  This RGP may not be used to authorize the placement of material landward of the south toe of the dune.  To be eligible for the RGP, all practicable steps must be followed to avoid and minimize adverse effects to waters of the United States (WOUS) to ensure that the regulated activity results in no more than minimal adverse environmental effects or will not be contrary to the public interest.

Areas without a public beach easement or access by a public road or public ferry will be excluded.  There are 12 counties with Gulf-facing beaches along the Texas coast.  Aransas County lacks a public beach easement (San Jose Island) and both Calhoun County (Matagorda Island) and a portion of Matagorda County (from the mouth of the Colorado River west towards the Matagorda Ship Channel) lack public access via a public road or ferry; therefore, these areas are not included in this RGP.  The remaining 10 counties included in this RGP are Brazoria, Cameron, Chambers, Galveston, Jefferson, Kennedy, Kleberg, Matagorda, Nueces, and Willacy Counties.