Texas Administrative Code
Title 30 - ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
Part 1 - TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
Chapter 301 - LEVEE IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS, DISTRICT PLANS OF RECLAMATION, AND LEVEES AND OTHER IMPROVEMENTS
Subchapter A - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 301.1 - Interpretation of Legislative Authority

The legislature of the State of Texas manifested an intention to protect the public interest by establishing a centralized and coordinated method for planning and review of drainage and reclamation activity. The legislature demonstrated such an intent by causing levees or other improvements and associated projects to be subject always to the supervision of a central statewide authority. It is the purpose of the commission under Texas Water Code, Chapters 5, 16, and 57, to implement this policy by the promulgation of these sections.