In recognition of the importance that the ecological soundness of our riverine, bay, and estuary systems and riparian
lands has on the economy, health, and well-being of our state, the 80th Texas Legislature created the Environmental Flows
Advisory Group (
Texas Water Code, Section 11.0236 
).
Membership
This Advisory Group is composed of the following nine members:
- Senator Kip Averitt, Co-presiding Officer
- Representative Mike Hamilton, Co-presiding Officer
- Senator Kenneth Brimer
- Senator Glenn Hegar, Jr.
- Representative Jodie Laubenberg
- Representative Dan Gattis
- Commissioner Bryan Shaw, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
- Mr. Joe M. Crutcher, Texas Water Development Board
- Commissioner Karen Hixon, Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission
Purpose
The Environmental Flows Advisory Group will conduct public hearings and study public policy implications for balancing
the demands on the water resources of the state resulting from a growing population and the requirements of the riverine,
bay, and estuary systems. In the course of their study, this Advisory Group will look at items including granting permits
for instream flows dedicated to environmental needs or bay and estuary inflows, use of the Texas Water Trust, and any
other issues that the advisory group determines have importance and relevance to the protection of environmental flows.
Related Groups
To assist the Environmental Flows Advisory Group with their work, the Group will appoint the Texas Environmental Flows
Science Advisory Committee and Basin and Bay Area Stakeholders Committees.
Texas Environmental
Flows Science Advisory Committee
Sabine and
Neches Rivers and Sabine Lake Bay Basin and Bay Area Stakeholders Committee
Trinity and
San Jacinto Rivers and Galveston Bay Stakeholders Committee
Nominations for the Basin and Bay Area Stakeholders Committee
Nominations are being accepted for these two committees:
- Basin and Bay Area Stakeholders Committees:
- addressing the river basin and bay system consisting of the Colorado and Lavaca Rivers and Matagorda Bay
- addressing the river basin and bay system consisting of the Guadalupe, San Antonio, Mission and Aransas Rivers and Mission,
Copano, Aransas and San Antonio Bays
Nominations will be accepted later for the other Basin and Bay Area Stakeholders Committees.
To volunteer to serve or to nominate one or more persons, please submit the following:
For the Colorado and Lavaca Rivers and Matagorda Bay,
nomination
form.
For the Guadalupe, San Antonio, Mission and Aransas Rivers and Mission, Copano, Aransas and San Antonio Bays, nomination
form.
Please send to:
Environmental Flows Advisory Group
c/o Kathleen Ramirez MC-154
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
P.O. Box 13087
Austin, Texas 78711-3087
On the nomination form :
- State whether you are volunteering yourself or nominating someone else.
- Include each nominee’s name and address, phone number(s), and, if available, a fax number and e-mail address.
- Include each nominee’s basin of residence.
- Indicate whether the individual is willing to serve.
- Indicate which interest group listed in Texas
Water Code §11.02362(f) the person would represent.
- Include a very brief statement of each nominee's background and qualifications.
You may also e-mail nominations to watsup@tceq.state.tx.us. Be sure to put
“Nominations” in the subject line of your e-mail.
For answers to any other questions about the nominations process or this advisory group, call Kathleen Ramirez at 512-239-6757
or through the main Water Supply Division line, 512-239-4691.
Revised Environmental Flows Timeline
The revised environmental flows timeline can be found here
