Environmental management inventory of Galveston Bay

The purpose of this report is to provide an inventory of those agencies and laws, along with their associated regulations, that constitute the regulatory framework for envionmental protection of Galveston Bay, one of the estuaries of national significance covered under the 1987 law. This inventory is largely descriptive, serving as the first phase in a larger project which will ultimately evaluate the effectiveness of the existing regulatory framework. That assessment in turn will form the basis for the CCMP as well as for policy recommendations to improve the coordination of environmental management of the Bay.