• Corpus Christi Ship Channel – Authorizes a project for navigation and ecosystem restoration. Total cost of $188,110,000 with a federal cost of $87,810,000 and a non-federal cost of $100,300,000.
• Gulf Intracoastal Waterway – Authorizes two navigation projects:
• Navigation from the Brazos River to Port O’Connor (Matagorda Bay re-route) at a total cost of $17,280,000 (half from general fund of the Treasury and half from the Inland Waterways Trust Fund).
• Navigation from Sabine River to Corpus Christi at a total cost of $14,450,000 (cost-share same as above).
• Sabine Neches Waterway (Texas / Louisiana) – Directs the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to expedite the report for this project, and, if the Corps deems it is justified, proceed directly to preconstruction, engineering, and design.
• San Antonio Channel – Authorizes the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to credit the design and construction costs carried out by the sponsor.
• Abilene Water Project – Directs the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to conduct a feasibility study for a proposed water supply project in Abilene.
• Pat Mayse Lake – Directs the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to accept $3,461,432 from Paris, Texas as payment in full for money owed to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for water supply storage space in Pat Mayse Lake.
• Buffalo Bayou – Authorization of a flood control construction project by the local sponsor.
• Halls Bayou – Authorization of a flood control construction project by the local sponsor.
• Cedar Bayou – Changes the 2000 WRDA navigation channel authorization from 12 feet deep by 125 feet wide to 10 feet deep by 100 feet wide.
• Freeport Harbor – Makes all costs relating to the discovery of the sunken vessel COMSTOCK the responsibility of the federal government – including the vessel’s removal and project delay costs.
• Harris County – Authorizes a flood control project at the Upper White Oak Bayou in Harris County.
• Lower Colorado River Basin – Authorizes $110,730,000 for flood damage reduction and ecosystem restoration (estimated federal share $69,640,000 and non-federal cost $41,090,000).
• Red River Chloride Control (Texas / Oklahoma) – Directs the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to provide operations and maintenance for the Red River Chloride Control Project.
• Rio Grande Environmental Management Program – Authorizes a program for fish and wildlife habitat rehabilitation and enhancement. For related projects on federal land, all cost is the responsibility of the federal government. For related projects on non-federal property, the cost-share is 65% federal and 35% non-federal with $15 million being authorized in each fiscal year for 2008-2011.
• Lower Rio Grande Basin – Provides construction on a re-route of the Raymondville Drain in the Lower Rio Grande Basin flood control project.
• Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) – Establishes the Texas Environmental Infrastructure Program administered by the TWDB to provide environmental assistance to non-federal interests in Texas. This assistance can be in the form of planning, design, and construction assistance for water-related environmental infrastructure and resource protection and development projects. The cost-share is 75% federal and 25% non-federal for project costs with a total authorization of $40 million. Operations and maintenance of these projects will be 100% non-federal.

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