2012 Nueces River and Corpus Christi and Baffin Bays BBASC work plan for adaptive management

Pursuant to Senate Bill 3 (SB3) of the 80th Texas Legislature the Nueces River and Corpus Christi and Baffin Bays Basin and Bay Area Stakeholders Committee (Nueces BBASC) was charged with development of a Work Plan to be submitted to the Environmental Flows Advisory Group (EFAG) for approval. Section 11.02362(p) In recognition of the importance of adaptive management, after submitting its recommendations regarding environmental flow standards and strategies to meet the environmental flow standards to the commission, each basin and bay area stakeholders committee, with the assistance of the pertinent basin and bay expert science team, shall prepare and submit for approval by the advisory group a work plan. The work plan must: (1) establish a periodic review of the basin and bay environmental flow analyses and environmental flow regime recommendations, environmental flow standards, and strategies, to occur at least once every 10 years; (2) prescribe specific monitoring, studies, and activities; and (3) establish a schedule for continuing the validation or refinement of the basin and bay environmental flow analyses and environmental flow regime recommendations, the environmental flow standards adopted by the commission, and the strategies to achieve those standards.