TITLE 13.CULTURAL RESOURCES

Part 2. TEXAS HISTORICAL COMMISSION

Chapter 17. STATE ARCHITECTURAL PROGRAMS

13 TAC §17.1, §17.3

(Editor's note: The text of the following sections proposed for repeal will not be published. The sections may be examined in the offices of the Texas Historical Commission or in the Texas Register office, Room 245, James Earl Rudder Building, 1019 Brazos Street, Austin.)

The Texas Historical Commission (THC) proposes the repeal of §§17.1 and 17.3 of Chapter 17 (Title 13, Part II of the Texas Administrative Code) concerning the Preservation Trust Fund Grants and the Texas Preservation Trust Fund. New §§17.1 and 17.3 of Chapter 17, concerning the Preservation Trust Fund Grants and the Texas Preservation Trust Fund, which would replace the repealed sections, are contemporaneously proposed in this issue of the Texas Register .

F. Lawerence Oaks, Executive Director, has determined that for the first five-year period the rule is in effect there will be no fiscal implications for state or local government as a result of enforcing or administering the rule.

Mr. Oaks has also determined that for each year of the first five year period the rule amendments are in effect the public benefit anticipated as a result of the repeal and replacement of the existing rules will be an increase in the number, and scale of potentially important archeological projects that can apply for grants under the Texas Preservation Trust Fund. Additionally, Mr. Oaks as determined that there will be no effect on small businesses.

Comments on the proposal may be submitted to F. Lawerence Oaks, Executive Director, Texas Historical Commission, P. O. Box 12276, Austin, Texas 78711. Comments will be accepted for 30 days after publication in the Texas Register .

Repeal of these sections is proposed under §442.005(q), Title 13 Part II of the Texas Government Code, which provides the Texas Historical Commission with the authority to promulgate rules and conditions to reasonably effect the purposes of this chapter.

The repeal of these sections is also proposed under §442.005(q), Title 13 Part II of the Texas Government Code, which provides the Texas Historical Commission with the authority to promulgate rules to reasonably effect the purposes of this chapter. No other statues, articles, or codes are affected by these replacements.

These repeals implement §§442.015 and 442.0155 of the Texas Government Code.

§17.1Preservation Trust Fund Grants.

§17.3Texas Preservation Trust Fund

This agency hereby certifies that the proposal has been reviewed by legal counsel and found to be within the agency's legal authority to adopt.

Filed with the Office of the Secretary of State, on June 4, 2001.

TRD-200103092

F. Lawerence Oaks

Executive Director

Texas Historical Commission

Earliest possible date of adoption: July 22, 2001

For further information, please call: (512) 463-5711