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114TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5246 

To remove the Federal claim to navigational servitude for a parcel of land 

in Texas City, Texas, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 16, 2016 

Mr. WEBER of Texas introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 

A BILL 

To remove the Federal claim to navigational servitude for 

a parcel of land in Texas City, Texas, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. TEXAS CITY SHIP CHANNEL, TEXAS CITY, 

4 TEXAS. 

5 (a) IN GENERAL.—The portion of the Texas City 

6 Ship Channel, Texas City, Texas, described in subsection 

7 (b) shall not be subject to navigational servitude beginning 

8 on the date of enactment of this Act. 

9 (b) DESCRIPTION.—The portion of the Texas City 

10 Ship Channel described in this subsection is a tract or parVerDate Sep 11 2014 04:38 May 17, 2016 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H5246.IH H5246

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1 cel containing 393.53 acres (17,142,111 square feet) of 

2 land situated in the City of Texas City Survey, Abstract 

3 Number 681, and State of Texas Submerged Lands 

4 Tracts 98A and 99A, Galveston County, Texas, said 

5 393.53 acre tract being more particularly described as fol6 lows: 

7 (1) Beginning at the intersection of an edge of 

8 fill along Galveston Bay with the most northerly east 

9 survey line of said City of Texas City Survey, Ab10 stract No. 681, the same being a called 375.75 acre 

11 tract patented by the State of Texas to the City of 

12 Texas City and recorded in Volume 1941, Page 750 

13 of the Galveston County Deed Records (G.C.D.R.), 

14 from which a found U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 

15 Brass Cap stamped ‘‘R 4-3’’ set in the top of the 

16 Texas City Dike along the east side of Bay Street 

17 bears North 56° 14′ 32′′ West, a distance of 

18 6,045.31 feet and from which a found U.S. Army 

19 Corps of Engineers Brass Cap stamped ‘‘R 4-2’’ set 

20 in the top of the Texas City Dike along the east side 

21 of Bay Street bears North 49° 13′ 20′′ West, a dis22 tance of 6,693.64 feet. 

23 (2) Thence, over and across said State Tracts 

24 98A and 99A and along the edge of fill along said 


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1 Galveston Bay, the following eight (8) courses and 

2 distances: 

3 (A) South 75° 49′ 13′′ East, a distance of 

4 298.08 feet to an angle point of the tract herein 

5 described. 

6 (B) South 81° 16′ 26′′ East, a distance of 

7 170.58 feet to an angle point of the tract herein 

8 described. 

9 (C) South 79° 20′ 31′′ East, a distance of 

10 802.34 feet to an angle point of the tract herein 

11 described. 

12 (D) South 75° 57′ 32′′ East, a distance of 

13 869.68 feet to a point for the beginning of a 

14 non-tangent curve to the right. 

15 (E) Easterly along said non-tangent curve 

16 to the right having a radius of 736.80 feet, a 

17 central angle of 24° 55′ 59′′, a chord of South 

18 68° 47′ 35′′ East – 318.10 feet, and an arc 

19 length of 320.63 feet to a point for the begin20 ning of a non-tangent curve to the left. 

21 (F) Easterly along said non-tangent curve 

22 to the left having a radius of 373.30 feet, a 

23 central angle of 31° 57′ 42′′, a chord of South 

24 66° 10′ 42′′ East – 205.55 feet, and an arc 


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1 length of 208.24 feet to a point for the begin2 ning of a non-tangent curve to the right. 

3 (G) Easterly along said non-tangent curve 

4 to the right having a radius of 15,450.89 feet, 

5 a central angle of 02° 04′ 10′′, a chord of South 

6 81° 56′ 20′′ East – 558.04 feet, and an arc 

7 length of 558.07 feet to a point for the begin8 ning of a compound curve to the right and the 

9 northeasterly corner of the tract herein de10 scribed. 

11 (H) Southerly along said compound curve 

12 to the right and the easterly line of the tract 

13 herein described, having a radius of 1,425.00 

14 feet, a central angle of 133° 08′ 00′′, a chord 

15 of South 14° 20′ 15′′ East – 2,614.94 feet, and 

16 an arc length of 3,311.15 feet to a point on a 

17 line lying 125.00 feet northerly of and parallel 

18 with the centerline of an existing levee for the 

19 southeasterly corner of the tract herein de20 scribed. 

21 (3) Thence, continuing over and across said 

22 State Tracts 98A and 99A and along lines lying 

23 125.00 feet northerly of, parallel, and concentric 

24 with the centerline of said existing levee, the fol25 lowing twelve (12) courses and distances: 


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1 (A) North 78° 01′ 58′′ West, a distance of 

2 840.90 feet to an angle point of the tract herein 

3 described. 

4 (B) North 76° 58′ 35′′ West, a distance of 

5 976.66 feet to an angle point of the tract herein 

6 described. 

7 (C) North 76° 44′ 33′′ West, a distance of 

8 1,757.03 feet to a point for the beginning of a 

9 tangent curve to the left. 

10 (D) Southwesterly, along said tangent 

11 curve to the left having a radius of 185.00 feet, 

12 a central angle of 82° 27′ 32′′, a chord of South 

13 62° 01′ 41′′ West – 243.86 feet, and an arc 

14 length of 266.25 feet to a point for the begin15 ning of a compound curve to the left. 

16 (E) Southerly, along said compound curve 

17 to the left having a radius of 4,535.58 feet, a 

18 central angle of 11° 06′ 58′′, a chord of South 

19 15° 14′ 26′′ West – 878.59 feet, and an arc 

20 length of 879.97 feet to an angle point of the 

21 tract herein described. 

22 (F) South 64° 37′ 11′′ West, a distance of 

23 146.03 feet to an angle point of the tract herein 

24 described. 


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1 (G) South 67° 08′ 21′′ West, a distance of 

2 194.42 feet to an angle point of the tract herein 

3 described. 

4 (H) North 34° 48′ 22′′ West, a distance of 

5 789.69 feet to an angle point of the tract herein 

6 described. 

7 (I) South 42° 47′ 10′′ West, a distance of 

8 161.01 feet to an angle point of the tract herein 

9 described. 

10 (J) South 42° 47′ 10′′ West, a distance of 

11 144.66 feet to a point for the beginning of a 

12 tangent curve to the right. 

13 (K) Westerly, along said tangent curve to 

14 the right having a radius of 310.00 feet, a cen15 tral angle of 59° 50′ 28′′, a chord of South 72° 

16 42′ 24′′ West – 309.26 feet, and an arc length 

17 of 323.77 feet to an angle point of the tract 

18 herein described. 

19 (L) North 77° 22′ 21′′ West, a distance of 

20 591.41 feet to the intersection of said parallel 

21 line with the edge of fill adjacent to the easterly 

22 edge of the Texas City Turning Basin for the 

23 southwesterly corner of the tract herein de24 scribed, from which a found U.S. Army Corps 

25 of Engineers Brass Cap stamped ‘‘SWAN 2’’ 


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1 set in the top of a concrete column set flush in 

2 the ground along the north bank of Swan Lake 

3 bears South 20° 51′ 58′′ West, a distance of 

4 4,862.67 feet. 

5 (4) Thence, over and across said City of Texas 

6 City Survey and along the edge of fill adjacent to 

7 the easterly edge of said Texas City Turning Basin, 

8 the following eighteen (18) courses and distances: 

9 (A) North 01° 34′ 19′′ East, a distance of 

10 57.40 feet to an angle point of the tract herein 

11 described. 

12 (B) North 05° 02′ 13′′ West, a distance of 

13 161.85 feet to an angle point of the tract herein 

14 described. 

15 (C) North 06° 01′ 56′′ East, a distance of 

16 297.75 feet to an angle point of the tract herein 

17 described. 

18 (D) North 06° 18′ 07′′ West, a distance of 

19 71.33 feet to an angle point of the tract herein 

20 described. 

21 (E) North 07° 21′ 09′′ West, a distance of 

22 122.45 feet to an angle point of the tract herein 

23 described. 


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1 (F) North 26° 41′ 15′′ West, a distance of 

2 46.02 feet to an angle point of the tract herein 

3 described. 

4 (G) North 01° 31′ 59′′ West, a distance of 

5 219.78 feet to an angle point of the tract herein 

6 described. 

7 (H) North 15° 54′ 07′′ West, a distance of 

8 104.89 feet to an angle point of the tract herein 

9 described. 

10 (I) North 04° 00′ 34′′ East, a distance of 

11 72.94 feet to an angle point of the tract herein 

12 described. 

13 (J) North 06° 46′ 38′′ West, a distance of 

14 78.89 feet to an angle point of the tract herein 

15 described. 

16 (K) North 12° 07′ 59′′ West, a distance of 

17 182.79 feet to an angle point of the tract herein 

18 described. 

19 (L) North 20° 50′ 47′′ West, a distance of 

20 105.74 feet to an angle point of the tract herein 

21 described. 

22 (M) North 02° 02′ 04′′ West, a distance of 

23 184.50 feet to an angle point of the tract herein 

24 described. 


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1 (N) North 08° 07′ 11′′ East, a distance of 

2 102.23 feet to an angle point of the tract herein 

3 described. 

4 (O) North 08° 16′ 00′′ West, a distance of 

5 213.45 feet to an angle point of the tract herein 

6 described. 

7 (P) North 03° 15′ 16′′ West, a distance of 

8 336.45 feet to a point for the beginning of a 

9 non-tangent curve to the left. 

10 (Q) Northerly along said non-tangent 

11 curve to the left having a radius of 896.08 feet, 

12 a central angle of 14° 00′ 05′′, a chord of North 

13 09° 36′ 03′′ West – 218.43 feet, and an arc 

14 length of 218.97 feet to a point for the begin15 ning of a non-tangent curve to the right. 

16 (R) Northerly along said non-tangent 

17 curve to the right having a radius of 483.33 

18 feet, a central angle of 19° 13′ 34′′, a chord of 

19 North 13° 52′ 03′′ East – 161.43 feet, and an 

20 arc length of 162.18 feet to a point for the 

21 northwesterly corner of the tract herein de22 scribed. 

23 (5) Thence, continuing over and across said 

24 City of Texas City Survey, and along the edge of fill 


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1 along said Galveston Bay, the following fifteen (15) 

2 courses and distances: 

3 (A) North 30° 45′ 02′′ East, a distance of 

4 189.03 feet to an angle point of the tract herein 

5 described. 

6 (B) North 34° 20′ 49′′ East, a distance of 

7 174.16 feet to a point for the beginning of a 

8 non-tangent curve to the right. 

9 (C) Northeasterly along said non-tangent 

10 curve to the right having a radius of 202.01 

11 feet, a central angle of 25° 53′ 37′′, a chord of 

12 North 33° 14′ 58′′ East – 90.52 feet, and an 

13 arc length of 91.29 feet to a point for the be14 ginning of a non-tangent curve to the left. 

15 (D) Northeasterly along said non-tangent 

16 curve to the left having a radius of 463.30 feet, 

17 a central angle of 23° 23′ 57′′, a chord of North 

18 48° 02′ 53′′ East – 187.90 feet, and an arc 

19 length of 189.21 feet to a point for the begin20 ning of a non-tangent curve to the right. 

21 (E) Northeasterly along said non-tangent 

22 curve to the right having a radius of 768.99 

23 feet, a central angle of 16° 24′ 19′′, a chord of 

24 North 43° 01′ 40′′ East – 219.43 feet, and an 


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1 arc length of 220.18 feet to an angle point of 

2 the tract herein described. 

3 (F) North 38° 56′ 50′′ East, a distance of 

4 126.41 feet to an angle point of the tract herein 

5 described. 

6 (G) North 42° 59′ 50′′ East, a distance of 

7 128.28 feet to a point for the beginning of a 

8 non-tangent curve to the right. 

9 (H) Northerly along said non-tangent 

10 curve to the right having a radius of 151.96 

11 feet, a central angle of 68° 36′ 31′′, a chord of 

12 North 57° 59′ 42′′ East – 171.29 feet, and an 

13 arc length of 181.96 feet to a point for the 

14 most northerly corner of the tract herein de15 scribed. 

16 (I) South 77° 14′ 49′′ East, a distance of 

17 131.60 feet to an angle point of the tract herein 

18 described. 

19 (J) South 84° 44′ 18′′ East, a distance of 

20 86.58 feet to an angle point of the tract herein 

21 described. 

22 (K) South 58° 14′ 45′′ East, a distance of 

23 69.62 feet to an angle point of the tract herein 

24 described. 


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1 (L) South 49° 44′ 51′′ East, a distance of 

2 149.00 feet to an angle point of the tract herein 

3 described. 

4 (M) South 44° 47′ 21′′ East, a distance of 

5 353.77 feet to a point for the beginning of a 

6 non-tangent curve to the left. 

7 (N) Easterly along said non-tangent curve 

8 to the left having a radius of 253.99 feet, a 

9 central angle of 98° 53′ 23′′, a chord of South 

10 83° 28′ 51′′ East – 385.96 feet, and an arc 

11 length of 438.38 feet to an angle point of the 

12 tract herein described. 

13 (O) South 75° 49′ 13′′ East, a distance of 

14 321.52 feet to the point of beginning and con15 taining 393.53 acres (17,142,111 square feet) 

16 of land. 

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