Once the Draft Regional Flood Plan has been approved, it will be submitted to the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) by August 1, 2022. Subsequently, the Trinity RFPG will accept public comments on the draft plan through Monday, October 10, 2022. After revisions, the Trinity Regional Flood Plan will be submitted to the TWDB in January 2023 and eventually become part of the first-ever State Flood Plan. For more details on the draft plan public comment process and related public participation opportunities, please visit www.trinityrfpg.org.
WHERE: In-person: Dallas County Records Building, Results Training Room #7.Y11 (7th Floor), 500 Elm St, Dallas, TX 75202
Virtually: Via WebEx videoconference at: https://bit.ly/3IkHME7 – or via phone at 408-418-9388, access code: 2488 758 6730
AGENDA: The official public meeting agenda was posted 14 days in advance of the meeting at www.trinityrfpg.org. Meeting materials will be posted to the site at least seven days in advance of the meeting.
Among the meeting agenda items will be a presentation of the Draft Region 3 Trinity Regional Flood Plan and a potential action item to approve the Draft Regional Flood Plan for submission to the TWDB.
The public is welcome to attend the meeting and participate in the public comment session, either in person or virtually. Written public comments are also accepted at any time via this form or by email to info@trinityrfpg.org.
Public comment process for hybrid meeting
If you wish to provide oral public comments at the meeting, you are encouraged to register in advance by emailing Owen Ramsey at info@trinityrfpg.org no later than 9:00 a.m. on July 21, 2022, providing your name, phone number, email address and who are you representing, and indicating if you wish to comment on a specific agenda item or provide general comments.
During the meeting, those who have registered to speak, either in-person or virtually, will be called upon by the Chair during the appropriate comment period.
At the Chair's discretion, unregistered attendees who wish to speak may also have the opportunity to provide oral comments during the public comment periods of the agenda.
- Those participating by videoconference will be asked to use the "raise hand" function, visible by hovering the cursor over the attendee's name onscreen, to indicate their interest in speaking during the appropriate public comment period.
- Those participating by teleconference will be asked to enter *3 to indicate their interest in speaking and be placed into the queue to be called upon during the appropriate public comment period.
ABOUT: The Trinity RFPG, aka Region 3, was designated in April 2020 by the TWDB as a result of Senate Bill 8 during the 86th Texas Legislature, which established a groundbreaking, new regional and state flood planning process in the wake of historic statewide flooding. The Trinity RFPG is responsible for creating its first Regional Flood Plan by Jan. 10, 2023. This plan will then become part of Texas' first-ever State Flood Plan by Sept. 1, 2024.
The initial members of the Trinity RFPG were designated by the TWDB last year. The Planning Group's membership includes at least one voting member from each of the following interest categories: the public, counties, municipalities, industry, agriculture, environment, small business, electric-generating utilities, river authorities, water districts, water utilities and flood districts. In April 2021, the Trinity RFPG engaged a technical consultant team led by Halff Associates to support its planning effort.
The Trinity RFPG's planning region (Trinity River Basin, or Region 3) has an estimated population of almost 8 million and spans a nearly 18,000-square-mile, 38-county region from Cooke County in the north to Chambers County on the Gulf Coast. For more information, visit the Trinity RFPG website www.trinityrfpg.org, follow the group on Twitter or email the group via info@trinityrfpg.org.