POWERS REGARDING CANALS, WATERWAYS, AND RELATED FACILITIES.

(a) The authority may:

(1) promote, construct, maintain and operate, or aid and encourage, the construction, maintenance, and operation of navigable canals or waterways and all navigational systems or facilities auxiliary to navigable canals or waterways using the natural bed and banks of the Red River, where practicable, and then traversing a route the authority may find to be more feasible and practicable to connect the Red River in this state with any new navigation canals to be constructed in the lower reaches of the Red River or to connect the Red River with the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway;

(2) construct a system of artificial waterways and canals, together with all locks and other works, structures, and artificial facilities as may be necessary and convenient for the construction, maintenance, and operation of:

(A) navigation canals or waterways; and

(B) all navigational systems and facilities auxiliary to navigation canals or waterways; and

(3) acquire, improve, extend, take over, construct, maintain, repair, operate, develop, and regulate ports, levees, wharves, docks, locks, warehouses, grain elevators, dumping facilities, belt railways, lands, and all other facilities or aids to navigation or aids necessary to the operation or development of ports or waterways in the Red River basin in this state.

(b) A power described by Subsection (a)(3) applies with respect to a facility or aid described by that subdivision only if the facility or aid is in a county located inside the authority.