So had Louisiana...
From the “History of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry in Southern Louisiana Interim Report, Volume I: Papers on the Evolving Offshore Industry”, Page 39
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http://www.gomr.mms.gov/homepg/regulate/environ/studies/2004/2004-049.pdf
“in August 1954, Louisiana’s state legislature had asserted those rights by passing a statute, Act No. 33, which redefined the states’s seaward boundary as a maximum of three leagues beyond the coastline, as described in the act of admission of Louisiana to statehood and union. The novel aspect of the legislation was the definition of the coastline, which the state argued was the dividing line between inland waters and the open sea as determined by the Coast Guard and authorized by acts of Congress in 1807 and 1895. The Coast Guard fixed lighthouses and buoys along this line, as the U.S. Department of Justice pointed out, for navigational purposes, to determine where ships changed from rules for the open sea and to rules for inland waters.”
Why there is a current descrepancy between the Texas and Florida limits and the Louisiana limits is beyond me. All coastal states should be treated equally under the law.
I wasn't aware of that part of Louisiana history, and I don't know why it wasn't able to maintain the three league limit to state waters upon admission.
Texas had a different bargaining position as it was an independent nation seeking admission to the union on its terms, which is why the only federal land in Texas is land that was sold to the US Government (unless some land was condemned for interstate highways).
However, arguing the three league limit is a far different matter than arguing for proceeds 190 miles further out to sea than that.
I haven't looked at the coastline of the Pacific and Atlantic coast states.... Do you know offhand what their limits are? Don't search if you don't know offhand.
It may well be that the Perez thing may well have played into the legislation of 1953.