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106th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 5535
To enhance and restore the coastal resources of the United States.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
October 24, 2000
Mr. Rohrabacher introduced the following bill; which was referred to
the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to
the Committees on Science, and Resources, for a period to be
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration
of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee
concerned
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A BILL
To enhance and restore the coastal resources of the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Coastal Resources Enhancement and
Restoration Act of 2000''.
SEC. 2. NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION RESEARCH GRANTS FOR COASTAL
ENGINEERING AND SHORELINE PROTECTION.
Section 3 of the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 (42 U.S.C.
1862) is amended by adding at the end the following:
``(h) Beginning in fiscal year 2001, not less than 10 percent of
the amounts appropriated for a fiscal year for making grants for
engineering research under subsection (a)(1) shall be used by the
Foundation for making grants for coastal engineering and coastline
protection research.''.
SEC. 3. SUPPLEMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS IN COASTAL AREAS.
Section 313 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C.
1323) is amended by adding at the end the following:
``(c) Artificial Reefs and Aquatic Habitat Restoration Projects.--A
department, agency, or instrumentality of the Federal Government that
is found to have violated this Act in connection with the discharge or
runoff of pollutants into coastal waters of the United States and that,
as a result of the violation, is ordered to undertake a supplemental
environmental program in lieu of paying fines shall be given the option
of constructing artificial reefs and undertaking aquatic habitat
restoration projects.''.
SEC. 4. ACCESS TO PUBLICLY OWNED SHORES.
(a) Eligibility of Shoreline Protection Projects.--Subsection (d)
of the first section of the Act entitled ``An Act authorizing Federal
participation in the cost of protecting the shores of publicly owned
property'', approved August 13, 1946 (33 U.S.C. 426d), is amended by
adding at the end the following: ``In making determinations under this
subsection, the Secretary shall consider a publicly owned shore with
insufficient public access (as determined in accordance with rules
issued by the Secretary) to be a privately owned shore.''.
(b) Cost Sharing.--Section 103(d) of the Water Resources
Development Act of 1986 (33 U.S.C. 2213(d)) is amended by adding at the
end the following:
``(3) Privately owned shores defined.--In this subsection,
the term `privately owned shores' includes a publicly owned
shore with insufficient public access, as determined in
accordance with rules issued by the Secretary.''.
(c) Rules.--The Secretary of the Army shall issue rules to carry
out the amendments made by this subsection. In issuing such rules, the
Secretary shall seek to ensure public access to every one-half mile of
publicly owned shore for which assistance is provided by the Secretary.
The Secretary may allow for exceptions to such access requirements in
cases of shores located in areas of extreme environmental sensitivity.
SEC. 5. BEACH NOURISHMENT ACCOUNT.
(a) Establishment.--There is established in the Treasury a separate
account to be known as the Beach Nourishment Account (in this section
referred to as the ``account''), which shall consist of such funds as
may be deposited or credited to the account under this section.
(b) Source of Funds for Account.--For fiscal year 2001 and each
fiscal year thereafter, the Secretary of the Treasury shall
periodically transfer to the account amounts equivalent to 2 percent of
the funds deposited in the general fund of the Treasury under section 9
of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1338).
(c) Use of Account.--Funds in the account shall be available
without further appropriation--
(1) in the amounts specified in section 6, to the Secretary
of Commerce and the Administrator of the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration to carry out the pilot program
authorized by section 6; and
(2) in the amounts remaining after funds are made available
under paragraph (1), to the Secretary of the Army to carry out
projects for beach nourishment, shore protection, and beach
erosion control;
Funds in the account shall remain available until expended.
(d) Applicability of Requirements.--The Secretary of the Army shall
carry out beach nourishment, shore protection, and beach erosion
control projects using amounts in the account in accordance with the
cost-sharing requirements under section 103 of the Water Resources
Development Act of 1986 (33 U.S.C. 2213) and other requirements
applicable to such projects.
(e) Reporting of Transactions.--Receipts, obligations, and
expenditures of funds in the account shall be reported in annual
estimates submitted to Congress by the Secretary of the Army.
(f) Investment.--
(1) In general.--The Secretary of the Treasury shall invest
such portion of the account established by subsection (a) as is
not, in the judgment of the Secretary, required to meet current
withdrawals. Such investments may be made only in interest-
bearing obligations of the United States. For such purpose,
such obligations may be acquired--
(A) on original issue at the issue price; or
(B) by purchase of outstanding obligations at the
market price.
(2) Sale of obligations.--Any obligation acquired by the
account may be sold at the market price.
(3) Interest on certain proceeds.--The interest on, and the
proceeds from the sale or redemption of, any obligations held
in the account shall be credited to and form part of the
account.
SEC. 6. COMPREHENSIVE OCEAN OBSERVING SYSTEM PILOT PROGRAM.
(a) In General.--The Secretary of Commerce (acting through the
Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere) and the Administrator of the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration shall jointly carry out a
pilot program to institute the mission of the Global Ocean Observing
System in the United States by establishing a comprehensive monitoring
network of ocean conditions.
(b) Partnerships.--In carrying out the pilot program, the Secretary
and the Administrator shall enter into partnerships with local and
regional interests to monitor and collect the widest range of data
possible about the coastal oceans and inland waterways in order to make
such information available to interested persons in real time or near
real time.
(c) Information To Be Collected.--Information collected under the
pilot program shall include the following:
(1) Wave heights, periods, swell direction and water
temperature.
(2) Coastal currents and their directions.
(3) Large mammal movement via implanted sensors.
(4) Sewage outfall movement.
(5) Water quality, such as bacteria counts, sediment
movement, and red tides.
(6) Beaconed fishing boat tracking (for tracking illegal
foreign whalers).
(7) Oil spill tracking.
(8) Beach erosion data.
(9) Weather.
(10) River mouth outflow sediment observation.
(11) Global Information System coastal mapping.
(d) Federal Cooperation.--The Secretary and the Administrator shall
carry out the pilot project in cooperation with the Geological Survey,
the Navy, and the Environmental Protection Agency.
(e) Regional Test Projects.--In carrying out the pilot program, the
Secretary and the Administrator shall establish 2 regional test
projects. One of the test projects shall be located at the Southern
California Bight from Encinitas, Mexico, to Point Dume, California,
with Orange County, California, serving as the focal point. The second
test project shall be carried out at a location to be determined by the
Secretary and the Administrator.
(f) Coordination of Existing Efforts.--In carrying out the pilot
program, the Secretary and the Administrator shall not replace or
duplicate existing efforts of Federal, State, and local entities in
monitoring ocean conditions, but shall seek to coordinate such efforts
and to obtain information that is not currently collected.
(g) Authorization of Appropriations.--
(1) In general.--There shall be available from the Beach
Nourishment Account established by section 5 $4,000,000 for
each of fiscal years 2001 through 2006 to carry out this
section.
(2) Allocation.--Of the amounts made available under
paragraph (1), $2,000,000 per fiscal year shall be available
for carrying out each of the 2 regional test projects referred
to in subsection (e).
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