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<title>Bringing Economic Advancement and Coastal Health Act</title>
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<action-date>2013-01-04</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>Bringing Economic Advancement and Coastal Health Act - Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1976 to: (1) authorize the Chief of Engineers to provide periodic authorized beach nourishment for a water resources development project for such additional period as he or she determines necessary, but not beyond the 50th year that begins after the date of initiation of construction (current law) or after the date of the last estimated periodic nourishment as contemplated in the Chief's Report, whichever is later; and (2) require the Chief of Engineers, before the end of such 50-year period, to evaluate the feasibility of continuing federal participation in the beach nourishment project.</p>]]></summary-text>
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