Shoreline Health Oversight, Restoration, Resilience, and Enhancement Act 2022-02-11 Introduced in House Shoreline Health Oversight, Restoration, Resilience, and Enhancement Act

This bill provides for the development of water and water-related resources projects and activities with a particular emphasis on those carried out by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Among other things, the bill

  • revises and modifies the flood mitigation and riverine restoration program to include coverage of coastal storm damage;
  • authorizes the Corps to carry out specified water resources development and conservation projects in accordance with plans laid out in designated reports or decision documents;
  • authorizes the Department of the Army to continue periodic nourishment for specified projects for coastal storm risk management for an additional period of 50 years;
  • authorizes the Army to use funds for water resources development purposes to carry out, at full federal expense, a measure located on, or benefitting, federal land under the administrative jurisdiction of another federal agency under specified conditions;
  • authorizes the Army to provide in advance the federal share of funds required for the acquisition of land, easements, and rights-of-way for, and the relocation of, certain projects;
  • directs the Army to establish a program to provide environmental assistance to nonfederal interests in the Chattahoochee River Basin; and
  • requires the Army to expedite the replacement of the Mississippi River mat sinking unit.
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