[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 810 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

  1st Session
                                 S. 810

  To direct the Secretary of the Interior to remove from the Coastal 
  Barrier Resources System a tract of land in South Carolina that was 
added to the System without notice to the county in which the tract is 
                    located, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                 May 16 (legislative day, May 15), 1995

 Mr. Hollings (for himself and Mr. Thurmond) introduced the following 
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment 
                            and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
  To direct the Secretary of the Interior to remove from the Coastal 
  Barrier Resources System a tract of land in South Carolina that was 
added to the System without notice to the county in which the tract is 
                    located, and for other purposes.
    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 Barrier Resources System 
Fairness Act of 1995''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds that--
            (1) the Coastal Barrier Resources System was established in 
        1982 by the Coastal Barrier Resources Act (16 U.S.C. 3501 et 
        seq.);
            (2) pursuant to the Act, a ban on the sale of new Federal 
        flood insurance for new construction or substantial 
        improvements of structures located on units within the System 
        became effective;
            (3)(A) during 1984, the Coastal Barriers Study Group, 
        established by the Secretary of the Interior for the purpose of 
        preparing the report required under section 10 of the Act (16 
        U.S.C. 3509), prepared a draft inventory of coastal barriers 
        along all United States coastlines;
            (B) on March 4, 1985, the draft inventory was made 
        available for public comment;
            (C) on September 30, 1985, the public comment period on the 
        draft inventory was closed;
            (D) on March 25, 1987, the Department of the Interior made 
        available a second draft inventory in response to the public 
        comments, which was mailed to all affected Members of Congress, 
        Governors, counties, and special interests; and
            (E) on June 23, 1987, the public comment period on the 
        second draft inventory was closed;
            (4) the final report to Congress referred to in paragraph 
        (3)(A) was completed and submitted to Congress on December 16, 
        1988;
            (5) this final report was the basis for the Coastal Barrier 
        Improvement Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-591), which expanded 
        the Coastal Barrier Resources System;
            (6)(A) portions of Edisto Island, South Carolina, were 
        annexed by Colleton County, South Carolina, from Charleston 
        County, South Carolina, on March 17, 1987; and
            (B) this annexed area is part of the Coastal Barrier 
        Resources System, unit M09;
            (7) no Colleton County government official received 
        notification of the changes in unit M09 during either the 1985 
        or 1987 draft inventories apparently because notice regarding 
        unit M09 pursuant to the 1985 and 1987 draft inventories was 
        provided to Charleston County and not Colleton County;
            (8) if notice had been received by Colleton County, 
        Colleton County would have participated in the public comment 
        period and worked to have a portion of Edisto Island excluded 
        from unit M09 of the Coastal Barrier Resources System;
            (9) the absence of notice to Colleton County in 1985 and 
        1987 has been the cause of considerable hardship to residents 
        of Colleton County; and
            (10) Congress should correct this injustice by returning a 
        portion of the area known as Jeremy Cay at Eddingsville Beach 
        Subdivision (formerly known as West Cowpens), Edisto Island, 
        Colleton County, South Carolina, to the pre-1985 status of the 
        portion of the area.

SEC. 3. COASTAL BARRIER RESOURCES SYSTEM.

    Section 4(a) of the Coastal Barrier Resources Act (16 U.S.C. 
3503(a)) is amended by inserting before the period at the end the 
following: ``and section 4 of the Coastal Barrier Resources System 
Fairness Act of 1995''.

SEC. 4. CORRECTIONS TO MAPS.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall make such corrections 
to the maps described in subsection (b) as are necessary to ensure that 
depictions of areas on the maps are consistent with the depictions of 
areas appearing on the maps entitled ``Coastal Barrier Resources 
System'', dated March 30, 1995, and on file with the Secretary of the 
Interior.
    (b) Maps Described.--The maps described in this subsection are maps 
that--
            (1) are included in a set of maps entitled ``Coastal 
        Barrier Resources System'', dated October 24, 1990; and
            (2) relate to the unit of the Coastal Barrier Resources 
        System numbered M09.
    (c) Authorization of Appropriations.--Section 12 of the Coastal 
Barrier Resources Act (16 U.S.C. 3510) is amended to read as follows:

``SEC. 12. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    ``There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary such 
sums as are necessary to carry out this Act.''.
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