[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3749 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3749

 To amend the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 to limit the non-
        Federal share of the cost of shore protection projects.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 13, 2002

  Mr. LoBiondo (for himself, Mr. Lampson, Mr. Saxton, Mr. Grucci, Mr. 
 Jones of North Carolina, Mrs. Mink of Hawaii, Mr. Ferguson, Mr. King, 
   Mr. Pallone, Mr. Shaw, Mr. McIntyre, Mr. Horn, Mrs. Roukema, Ms. 
Harman, Mr. Filner, Mr. Stupak, and Mr. Boyd) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and 
                             Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 to limit the non-
        Federal share of the cost of shore protection projects.

    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 ``Community Beaches Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. SHORE PROTECTION PROJECTS.

    Section 103 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 (33 
U.S.C. 2213) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(n) Shore Protection Projects.--
            ``(1) Prohibition on solicitation of excess 
        contributions.--The Secretary shall not solicit or accept 
        contributions from non-Federal interests for costs of 
        constructing projects or measures for shore protection in 
        excess of the non-Federal share assigned to the appropriate 
        project purposes listed in subsections (a), (b), and (c).
            ``(2) Full payment of certain costs by non-federal 
        interests.--Paragraph (1) shall not limit the authority of the 
        Secretary to require non-Federal interests to pay the full cost 
        of work performed outside the authorized scope of a project.''.
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