[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2636 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2636

To ensure that the Secretary of the Army treats recreation benefits the 
same as hurricane and storm damage reduction benefits and environmental 
                  protection and restoration benefits.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 18, 2002

Mr. Torricelli (for himself, Mr. Hollings, and Mr. Corzine) 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 ensure that the Secretary of the Army treats recreation benefits the 
same as hurricane and storm damage reduction benefits and environmental 
                  protection and restoration benefits.

    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 ``National Beach Recreation Act''.

SEC. 2. TREATMENT OF RECREATION BENEFITS.

    Subsection (e)(2)(B) 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. 426e(e)(2)(B)), is amended by adding at the end the following:
                            ``(iii) Procedures for treatment of certain 
                        benefits.--In making recommendations under 
                        clause (i), the Secretary shall develop and 
                        implement procedures that treat recreation, 
                        hurricane and storm damage reduction, and 
                        environmental protection and restoration 
                        benefits equally.''.
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