[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2245 Introduced in House (IH)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2245

 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

                              May 22, 2003

  Mr. LoBiondo (for himself and Mr. Lampson) 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 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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