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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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118TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 118-421
TO AMEND THE COASTAL BARRIER RESOURCES ACT TO
CREATE AN EXEMPTION FOR CERTAIN SHORELINE
BORROW SITES
MARCH 12, 2024.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. WESTERMAN, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany H.R. 524]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 524) to amend the Coastal Barrier Resources Act to cre-
ate an exemption for certain shoreline borrow sites, having consid-
ered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment and
recommends that the bill as amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. FEDERAL COASTAL STORM RISK MANAGEMENT PROJECTS.
Section 6(a) of the Coastal Barrier Resources Act (16 U.S.C. 3505(a)) is amended
by adding at the end the following:
(7) Use of a sand source within a System unit by Federal coastal storm risk
management projects or their predecessor projects that have used a system unit
for sand to nourish adjacent beaches outside the System pursuant to section 5
of the Act of August 18, 1941 (commonly known as the 'Flood Control Act of
1941') (55 Stat. 650, chapter 377; 33 U.S.C. 701n) at least once between Decem-
ber 31, 2008 and December 31, 2023 in response to an emergency situation
prior to December 31, 2023..
PURPOSE OF THE LEGISLATION
The purpose of H.R. 524 is to amend the Coastal Barrier Re-
sources Act to create an exemption for certain shoreline borrow
sites.
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