Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Bringing Economic Advancement and Coastal Health Act”.
Bringing Economic Advancement and Coastal Health Act
A BILL
To amend the Water Resources Development Act of 1976 to direct the Secretary of the Army to evaluate the feasibility of continuing Federal participation in a beach nourishment project, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Beach nourishment
Section 156 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1976 (42 U.S.C. 1962d–5f) is amended—
by striking “The” and inserting “(a) Continuing Federal participation in a project.—The”;
by inserting before the period at the end the following: “or after the date of the last estimated periodic nourishment as contemplated in the Chief’s Report, whichever is later”; and
by adding at the end the following:
“(b) Feasibility review—Before the end of the fifty-year period referred to in subsection (a), the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, shall undertake, subject to the availability of appropriations, a review of a project to which subsection (a) applies to evaluate the feasibility of continuing Federal participation in the project and shall make a recommendation concerning such participation to Congress.”