Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Military Installation Shoreline Protection Act”.
Military Installation Shoreline Protection Act
A BILL
To authorize shoreline erosion control projects to protect the infrastructure of military installations from shoreline erosion.
Sec. 2 Authority for shoreline erosion control projects to protect military installation infrastructure
in the section heading, by striking “management” and inserting “management and shoreline erosion control”;
in subsection (a)—
in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking “carry out a stormwater management project on or related to a military installation for the purposes of” and inserting “, on or related to a military installation, carry out”; and
by striking paragraphs (1) and (2) and inserting the following:
“(1) a stormwater management project for the purposes of—
“(A) improving military installation resilience or the resilience of a defense access road or other essential civilian infrastructure supporting the military installation; and
“(B) protecting nearby waterways and stormwater-stressed ecosystems; or
“(2) a shoreline erosion control project for the purpose of improving, protecting, or repairing shoreline to protect the infrastructure of a military installation from shoreline erosion.”
in subsection (b), in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking “management” and inserting “management or shoreline erosion control”;
in subsection (c)—
by striking “stormwater management”;
by striking “proposals involving” and inserting “proposals—
“(1) for stormwater management that involve”
by striking the period and inserting “; and”; and
by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
“(2) for shoreline erosion control that involve the improvement, protection, or repair of shoreline subject to wave action or stormwater runoff and water levels resulting from extreme weather conditions.”
in subsection (d)—
in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking “stormwater management”;
in paragraph (1), by striking “measures” and inserting “measures to address storm water management”; and
by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
“(4) The use of sheet piles, riprap, armor stone, sea walls, natural plantings, or any future technologies created to address shoreline erosion control.”
in subsection (f)—
by striking “stormwater management” each place it appears; and
in paragraph (2)(B)—
in clause (i), by striking “; and” and inserting a semicolon;
in clause (ii), by striking the period and inserting “; and”; and
by adding at the end the following new clause:
“(iii) improve, protect, or repair shoreline to protect infrastructure of a military installation from shoreline erosion.”
Clerical amendment— The table of sections at the beginning of subchapter I of chapter 169 of such title is amended by striking the item relating to section 2815a and inserting the following new item: