Military Installation Shoreline Protection Act
S. 4704118th Congress

Military Installation Shoreline Protection Act

Introduced in the SenateSen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)32 sections · 2 min read
Version: Introduced in Senate · Jul 11, 2024

Section 1. Short title

This Act may be cited as the Military Installation Shoreline Protection Act.

(a) In general

Section 2815a of title 10, United States Code is amended—

(1) in the section heading, by striking management and inserting management and shoreline erosion control;

(2) in subsection (a)—

(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

(B) 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.

(3) in subsection (b), in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking management and inserting management or shoreline erosion control;

(4) in subsection (c)—

(A) by striking stormwater management;

(B) by striking proposals involving and inserting “proposals—

(1) for stormwater management that involve

(C) by striking the period and inserting; and; and

(D) 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.

(5) in subsection (d)—

(A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking stormwater management;

(B) in paragraph (1), by striking measures and inserting measures to address storm water management; and

(C) 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.

(C) ; and

(6) in subsection (f)—

(A) by striking stormwater management each place it appears; and

(B) in paragraph (2)(B)—

(i) in clause (i), by striking; and and inserting a semicolon;

(ii) in clause (ii), by striking the period and inserting; and; and

(iii) 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.

(b) 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:

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