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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Coastal Barrier Re-
sources Reauthorization Act of 1999’’.
SEC. 2. ADDITIONS TO COASTAL BARRIER RESOURCES SYS-
TEM.
(a) VOLUNTARY ADDITIONS.—Section 4 of the Coast-
al Barrier Resources Act (16 U.S.C. 3503) is amended
by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(d) VOLUNTARY ADDITIONS TO SYSTEM.—The Sec-
retary may add any parcel of real property to the System,
if—
‘‘(1) the owner of the parcel requests that the
Secretary add the parcel to the System; and
‘‘(2) the parcel is a depositional geologic feature
described in section 3(1)(A).’’.
(b) TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS RELATING TO ADDI-
TIONS OF EXCESS PROPERTY.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 4(d) of the Coastal
Barrier Improvement Act of 1990 (16 U.S.C. 3503
note)—
(A) is redesignated and moved so as to ap-
pear as subsection (e) of section 4 of the Coast-
al Barrier Resources Act (16 U.S.C. 3503); and
(B) is amended—
(i) in paragraph (1) by striking ‘‘one
hundred and eighty’’ and inserting ‘‘180’’;
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(ii) in paragraph (2) by striking ‘‘sub-
section (d)(1)’’ and inserting ‘‘paragraph
(1)’’; and
(iii) by striking paragraph (3).
(2) CONFORMING
AMENDMENT.—Section 4(f)
of the Coastal Barrier Improvement Act of 1990 (16
U.S.C. 3503 note) is repealed.
(c) NOTICE REGARDING ADDITIONS TO SYSTEM.—
Section 4 of the Coastal Barrier Resources Act (16 U.S.C.
3503) is further amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing:
‘‘(f) NOTICE REGARDING ADDITIONS TO SYSTEM.—
The Secretary shall—
‘‘(1) publish in the Federal Register a notice of
any addition of property to the System under this
section, including notice of the availability of a map
showing the location of the property;
‘‘(2) provide a copy of that map to the State
and local government in which the property is lo-
cated and the Committee on Resources of the House
of Representatives; and
‘‘(3) revise the maps referred to in subsection
(a) to reflect the addition of the property to the Sys-
tem.’’.
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(d) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Subsection (a) of
section 4 of the Coastal Barrier Resources Act (16 U.S.C.
3503(a)) is amended by striking ‘‘, which shall consist of’’
and all that follows through the end of that subsection
and inserting the following: ‘‘, that—
‘‘(1) shall consist of those undeveloped coastal
barriers and other areas located on the coasts of the
United States that are identified and generally de-
picted on the set of maps on file with the Secretary
entitled ‘Coastal Barrier Resources System’, dated
October 24, 1990, as such maps may be modified,
revised, corrected, or replaced under subsection (c),
(d), or (e) of this section, or any other provision of
law enacted on or after November 16, 1990, that
specifically authorizes the modification, revision, cor-
rection, or replacement; and
‘‘(2) includes areas added to the System in ac-
cordance with subsection (d) or (e).’’.
SEC. 3. CLERICAL AMENDMENTS.
(a) COASTAL
BARRIER
RESOURCES
ACT.—The
Coastal Barrier Resources Act (16 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.)
is amended—
(1) in section 3(3) (16 U.S.C. 3502(3)), in the
matter following subparagraph (D), by striking ‘‘Ef-
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fective October 1, 1983, such’’ and inserting
‘‘Such’’; and
(2) by repealing section 10 (16 U.S.C. 3509).
(b) COASTAL
BARRIER
IMPROVEMENT
ACT
OF
1990.—Section 8 of the Coastal Barrier Improvement Act
of 1990 (16 U.S.C. 3503 note) is repealed.
SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
Section 12 of the Coastal Barrier Resources Act (16
U.S.C. 3510) is redesignated as section 10 and amended
to read as follows:
‘‘SEC. 10. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
‘‘There are authorized to be appropriated to the Sec-
retary to carry out this Act $2,000,000 for each of fiscal
years 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004.’’.
SEC. 5. DIGITAL MAPPING PILOT PROJECT.
(a) REQUIREMENT TO UNDERTAKE PROJECT.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the Inte-
rior, in consultation with the Director of the Federal
Emergency Management Agency, shall undertake a
pilot project to determine the feasibility and cost of
creating digital versions of the Coastal Barrier Re-
sources System maps referred to in section 4(a)(1)
of the Coastal Barrier Resources Act, as amended
by this Act. The pilot project shall include the cre-
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ation of digital maps for at least 5 units of the Sys-
tem.
(2) USE OF EXISTING DATA.—(A) To the ex-
tent practicable, in completing the pilot project
under this subsection, the Secretary shall use exist-
ing digital spatial data including digital orthophotos;
shoreline, elevation, and bathymetric data; and elec-
tronic navigational charts in the possession of other
Federal agencies, including the United States Geo-
logical Survey and the National Oceanic and Atmos-
pheric Administration.
(B) The head of any Federal agency that pos-
sesses digital spatial data referred to in subpara-
graph (A) shall promptly provide that data to the
Secretary at no cost upon request by the Secretary.
(3) OBTAINING ADDITIONAL DATA.—If the Sec-
retary determines that data necessary to complete
the pilot project under this subsection does not exist,
the Secretary shall enter into an agreement with the
Director of the United States Geological Survey
under which the Director shall obtain, in cooperation
with other Federal agencies, as appropriate, and
provide to the Secretary any digital spatial data re-
quired to carry out this subsection.
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(4) DATA STANDARDS.—All digital spatial data
used or created to carry out this subsection shall
comply with the National Spatial Data Infrastruc-
ture established by Executive Order 12906 and any
other standards established by the Federal Geo-
graphic Data Committee established by the Office of
Management and Budget Circular A–16.
(5) DIGITAL
MAPS
NOT
CONTROLLING.—Any
determination of whether a location is inside or out-
side of the System shall be made without regard to
the digital maps prepared under this subsection.
(6) REPORT.—(A) Not later than 2 years after
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary
shall submit a report to the Committee on Resources
of the House of Representatives that describes the
results of the pilot project and the feasibility, data
needs, and costs of completing digital maps for the
entire System.
(B) The report shall include a description of—
(i) the cooperative agreements entered into
by the Secretary with other Federal agencies to
complete the pilot project and cooperative
agreements needed to complete digital mapping
of the entire System;