106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1431
AN ACT
To reauthorize and amend the Coastal Barrier
Resources Act.
106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1431
AN ACT
To reauthorize and amend the Coastal Barrier Resources
Act.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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’’;
(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U.S.C. 3503 note) is repealed.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.’’.
(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-
(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;
(ii) the availability of existing data to com-
plete digital mapping of the entire System;
(iii) the need for additional data to com-
plete digital mapping of the entire System; and
(iv) the funding needed to complete digital
mapping of the entire System.
(b) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There
are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of the
Interior $500,000 for each of fiscal years 2000, 2001, and
2002 to carry out the pilot project required under this sec-
tion.
SEC. 6. CORRECTIONS TO MAPS RELATING TO UNIT P19–P.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the Interior
shall, before the end of the 30-day period beginning on
the date of the enactment of this Act, make such correc-
tions to the map described in subsection (b) as are nec-
essary to ensure that depictions of areas on that map are
consistent with the depictions of areas appearing on the
map relating to unit P19–P entitled ‘‘Amendment to the
Coastal Barrier Resources System’’ and dated September
16, 1998.
(b) MAP DESCRIBED.—The map described in this
subsection is the map that—
(1) is included in a set of maps entitled ‘‘Coast-
al Barrier Resources System’’, dated November 2,
1994; and
(2) relates to unit P19–P of the Coastal Bar-
rier Resources System.
SEC. 7. REPLACEMENT OF MAPS RELATING TO UNITS NC–
03P AND L03.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The 7 maps included in the set
of maps entitled ‘‘Coastal Barrier Resources System’’ and
referred to in section 4(a)(1) of the Coastal Barrier Re-
sources Act, as amended by this Act, relating to the por-
tions of Coastal Barrier Resources System units NC–03P
and L03 located in Dare County, North Carolina, are
hereby replaced by other maps relating to that unit that
are entitled ‘‘DARE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA,
Coastal Barrier Resources System, Cape Hatteras Unit
NC–03P’’ or ‘‘DARE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA,
Coastal Barrier Resources System, Cape Hatteras Unit
NC–03P, Hatteras Island Unit L03’’ and dated July 1,
1999.
(b) AVAILABILITY.—The Secretary of the Interior
shall keep the maps referred to in subsection (a) on file
and available for inspection in accordance with the provi-
sions of section 4(b) of the Coastal Barrier Resources Act
(16 U.S.C. 3503(b)).
SEC. 8. CORRECTIONS TO MAP RELATING TO UNIT DE–03P.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 30 days after the
date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior
shall make such corrections to the map described in sub-
section (b) as are necessary to move on that map the
boundary of the otherwise protected area (as defined in
section 12 of the Coastal Barrier Improvement Act of
1990 (16 U.S.C. 3503 note; Public Law 101–591)) to the
Cape Henlopen State Park boundary to the extent
necessary—
(1) to exclude from the otherwise protected area
the adjacent property leased, as of the date of enact-
ment of this Act, by the Barcroft Company and
Cape Shores Associates (which are privately held
corporations under the law of the State of Dela-
ware); and
(2) to include in the otherwise protected area
the northwestern corner of Cape Henlopen State
Park seaward of the Lewes and Rehoboth Canal.
(b) MAP DESCRIBED.—The map described in this
subsection is the map that is included in a set of maps
entitled ‘‘Coastal Barrier Resources System’’, dated Octo-
ber 24, 1990, as revised October 15, 1992, and that re-
lates to the unit of the Coastal Barrier Resources System
entitled ‘‘Cape Henlopen Unit DE–03P’’.
Passed the House of Representatives September 21,
1999.
Attest:
Clerk.