SEC. 
2. 
NATIONAL 
SCIENCE 
FOUNDATION 
RESEARCH
GRANTS FOR COASTAL ENGINEERING AND
SHORELINE PROTECTION.
Section 3 of the National Science Foundation Act of
1950 (42 U.S.C. 1862) is amended by adding at the end
the following:
‘‘(h) Beginning in fiscal year 2001, not less than 10
percent of the amounts appropriated for a fiscal year for
making grants for engineering research under subsection
(a)(1) shall be used by the Foundation for making grants
for coastal engineering and coastline protection research.’’.
SEC. 3. SUPPLEMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS IN
COASTAL AREAS.
Section 313 of the Federal Water Pollution Control
Act (33 U.S.C. 1323) is amended by adding at the end
the following:
‘‘(c) ARTIFICIAL REEFS
AND AQUATIC HABITAT
RESTORATION PROJECTS.—A department, agency, or in-
strumentality of the Federal Government that is found to
have violated this Act in connection with the discharge or
runoff of pollutants into coastal waters of the United
States and that, as a result of the violation, is ordered
to undertake a supplemental environmental program in
lieu of paying fines shall be given the option of con-
structing artificial reefs and undertaking aquatic habitat
restoration projects.’’.
SEC. 4. ACCESS TO PUBLICLY OWNED SHORES.
(a) 
ELIGIBILITY
OF
SHORELINE
PROTECTION
PROJECTS.—Subsection (d) of the first section of the Act
entitled ‘‘An Act authorizing Federal participation in the
cost of protecting the shores of publicly owned property’’,
approved August 13, 1946 (33 U.S.C. 426d), is amended
by adding at the end the following: ‘‘In making determina-
tions under this subsection, the Secretary shall consider
a publicly owned shore with insufficient public access (as
determined in accordance with rules issued by the Sec-
retary) to be a privately owned shore.’’.
(b) COST SHARING.—Section 103(d) of the Water
Resources Development Act of 1986 (33 U.S.C. 2213(d))
is amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(3) PRIVATELY OWNED SHORES DEFINED.—In
this subsection, the term ‘privately owned shores’ in-
cludes a publicly owned shore with insufficient public
access, as determined in accordance with rules
issued by the Secretary.’’.
(c) RULES.—The Secretary of the Army shall issue
rules to carry out the amendments made by this sub-
section. In issuing such rules, the Secretary shall seek to
ensure public access to every one-half mile of publicly
owned shore for which assistance is provided by the Sec-
retary. The Secretary may allow for exceptions to such ac-
cess requirements in cases of shores located in areas of
extreme environmental sensitivity.
SEC. 5. BEACH NOURISHMENT ACCOUNT.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established in the
Treasury a separate account to be known as the Beach
Nourishment Account (in this section referred to as the
‘‘account’’), which shall consist of such funds as may be
deposited or credited to the account under this section.
(b) SOURCE OF FUNDS FOR ACCOUNT.—For fiscal
year 2001 and each fiscal year thereafter, the Secretary
of the Treasury shall periodically transfer to the account
amounts equivalent to 2 percent of the funds deposited
in the general fund of the Treasury under section 9 of
the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1338).
(c) USE OF ACCOUNT.—Funds in the account shall
be available without further appropriation—
(1) in the amounts specified in section 6, to the
Secretary of Commerce and the Administrator of the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration to
carry out the pilot program authorized by section 6;
and
(2) in the amounts remaining after funds are
made available under paragraph (1), to the Sec-
retary of the Army to carry out projects for beach
nourishment, shore protection, and beach erosion
control;
Funds in the account shall remain available until ex-
pended.
(d) APPLICABILITY OF REQUIREMENTS.—The Sec-
retary of the Army shall carry out beach nourishment,
shore protection, and beach erosion control projects using
amounts in the account in accordance with the cost-shar-
ing requirements under section 103 of the Water Re-
sources Development Act of 1986 (33 U.S.C. 2213) and
other requirements applicable to such projects.
(e) REPORTING OF TRANSACTIONS.—Receipts, obli-
gations, and expenditures of funds in the account shall
be reported in annual estimates submitted to Congress by
the Secretary of the Army.
(f) INVESTMENT.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the Treas-
ury shall invest such portion of the account estab-
lished by subsection (a) as is not, in the judgment
of the Secretary, required to meet current with-
drawals. Such investments may be made only in in-
terest-bearing obligations of the United States. For
such purpose, such obligations may be acquired—
(A) on original issue at the issue price; or
(B) by purchase of outstanding obligations
at the market price.
(2) SALE OF OBLIGATIONS.—Any obligation ac-
quired by the account may be sold at the market
price.
(3) INTEREST
ON
CERTAIN
PROCEEDS.—The
interest on, and the proceeds from the sale or re-
demption of, any obligations held in the account
shall be credited to and form part of the account.
SEC. 6. COMPREHENSIVE OCEAN OBSERVING SYSTEM
PILOT PROGRAM.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Commerce (act-
ing through the Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmos-
phere) and the Administrator of the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration shall jointly carry out a pilot
program to institute the mission of the Global Ocean Ob-
serving System in the United States by establishing a
comprehensive monitoring network of ocean conditions.
(b) PARTNERSHIPS.—In carrying out the pilot pro-
gram, the Secretary and the Administrator shall enter into
partnerships with local and regional interests to monitor
and collect the widest range of data possible about the
coastal oceans and inland waterways in order to make
such information available to interested persons in real
time or near real time.
(c) INFORMATION TO BE COLLECTED.—Information
collected under the pilot program shall include the fol-
lowing:
(1) Wave heights, periods, swell direction and
water temperature.
(2) Coastal currents and their directions.
(3) Large mammal movement via implanted
sensors.
(4) Sewage outfall movement.
(5) Water quality, such as bacteria counts, sedi-
ment movement, and red tides.
(6) Beaconed fishing boat tracking (for track-
ing illegal foreign whalers).
(7) Oil spill tracking.
(8) Beach erosion data.
(9) Weather.
(10) River mouth outflow sediment observation.
(11) Global Information System coastal map-
ping.
(d) FEDERAL COOPERATION.—The Secretary and
the Administrator shall carry out the pilot project in co-
operation with the Geological Survey, the Navy, and the
Environmental Protection Agency.
(e) REGIONAL TEST PROJECTS.—In carrying out the
pilot program, the Secretary and the Administrator shall
establish 2 regional test projects. One of the test projects
shall be located at the Southern California Bight from
Encinitas, Mexico, to Point Dume, California, with Or-
ange County, California, serving as the focal point. The
second test project shall be carried out at a location to
be determined by the Secretary and the Administrator.
(f) COORDINATION OF EXISTING EFFORTS.—In car-
rying out the pilot program, the Secretary and the Admin-
istrator shall not replace or duplicate existing efforts of
Federal, State, and local entities in monitoring ocean con-
ditions, but shall seek to coordinate such efforts and to
obtain information that is not currently collected.
(g) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—
(1) IN
GENERAL.—There shall be available
from the Beach Nourishment Account established by
section 5 $4,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2001
through 2006 to carry out this section.
(2) ALLOCATION.—Of the amounts made avail-
able under paragraph (1), $2,000,000 per fiscal year
shall be available for carrying out each of the 2 re-
gional test projects referred to in subsection (e).
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