Title: SHORE Act
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Safer Harbors for Our Recreation Economy Act or the SHORE Act
This bill requires the Office of Management and Budget and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to account for recreation-based benefits and costs when conducting cost-benefit analyses for harbor maintenance, intracoastal waterways, and inland waterways projects.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5832 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5832

 To direct the Secretary of the Army and the Director of the Office of 
   Management and Budget to issue regulations and submit a report to 
        Congress on cost-benefit ratios, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 10, 2020

  Mr. Katko (for himself, Mr. Brindisi, and Mr. Upton) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation 
                           and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Secretary of the Army and the Director of the Office of 
   Management and Budget to issue regulations and submit a report to 
        Congress on cost-benefit ratios, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Safer Harbors for Our Recreation 
Economy Act'' or the ``SHORE Act''.

SEC. 2. RECREATION-BASED BENEFITS AND COSTS REGULATIONS.

    Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, 
the Secretary of the Army and the Director of the Office of Management 
and Budget shall issue such regulations as are necessary to account for 
recreation-based benefits and costs (including local and regional 
economic benefits) in the benefit-cost analysis procedures of such 
entities for harbor maintenance, intracoastal waterways, and inland 
waterways projects.

SEC. 3. BENEFIT-COST PROCEDURE REPORT.

    Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of the Army and the Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget shall submit to Congress a report containing--
            (1) an examination of the procedure for harbor maintenance 
        projects of the Office of Management and Budget and the Corps 
        of Engineers for including or not including recreation-based 
        benefits and costs (including local and regional economic 
        benefits) in the benefit-cost procedures of the such entities;
            (2) a review of the calculation of economic benefits used 
        in a benefit-cost calculation, by district, for a non-
        commercial harbor that is used for recreational purposes; and
            (3) recommendations and guidance on the creation of a 
        uniform recreation-based economic benefit calculation to 
        improve the comprehensive benefit-cost analysis procedures of 
        the Office of Management and Budget and the Corps of Engineers.
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