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 PUBLIC LAW 99-662—NOV. 17, 1986

100 STAT. 4165

SEC. 730. STUDY OF RECAPTURE OF BENEFITS OF INCREASED LAND VALUES.

The Secretary shall study current practices on the sharing of costs related to the benefits of increased land values resulting from water resources projects carried out by the Secretary, together with potential methods by which any increase in land values should be shared between the Federal Government and the non-Federal interests. The Secretary shall report to Congress on the results of such study, along with recommendations, not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act. SEC. 731. STUDY OF RISING OCEANS.

(a) The Congress finds that increasing scientific evidence indicates the level of the oceans will rise significantly over the next seventyfive years. (b) The Secretary, in cooperation with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and other appropriate Federal, State, and local agencies and the private sector, is authorized to conduct a study of shoreline protection and beach erosion control policy and related projects of the Secretary, in view of the prospect for long-term increases in the levels of the ocean. Such study shall include, but is not limited to— (1) an assessment of the probability and the extent of coastal flooding and erosion; (2) an appraisal of various strategies for managing relocation, disinvestment, and reinvestment in coastal communities exposed to coastal flooding and erosion; (3) a summary of the legal and institutional impact of rising sea level on riparian lands; and (4) recommendations for new or additional criteria for Federal participation in shoreline protection projects. (c) Within three years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall transmit the study prepared pursuant to subsection (b) of this section, together with supporting documentation and the recommendations of the Secretary, to the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate and the Committee on Public Works and Transportation of the House of Representatives. (d) There is authorized to be appropriated $3,000,000 for fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1986, to carry out this section, such sum to remain available until expended.

33 USC 426 note.

Appropriation authorization.

SEC. 732. SHORELINE EROSION DAMAGE ON LAKE SUPERIOR.

The Secretary, in consultation with appropriate Federal, State, and local agencies, shall determine the extent of shoreline erosion damage in the United States causally related to the regulation of the waters of Lake Superior by the International Joint Commission—United States and Canada, subsequent to an emergency application by the United States made on January 26, 1973. The Secretary shall report to Congress, not later than the end of the fiscal year following the fiscal year for which the initial appropriation is made to carry out this section, the results of such survey and, if justified, recommendations of a methodology for and a determination of the costs of indemnifying individual property owners and a recommended schedule for indemnification. There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section not to exceed $2,130,000.

Appropriation authorization.

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