The Rehoboth Beach, DE federally authorized storm damage risk reduction project gets renourished in 2016.
ASBPA has been working with the Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works and House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure, to develop policies that would bring greater transparency and longer-term planning to USACE’s budgeting process and provide greater justification and resilience for coastal projects.
Specifically, we would like to see USACE districts prepare a public, multi-year schedule of priorities for federally-authorized coastal projects and have USACE calculate the full range of benefits (including environmental and recreation) when evaluating coastal projects. We’d also like to see language clarifying that after a federal disaster, federally authorized beaches can be rebuilt with greater resilience than before the storm.
See our full Position Statement WRDA 2018.
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