What US Coastal Barrier Resources Act (16 USC 3501 et seq.): The John H. Chafee System and the Restriction on Federal Expenditures requires
The Coastal Barrier Resources Act (CBRA), codified at 16 U.S.C. 3501 et seq., protects undeveloped coastal barriers by removing the federal financial incentives that subsidise their development, administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service within the Department of the Interior. Section 3501 sets out the Congressional findings and purposes: it finds that coastal barriers provide essential habitat, serving as spawning, nursery, nesting and feeding areas for commercially and recreationally important species, and that certain federal actions and programs have subsidised and permitted development on coastal barriers, resulting in the loss of barrier resources and threats to human life, health and property; and it declares the purpose of minimising the loss of human life, the wasteful expenditure of federal revenues and the damage to fish, wildlife and other natural resources by restricting future federal expenditures and financial assistance that have the effect of encouraging development of coastal barriers, through the establishment of the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System. Section 3503 establishes the System by designating specific undeveloped coastal barrier units, depicted on official maps. Section 3504 imposes the core mechanism: with limited exceptions, no new federal expenditures or financial assistance may be made available within the System for activities that encourage development, including federal flood insurance under the National Flood Insurance Program. The Act does not prohibit private development; it withdraws the federal subsidy, leaving the cost and risk with those who choose to build. The Act is the federal instrument that uses fiscal restraint, rather than regulation, to discourage development of environmentally sensitive coastal barriers.
Pillar: Water & Environmental Resources · Authority: US Congress / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior · Version: 1.0.0 · Last updated:
Primary source: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2022-title16/html/USCODE-2022-title16-chap55.htm
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- Coastal Barrier Resources Act, 16 U.S.C. 3501 - findings that coastal barriers provide essential fish and wildlife habitat.
- Coastal Barrier Resources Act, 16 U.S.C. 3501 - finding that federal programs have subsidised and permitted development on coastal barriers.
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