EP 1165-2-1
30 Jul 99
(b) Maintenance, Repair, Replacement, and Rehabilitation. For
beach fill there is, generally, no meaningful distinction between
maintenance, repair, replacement, and rehabilitation. A beach fill
project is designed to provide a certain level of erosion and storm
surge protection to landward facilities through the sacrifice of
project fill material. The protection provided depends on the crown
elevation and the amount and characteristcs of sacrificial sand
maintained within the project design section. The project function
depends on maintenance of the horizontal and vertical dimensions of
the project design section. Preservation of this design section can
be achieved through a combination of the following activities which
generally describe the non-Federal sponsor responsibility for
maintenance, repair, replacement, and rehabilitation under the terms
of the project cooperation agreement (PCA):
(1) Grading and shaping the beach and dune using sand within
the project design section.
(2) Maintenance of dune vegetation, sand fencing and dune
cross-overs.
(c) Continuing Project Construction (Periodic Nourishment).
The following activities may be classified as continuing project
construction and may be shared as periodic nourishment under the terms
of the PCA:
(1) Placement of additional sand fill to restore an advanced
nourishment berm.
(2) Placement of additional sand fill on the projet to restore
the design section.
c. Cost Sharing. Federal participation in shore protection
projects(excluding HSDR projects designed to protect against storm
wave action and/or tidal inundation only without providing any
shoreline protection and/or beach erosion control) is based on
shoreline ownership, shore use, and type and incidence of benefits.
Non-Federal interests are responsible for providing all lands,
easements, rights-of-way, relocations and dredged material disposal
areas (LERRD). The non-Federal costs for LERRD are credited against
the sponsor's total responsibility for sharing construction costs
(determined as a weighted percentage), and any excess LERRD costs will
be reimbursed to the sponsor after initial project construction is
completed. Lands, easements, and rights-of-way (LER) needed for the
placement of shore protection project features that prevent the loss
of the land itself have no value for crediting purposes since such
land is lost in the absence of the project. However, the real estate
market may not reflect this and a non-Federal project sponsor may in
fact incur costs in acquiring requisite interests. Accordingly, a
non-Federal sponsor will be credited for actual costs or for the net
reduction in total market valuation of the parcels (from which
interests for the project must be drawn) assuming no Federal project
compared to assuming the project is in place (i.e., including
consideration of special benefits to the property owners), whichever
is least. Non-Federal interests must pay 100 percent of the OMRR&R)
costs assigned to non-Federal shores.
(1) Federal Shores. Costs assigned to protection of
Federally-owned lands and shore are 100 percent Federal if the Federal
agency owning the land and shore requests protection. It is
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