# 117-hr-6705: Shoreline Health Oversight, Restoration, Resilience, and Enhancement Act

117-hr-6705, Shoreline Health Oversight, Restoration, Resilience, and Enhancement Act, is a 117th Congress bill sponsored by Sen. Blunt Rochester, Lisa [D-DE] (D-DE); status Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment. (as of 2025-11-18).

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## Facts
- Bill: 117-hr-6705
- Congress: 117
- Title: Shoreline Health Oversight, Restoration, Resilience, and Enhancement Act
- Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
- Introduced: 2022-02-11
- Sponsor: Sen. Blunt Rochester, Lisa [D-DE] (D-DE)
- Cosponsors: 2
- Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2025-11-18

## Summary

Shoreline Health Oversight, Restoration, Resilience, and Enhancement Act This bill provides for the development of water and water-related resources projects and activities with a particular emphasis on those carried out by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Among other things, the bill revises and modifies the flood mitigation and riverine restoration program to include coverage of coastal storm damage; authorizes the Corps to carry out specified water resources development and conservation projects in accordance with plans laid out in designated reports or decision documents; authorizes the Department of the Army to continue periodic nourishment for specified projects for coastal storm risk management for an additional period of 50 years; authorizes the Army to use funds for water resources development purposes to carry out, at full federal expense, a measure located on, or benefitting, federal land under the administrative jurisdiction of another federal agency under specified conditions; authorizes the Army to provide in advance the federal share of funds required for the acquisition of land, easements, and rights-of-way for, and the relocation of, certain projects; directs the Army to establish a program to provide environmental assistance to nonfederal interests in the Chattahoochee River Basin; and requires the Army to expedite the replacement of the Mississippi River mat sinking unit.

## Cosponsors (2)

- Rep. Graves, Garret [R-LA-6] (R-LA), 2022-02-11T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Carter, Earl L. "Buddy" [R-GA-1] (R-GA), 2022-05-10T00:00:00.000Z

## Related bills

- 117-hr-1448: PAWS for Veterans Therapy Act
- 117-hr-3537: Accelerating Access to Critical Therapies for ALS Act
- 117-hr-1842: Harriet Tubman Bicentennial Commemorative Coin Act
- 117-hres-1451: Original National Domestic Violence Awareness Month Resolution of 2022
- 117-hres-1386: Supporting the designation of the week of September 26 through September 30, 2022, as "National Clean Energy Week".
- 117-hr-8876: Jackie Walorski Maternal and Child Home Visiting Reauthorization Act of 2022

## Sources
- [117-hr-6705 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/6705)

## Related
- [117-hr-1448: PAWS for Veterans Therapy Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/117-hr-1448)
- [117-hr-3537: Accelerating Access to Critical Therapies for ALS Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/117-hr-3537)
- [117-hr-1842: Harriet Tubman Bicentennial Commemorative Coin Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/117-hr-1842)
- [117-hres-1451: Original National Domestic Violence Awareness Month Resolution of 2022](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/117-hres-1451)
- [117-hres-1386: Supporting the designation of the week of September 26 through September 30, 20…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/117-hres-1386)
- [117-hr-8876: Jackie Walorski Maternal and Child Home Visiting Reauthorization Act of 2022](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/117-hr-8876)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/117-hr-6705 (as of 2025-11-18).