HB20 Alabama 2023 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Chip Brown Representative

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2023

Title

Relating to coastal areas; to provide for permits for living shoreline restoration from the State Lands Division of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and the Department of Environmental Management and for the use of source sediment by riparian property owners.

Description

This bill would provide for permits for shoreline restoration, including the use of living shoreline techniques, by riparian property owners in coastal areas. The bill would authorize riparian property owners to sever and use materials in their riparian rights use area for the purposes of shoreline restoration for a fee of one-half of that charged by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources or the Department of Environmental Management for constructing bulkheads or seawalls, when the source sediment is used for the construction of living shorelines in front of a property owner's riparian property.

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Subjects

Shoreline restoration projects, permit required.