improved shore of Los Angeles County between Topanga Canyon and Malaga 

 Cove and at Cabrillo Beach; 



b. The entire interest involved in the proposed measures 

 will be public. It is associated with prevention of losses of public 

 property, savings in automobile travel and recreational benefits to the 

 ge neral public 5 



c. The share of the expense which should be borne by the United 

 States is one-third of the first cost of the recommended protective features 

 of the master plan, modified as recommended by the district engineer. The 

 Federal share is estimated at $3, 163, 000. 



The Chief of Engineers concurred generally in the views and recommenda- 

 tions of the Beach Erosion Board except for the extent of Federal participa- 

 tion under Public Law 227, 79th Congress. In interpreting that law, it 

 appeared more likely to him that Congress intended that it should apply 

 to protection of existing shore lines, rather than proposed shore lines 

 in some artificially advanced position. He noted that protection of the 

 advanced shore line would be more costly than protection of the existing 

 shore, and therefore, if Federal participation were provided to the extent 

 of one-third of the cost of protection of the former, it would result in 

 greater Federal assistance than was probably intended by Congress when it 

 passed Public Law 727. Consequently, in the absence of more specific 

 expression of the intention of Congress, the Chief of Engineers believed 

 that the Federal participation should be limited to one-third of the cost 

 of protecting the existing shore line. On this basis the Federal contri- 

 bution is estimated at $3,099,000. 



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