The Beach Erosion Board considered the apportionment of costs in 
equity as derived by the District Engineer and considered that the Anaheim 
Bay jetties were of equal importance with the flood control and naviga- 
tion improvements in contributing to erosion of the Orange County beaches. 
Accordingly the Board recomputed the extent of Federal aid in equity as 67 
percent instead of 61 percent of the costs. The Board therefore recommended 
that in lieu of the existing project for Surfside, California (Anaheim 
Bay Harbor) a project be adopted by the United States authorizing Federal 
participation by the contribution of Federal funds in amount of 67 percent 
of the first costs and costs of periodic nourishment and maintenance of 
a plan comprising restoration of the beach in the Surfside-Sunset Beach 
area, a feeder beach for nourishing the shore from Surfside to Newport 
Beach, andanoffshore breakwater at Newport Beachto provide an impounding 
area from which sand would be transferred periodically to the feeder beach 
at Surfside, substantially in accordance with the plan of the District 
Engineer, with such modification thereof as may be considered advisable 
by the Chief of Engineers. The Chief of Engineers concurred in the views 
and recommendations of the Beach Erosion Board. 
RECOMPUTATION OF FEDERAL SHARE OF CONSTRUCTION 
COSTS UNDER PROVISIONS OF PL 87-874 
The 1962 amendments to beach erosion law increased the permissible 
Federal share of construction cost. for regular beach erosion control 
projects from one-third to one-half and provided further that Federal 
participation in the cost of projects for restoration and protection of 
State, county, and other publicly owned parks and conservation areas may 
be as high as 70 percent of the total cost. These revised cost-sharing 
provisions were made applicable to existing authorized projects not sub- 
stantially completed as of the date of approval of the amendments (23 
October 1962) and the Chief of Engineers through the Beach Erosion Board 
was directed to recompute the extent of Federal participation in the 
costs of those projects accordingly. On this basis the level of Federal 
participation was recomputed and approved by the Chief of Engineers for 
projects authorized from two of the foregoing eight summarized reports as 
follows: 
Fort Macon-Atlantic Beach and Vicinity, N. C. - From 1/3 to 70 percent. 
Virginia and Biscayne Keys, Florida - From 1/3 to 70 percent. 
In addition a pending recomputation of the level of Federal participation 
for the authorized project resulting from the report on San Juan, Puerto 
Rico should result in some increase in the Federal share. 
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