ROCKAWAY INLET TO NORTON POINT, NEW YORK.

SEC. 329. ROCKAWAY INLET TO NORTON POINT, NEW YORK. (a) In General.—The project for shoreline protection, Atlantic Coast of New York City from Rockaway Inlet to Norton Point (Coney Island Area), New York, authorized by section 501(a) of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 (100 Stat. 4135), is modified to authorize the Secretary to construct T-groins to improve sand retention down drift of the West 37th Street groin, in the Sea Gate area of Coney Island, New York, as identified in the March 1998 report prepared for the Corps of Engineers, entitled “Field Data Gathering Project Performance Analysis and Design Alternative Solutions to Improve Sandfill Retention”, at a total cost of $9,000,000, with an estimated Federal cost of $5,850,000 and an estimated non-Federal cost of $3,150,000. (b) Cost Sharing.—The non-Federal share of the costs of constructing the T-groins under subsection (a) shall be 35 percent. (c) Conforming Amendment.—Section 541 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1999 (113 Stat. 350) is repealed.