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Show 334 tecting watersheds, regulating stream flow, and "providing recreational facilities."88 Moreover, in operations under the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, submarginal lands retired as not suitable for cul- tivation may be made available for recreational purposes.94 The foregoing statutory provisions for recreation in con- nection with federal activities, as we have seen, vary consider- ably with respect to the recovery of costs of providing such facilities. Shore Protection Functionally, laws concerning protection of shores may be related to those concerning navigation, or flood control, or related uses of land, all considered in other chapters. We shall consider shore-protection legislation separately, however, since it -especially seeks to avoid damage by water to coastal shorelands which often serve recreational purposes. In 1930, Congress authorized and directed the Chief of Engi- neers under the direction of the Secretary of the Army to cause investigations and studies to be made in cooperation with the appropriate agencies of various coastal and Great Lakes States, and the Territories, with a view to devising effective means of preventing "erosion of the shores of coastal and lake waters by waves and currents." 95 Under this Act, no money may be expended in any state which does not provide for cooperation with the agents of the United States and con- tribute to the project, funds or services, or both, as the Secre- tary of the Army may deem appropriate and require. Con- gress also established a Beach Erosion Board consisting of seven members, four of whom must be officers of the Corps of Engineers and three engineers to be selected with regard to their special fitness by the Chief of Engineers from among the 98 Act of August 28,1937, § 1, 50 Stat. 874. For a definition of "sustained- yield management," see infra, n. 41, p. 359. 94 Act of July 22,1937, § 31, 50 Stat. 522, 525, as amended, 7 U. S. 0. 1010- 1012;7O.F.E. 600.3. 96 Act of July 3, 1930, § 2, 46 Stat. 918, 945, 33 U. S. C. 426. In this con- nection see Act of August 30,1935, § 5, 49 Stat. 1028,1048, 33 U. S. O. 546a. See also supra, pp. 93-94. |