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Even in southern Alabama, the idea of a big federal beach project for Dauphin Island draws scorn.

At a few areas known for illicit nudity, like the federal beach at Riis Park, patrols can serve as a kind of hazing ritual.

As part of the federal Beach Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health Act of 2000, states were ordered to change their bacteria sampling at coastal bathing sites this year from fecal coliform to enterococcus bacteria.

Under the federal Beach Act adopted last fall, states must adopt testing standards for another type of intestinal bacteria, enterecocci, that E.P.A. tests show is "a better indicator of swimmer illness" than coliform bacteria, said Nina Habib, an E.P.A. spokeswoman.

Seiler said he remains frustrated by the failure of county, state and federal officials address beach erosion.

Surfrider is also lobbying Congress to continue federal funding for the BEACH Act (Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health Act).

About half of Florida's area consists of commercial, national, and state forests, state and federal parks, lakes, beaches, and military reservations.

Because of the federal government shutdown, the beach, which is run by the National Park Service, was officially closed on Wednesday.

Bill Vogt, 43, of Cape May Court House was arrested last July, when he disrobed on federal land on Higbee Beach in Lower Township, near Cape May Point.

He said he would try to ensure federal funding to study beach erosion, and would appoint someone to study breast cancer rates in the county.

Among the larger projects under way is one in Virginia Beach, Va., where $9 million is to be spent next year alone on spewing sand sucked up from an undersea site onto a beach that federal officials say needs increased hurricane protection.