Requires the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to do the following in order to ensure that the state's shallow draft navigation channels are safe and navigable: (1) utilize long-term agreements with the US Army Corps of Engineers to maintain the dredging of the state's shallow draft navigation channels to depths authorized on the date this act becomes law, (2) assist local governments in their pursuit of general permit authorizations from the Corps to allow local governments to dredge shallow draft navigation channels to depths and according to project designs authorized on the date this act becomes law, and (3) assist local governments in their pursuit of individual permits under the State Coastal Area Management Act permits issued by the Corps to allow the dredging of shallow draft navigation channels to depths greater than authorized on the date this act becomes law and to allow the placement of dredged materials on beaches. Defines shallow draft navigation channel.