[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1672 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 1672

  To expand the authority of the Secretary of the Army to improve the 
               control of erosion on the Missouri River.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 24, 1998

  Mr. Daschle (for himself and Mr. Johnson) introduced the following 
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment 
                            and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
  To expand the authority of the Secretary of the Army to improve the 
               control of erosion on the Missouri River.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Missouri River Erosion Control Act 
of 1998''.

SEC. 2. MISSOURI RIVER EROSION CONTROL.

    Section 9(f) of the Act entitled ``An Act authorizing the 
construction of certain public works on rivers and harbors for flood 
control, and for other purposes'', approved December 22, 1944 (102 
Stat. 4031), is amended--
            (1) by striking ``(f) The'' and inserting the following:
    ``(f) Missouri River Between Fort Peck Dam, Montana, and a Point 
Below Gavins Point Dam, South Dakota and Nebraska.--
            ``(1) In general.--The'';
            (2) in the first sentence of paragraph (1) (as designated 
        by paragraph (1)), by striking ``58'' and inserting ``77'';
            (3) in the second sentence--
                    (A) by striking ``The cost'' and inserting the 
                following:
            ``(2) Costs.--
                    ``(A) Maximum.--The cost''; and
                    (B) by striking ``$3,000,000'' and inserting 
                ``$6,000,000'';
            (4) in the third sentence, by striking ``Notwithstanding'' 
        and inserting the following:
                    ``(B) Apportionment among project purposes.--
                Notwithstanding'';
            (5) in the last sentence, by striking ``In lieu'' and 
        inserting the following:
            ``(3) Acquisition of land.--
                    ``(A) In general.--In lieu'';
            (6) in paragraph (3) (as designated by paragraph (5)), by 
        adding at the end the following:
                    ``(B) Recreational river segments.--Notwithstanding 
                the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (16 U.S.C. 1271 et 
                seq.), in the case of a segment of the Missouri River 
                in the State of South Dakota that is administered as a 
                recreational river under section 3(a) of that Act (16 
                U.S.C. 1274(a)), the Secretary of the Army may acquire, 
                from willing sellers, such real estate interests as the 
                Secretary determines are necessary to carry out this 
                subsection.''; and
            (7) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(4) Measures on behalf of non-federal entities.--The 
        Secretary of the Army may undertake measures authorized by 
        paragraph (1) at the request of, or on behalf of, a non-Federal 
        public or private entity or individual with respect to land 
        owned by the entity or individual as of the date of enactment 
        of this paragraph, if a non-Federal interest described in 
        section 221(b) of the Flood Control Act of 1970 (42 U.S.C. 
        1962d-5b(b)) agrees in writing to provide 35 percent of the 
        cost of the measures to be undertaken.''.
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