[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1186 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1186

 To direct the Secretary of the Army to include primary flood damages 
avoided as benefits for cost-benefit analyses for Federal nonstructural 
        flood damage reduction projects, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 18, 1999

Mr. Blumenaur (for himself and Mr. Gilchrest) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and 
                             Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Secretary of the Army to include primary flood damages 
avoided as benefits for cost-benefit analyses for Federal nonstructural 
        flood damage reduction projects, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. BENEFIT OF PRIMARY FLOOD DAMAGES AVOIDED INCLUDED IN COST-
              BENEFIT ANALYSIS.

    Section 308 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1990 (33 
U.S.C. 2318) is amended--
            (1) in the heading to subsection (a) by striking ``Benefit-
        Cost Analysis'' and inserting ``Elements Excluded From Cost-
        Benefit Analysis'';
            (2) by redesignating subsections (b) through (e) as 
        subsections (c) through (f), respectively;
            (3) by inserting after subsection (a) the following:
    ``(b) Elements Included in Cost-Benefit Analysis.--The Secretary 
shall include primary flood damages avoided in the benefit base for 
justifying Federal nonstructural flood damage reduction projects.''; 
and
            (4) in the first sentence of subsection (e) (as 
        redesignated by paragraph (2)), by striking ``(b)'' and 
        inserting ``(d)''.

SEC. 2. COST SHARING.

    Section 103(b) of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 (33 
U.S.C. 2213(b)) is amended by adding at the end the following: ``At any 
time during construction of the project, if the Secretary determines 
that the costs of lands, easements, rights-of-way, dredged material 
disposal areas, and relocations in combination with other costs 
contributed by the non-Federal interests will exceed 35 percent, any 
additional costs for the project, but not to exceed 65 percent of the 
total costs of the project, shall be a Federal responsibility which 
shall be contributed during construction as part of the Federal 
proportionate share.''.

SEC. 3. REEVALUATION OF FLOOD CONTROL PROJECTS.

    At the request of a non-Federal interest for a flood control 
project, the Secretary of the Army shall conduct a reevaluation of a 
previously authorized project to consider nonstructural alternatives in 
light of the amendments made by sections (1) and (2).
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