[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5304 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5304

    To amend section 5 of the Flood Control Act of 1941 to impose a 
deadline for initiating the repair or restoration of project under such 
                    section, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 29, 2023

  Mr. Harder of California (for himself and Mr. Higgins of Louisiana) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                   Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend section 5 of the Flood Control Act of 1941 to impose a 
deadline for initiating the repair or restoration of project under such 
                    section, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Safeguarding Our Levees Act''.

SEC. 2. EMERGENCY RESPONSE TO NATURAL DISASTERS.

    Section 5 of the Flood Control Act of 1941 (33 U.S.C. 701n(a)) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (a) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(6) Deadline.--Not later than 180 days after receiving 
        from a non-Federal sponsor of a project a request to repair or 
        rehabilitate a flood control work described in paragraph (1), 
        the Secretary shall initiate the repair or restoration of such 
        flood control work.''; and
            (2) in subsection (d)(2) by inserting ``25 percent of'' 
        before ``the difference''.
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