[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6932 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6932

 To amend the National Dam Safety Program Act to require the inclusion 
of low-head dams in the national dam inventory, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 10, 2024

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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the National Dam Safety Program Act to require the inclusion 
of low-head dams in the national dam inventory, 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 ``Low-Head Dam Inventory Act''.

SEC. 2. NATIONAL DAM INVENTORY.

    The National Dam Safety Program Act (33 U.S.C. 467d) is amended--
            (1) in section 6--
                    (A) in the first sentence, by inserting ``and low-
                head dams (as defined in section 15(a))'' before ``in 
                the United States''; and
                    (B) in the second sentence--
                            (i) by inserting ``and low-head dams'' 
                        after ``Such inventory of dams'';
                            (ii) by inserting ``and low-head dam'' 
                        after ``each dam''; and
                            (iii) by striking ``or a State dam safety 
                        agency'' and inserting ``, a State dam safety 
                        agency, or another relevant entity''; and
            (2) in section 15(b)(2)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``and'' at the 
                end;
                    (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking the period at 
                the end and inserting ``; and''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(C) incorporate the data collected on low-head 
                dams into the National Dam Inventory described in 
                section 6.''.
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