[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4658 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4658

To provide for the ongoing presence of certain structures at the Table 
                           Rock Lake project.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 10, 2024

  Mr. Schmitt 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 provide for the ongoing presence of certain structures at the Table 
                           Rock Lake project.

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

SECTION 1. TABLE ROCK LAKE, MISSOURI AND ARKANSAS.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Abandonment.--The term ``abandonment'' means, with 
        respect to an eligible structure, the allowance of the 
        structure to come into a state of disrepair without the 
        demonstrated intent to repair by the owner.
            (2) Eligible structure.--The term ``eligible structure'' 
        means a privately owned sewer and septic system--
                    (A) for which a license for a right-of-way has been 
                provided by the Secretary of the Army and is in effect 
                on the date of enactment of this Act;
                    (B) that is located on fee land or land subject to 
                a flowage easement; and
                    (C) that does not impact the reservoir level or 
                pose a failure risk to the dam of the Table Rock Lake 
                project.
            (3) Fee land.--The term ``fee land'' means the land 
        acquired in fee title by the United States for the Table Rock 
        Lake project.
            (4) Table rock lake project.--The term ``Table Rock Lake 
        project'' means the Table Rock Lake project of the Corps of 
        Engineers, located in Missouri and Arkansas, authorized as one 
        of the multipurpose reservoir projects in the White River Basin 
        by section 4 of the Act of June 28, 1938 (52 Stat. 1218).
    (b) Presence of Eligible Structures.--The Secretary of the Army 
shall permit the ongoing presence of an eligible structure at the Table 
Rock Lake project until--
            (1) the abandonment of the eligible structure by the holder 
        of a license for right-of-way for the structure;
            (2) the failure of the eligible structure; or
            (3) the replacement of the eligible structure.
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