Water Resources Development Act of 1990
Public Law 101–640, as amended
Water Resources Development Act of 1990
640
116–260
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Water Resources Development Act of 1990
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1990-11-28
Water Resources Development Act of 1990
[Public Law 101–640; Approved November 28, 1990]
[As Amended Through P.L. 116–260, Enacted December 27, 2020]
[Currency: This publication is a compilation of the text of Public Law 101–640. It was last amended by the public law listed in the As Amended Through note above and below at the bottom of each page of the pdf version and reflects current law through the date of the enactment of the public law listed at https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/comps/]
[Note: While this publication does not represent an official version of any Federal statute, substantial efforts have been made to ensure the accuracy of its contents. The official version of Federal law is found in the United States Statutes at Large and in the United States Code. The legal effect to be given to the Statutes at Large and the United States Code is established by statute (1 U.S.C. 112, 204).]
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) Short Title.—This Act may be cited as the “Water Resources Development Act of 1990”.
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<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="I">TITLE I—</num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">WATER RESOURCES PROJECTS </heading>
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<section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tI/s107" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="107">SEC. 107. </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">CONTINUATION OF AUTHORIZATION OF CERTAIN PROJECTS. </heading>
<subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tI/s107/a" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">General Rule.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Notwithstanding section 1001(b)(1) of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986, the following projects shall remain authorized to be carried out by the Secretary:</chapeau>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tI/s107/a/1" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">
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</content>
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</paragraph><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph">
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tI/s107/a/8" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="8"><b>[</b>(8) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Sault sainte marie, michigan.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Repealed by section 3091(b)(1) of Public Law 110–114.<b>]</b></content>
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</subsection>
</section>
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="III">TITLE III—</num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">GENERALLY APPLICABLE PROVISIONS </heading>
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<section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s306" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="306">SEC. 306. </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION MISSION. </heading>
<subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s306/a" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">General Rule.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary shall include environmental protection as one of the primary missions of the Corps of Engineers in planning, designing, constructing, operating, and maintaining water resources projects.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s306/b" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Limitation.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Nothing in this section affects—</chapeau>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s306/b/1" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">existing Corps of Engineers' authorities, including its authorities with respect to navigation and flood control;</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s306/b/2" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">pending Corps of Engineers permit applications or pending lawsuits involving permits or water resources projects; or</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s306/b/3" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the application of public interest review procedures for Corps of Engineers permits.</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:usc-reference" role="uscRef"><b>[</b><ref href="/us/usc/t33/s2316">33 U.S.C. 2316</ref><b>]</b> </editorialNote>
</section>
<section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s307" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="307">SEC. 307. </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">WETLANDS. </heading>
<subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s307/a" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Goals and Action Plan.—</heading>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s307/a/1" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Goals.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">There is established, as part of the Corps of Engineers water resources development program, an interim goal of no overall net loss of the Nation's remaining wetlands base, as defined by acreage and function, and a long-term goal to increase the quality and quantity of the Nation's wetlands, as defined by acreage and function.</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s307/a/2" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Use of authorities.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary shall utilize all appropriate authorities, including those to restore and create wetlands, in meeting the interim and long-term goals.</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s307/a/3" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Action plan.—</heading>
<subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s307/a/3/A" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Development.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary shall develop, in consultation with the Environmental Protection Agency, the Fish and Wildlife Service, and other appropriate Federal agencies, a wetlands action plan to achieve the goals established by this subsection as soon as possible.</content>
</subparagraph>
<subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s307/a/3/B" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Contents.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The plan shall include and identify actions to be taken by the Secretary in achieving the goals and any new authorities which may be necessary to accelerate attainment of the goals.</content>
</subparagraph>
<subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s307/a/3/C" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Completion deadline.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary shall complete the plan not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act.</content>
</subparagraph>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s307/b" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Constructed Wetlands for Mud Creek, Arkansas.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary is authorized and directed to establish and carry out a research and pilot project to evaluate and demonstrate—</chapeau>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s307/b/1" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the use of constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment, and</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s307/b/2" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">methods by which such projects contribute—</chapeau>
<subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s307/b/2/A" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">to meeting the objective of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to restore and maintain the physical, chemical, and biological integrity of the Nation's waters, and</content>
</subparagraph>
<subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s307/b/2/B" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">to attaining the goals established by subsection (a).</content>
</subparagraph>
</paragraph><continuation style="-uslm-dtd:continuation-text" role="subsection">The project under this subsection shall be carried out to improve the quality of effluent discharged from publicly owned treatment works operated by the city of Fayetteville, Arkansas, into Mud Creek or its tributaries.</continuation>
</subsection>
<subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s307/c" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Non-Federal Responsibilities.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">For the project conducted under subsection (b), the non-Federal interest shall agree—</chapeau>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s307/c/1" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">to provide, without cost to the United States, all lands, easements, rights-of-way, relocations, and dredged material disposal areas necessary for construction and subsequent research and demonstration work;</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s307/c/2" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">to hold and save the United States free from damages due to construction, operation, and maintenance of the project, except damages due to the fault or negligence of the United States or its contractors; and</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s307/c/3" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">to operate and maintain the restored or constructed wetlands in accordance with good management practices; except that nothing in this paragraph shall be construed as precluding a Federal agency from agreeing to operate and maintain the restored or reconstructed wetlands.</content>
</paragraph><continuation style="-uslm-dtd:continuation-text" role="subsection">The value of the non-Federal lands, easements, rights-of-way, relocations, and dredged material disposal areas provided by the non-Federal interest shall be credited toward the non-Federal share of project design and construction costs. The non-Federal share of project design and construction costs shall be 25 percent.</continuation>
</subsection>
<subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s307/d" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Wetlands Restoration and Enhancement Demonstration Program.—</heading>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s307/d/1" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Establishment and implementation.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary, in consultation with the Administrator, is authorized to establish and implement a demonstration program for the purpose of determining the feasibility of wetlands restoration, enhancement, and creation as a means of contributing to the goals established by subsection (a).</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s307/d/2" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Goal.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The goal of the program under this subsection shall be to establish a limited number of demonstration wetlands restoration, enhancement, and creation areas in districts of the Corps of Engineers for the purpose of evaluating the technical and scientific long-term feasibility of such areas as a means of contributing to the attainment of the goals established by subsection (a). Federal and State land-owning agencies and private parties may contribute to such areas.</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s307/d/3" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Factors to consider.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">In establishing the demonstration program under this subsection, the Secretary shall consider—</chapeau>
<subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s307/d/3/A" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">past experience with wetlands restoration, enhancement, and creation;</content>
</subparagraph>
<subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s307/d/3/B" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the appropriate means of measuring benefits of compensatory mitigation activities, including enhancement or restoration of existing wetlands or creation of wetlands;</content>
</subparagraph>
<subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s307/d/3/C" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the appropriate geographic scope for which wetlands loss may be offset by restoration, enhancement, and creation efforts;</content>
</subparagraph>
<subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s307/d/3/D" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="D">(D) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the technical feasibility and scientific likelihood that wetlands can be successfully restored, enhanced, and created;</content>
</subparagraph>
<subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s307/d/3/E" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="E">(E) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">means of establishing liability for, and long-term ownership of, wetlands restoration, enhancement, and creation areas; and</content>
</subparagraph>
<subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s307/d/3/F" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="F">(F) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">responsibilities for short- and long-term project monitoring.</content>
</subparagraph>
</paragraph>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s307/d/4" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Reporting.—</heading>
<subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s307/d/4/A" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">To the chief of engineers.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The district engineer for each district of the Corps of Engineers in which a wetlands restoration, enhancement, and creation area is established under this subsection shall transmit annual reports to the Chief of Engineers describing the amount and value of wetlands restored, enhanced, and created for the area and a summary of whether the area is contributing to the goal established in paragraph (2).</content>
</subparagraph>
<subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s307/d/4/B" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">To congress.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Not later than 3 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall transmit to Congress a report evaluating the use of wetlands restoration, enhancement, and creation areas in fulfilling the goal established by paragraph (2), together with recommendations on whether or not to continue use of such areas as a means of meeting the goals established by subsection (a).</content>
</subparagraph>
</paragraph>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s307/d/5" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">(5) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Effect on other laws.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Nothing in this subsection affects any requirements under section 404 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1344) or section 10 of the Act of March 3, 1899 (33 U.S.C. 403).</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s307/e" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">(e) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Training and Certification of Delineators.—</heading>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s307/e/1" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">In general.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary is authorized to establish a program for the training and certification of individuals as wetlands delineators. As part of such program, the Secretary shall carry out demonstration projects in districts of the Corps of Engineers. The program shall include training and certification of delineators and procedures for expediting consideration and acceptance of delineations performed by certified delineators.</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s307/e/2" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Reports.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary shall transmit to Congress periodic reports concerning the status of the program and any recommendations on improving the content and implementation of the Federal Manual for Identifying and Delineating Jurisdictional Wetlands.</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:usc-reference" role="uscRef"><b>[</b><ref href="/us/usc/t33/s2317">33 U.S.C. 2317</ref><b>]</b> </editorialNote>
</section>
<section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s308" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="308">SEC. 308. </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">FLOOD PLAIN MANAGEMENT. </heading>
<subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s308/a" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Exclusion of Elements From Benefit-Cost Analysis.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary shall not include in the benefit base for justifying Federal flood damage reduction projects—</chapeau>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s308/a/1" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1)</num><subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s308/a/1/A" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">any new or substantially improved structure (other than a structure necessary for conducting a water-dependent activity) built in the 100-year flood plain with a first floor elevation less than the 100-year flood elevation after July 1, 1991; or</content></subparagraph>
<subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s308/a/1/B" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">in the case of a county substantially located within the 100-year flood plain, any new or substantially improved structure (other than a structure necessary for conducting a water-dependent activity) built in the 10-year flood plain after July 1, 1991; and</content>
</subparagraph>
</paragraph>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s308/a/2" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">any structure which becomes located in the 100-year flood plain with a first floor elevation less than the 100-year flood elevation or in the 10-year flood plain, as the case may be, by virtue of constrictions placed in the flood plain after July 1, 1991.</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s308/b" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Flood Damage Reduction Benefits.—</heading>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s308/b/1" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">In general.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">In calculating the benefits of a proposed project for nonstructural flood damage reduction, the Secretary shall calculate the benefits of the nonstructural project using methods similar to those used for calculating the benefits of structural projects, including similar treatment in calculating the benefits from losses avoided.</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s308/b/2" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Avoidance of double counting.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">In carrying out paragraph (1), the Secretary should avoid double counting of benefits.</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s308/c" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Counties Substantially Located Within 100-Year Flood Plain.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">For the purposes of subsection (a), a county is substantially located within the 100-year flood plain—</chapeau>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s308/c/1" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">if the county is comprised of lands of which 50 percent or more are located in the 100-year flood plain; and</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s308/c/2" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">if the Secretary determines that application of the requirement contained in subsection (a)(1)(A) with respect to the county would unreasonably restrain continued economic development or unreasonably limit the availability of needed flood control measures.</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s308/d" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Cost Sharing.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Not later than January 1, 1992, the Secretary shall transmit to Congress a report on the feasibility and advisability of increasing the non-Federal share of costs for new projects in areas where new or substantially improved structures and other constrictions are built or placed in the 100-year flood plain or the 10-year flood plain, as the case may be, after the initial date of the affected governmental unit's entry into the regular program of the national flood insurance program of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s308/e" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">(e) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Regulations.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Not later than 6 months after the date on which a report is transmitted to Congress under subsection (c)<ref style="-uslm-dtd:footnote-ref" idref="ID9660E39DEF9740F4BF87448B9345583E" class="footnoteRef">1</ref>, the Secretary, in consultation with the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, shall issue regulations to implement subsection (a). Such regulations shall define key terms, such as new or substantially improved structure, constriction, 10-year flood plain, and 100-year flood plain.</content><footnote id="ID9660E39DEF9740F4BF87448B9345583E" style="-uslm-dtd:footnote"><sup style="-uslm-dtd:superscript">1</sup><p style="-uslm-dtd:para; margin-left:1em">So in law. Section 219(a)(4) of Public Law 106–53 reads as follows: “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">(4) in subsection (d), by striking ‘<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">subsection (b)</quotedText>’ and inserting ‘<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">subsection (c)</quotedText>’.</quotedText>”. Probably should have been in subsection (e) as redesignated.</p></footnote>
</subsection>
<subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s308/f" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="f">(f) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Applicability.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The provisions of this section shall not apply to any project, or separable element thereof, for which a final report of the Chief of Engineers has been forwarded to the Secretary before the last day of the 6-month period beginning on the date on which regulations are issued pursuant to subsection (a) but not later than July 1, 1993.</content>
</subsection><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:usc-reference" role="uscRef"><b>[</b><ref href="/us/usc/t33/s2318">33 U.S.C. 2318</ref><b>]</b> </editorialNote>
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</section>
<section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s312" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="312">SEC. 312. </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">ENVIRONMENTAL DREDGING. </heading>
<subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s312/a" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Operation and Maintenance of Navigation Projects.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Whenever necessary to meet the requirements of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, the Secretary, in consultation with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, may remove and remediate, as part of operation and maintenance of a navigation project, contaminated sediments outside the boundaries of and adjacent to the navigation channel.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s312/b" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Nonproject Specific.—</heading>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s312/b/1" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">In general.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary may remove and remediate contaminated sediments from the navigable waters of the United States for the purpose of environmental enhancement and water quality improvement if such removal and remediation is requested by a non-Federal sponsor and the sponsor agrees to pay 35 percent of the cost of such removal and remediation.</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s312/b/2" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Maximum amount.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary may not expend more than $50,000,000 in a fiscal year to carry out this subsection.</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s312/c" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Joint Plan Requirement.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary may only remove and remediate contaminated sediments under subsection (b) in accordance with a joint plan developed by the Secretary and interested Federal, State, and local government officials. Such plan must include an opportunity for public comment, a description of the work to be undertaken, the method to be used for dredged material disposal, the roles and responsibilities of the Secretary and non-Federal sponsors, and identification of sources of funding.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s312/d" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Disposal Costs.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Costs of disposal of contaminated sediments removed under this section shall be a<ref style="-uslm-dtd:footnote-ref" idref="ID12271F7F903E48F9B41999B23F392D1D" class="footnoteRef">2</ref> shared as a cost of construction.</content><footnote id="ID12271F7F903E48F9B41999B23F392D1D" style="-uslm-dtd:footnote"><sup style="-uslm-dtd:superscript">2</sup><p style="-uslm-dtd:para; margin-left:1em">So in law. Section 224 of Public Law 106–53 amended subsection (d) by striking “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">non-Federal responsibility</quotedText>” and inserting “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">shared as a cost of construction</quotedText>”. Probably should strike “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">a non-Federal responsibility</quotedText>”.</p></footnote>
</subsection>
<subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s312/e" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">(e) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Limitation on Statutory Construction.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect the rights and responsibilities of any person under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s312/f" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="f">(f) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Priority Work.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">In carrying out this section, the Secretary shall give priority to work in the following areas:</chapeau>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s312/f/1" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Brooklyn Waterfront, New York.</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s312/f/2" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Buffalo Harbor and River, New York.</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s312/f/3" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Ashtabula River, Ohio.</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s312/f/4" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">(4) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Mahoning River, Ohio.</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s312/f/5" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">(5) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Lower Fox River, Wisconsin.</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s312/f/6" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="6">(6) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Passaic River and Newark Bay, New Jersey.</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s312/f/7" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="7">(7) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Snake Creek, Bixby, Oklahoma.</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s312/f/8" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="8">(8) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Willamette River, Oregon.</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s312/g" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="g">(g) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Nonprofit Entities.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Notwithstanding section 221 of the Flood Control Act of 1970 (42 U.S.C. 1962d–5b), for any project carried out under this section, a non-Federal sponsor may include a nonprofit entity, with the consent of the affected local government.</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s313" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="313">SEC. 313. </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">PROTECTION OF RECREATIONAL AND COMMERCIAL USES. </heading>
<subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s313/a" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">General Rule.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">In planning any water resources project, the Secretary shall consider the impact of the project on existing and future recreational and commercial uses in the area surrounding the project.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s313/b" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Maintenance.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Whenever the Secretary maintains, repairs, rehabilitates, or reconstructs a water resources project which will result in a change in the configuration of a structure which is a part of such project, the Secretary, to the maximum extent practicable, shall carry out such maintenance, repair, rehabilitation, or reconstruction in a manner which will not adversely affect any recreational use established with respect to such project before the date of such maintenance, repair, rehabilitation, or reconstruction.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s313/c" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Mitigation.—</heading>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s313/c/1" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">In general.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">If maintenance, repair, rehabilitation, or reconstruction of a water resources project by the Secretary results in a change in the configuration of any structure which is a part of such project and has an adverse effect on a recreational use established with respect to such project before the date of such maintenance, repair, rehabilitation, or reconstruction, the Secretary, to the maximum extent practicable, shall take such actions as may be necessary to restore such recreational use or provide alternative opportunities for comparable recreational use.</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s313/c/2" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Maximum amount.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary may not expend more than $2,000,000 in a fiscal year to carry out this subsection.</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s313/c/3" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Termination date.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">This subsection shall not be effective after the last day of the 5-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act; except that the Secretary may complete any restoration commenced under this subsection on or before such last day.</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s313/d" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Applicability.—</heading>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s313/d/1" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">General rule.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Subsections (b) and (c) shall apply to maintenance, repair, rehabilitation, or reconstruction for which physical construction is initiated after May 1, 1988.</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s313/d/2" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Limitation.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Subsections (b) and (c) shall not apply to any action of the Secretary which is necessary to discontinue the operation of a water resources project.</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s313/e" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">(e) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Cost Sharing.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Costs incurred by the Secretary to carry out the objectives of this section shall be allocated to recreation and shall be payable by the beneficiaries of the recreation.</content>
</subsection><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:usc-reference" role="uscRef"><b>[</b><ref href="/us/usc/t33/s2320">33 U.S.C. 2320</ref><b>]</b> </editorialNote>
</section>
<section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s314" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="314">SEC. 314. </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF NAVIGATION AND HYDROELECTRIC FACILITIES. </heading>
<subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s314/a" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">In General.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Activities currently performed
by personnel under the direction of the Secretary in connection with the operation and maintenance of navigation or hydroelectric power generating facilities at Corps of Engineers water resources projects are to be considered as inherently governmental functions and not commercial activities. </content>
</subsection>
<subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s314/b" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Major Maintenance Contracts Allowed.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">This section
does not prohibit contracting out major maintenance or other functions which are currently contracted out or studying services not directly connected with project maintenance and operations.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s314/c" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Exclusion.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">This section does not—</chapeau>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s314/c/1" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">apply to a navigation facility that was under contract on or before the date of enactment of this
subsection with a non-Federal interest to perform operations or
maintenance; and</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s314/c/2" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">prohibit the Secretary from contracting out commercial activities after the date of enactment of
this subsection at a navigation facility.</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:usc-reference" role="uscRef"><b>[</b><ref href="/us/usc/t33/s2321">33 U.S.C. 2321</ref><b>]</b> </editorialNote>
</section>
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<section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s317" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="317">SEC. 317. </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">SINGLE ENTITIES. </heading>
<content style="-uslm-dtd:text" class="block">For purposes of Federal participation in water resource development projects which are to be carried out by the Secretary, benefits which are to be provided to a facility owned by a State (including the District of Columbia and a territory or possession of the United States), county, municipality, or other public entity shall not be treated as benefits to be provided a single owner or single entity. The Secretary shall not treat such a facility as a single owner or single entity for any purpose.</content>
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</section>
<section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s322" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="322">SEC. 322. </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">REDUCED PRICING FOR CERTAIN WATER SUPPLY STORAGE. </heading>
<subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s322/a" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Provision of Storage Space.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">If a low income community requests the Secretary to provide water supply storage space in a water resources development project operated by the Secretary and if the amount of space requested is available or could be made available through reallocation of water supply storage space in the project or through modifications to operation of the project, the Secretary may provide such space to the community at a price determined under subsection (c).</content>
</subsection>
<subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s322/b" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Maximum Amount of Storage Space.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The maximum amount of water supply storage space which may be provided to a community under this section may not exceed an amount of water supply storage space sufficient to yield 3,000,000 gallons of water per day.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s322/c" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Price.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary shall provide water supply storage space under this section at a price which is the greater of—</chapeau>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s322/c/1" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the updated construction cost of the project allocated to provide such amount of water supply storage space or $100 per acre foot of storage space, whichever is less; and</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s322/c/2" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the value of the benefits which are lost as a result of providing such water supply storage space.</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s322/d" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">(d) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Determinations.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">For purposes of subsection (c), the determinations of updated construction costs and value of benefits lost shall be made by the Secretary on the basis of the most recent information available.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s322/e" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">(e) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Inflation Adjustment of Dollar Amount.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The $100 amount set forth in subsection (c) shall be adjusted annually by the Secretary for changes in the Consumer Price Index of All Urban Consumers published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s322/f" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="f">(f) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Non-Federal Responsibilities.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Nothing in this section shall be construed as affecting the responsibility of non-Federal interests to provide operation and maintenance costs assigned to water supply storage provided under this section.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s322/g" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="g">(g) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Low Income Community Defined.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The term “<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">low income community</term>”means—</chapeau>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s322/g/1" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">a community
with a population of less than 20,000 which is located in a county with a per capita income less than the per capita income of two-thirds of the counties in the United States; or</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIII/s322/g/2" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">a regional water system that serves a population of less than 100,000, for which the per capita income is less than the per capita income of not less than 50 percent of the counties in the United States.</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:usc-reference" role="uscRef"><b>[</b><ref href="/us/usc/t33/s2324">33 U.S.C. 2324</ref><b>]</b> </editorialNote>
</section>
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="IV">TITLE IV—</num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS </heading>
<section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIV/s401" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="401">SEC. 401. </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">GREAT LAKES REMEDIAL ACTION PLANS AND SEDIMENT REMEDIATION. </heading>
<subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIV/s401/a" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Great Lakes Remedial Action Plans.—</heading>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIV/s401/a/1" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">In general.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary may provide technical, planning, and engineering assistance to State and local governments and nongovernmental entities designated by a State or local government in the development and implementation of remedial action plans for Areas of Concern in the Great Lakes identified under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement of 1978.</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIV/s401/a/2" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Non-federal share.—</heading>
<subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIV/s401/a/2/A" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">In general.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Non-Federal interests shall contribute, in cash or by providing in-kind contributions, 50 percent of costs of activities for which assistance is provided under paragraph (1).</content>
</subparagraph>
<subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIV/s401/a/2/B" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Contributions by entities.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Nonprofit public or private entities may contribute all or a portion of the non-Federal share.</content>
</subparagraph>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIV/s401/b" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Sediment Remediation Projects.—</heading>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIV/s401/b/1" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">In general.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Secretary, in consultation with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (acting through the Great Lakes National Program Office), may conduct pilot- and full-scale projects of promising technologies to remediate contaminated sediments in freshwater coastal regions in the Great Lakes basin. The Secretary shall conduct not fewer than 3 full-scale projects under this subsection.</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIV/s401/b/2" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Site selection for projects.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">In selecting the sites for the technology projects, the Secretary shall give priority consideration to Saginaw Bay, Michigan, Sheboygan Harbor, Wisconsin, Grand Calumet River, Indiana, Ashtabula River, Ohio, Buffalo River, New York, and Duluth-Superior Harbor, Minnesota and Wisconsin.</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIV/s401/b/3" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Non-federal share.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Non-Federal interests shall contribute 35 percent of costs of projects under this subsection. Such costs may be paid in cash or by providing in-kind contributions.</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIV/s401/c" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Authorization of Appropriations.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary to carry out this section $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2001 through 2012.</content>
</subsection><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:usc-reference" role="uscRef"><b>[</b><ref href="/us/usc/t33/s1268">33 U.S.C. 1268 note</ref><b>]</b> </editorialNote>
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<section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/101/640/tIV/s420" styleType="OLC">
<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="420">SEC. 420. </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">SENSE OF CONGRESS. </heading>
<content style="-uslm-dtd:text" class="block">It is the sense of Congress that priority consideration will be given to the authorization of water resources development projects which are recommended by the Chief of Engineers in reports completed after the date of the enactment of this Act.</content>
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