[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 135 (Thursday, September 8, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S5477]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4989. Mr. MARKEY (for himself and Ms. Warren) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 4979 proposed by Mr. 
Inhofe to the bill S. 2848, to provide for the conservation and 
development of water and related resources, to authorize the Secretary 
of the Army to construct various projects for improvements to rivers 
and harbors of the United States, and for other purposes; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of title II, add the following:

     SEC. 20___. REGIONAL SEDIMENT MANAGEMENT.

       Section 204 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 
     (33 U.S.C. 2326) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)(1)--
       (A) by striking ``For sediment'' and inserting the 
     following:
       ``(A) In general.--For sediment'';
       (B) in subparagraph (A) (as designated by subparagraph 
     (A))--
       (i) by striking ``an authorized'' and inserting ``any type 
     of authorized''; and
       (ii) by striking ``at locations'' and inserting ``at 
     nearshore or onshore locations''; and
       (C) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(B) Sediment from other federal sources and non-federal 
     sources.--For purposes of projects carried out under this 
     section, the Secretary may include sediment from other 
     Federal sources and non-Federal sources, subject to the 
     requirement that any sediment obtained from a non-Federal 
     source shall not be obtained at Federal expense.''; and
       (2) in subsection (c), by adding at the end the following:
       ``(3) Appropriate application of non-federal 
     responsibilities.--
       ``(A) Definition of period of analysis.--In this paragraph, 
     the term `period of analysis', with respect to a project 
     under this section, means the period--
       ``(i) beginning on the date of implementation of the 
     project; and
       ``(ii) ending on the date on which the project no longer 
     produces the beneficial outputs for which the project was 
     designed.
       ``(B) Requirement.--For any project under this section, the 
     Secretary shall ensure that the non-Federal requirements 
     described in subsections (a)(1)(B), (b)(1), and (i) of 
     section 103 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 
     (33 U.S.C. 2213) shall apply to the project only during the 
     period of analysis of the project.''.
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