[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 135 (Thursday, September 8, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S5479]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4998. Mr. KIRK (for himself, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Portman, Mr. 
Durbin, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Donnelly, Mr. Brown, Ms. Stabenow, Ms. 
Baldwin, and Mr. Franken) 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__. GREAT LAKES NAVIGATION SYSTEM.

       Section 210(c)(4) of the Water Resources Development Act of 
     1986 (33 U.S.C. 2238(c)(4)) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``To sustain'' and inserting the following:
       ``(A) In general.--To sustain''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(B) Funding.--Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
     subsection, in making expenditures under paragraph (1) for 
     each of fiscal years 2015 through 2024, the Secretary shall 
     allocate for operation and maintenance costs of projects 
     within the Great Lakes Navigation System an amount that is 
     not less than 10 percent of the funds made available under 
     this section for fiscal year 2015 to pay the costs described 
     in subsection (a)(2).''.
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