[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 137 (Monday, September 12, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S5511]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
SA 5034. Mr. COCHRAN (for himself and Mr. Wicker) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 4979 proposed by Mr.
McConnell (for Mr. Inhofe (for himself and Mrs. Boxer)) 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 IV, add the following:
SEC. 40__. YAZOO BASIN, MISSISSIPPI.
(a) In General.--The project for flood damage reduction,
bank stabilization, and sediment and erosion control known as
the ``Yazoo Basin, Mississippi, Mississippi Delta Headwaters
Project, MS'', authorized by title I of Public Law 98-8 (97
Stat. 22), and which consists of 16 watersheds located in the
eastern foothills of the Yazoo River Basin, is expanded to
include an additional 16 watersheds as follows:
(1) Arkabutla Creek.
(2) Ascalmore Creek.
(3) Big Sand Creek.
(4) Camp Creek.
(5) Indian Creek.
(6) Johnson Creek.
(7) Little Tallahatchie River.
(8) Long Creek.
(9) McIvor Creek.
(10) Peach Creek.
(11) Potacocowa Creek.
(12) Skuna River.
(13) Teoc Creek.
(14) Tillatoba Creek.
(15) Turkey Creek.
(16) Yocona River.
(b) Operation and Maintenance.--The Secretary may operate
and maintain those features of the project described in
subsection (a) that are located on property on which the
Federal Government retains a real property interest,
including both features completed before the date of
enactment of this Act and features not completed as of the
date of enactment of this Act.
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