[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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