Sec. 1037. Interagency task force on small dams and fish passages
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The Secretary shall establish an interagency task force (referred to in this section as the task force ) to study small dams and fish passages. The task force shall be composed of— the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works; the Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service; the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency; the Chief of the Natural Resources Conservation Service; the Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; the Commissioner of Reclamation; the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs; and the Director of the United States Geological Survey.
The task force shall meet quarterly and make available public summaries of the meetings. Not later than December 31, 2021, the task force shall submit to Congress a report that includes— recommendations for interagency cooperation, including shared grant programs or other coordinated funding sources, to support monitoring, tracking, and efforts to remove or refurbish small dams to improve those structures and alleviate concerns related to public safety, flood risk, fish passage, wildlife conservation, water quality, and ecosystem and environmental health; an analysis of the quality of existing data and need for additional surveys or other studies, to be conducted by Federal agencies in coordination with States, to determine— the locations and conditions of small dams in the United States; the risk, if any, posed by those dams to public safety, flood risk, fish passage, wildlife conservation, water quality, and ecosystem and environmental health; and ownership and rights to access small dams; and a national strategy for identifying, prioritizing, and successfully removing or refurbishing small dams of concern by not later than 2030.