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Code · BILL · 117th Congress · S. 4136 (Reported in Senate) — To provide for improvements to the rivers and harbors of the United States, to provide for the conservation and devel... · Sec. 1

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents

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This Act may be cited as the . Water Resources Development Act of 2022 The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Definition of Secretary. TITLE I—General provisions Sec. 101. Scope of feasibility studies. Sec. 102. Shoreline and riverbank protection and restoration mission. Sec. 103. Inland waterway projects. Sec. 104. Protection and restoration of other Federal land along rivers and coasts. Sec. 105. Policy and technical standards.
Sec. 106. Planning assistance to States. Sec. 107. Floodplain management services. Sec. 108. Workforce planning. Sec. 109. Credit in lieu of reimbursement. Sec. 110. Coastal cost calculations. Sec. 111. Advance payment in lieu of reimbursement for certain Federal costs. Sec. 112. Use of emergency funds. Sec. 113. Research and development. Sec. 114. Tribal and Economically Disadvantaged Communities Advisory Committee. Sec. 115. Non-Federal Interest Advisory Committee. Sec. 116.
Underserved community harbor projects. Sec. 117. Corps of Engineers Western Water Cooperative Committee. Sec. 118. Updates to certain water control manuals. Sec. 119. Retention of recreation fees. Sec. 120. Relocation assistance. Sec. 121. Reprogramming limits. Sec. 122. Lease durations. Sec. 123. Sense of Congress relating to post-disaster repairs. Sec. 124. Payment of pay and allowances of certain officers from appropriation for improvements. Sec. 125. Reforestation. Sec. 126.
Use of other Federal funds. Sec. 127. National low-head dam inventory. Sec. 128. Transfer of excess credit. Sec. 129. National levee restoration. Sec. 130. Inland waterways regional dredge pilot program. Sec. 131. Funding to process permits. Sec. 132. Non-Federal project implementation pilot program. Sec. 133. Cost sharing for territories and Indian Tribes. Sec. 134. Water supply conservation. Sec. 135. Criteria for funding operation and maintenance of small, remote, and subsistence harbors.
Sec. 136. Protection of lighthouses. Sec. 137. Expediting hydropower at Corps of Engineers facilities. Sec. 138. Materials, services, and funds for repair, restoration, or rehabilitation of certain public recreation facilities. Sec. 139. Dredged material management plans. Sec. 140. Lease deviations. Sec. 141. Columbia River Basin flood risk management. Sec. 142. Continuation of construction. TITLE II—Studies and reports Sec. 201. Authorization of feasibility studies. Sec. 202.
Special rules. Sec. 203. Expedited completion of studies. Sec. 204. Studies for periodic nourishment. Sec. 205. NEPA reporting. Sec. 206. GAO audit of projects over budget or behind schedule. Sec. 207. GAO study on project distribution. Sec. 208. GAO audit of joint costs for operations and maintenance. Sec. 209. GAO review of Corps of Engineers mitigation practices. Sec. 210. Sabine–Neches Waterway Navigation Improvement project, Texas. Sec. 211. Great Lakes recreational boating.
Sec. 212. Upper St. Johns River Basin, Central and Southern Florida. Sec. 213. Investments for recreation areas. Sec. 214. Western infrastructure study. Sec. 215. Upper Mississippi River and Illinois Waterway System. Sec. 216. West Virginia hydropower. Sec. 217. Recreation and economic development at Corps facilities in Appalachia. Sec. 218. Automated fee machines. Sec. 219. Lake Champlain Canal, Vermont and New York. Sec. 220. Report on concessionaire practices. TITLE III—Deauthorizations, modifications, and related provisions Sec. 301.
Additional assistance for critical projects. Sec. 302. Southern West Virginia. Sec. 303. Northern West Virginia. Sec. 304. Local cooperation agreements, northern West Virginia. Sec. 305. Special rule for certain beach nourishment projects. Sec. 306. Coastal community flood control and other purposes. Sec. 307. Modifications. Sec. 308. Port Fourchon, Louisiana, dredged material disposal plan. Sec. 309. Delaware shore protection and restoration. Sec. 310. Great Lakes advance measures assistance.
Sec. 311. Rehabilitation of existing levees. Sec. 312. Pilot program for certain communities. Sec. 313. Rehabilitation of Corps of Engineers constructed pump stations. Sec. 314. Chesapeake Bay environmental restoration and protection program. Sec. 315. Evaluation of hydrologic changes in Souris River Basin. Sec. 316. Memorandum of understanding relating to Baldhill Dam, North Dakota. Sec. 317. Upper Mississippi River restoration program. Sec. 318. Harmful algal bloom demonstration program.
Sec. 319. Colleton County, South Carolina. Sec. 320. Arkansas River corridor, Oklahoma. Sec. 321. Abandoned and inactive noncoal mine restoration. Sec. 322. Asian carp prevention and control pilot program. Sec. 323. Forms of assistance. Sec. 324. Debris removal, New York Harbor, New York. Sec. 325. Invasive species management. Sec. 326. Wolf River Harbor, Tennessee. Sec. 327. Missouri River mitigation, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska. Sec. 328. Invasive species management pilot program.
Sec. 329. Nueces County, Texas, conveyances. Sec. 330. Mississippi Delta Headwaters, Mississippi. Sec. 331. Ecosystem restoration, Hudson–Raritan Estuary, New York and New Jersey. Sec. 332. Timely reimbursement. Sec. 333. New Savannah Bluff Lock and Dam, Georgia and South Carolina. Sec. 334. Lake Tahoe Basin restoration, Nevada and California. Sec. 335. Additional assistance for Eastern Santa Clara Basin, California. Sec. 336. Tribal partnership program. Sec. 337. Surplus water contracts and water storage agreements.
Sec. 338. Copan Lake, Oklahoma. Sec. 339. Enhanced development program. Sec. 340. Ecosystem restoration coordination. Sec. 341. Acequias irrigation systems. Sec. 342. Rogers County, Oklahoma. Sec. 343. Water supply storage repair, rehabilitation, and replacement costs. Sec. 344. Non-Federal payment flexibility. Sec. 345. North Padre Island, Corpus Christi Bay, Texas. Sec. 346. Waiver of non-Federal share of damages related to certain contract claims. Sec. 347. Algiers Canal Levees, Louisiana.
Sec. 348. Israel River ice control project, Lancaster, New Hampshire. Sec. 349. City of El Dorado, Kansas. Sec. 350. Upper Mississippi River protection. Sec. 351. Regional Corps of Engineers Office, Corpus Christi, Texas. Sec. 352. Pilot program for good neighbor authority on Corps of Engineers land. Sec. 353. Southeast Des Moines, Southwest Pleasant Hill, Iowa. Sec. 354. Middle Rio Grande flood protection, Bernalillo to Belen, New Mexico. Sec. 355. Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan, Florida.
Sec. 356. Maintenance dredging permits. Sec. 357. Puget Sound nearshore ecosystem restoration, Washington. Sec. 358. Tribal assistance. Sec. 359. Recreational opportunities at certain projects. Sec. 360. Rehabilitation of Corps of Engineers constructed dams. Sec. 361. South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Task Force. Sec. 362. New Madrid County Harbor, Missouri. Sec. 363. Trinity River and tributaries, Texas. Sec. 364. Rend Lake, Carlyle Lake, and Lake Shelbyville, Illinois. Sec. 365.
Federal assistance. Sec. 366. Land transfer and trust land for Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. TITLE IV—Water resources infrastructure Sec. 401. Project authorizations. Sec. 402. Storm damage prevention and reduction, coastal erosion, and ice and glacial damage, Alaska. Sec. 403. Expedited completion of projects. Sec. 404. Special rules. Sec. 405. Chattahoochee River program. Sec. 406. Lower Mississippi River Basin demonstration program. Sec. 407. Forecast-informed reservoir operations.
Sec. 408. Mississippi River mat sinking unit. Sec. 409. Sense of Congress relating to Okatibbee Lake.
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