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Water Resources Conservation, Development, and Infrastructure Improvement and Rehabilitation Act of 1983

Introduced: July 27, 1983 See on congress.gov
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In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jul 24, 1984
Received in the Senate, read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1062.
Jun 29, 1984
Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 259 - 33 (Record Vote No: 305).
Jun 29, 1984
Passed/agreed to in House: Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 259 - 33 (Record Vote No: 305).
Jun 29, 1984
House Agreed to Amendments Adopted by the Committee of the Whole.
Jun 29, 1984
Committee Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute Considered as an Original Bill for the Purpose of Amendment.
Jun 28, 1984
Considered by House Unfinished Business.
Jun 18, 1984
Considered by House Unfinished Business.
Jun 18, 1984
Called up by House by Rule.
Jun 15, 1984
Rule Passed House.
May 31, 1984
Rules Committee Resolution H.Res.515 Reported to House.
May 31, 1984
Committee on Rules Granted an Open Rule Providing for One Hour of General Debate; Waiving all Points of Order Against Consideration of the Bill; Making in Order an Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute Consisting of the Text of the Amendment Printed in the Record of May 31, 1984, by Rep. Roe of New Jersey; Waiving all Points of Order Against Said Substitute.
Apr 13, 1984
Placed on Union Calendar No: 389.
Apr 13, 1984
Reported to House (Amended) by House Committee on Agriculture. Report No: 98-616 (Part IV).
Apr 12, 1984
House Committee on The Judiciary Discharged by Motion.
Apr 12, 1984
Reported to House (Amended) by House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Report No: 98-616 (Part III).
Apr 12, 1984
Reported to House (Amended) by House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Report No: 98-616 (Part II).
Apr 11, 1984
Ordered to be Reported (Amended).
Apr 11, 1984
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Apr 4, 1984
Ordered to be Reported (Amended).
Apr 4, 1984
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Apr 3, 1984
Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended).
Apr 3, 1984
Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Mar 20, 1984
Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee.
Mar 20, 1984
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Mar 16, 1984
Executive Comment Requested from DOT, St Lawrence Seaway Devel Corp, Interior, Commerce, USDA, Army Corps of Engineers.
Mar 15, 1984
Referred to Subcommittee on Conservation Credit and Rural Development.
Mar 13, 1984
Referred to Subcommittee on Water and Power Resources.
Mar 8, 1984
Referred to House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries Sequentially, for a Period Ending not Later than Apr, 12, 84, for Consideration of Title I and XIV, and Sections 605, 1114, 1116, 1122, and 1123.
Mar 8, 1984
Referred to House Committee on The Judiciary Sequentially, for a Period Ending not Later than Apr 12, 84, for Consideration of Section 1165.
Mar 8, 1984
Hearings Held by Subcommittee on Water and Power Resources Prior to Introduction (Feb 9, 84).
Mar 8, 1984
Referred to House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs Sequentially, for a Period Ending not Later than Apr 12, 84, for Consideration of Sections 603, and 1105, Title XII, and Portions of Sections 851, 857 and 1154; RE: Bureau of Reclamation.
Mar 8, 1984
Referred to House Committee on Agriculture Sequentially, for a Period Ending not Later than Apr 12, 84, for Consideration of Title XII.
Mar 8, 1984
Reported to House (Amended) by House Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Report No: 98-616 (Part I).
Oct 12, 1983
Provisions Included in H.J.Res.648.
Sep 21, 1983
Executive Comment Received From OMB.
Aug 3, 1983
Ordered to be Reported (Amended).
Aug 3, 1983
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Jul 29, 1983
Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended).
Jul 29, 1983
Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Jul 29, 1983
Referred to Subcommittee on Water Resources.
Jul 29, 1983
Hearings Held by Subcommittee on Water Resources Prior to Introduction (Feb 8, 9, 15, 16, 83).
Jul 27, 1983
Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation.
Jul 27, 1983
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Water Resources, Conservation, Development, and Infrastructure Improvement and Rehabilitation Act of 1983 - Title I: Port Development - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to develop the following port projects: (1) Norfolk Harbor and Channels, Virginia; (2) Mobile Harbor, Alabama; (3) Mississippi River Ship Channel, Gulf of Baton Rouge, Louisiana; (4) Texas City Channel, Texas; (5) New York Harbor and adjacent channels, New York and New Jersey; (6) Portsmouth Harbor and Piscataquo River, New Hampshire; (7) New Haven Harbor, Connecticut; (8) Gowanus Creek Channel, Brooklyn, New York; (9) Kill Van Kull, New York and New Jersey; (10) Wilmington Harbor-Northeast Cape Fear River, North Carolina; (11) Charleston Harbor, South Carolina; (12) Savannah Harbor, Georgia; (13) Manatee Harbor, Florida; (14) Tampa Harbor, East Bay Channel, Florida; (15) San Juan Harbor, Puerto Rico; (16) Crown Bay Channel-St. Thomas Harbor, Virgin Islands; (17) Gulfport Harbor, Mississippi; (18) Cleveland Harbor, Ohio; (19) Lorain Harbor, Ohio; (20) Grand Haven Harbor, Michigan; (21) Monroe Harbor, Michigan; (22) Brazos Island Harbor, Texas-Brownsville Channel; (23) Duluth-Superior, Minnesota and Wisconsin; (24) San Francisco Harbor, California-Fisherman's Wharf area; (25) Oakland Outer Harbor, California; (26) Richmond Harbor, California; (27) Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel, California; (28) Hilo Harbor, Hawaii; (29) Blair and Sitcum Waterways, Tacoma Harbor, Washington; (30) Grays Harbor, Washington; and (31) East, West, and Duwamish Waterways, Washington.

Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress any final environmental impact statements concerning any such port development project. Allows any non-Federal entity to submit to the Secretary for review plans for port development not authorized by Federal law. Requires the Secretary within 180 days to submit to Congress a report containing results and recommendations of such non-Federal port development review. Provides for reimbursement to non-Federal entities for plan development costs. Provides for the undertaking by non-Federal entities of navigation projects approved by the Secretary. Provides for reimbursement to non-Federal interests of the Federal share of any navigation project approved. Specifies the Federal share of costs for planning, designing, engineering, and surveying of navigation projects. Allows ship levies and fees to be collected in limited circumstances.

Title II: Inland Waterway Transportation System - Authorizes the Secretary to commence the following navigation improvement projects: (1) Oliver Lock and Dam, Black Warrior-Tombigbee River, Alabama; (2) Gallipolis Locks and Dam, Ohio River, Ohio and West Virginia; (3) Winfield Locks and Dam, Kanawha River, West Virginia; (4) Lock and Dam 7, Monongahela River, Pennsylvania; (5) Lock and Dam 8, Monongahela River, Pennsylvania; (6) Lock and Dam 26, Mississippi River, Alton, Illinois, and Missouri; and (7) Bonneville Lock and Dam, Oregon and Washington-Columbia River and tributaries, Washington.

Title III: Flood Control - Authorizes the Secretary to commence the following flood control projects: (1) Quincy Coastal Streams, Massachusetts; (2) Roughans Point, Massachusetts; (3) Cazenovia Creek, New York; (4) Mamaroneck, Sheldrake, and Byram Rivers, New York and Connecticut; (5) Rahway River and Van Winkles Brook, New Jersey; (6) Robinson's Branch-Rahway River, New Jersey; (7) Green Brook Sub-Basin, Raritan River Basin, New Jersey; (8) James River Basin, Virginia; (9) Oates Creek, Georgia; (10) Village Creek, Alabama; (11) Threemile Creek, Alabama; (12) Bushley Bayou, Louisiana; (13) Louisiana State Penitentiary Levee, Mississippi River, Louisiana; (14) Sowashee Creek, Meridian, Mississippi; (15) Nonconnah Creek, Tennessee and Mississippi; (16) Horn Lake Creek and Tributaries, Tennessee and Mississippi; (17) Muskingum River, Killbuck, Ohio; (18) Muskingum River, Mansfield, Ohio; (19) Hocking River, Logan, Ohio; (20) Hocking River, Nelsonville, Ohio; (21) Scioto River, Ohio; (22) Little Miami River, Ohio; (23) Miami River, Fairfield, Ohio; (24) Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; (25) Lock Haven, Pennsylvania; (26) Schuylkill River Basin, Pottstown, Pennsylvania; (27) Saw Mill Run, Pennsylvania; (28) Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania; (29) Eight Mile Creek, Paragould, Arkansas; (30) Fourche Bayou Basin, Arkansas; (31) Helena and Vicinity, Arkansas; (32) West Memphis and Vicinity, Arkansas; (33) Mingo Creek, Oklahoma; (34) Fry Creeks, Oklahoma; (35) Maline Creek, Missouri; (36) St. John's Bayou and New Madrid Floodway, Missouri; (37) Brush Creek and Tributaries, Missouri and Kansas; (38) Cape Girardeau, Missouri; (39) Halstead, Kansas; (40) Upper Little Arkansas River, Kansas; (41) Rock River, Illinois; (42) Green Bay Levee and Drainage District Number 2, Iowa; (43) South Quincy Drainage and Levee District, Illinois; (44) North Branch of Chicago River, Illinois; (45) Little Calumet River, Indiana; (46) Perry Creek, Iowa; (47) Muscatine Island, Iowa; (48) Des Moines River Basin, Iowa and Minnesota; (49) Redwood River, Minnesota; (50) Boot River Basin, Minnesota; (51) South Fork Zumbro River, Minnesota; (52) Mississippi River at St. Paul, Minnesota; (53) Park River, Grafton, North Dakota; (54) Fountain Creek, Colorado; (55) Metropolitan Denver, Colorado; (56) Boggy Creek, Texas; (57) Buffalo Bayou and Tributaries, Texas; (58) Lake Wichita, Holliday Creek, Texas; (59) Lower Rio Grande, Texas; (60) Sims Bayou, Texas; (61) Middle Rio Grand, New Mexico; (62) Little Colorado River, Arizona; (63) Cache Creek Basin, California; (64) Redbank and Fancher Creeks, California; (65) Santa Ana River Mainstem, California; (66) Alenaio Stream, Hawaii; (67) Agana River, Guam; (68) Little Wood River, Idaho; (69) Yakima-Union Gap, Washington; (70) Chehalis River, Washington; (71) Centralia, Washington; (72) Licking River, Salyersville, Kentucky; (73) Gold Gulch, California; (74) Pearl River Basin, Louisiana; (75) Amite River, Louisiana; (76) Comite River, Louisiana; (77) Tangipahoa River, Louisiana; (78) Tchefuncte River, Louisiana; (79) Tickfaw River, Louisiana; (80) Bogue Chitto River, Louisiana; and (81) Natalbany River, Louisiana.

Authorizes and directs the Secretary to purchase certain land in Minnesota for construction of a levee and to upgrade existing facilities in Noyes, Minnesota.

Directs the Secretary to transmit to the Congress any final environmental impact statement required by law.

Authorizes the Secretary to undertake flood control projects at: (1) Calleguas and Conego Creek, California; (2) Coyote Creek, California; and (3) Guadalupe River, California. Directs the Secretary to include as part of the non-Federal contribution of the projects any local flood protection work carried out by non-Federal interests after January 1, 1983, and before the enactment of this Act.

Provides that the non- Federal share of the cost of any flood control project authorized under this Act shall be 25 percent.

Defines certain costs, values, and non-Federal contributions for purposes of this Act.

Title IV: Shore Protection - Authorizes the Secretary to effectuate the following shoreline protection projects: (1) Rockaway Inlet to Norton Point, New York; (2) Cape May Inlet to Lower Township, New Jersey; (3) Atlantic Coast of Maryland (Ocean City); (4) Willoughby Spit, Virginia; (5) Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina; (6) Folly Beach, South Carolina; (7) Panama City Beaches, Florida; (8) St. John's County, Florida; (9) Charlotte County, Florida; (10) Indian River County, Florida; (11) Dade County, Florida; (12) Monroe County, Florida; (13) Presque Isle Peninsula, Erie, Pennsylvania; (14) Indiana Shoreline, Indiana; (15) Maumee Bay, Lake Erie, Ohio; (16) Tangier Island, Virginia; (17) Monmouth Beach and Sea Bright, New Jersey; (18) Fort Elfsborg, New Jersey; (19) Sea Breeze, New Jersey; (20) Gandy's Beach, New Jersey; (21) Reeds Beach, New Jersey; (22) Pierces Point, New Jersey; and (23) Fortescue, New Jersey. Requires the Secretary to submit to Congress a report on each site following its construction. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning in 1984.

Title V: Water Resources Conservation and Development - Authorizes the Secretary to carry out the following works of improvement for water resources development and conservation: (1) Big River Reservoir, Rhode Island; (2) Olcott Harbor, New York; (3) Hampton Roads Debris Removal, Virginia; (4) Rudee Inlet, Virginia; (5) Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway Bridges, North Carolina; (6) Richard B. Russell Dam and Lake, Georgia and South Carolina; (7) Metropolitan Atlanta Area, Georgia; (8) Jacksonville Harbor (Mill Cove), Florida; (9) Yazoo Backwater Area, Mississippi; (10) Greenville Harbor, Mississippi; (11) Vicksburg Harbor, Mississippi; (12) Memphis Harbor, Memphis, Tennessee; (13) Lake Pontchartrain North Shore, Louisiana; (14) Atchafalaya Basin, Louisiana; (15) Cabin Creek, West Virginia; (16) Obion Creek, Kentucky; (17) Muddy Boggy Creek, Parker Lake, Oklahoma; (18) Fort Gibson Lake, Oklahoma; (19) Harry S. Truman Dam and Reservoir, Missouri; (20) Trimble Wildlife Area, Smithville Lake, Little Platte River, Missouri; (21) St. Louis Harbor, Missouri and Illinois; (22) Missouri River Mitigation, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska; (23) Davenport, Iowa (Nahant Marsh); (24) Helena Harbor, Phillips County, Arkansas; (25) White River Navigation to Batesville, Arkansas; (26) Trinity River, Texas; (27) Cooper Lake and Channels, Texas; (28) Sacramento River Bank Protection, California; (29) Sweetwater River, California; (30) Lava Flow Control, Hawaii; (31) City Waterway, Tacoma, Washington; (32) McNary Lock and Dam, Washington and Oregon; (33) Bethel Bank Stabilization, Alaska; (34) Kodiak Harbor, Alaska; and (35) St. Paul Island, Alaska. Requires the Secretary to submit to appropriate congressional committees any final environmental impact studies on any of the above projects which may become available.

Authorizes and directs the Secretary to undertake the following demonstration projects: (1) Albert Lea Lake, Minnesota; and (2) Des Moines River, Iowa. Sets up an advisory committee for the Iowa demonstration project. Authorizes the Secretary to make any purchases deemed necessary to carry out such project. Sets forth the Federal share of such projects and authorizes appropriations beginning after September 30, 1983.

Authorizes the Secretary to undertake the following waterway improvement and shore protection projects: (1) Hereford Inlet, Delaware Bay and Cape May Canal, New Jersey; (2) Barnegat Inlet to Longport, New Jersey; (3) Lake George, Hobart, Indiana; (4) Ohio River (various sites); (5) Bird Island, Niagara River and Lake Erie, Buffalo, New York; (6) Passaic and Pequannock Rivers, New Jersey; (7) Small Boat Harbor, Buffalo, New York; (8) Red Lake River, Minnesota; (9) Yazoo River, Mississippi; (10) Greenwood Lake and Belcher Creek, New Jersey; (11) Coosa River, Alabama; (12) Black Warrior River, Alabama; (13) Larkspur Ferry Channel, Larkspur, California; (14) Weeks Bay, Vermillion Bay, and Southwest Pass, Louisiana; (15) Swinomish Channel, La Conner, Washington; and (16) Sauk Lake, Minnesota. Authorizes the Secretary to undertake a wildlife mitigation project for the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, Alabama and Mississippi.

Title VI: Water Resources Studies - Authorizes and directs the Secretary to prepare and submit to Congress feasibility reports on the following water resources projects: (1) Illinois River, Hardin, Illinois; (2) Kinnickinnic River, Wisconsin; (3) Milton, Pennsylvania; and (4) Guam, American Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Directs the Secretary to study the possibility of converting former industrial sites, millraces, etc. for use as new hydroelectric projects. Authorizes appropriations for this section. Directs the Secretary to study utilizing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to conserve fish and wildlife. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct demonstration projects of alternate habitats for fish and wildlife, including man-made reefs for fish. Authorizes a study of national flood control problems. Directs the Secretary to determine the extent of shoreline erosion damage due to joint U.S.-Canadian regulation of Lake Superior.

Directs the Secretary, within two years of enactment of this Act, to prepare and submit to Congress an estimate of the long-range capital investment needs for water resources programs under the jurisdiction of the Secretary. Defines the information to be included in such report.

Directs the Secretary to expedite completion of the study of New York Harbor and Adjacent Channels, New York and New Jersey. Directs a study of the extent and adverse environmental effects of dioxin contamination in the Passaic River-Newark Bay navigation system. Requires a report to Congress within a year of enactment of this Act.

Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress a list of water resource studies authorized but not reported to Congress. Outlines information concerning such studies to be included with the list. Directs the Secretary to submit certain reports, both for congressional use and for public information. Authorizes and directs the Secretary to undertake a feasibility study of navigation improvements at Saginaw Bay and River, Michigan.

Title VII: Project Modifications - Modifies the following channel improvement and flood control projects: (1) Lynnhaven Inlet and Bay, Virginia; (2) Southern Branch of Elizabeth River, Virginia; (3) Ohio River Basin; (4) Mamaroneck Harbor, New York; (5) Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana; (6) Reelfoot Lake Number 9, Kentucky; (7) Yaquina Bay and Harbor, Oregon; (8) South Platte River Basin, Colorado; (9) Sacramento River, California; (10) King Harbor, Redondo Beach, California; (11) Honolulu Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii; (12) Santa Cruz Harbor, Santa Cruz, California; (13) Colorado River, Texas; (14) Niobrara, Nebraska; (15) Alabama-Coosa River, Alabama; (16) Kickapoo River, Wisconsin; (17) East St. Louis and vicinity, Illinois; (18) Winona, Minnesota; (19) Wenatchee, Washington; (20) Mississippi River, Alton, Illinois and Missouri; (21) Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana; (22) Houston Ship Channel, Greens Bayou, Texas; (23) Rio Grande bank protection, Texas; (24) Anacostia River, District of Columbia and Maryland; (25) Richard B. Russell Dam and Lake Project, Abbeville, South Carolina; (26) Yazoo River, Mississippi; (27) Corte Madera Creek, California; (28) Mississippi River, Teche-Vermillion Basins, Louisiana; (29) Granger Dam, San Gabriel River, Texas; (30) Lewisville Lake, Texas; (31) Dardanelle lock and dam, Arkansas; (32) Susquehanna River, Sunbury, Pennsylvania; (33) Hudson River, New York; (34) San Lorenzo River, California; (35) New Melones Dam and Reservoir, California; (36) McMicken Dam and Outlet Channel, Gila River Basin, Arizona; (37) Great Egg Harbor Inlet and Peck Beach, New Jersey; (38) Corson Inlet and Ludlam Beach, New Jersey; (39) Townsend Inlet and Seven Mile Beach, New Jersey; (40) Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint Rivers, Georgia and Florida; (41) Cowlitz and Toutle Rivers, Washington; (42) Milk River, Havre, Montana; (43) Snake River, Oregon, Washington, and Idaho; (44) Curwensville Lake, Pennsylvania; (45) Waterloo, Iowa; (46) Western Tennessee tributaries, Tennessee and Kentucky; (47) Kawkalin River, Michigan; (48) Licking River, Kentucky; (49) Buffalo Ship Canal, Buffalo, New York; (50) Fort Gibson Lake and Teukiller Ferry Lake, Oklahoma; (51) Newport Bay Harbor, California; (52) Beaver Lake, Arkansas; and (53) Mississippi River, Baton Rouge to Gulf of Mexico. Directs the Secretary to make a maximum effort to employ minority groups in any construction required in the aforementioned projects.

Title VIII: Water Supply - Subtitle A: Loan Program - Water Supply Rehabilitation and Conservation Act of 1983 - Authorizes the Secretary to make loans to departments, agencies, units of State or local government, or any person operating a water supply system for the purpose of improving such system. Provides that the amount of such loan shall not exceed 80 percent of the cost of the project. Sets limitations on the total amount of loans permitted. Enumerates conditions upon which no loan will be made. Requires approval of any loans made by both houses of Congress. Lists requirements for loan applications, including: (1) a detailed plan and estimated cost of the project; (2) a showing that the applicant holds all necessary rights to land and water use; (3) applicant ability to finance the non-Federal portion of the project; and (4) a showing of the improvements the plan would make in water supply. Gives priority in loans to water systems currently polluted and posing a potential danger to human health. Allows the granting of loans only if the operator of a water supply system to whom the loan is granted implements a model water conservation program. Defines a "model water conservation program." Requires that the agreement reached between the Secretary and any loan grantee include: (1) the amount of the loan and its interest rate; (2) a repayment period; and (3) such provisions deemed necessary to assure prompt repayment. Allows the Secretary to increase the maximum percentage of the cost of a project in specified circumstances. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984-1987, and such sums as may be necessary thereafter.

Authorizes the following water supply projects to receive loans: (1) Buffalo, New York; (2) Berlin, New Hampshire; (3) Rochester, New Hampshire; (4) Saints Thomas, Croix, and John, Virgin Islands; (5) Dupage County, Illinois; (6) New York City, New York; (7) Fort Smith, Arkansas; (8) American Samoa; (9) William H. Harsha Lake, Ohio; (10) Totowa, New Jersey; (11) Jersey City, New Jersey; and (12) Rockaway Township, New Jersey.

Subtitle B: Water Supply Projects - Authorizes and directs the Secretary to survey, plan, and recommend to Congress: (1) projects for the repair, rehabilitation, expansion, and improvement of water supply systems; and (2) projects for the construction of single and multiple-purpose water supply systems needed to meet existing and anticipated future demand. Allows no appropriation for any survey unless such appropriation has been approved by either house of Congress. Requires the appropriate non-Federal interests to provide the necessary land, easements, and rights-of-way for any such project. Allows the Secretary to reduce the percentage amount of the project to be paid by non-Federal interests in specified circumstances. Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical assistance to water supply system operators in identifying problems and initiating repair, rehabilitation, expansion, and improvement to the system. Directs the Secretary to study existing water resources projects to determine the feasibility of using such projects for water supply on an interim or permanent basis.

Authorizes the Secretary to design and construct a treatment plant and water conveyance system from Lake Arcadia to Edmond, Oklahoma, with specified conditions.

Authorizes and directs the construction of treatment and conveyance facilities from Kaw Lake to Stillwater, Oklahoma.

Modifies the water supply project at Caesar Creek, Ohio River Basin, Ohio, with specified conditions.

Directs the Secretary, in cooperation with the States, to make a detailed estimate of needed repair, rehabilitation, and construction of water supply and distribution facilities and the costs thereof in each and all of the States. Directs the transmitting of such estimate to Congress within two years of enactment of this Act.

Title IX: Namings - Designates the following harbors and locks and dams: (1) Elvis Stahr Harbor, Port of Hickman, Kentucky; (2) Wilbur D. Mills Dam, Arkansas; and (3) S.W. Taylor Memorial Park, Alabama.

Title X: Project Deauthorizations - Deauthorizes the following flood control, hydroelectric power, or navigation projects, by State: (1) Alabama: (a) Alabama River; (b) Big Wills Creek Lake; (c) Crooked Creek Lake; (d) Hatchet Creek Lake; (e) Little River Lake; (f) Mill Creek Lake; (g) Terrapin Creek Lake; (h) Waxahatchee Creek Lake; (i) Weogufka Creek Lake; (j) Yellowleaf Creek; (k) Big Canoe Creek Lake; (2) Alaska: (a) Myers Chuck Harbor; (b) Nome Harbor; (c) Skagwar River; (3) Arkansas: (a) Bayou Bartholomew; (b) Crooked Creek Lake Levee; (c) Gillete New Levee, Lower Arkansas River; (d) Murfreesboro Reservoir; (4) California: (a) Alhambra Creek; (b) Aliso Creek Dam, Santa Ana River Basin; (c) Bear River; (d) Butler Valley Dam, Mad River; (e) Eel River; (f) Sierra Madre Wash, Los Angeles County Drain Area; (g) Lower San Francisco Bay; (h) Monterey Harbor; (i) Napa River Basin; (j) Napa River; (k) Old River; (l) San Juan Dam, Santa Ana River Basin; (m) Trabuco Dam, Santa Ana River Basin; (n) University Wash and Spring Brook; (o) Lakeport Lake; (p) Calusa to Red Bluff, Sacramento River; (q) San Joaquin River; (5) Colorado: (a) Boulder; (b) Castlewood Lake; (6) Connecticut: (a) Bridgeport Harbor-Black Rock Harbor; (b) Connecticut River below Hartford; (c) Mystic River; (d) Silver Beach to Cedar Beach; (d) Stonington Harbor; (e) Thames River; (7) District of Columbia: Washington, D.C. and vicinity; (8) Florida: (a) Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, Miami to Key West; (b) Biscayne Bay; (c) Cedar Keys Harbor; (d) Broward County and Hillsboro Inlet; (e) Intracoastal Waterway, Jacksonville to Miami; (f) Jacksonville Harbor Mooring Basin; (g) Key West Harbor; (h) Miami Harbor, Miami River; (i) Okeechobee Waterway; (j) Oklawaha River; (k) Palm Beach Harbor; (l) Lake Worth Inlet to South Lake Worth Inlet; (m) Apalachicola Bay to St. Marks River; (n) Saint Marks to Tampa Bay; (o) Pensacola Harbor; (p) Saint Augustine Harbor; (q) Tampa Harbor; (9) Georgia: (a) Canton Lake; (b) Cartecay Lake; (c) Gilmer Lake; (d) Kingston Lake; (e) Lazer Creek Lake; (f) Lower Auchumpkee Creek Lake; (g) Spewrell Bluff Lake; (10) Hawaii: (a) Ala Wai Harbor, Oahu; (b) Hanapepe Bay Seawall; (c) Kaunakakai Deep Draft Harbor, Molokai; (d) Waimeo Beach Seawall, Kauai; (11) Idaho: (a) Mud Lake Area; (b) South Fork, Clearwater River; (c) Teton River; (d) Blackfoot Reservoir; (e) Boise Valley; (f) Cottonwood Creek Dam; (g) Heise-Roberts Levee Extension; (h) Weiser River; (i) Whitebird Creek; (12) Illinois: (a) Chicago River, Cook County; (b) Dam 43, Ohio River; (c) Farmers Drainage and Levee District; (d) Freeport; (e) Illinois Waterway Navigation Project; (f) Kenilworth, Shore of Lake Michigan; (g) Levee Unit 1, Wabash River; (h) Levees District 21, Vandalia; (i) Little Calumet River; (j) Metropolis; (k) Mississippi River between Missouri River and Minneapolis; (l) Ohio River Open Channel, Louis District; (m) Ice Pier; (n) Peoria County Levees, Peoria; (o) Shawneetown; (p) Scott County Drainage and Levee District; (q) South Beloit; (r) Wankegan Harbor; (s) William L. Springer Lake; (t) Alton Commercial Harbor; (u) Keech Drainage and Levee District, Green County; (v) Big Swan Drainage and Levee District; (w) Fort Chartres and Ivy Landing Drainage District 5; (13) Indiana: (a) Anderson, Madison County; (b) Illinois Waterway, Cal-Sag Channel, Part 2; (c) Levees between Shelby Bridge and Baums Bridge; (d) Marion; (e) Vincennes; (14) Iowa: (a) Davids Creek Lake; (b) Fort Madison Harbor; (c) Keokuk Small Boat Harbor; (d) Missouri Levee System; (15) Kansas: (a) El Dorado, West Branch, Walnut River; (b) Garnett Lake, Pottawatomie Creek; (c) Grove Lake; (d) Indian Lake; (e) Kansas River Navigation; (f) Missouri River Levee System; (g) Neodesha Lake, Verdigris River; (h) Onaga Lake; (i) Tomahawk; (j) Towanda Lake; (k) Tuttle Creek Lake; (l) Wolf-Coffee Lake; (m) Cedar Point Lake; (n) Cow Creek-Hutchinson; (o) Missouri River Levee System; (16) Kentucky: (a) Caseyville; (b) Cloverport; (c) Concordia; (d) Louisville; (e) Middlesboro, Yellow Creek; (f) Tolu; (17) Louisiana: (a) Bayou Bartholomew; (b) Bayou Teche, Saint Martin, Saint Mary and Iberia Parish; (c) Black Bayou, Reservoir; (d) Overton-Red River Waterway above Mile 31; (e) Bayou La Fourche and La Fourche Jump; (f) Bayou La Fourche; (g) Bayou Segnette; (18) Maine: (a) Bar Harbor; (b) Dickey-Lincoln School project, Saint John River; (c) Kennebec River; (d) Rockland Harbor; (19) Maryland: Baltimore Harbor and channels; (20) Massachusetts: (a) Edgartown Harbor; (b) Fall River Harbor Channel; (c) Ipswich River; (d) Nantucket Harbor of Refuge, Anchorage; (e) New Bedford and Fairhaven Harbor; (f) Newburyport Harbor; (g) Nookagee Lake, North Nashua River; (h) Pleasant Bay; (i) Salem Harbor; (j) Winthrop Beach; (k) Lynn Harbor; (l) Monoosnoc Brook; (m) Monoosnoc Lake; (n) Cape Cod Canal to Provincetown; (21) Michigan: (a) Black River Harbor; (b) Forestville Harbor; (c) Middle Channel, Saint Clair River; (d) Red Run Drain, Lower Clinton River; (e) Detroit River, Trenton Channel; (f) Grand Marais Harbor; (g) Keweenaw Waterway; (h) Outonagon Harbor; (i) (h) Sanilac Flats, Saginaw River; (j) Corunna feature, Saginaw River; (k) Owosso feature, Saginaw River; (l) Berrien County; (22) Minnesota: (a) Warroad River and Bulldog Creek; (b) Mississippi River between the Missouri River and Minneapolis; (c) Harriet Island Harbor; (23) Mississippi: (a) Biloxi Harbor, Old Fort Bayou; (b) Buffalo River; (c) Pascagoula Harbor, Main Channel; (24) Missouri: (a) Angler Use Sites; (b) Braymer Lake Shoal Creek; (c) Brookfield Lake, Yellow Creek; (d) East Muddy Creek; (e) Mercer Lake; (f) Mississippi River, Agricultural Area 12; (g) Pattonsburg Lake; (h) Pomme de Terre Lake; (i) Sandy Slough Remedial Measures; (j) Trenton Lake; (k) Upper Grand River; (l) Mill Creek Lake; (25) Nebraska: Little Nemaha River; (26) Nevada: (a) Gleason Creek Dam; (b) Humboldt River and Tributaries; (27) New Jersey: (a) Newark Bay, Hackensack and Passaic Rivers; (b) Way Cake Creek; (c) Perth Amboy; (28) New Mexico: (a) Rio Grande Floodway, San Acacia to Bosque; (b) Rio Grande Floodway, Espanola Valley Unit; (29) New York: (a) Allegany; (b) Unit 1, Allegany River; (c) Hudson River, New York City to Albany; (d) Ogdensburg Harbor; (e) Oswego Harbor; (f) Red Creek; (g) Ticonderoga River; (h) Cape Vincent Harbor; (i) East Chester Creek; (j) East Rockaway Inlet to Rockaway Inlet, Part 2; (k) Hammondsport, Glen Brook; (30) North Carolina: (a) Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, Peltier Creek; (b) Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway Tidal Lock in Snows Cut; (c) Carolina Beach and Vicinity, South Area; (d) Fort Macon State Park; (e) Morehead City Harbor; (f) Ocracoke Island; (g) Ocracoke Island-Village Shore; (h) Ocracoke Inlet Jetty; (i) Roanoke River; (31) Ohio: (a) Ohio River; (b) Burlington; (c) Chesapeake; (d) Empire-Stratton; (e) Martins Ferry; (f) Powhatan Point; (g) Proctorville; (h) South Point; (32) Oregon: (a) Columbia Drainage District No. 1; (b) Deer Island Drainage District; (c) Shelton Ditch; (d) Umpqua River-Scholfield River; (e) Cascadia Lake; (f) Gate Creek Lake; (g) Grande Ronde Lake; (h) Grande Ronde Valley; (i) Holley Lake; (j) Pendleton Levees, Riverside Area; (k) Willamette River above Portland and Yamill River; (l) Willamette River at Willamette Falls; (33) Pennsylvania: (a) Brackenridge, Tarentum, and Natrona; (b) Chester River; (c) Leetsdale; (d) Muddy Creek Lake; (e) Neville Island; (f) New Kensington and Parnassus; (g) Rochester; (h) Trexler Dam and Lake; (i) Youghiogheny River Canalization; (j) Aquashicola Lake; (k) Maiden Creek Lake Earth Dam; (34) Puerto Rico: (a) Fajardo Harbor; (b) Guayanes Harbor; (35) Rhode Island: (a) Great Salt Pond; (b) Harbor of Refuge, Block Island; (c) Pawcatuck River; (d) Providence River and Harbor; (e) Westerly Hurricane Protection; (36) South Carolina: (a) Charleston Harbor, Ft. Moultrie Anchorage Area; (b) Myrtle Beach, Anchorage Basin; (c) Reedy River, Greenville; (37) Tennessee: (a) Cumberland River above Nashville; (b) Hiwassee River; (c) Rossview Lake; (d) Alabama-Coosa River Basin, Jacks River Lake; (38) Texas: (a) Alpine; (b) Brazos Island Harbor; (c) Brazos River, Velasco to Old Washington; (d) Cedar Bayou, Harris; (e) Channel to Port Bolivar; (f) Duck Creek Channel Improvement; (g) Gulf Intracoastal Waterway Channel to Harlingen; (h) Gulf Intracoastal Waterway-Chocolate Bayou; (i) Gulf Intracoastal Waterway Harbor of Refuge at Seadrift; (j) Houston Ship Channels, Greens Bayou; (k) Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, Matagorda Bay; (l) Lake Brownwood; (m) Mill Creek Brazos River; (n) Navasota Lake; (o) Navidad and Lavaca Rivers; (p) Pecan Bayou Lake; (q) Peyton Creek; (r) Plainview; (s) Roanoke Lake; (t) Sabine Neches Waterway Channel to Echo; (u) Sabine River, Echo to Morgan Bluff; (39) Utah: Weber River and Tributaries; (40) Vermont: (a) Bennington; (b) Otter Creek; (c) Rutland Otter Creek; (41) Virginia: (a) Thimble Shoal Channel; (b) Neabasco Creek; (c) Moore's Fairy Lake; (d) Pamunkey River; (42) Virgin Islands: (a) Christiansted Harbor-St. Croix; (b) St. Thomas Harbor; (43) Wake Island: Wake Island Harbor; (44) Washington: (a) Eutiat River; (b) Lower Walla Walla River; (c) Methow River; (d) Okanogan River, Okanogan; (e) Quillayute River; (f) Seattle Harbor; (g) Spokane River, Spokane; (h) Yakima River at Ellensburg; (i) Palonse River; (j) Pullman Palouse River; (k) Stillaquamish River; (45) West Virginia: (a) Moundsville, Marshall County, Levees; (b) Panther Creek Lake; (c) Proctor; (d) Ravenswood; (e) Rowlesburg Lake; (f) Warwood, Wall and Drainage; (g) North Wheeling; (h) Wheeling; (i) Wheeling Island; (j) Birch Lake; (k) Woodlands; (46) Wisconsin: (a) Hudson Small Boat Harbor; (b) Cassville Small Boat Harbor; (47) Wyoming: Buffalo.

Deauthorizes the following projects after the date of enactment of this Act: (a) Eastport Harbor, Maine; (b) Kalihi Channel, Honolulu Harbor, Hawaii; (c) Onaga Lake Project, Vermillion Creek, Kansas; and (d) William L. Springer Lake, Sangamon River, Illinois.

Title XI: General Provisions - Directs the Secretary to prepare a feasibility report for every water resource study authorized. Enumerates information to be included in such report. Directs the Secretary, before preparing a feasibility report, to perform a reconnaissance survey of the potential water resource project to define problems with the project, together with their possible solutions. Provides that non-Federal interests shall contribute 25 percent of the cost of any such report or survey.

Establishes an Environmental Protection and Mitigation Fund. Authorizes appropriations for this Fund for fiscal years beginning 1984. States various purposes for which the Fund may be used.

Authorizes the Secretary to study the water resources needs of river basins and regions of the United States. Requires a report to Congress on the results of such study before October 1, 1987.

Authorizes the Secretary to establish and develop campgrounds for individuals 62 years of age or older at any lake or reservoir under the Secretary's jurisdiction. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning 1984. Authorizes the development of and appropriations for a 62-or-older campground in Texas. Identifies such parcel of land by metes and bounds.

Authorizes and direct the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to undertake measures to prevent flood damage along the route of the Meramec River in Missouri.

Authorizes the Secretary to repair dams found to be in a hazardous or unsafe condition. Authorizes the Secretary to repair the spillway at Schuyler County Public Water Supply District No. 1. Requires the Secretary to annually update the inventory of dams. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning in 1984.

Directs the Secretary to maintain a water resources project at Buffalo Harbor, New York.

Declares Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho, to be nonnavigable.

Authorizes the Secretary, upon official request, to provide designs, plans, and/or technical assistance to States or local governments for removing snags and other debris in channels.

Authorizes the Secretary to provide assistance in the breakup of river and harbor ice. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984-1986.

Authorizes the Secretary to preserve historic sites under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Army if such properties are entered in the National Register of Historic Places. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning in 1984.

Directs the Secretary to convey a parcel of land to Metropolitan Park in Ohio for a flood control project.

Directs the Secretary to maintain the navigation projects on the Delaware River in the Philadelphia and Trenton area.

Declares downstream recreation on the Gauley River, West Virginia, to be an additional project. Provides for incremental whitewater release and water storage at the Summerville Dam in West Virginia to aid in such recreation project.

Recognizes the Upper Mississippi River to be a nationally significant ecosystem and commercial navigation system. Approves a "master plan" as a guide for future water policy on the Upper Mississippi. Grants the consent of Congress to several midwestern States bordering the Mississippi for cooperative efforts and mutual planning in the development of such river. Designates the Upper Mississippi River Basin Association as the caretaker of the "master plan."

Authorizes the Secretary, in consultation with the aforementioned midwestern States, to undertake: (1) a program for planning, construction, and evaluation of fish and wildlife enhancement measures; (2) implementation of a long-term resource monitoring program; and (3) implementation of a computerized inventory and analysis system. Provides for termination of such programs ten years from the date of enactment of this Act, with specified evaluations and reports. Authorizes appropriations for ten fiscal years after the date of enactment of this Act.

Authorizes the Secretary to implement a program of recreational projects for the Upper Mississippi River System. Authorizes appropriations for this purpose for ten fiscal years after the date of enactment of this Act, along with specified evaluations and reports.

Directs the Secretary to dispose of dredged materials from the System and to request funding for a program to facilitate productive uses of dredged materials.

Directs the Secretary to extend the navigation season on the Great Lakes and the Saint Lawrence Seaway. Requires approval by both houses of Congress before any extension is granted. Requires acquisition by the Secretary of all lands and interest before authorized construction begins on any water resources project in this Act.

Establishes an Office of Environmental Policy within the Office of the Chief of Engineers, to be responsible for all environmental policy matters as they relate to the water resources programs.

Limits appropriations for the repair and modification of the Illinois and Mississippi Canal. Provides that certain prohibitions and provisions for review of activities in waters of the U.S. shall not apply to any water development projects at the Great Miami River Basin or the Great Miami River and its tributaries in Ohio.

Provides a maximum time limitation for construction of any project in this Act of five years after the date of enactment of this Act.

Provides that all leases for projects in this Act shall continue in effect on and after January 1, 1990, until such lease is terminated by the leaseholder. Requires fair market values for such leases after such date. Enumerates conditions required before the Secretary may terminate a lease on or after January 1, 1990.

Limits modifications to projects to those which: (1) do not materially alter the scope or function of the project; and (2) reflect changes in construction costs and are the result of additional plans and studies.

Authorizes review by the Secretary of previous (before this Act) water projects. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a demonstration project within two years from enactment of this Act for the purpose of making modifications in the structures and operations of water projects constructed before the enactment of this Act. Requires a report to Congress concerning such project. Authorizes appropriations.

Authorizes the Secretary to reconstruct and rehabilitate the New York State Barge Canal for commercial, recreational, historic, and environmental purposes. Requires the Secretary and New York State to each provide 50 percent of the annual cost of maintaining such canal. Requires a report on the Canal to both houses of Congress within two years of enactment of this Act. Provides that no appropriation shall be made for such Canal project unless both houses of Congress approve of such by resolution. Defines areas included within the New York State Barge Canal.

Authorizes the Secretary to develop and implement a flood warning system for the Whitewater River, California.

Requires the Secretary to provide for employment of residents in high-unemployment areas where water projects are being constructed. Requires a report to Congress by the Secretary within 90 days after requests for project appropriations. Such report shall contain current information on the potential benefits of such project to unemployed residents of the area. Defines terms.

Authorizes the Secretary to convey to the State of Georgia all right, title, and interest to a parcel of land in Savannah, Georgia, conditioned upon certain payments being made to the United States. Authorizes the Secretary to construct a depot in Savannah Harbor, Georgia.

Authorizes the Secretary to straighten bends in rivers and channels to improve navigation, within certain cost limitations.

Abolishes the California Debris Commission, transferring its duties to the Secretary.

Authorizes the Chief of Engineers to perform emergency work upon public or private land for ten days following a Governor's request for such emergency or disaster relief.

Makes technical amendments to various flood control acts relating to amounts of appropriations.

Requires the Secretary to expedite completion of a study for a new lock parallel to Poe Lock on the Saint Lawrence Seaway and submit a report to Congress. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress every January 15th on activities undertaken in the development of water resources projects. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 and 1985.

Directs the Secretary to reevaluate the feasibility of the Elk Creek Lake feature of the project for the Rogue River, Oregon and California.

Directs the Secretary to implement a study of the possibility of increased use of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the planning and construction of water resources projects.

Requires the Secretary to transmit to both Houses of Congress a report which specifies the amount of electricity generated, the revenues received, and the operational costs of each water resource facility.

Authorizes the President to appoint a regular officer from the Armed Forces as the Federal Commissioner of the Red River Compact Commission.

Amends the River and Harbor Act to provide for reconstruction of water works as necessary to provide adequate facilities for navigation. Requires congressional approval of such reconstruction before any appropriations are made.

Authorizes the Secretary to construct and improve facilities at the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, Port of Buffalo.

Authorizes the Secretary to construct and maintain a navigation channel from the mouth of the Beaver River at Bridgewater, Pennsylvania, to New Brighton, Pennsylvania.

Provides that the total amount for construction of water resources projects shall not exceed $1,500,000,000 for each of FY 1984 and 1985, and $1,600,000,000 for each of FY 1986 through 1988.

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Received in the Senate, read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1062.

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