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111TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1307 

To authorize improvements to flood damage reduction facilities adjacent to 

the American and Sacramento Rivers near Sacramento, California, and 

for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MARCH 4, 2009 

Ms. MATSUI introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 

A BILL 

To authorize improvements to flood damage reduction facilities adjacent to the American and Sacramento Rivers 

near Sacramento, California, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Natomas Basin Flood 

5 Protection Improvements Act of 2009’’. 

6 SEC. 2. PROJECT MODIFICATION, AMERICAN AND SAC7 RAMENTO RIVERS, CALIFORNIA. 

8 The project for flood damage reduction, American 

9 and Sacramento Rivers, California, authorized by section 


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1 101(a)(1) of the Water Resources Development Act of 

2 1996 (Public Law 104–303; 110 Stat. 3662), and modi3 fied by section 366 of the Water Resources Development 

4 Act of 1999 (Public Law 106–53; 113 Stat. 319), is fur5 ther modified to authorize work to be carried out by Fed6 eral or non-Federal interests to construct improvements 

7 to flood damage reduction facilities adjacent to the Amer8 ican and Sacramento Rivers in the vicinity of Sacramento, 

9 California, substantially in accordance with the report en10 titled ‘‘Plan Formulation Report, Natomas Levee Im11 provement Program, Early Implementation Project, Feb12 ruary, 2009’’, prepared by the Sacramento Area Flood 

13 Control Agency in coordination with the State of Cali14 fornia, at an estimated total cost of $618,000,000, with 

15 an estimated Federal cost of $463,500,000 and an esti16 mated non-Federal cost of $154,500,000. 

17 SEC. 3. CREDIT OR REIMBURSEMENT FOR NON-FEDERAL 

18 WORK. 

19 (a) IN GENERAL.—The non-Federal interests shall 

20 receive credit toward the non-Federal share of project 

21 costs for expenses incurred, or in-kind contributions pro22 vided, by the non-Federal interest in planning, engineer23 ing, design, construction, and acquisition of lands, ease24 ments, rights-of-way, relocations, and dredged material 

25 disposal areas for any of the work authorized by section 


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1 2 determined by the Secretary of the Army to be compat2 ible with Corps of Engineers design and construction prac3 tices. 

4 (b) AMOUNT IN EXCESS OF NON-FEDERAL

5 SHARE.—For expenses and in-kind contributions that the 

6 non-Federal interests incur for planning, engineering, de7 sign, construction, and acquisition of lands, easements, 

8 rights-of-way, relocations, and dredged material disposal 

9 areas for work authorized by section 2 which exceed the 

10 non-Federal share of such work, the non-Federal interests 

11 shall receive— 

12 (1) credit toward the non-Federal share of 

13 other projects, or separable elements of other 

14 projects, for which the non-Federal interests con15 tribute funds, with the Secretary of the Army allo16 cating credit to projects or separable project ele17 ments as requested by the non-Federal interests; or 

18 (2) reimbursement to the non-Federal interests, 

19 subject to the appropriation of funds. 

20 (c) LIMITATIONS.— 

21 (1) COST AND AUDIT.—Amounts credited or re22 imbursed under this Act may not exceed the actual 

23 cost of such work accomplished by the non-Federal 

24 interests prior to or subsequent to completion of the 


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1 report referred to in section 2 and shall be subject 

2 to audit by the Secretary of the Army. 

3 (2) EXCEPTION.—Amounts credited or reim4 bursed under this Act shall not be subject to the 

5 limitations set forth in section 102 of Public Law 

6 109–103 (119 Stat. 2253). 

7 SEC. 4. COST SHARING. 

8 The non-Federal share of the cost of work carried 

9 out pursuant to section 2 shall be the same as the non10 Federal share of the cost of the project referred to in sec11 tion 2. 

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