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physical construction has not been awarded before October 
1, 2003. 
(e) REVISION OF PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT.—The 
Secretary shall revise any partnership agreement entered 
into after October 1, 2003, for any project to which the 
amendments made by subsections (a), (b), and (c) apply 
to take into account the change in non-Federal participa-
tion in the project as a result of such amendments. 
SEC. 2003. FUNDING TO PROCESS PERMITS. 
Section 214 of the Water Resources Development Act 
of 2000 (33 U.S.C. 2201 note; 114 Stat. 2594; 117 Stat. 
1836) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a) by striking ‘‘In fiscal years 
2001 through 2005, the’’ and inserting ‘‘The’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(c) DURATION OF AUTHORITY.—The authority pro-
vided under this section shall be in effect from October 
1, 2000, through December 31, 2007.’’. 
SEC. 2004. NATIONAL SHORELINE EROSION CONTROL DE-
VELOPMENT 
AND 
DEMONSTRATION 
PRO-
GRAM. 
(a) EXTENSION OF PROGRAM.—Section 5(a) of the 
Act entitled ‘‘An Act authorizing Federal participation in 
the cost of protecting the shores of publicly owned prop-
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erty’’, approved August 13, 1946 (33 U.S.C. 426h(a)), is 
amended by striking ‘‘6 years’’ and inserting ‘‘10 years’’. 
(b) EXTENSION OF PLANNING, DESIGN, AND CON-
STRUCTION PHASE.—Section 5(b)(1)(A) of such Act (33 
U.S.C. 426h(b)(1)(A)) is amended by striking ‘‘3 years’’ 
and inserting ‘‘6 years’’. 
(c) COST SHARING; REMOVAL OF PROJECTS.—Sec-
tion 5(b) of such Act (33 U.S.C. 426h(b)) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (3) and (4) as 
paragraphs (5) and (6), respectively; and 
(2) by inserting after paragraph (2) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(3) COST SHARING.—The Secretary may enter 
into a cost sharing agreement with a non-Federal in-
terest to carry out a project, or a phase of a project, 
under the erosion control program in cooperation 
with the non-Federal interest. 
‘‘(4) REMOVAL OF PROJECTS.—The Secretary 
may pay all or a portion of the costs of removing a 
project, or an element of a project, constructed 
under the erosion control program if the Secretary 
determines during the term of the program that the 
project or element is detrimental to the environment, 
private property, or public safety.’’.
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(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section 
5(e)(2) of such Act (33 U.S.C. 426h(e)(2)) is amended 
by striking ‘‘$21,000,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$31,000,000’’. 
SEC. 2005. SMALL SHORE AND BEACH RESTORATION AND 
PROTECTION PROJECTS. 
Section 3 of the Act entitled ‘‘An Act authorizing 
Federal participation in the cost of protecting the shores 
of publicly owned property’’, approved August 13, 1946 
(33 U.S.C. 426g), is amended by striking ‘‘$3,000,000’’ 
and inserting ‘‘$5,000,000’’. 
SEC. 2006. WRITTEN AGREEMENT FOR WATER RESOURCES 
PROJECTS. 
(a) PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENTS.—Section 221 of 
the Flood Control Act of 1970 (42 U.S.C. 1962d–5b) is 
amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘under the provisions’’ and 
all that follows through ‘‘under any other’’ and 
inserting ‘‘under any’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘to furnish its required co-
operation for’’ and inserting ‘‘under which each 
party agrees to carry out its responsibilities and 
requirements for implementation or construc-
tion of’’; and
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(C) by inserting after ‘‘$25,000.’’ the fol-
lowing: ‘‘Such agreement may include a provi-
sion for damages in the event of a failure of one 
or more parties to perform.’’; 
(2) by redesignating subsection (e) as sub-
section (f); and 
(3) by inserting after subsection (d) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(e) LIMITATION.—Nothing in subsection (a) shall be 
construed as limiting the authority of the Secretary to en-
sure that an agreement under this section meets all re-
quirements of law and policies of the Secretary in effect 
on the date of entry into the agreement.’’. 
(b) LOCAL COOPERATION.—Section 912(b) of the 
Water Resources Development Act of 1986 (101 Stat. 
4190) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (2)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘shall’’ the first place it 
appears and inserting ‘‘may’’; and 
(B) by striking the last sentence; and 
(2) in paragraph (4)— 
(A) by inserting after ‘‘injunction, for’’ the 
following: ‘‘payment of damages or, for’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘to collect a civil penalty 
imposed under this section,’’; and
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(C) by striking ‘‘any civil penalty imposed 
under this section,’’ and inserting ‘‘any dam-
ages,’’. 
(c) APPLICABILITY.—The amendments made by sub-
sections (a) and (b) only apply to partnership agreements 
entered into after the date of enactment of this Act; except 
that at the request of a non-Federal interest for a project, 
the district engineer for the district in which the project 
is located may amend a project partnership agreement en-
tered into on or before such date and under which con-
struction on the project has not been initiated as of such 
date of enactment for the purpose of incorporating such 
amendments. 
(d) PARTNERSHIP
AND COOPERATIVE ARRANGE-
MENTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—A goal of agreements en-
tered into under section 221 of the Flood Control 
Act of 1970 (42 U.S.C. 1962d–5(b)) shall be to fur-
ther partnership and cooperative arrangements, and 
the agreements shall be referred to as ‘‘partnership 
agreements’’. 
(2) REFERENCES
TO
COOPERATION
AGREE-
MENTS.—Any reference in a law, regulation, docu-
ment, or other paper of the United States to a co-
operation agreement or project cooperation agree-