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per diem in lieu of subsistence, at rates authorized for an employee 
of a Federal agency under subchapter I of chapter 57 of title 
5, United States Code, while away from the home or regular place 
of business of the member in performance of services for the com-
mittee. 
(g) APPLICABILITY OF FEDERAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ACT.— 
The Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.) shall not 
apply to the committee. 
SEC. 9004. INVENTORY AND INSPECTION OF LEVEES. 
(a) LEVEE DATABASE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than one year after the date 
of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall establish and 
maintain a database with an inventory of the Nation’s levees. 
(2) CONTENTS.—The database shall include— 
(A) location information of all Federal levees in the 
Nation (including global information system information) 
and, for non-Federal levees, such information on levee loca-
tion as is provided to the Secretary by State and local 
governmental agencies; 
(B) utilizing such information as is available, the gen-
eral condition of each levee; and 
(C) an estimate of the number of structures and popu-
lation at risk and protected by each levee that would be 
adversely impacted if the levee fails or water levels exceed 
the height of the levee. 
(3) AVAILABILITY OF INFORMATION.— 
(A) AVAILABILITY
TO
FEDERAL, STATE, AND
LOCAL 
GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES.—The Secretary shall make all 
of the information in the database available to appropriate 
Federal, State, and local governmental agencies. 
(B) AVAILABILITY TO THE PUBLIC.—The Secretary shall 
make the information in the database described in para-
graph (2)(A), and such other information in the database 
as the Secretary determines appropriate, available to the 
public. 
(b) INVENTORY AND INSPECTION OF LEVEES.— 
(1) FEDERAL LEVEES.—The Secretary, at Federal expense, 
shall establish an inventory and conduct an inspection of all 
federally owned and operated levees. 
(2) FEDERALLY
CONSTRUCTED, NONFEDERALLY
OPERATED 
AND
MAINTAINED
LEVEES.—The Secretary shall establish an 
inventory and conduct an inspection of all federally constructed, 
non-federally operated and maintained levees, at the original 
cost share for the project. 
(3) PARTICIPATING
LEVEES.—For non-Federal levees the 
owners of which are participating in the emergency response 
to natural disasters program established under section 5 of 
the Act entitled ‘‘An Act authorizing the construction of certain 
public works on rivers and harbors for flood control, and for 
other purposes’’, approved August 18, 1941 (33 U.S.C. 701n), 
the Secretary shall establish an inventory and conduct an 
inspection of each such levee if the owner of the levee requests 
such inspection. The Federal share of the cost of an inspection 
under this paragraph shall be 65 percent. 
SEC. 9005. LIMITATIONS ON STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION. 
Nothing in this title shall be construed as—
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(1) creating any liability of the United States or its officers 
or employees for the recovery of damages caused by an action 
or failure to act; or 
(2) relieving an owner or operator of a levee of a legal 
duty, obligation, or liability incident to the ownership or oper-
ation of a levee. 
SEC. 9006. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary to 
carry out this title $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2008 through 
2013. 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.