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of the Water Resources Development Act of 2007 (Public 
Law 110–114). 
SEC. 521. For an additional amount for ‘‘Corps of 
Engineers—Civil—Department of the Army—Investiga-
tions’’, there is hereby appropriated, and the amount oth-
erwise provided by this Act for ‘‘Department of Energy— 
Energy
Programs—Departmental
Administration’’
is 
hereby reduced by $2,500,000. 
SEC. 522. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Department of Energy to apply 
the report entitled ‘‘Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Perspec-
tive on Exporting Liquefied Natural Gas from the United 
States’’, published in the Federal Register on June 4, 
2014 (79 Fed. Reg. 32260), in any public interest deter-
mination under section 3 of the Natural Gas Act (15 
U.S.C. 717b). 
SEC. 523. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used for the Department of Energy’s Climate 
Model Development and Validation program. 
SEC. 524. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to purchase water to supplement or en-
hance the instream flow requirements in the State of Cali-
fornia that are mandated under the Endangered Species 
Act of 1973, the Central Valley Project Improvement Act, 
or the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. 
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SEC. 525. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the 
requirement in section 323.4(a)(1)(ii) of title 33, Code of 
Federal Regulations, or section 232.3(c)(1)(ii)(A) of title 
40, Code of Federal Regulations, that activities identified 
in paragraph (1)(A) of subsection (f) of section 404 of 
the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 
1344(f)(1)(A)) must be established or ongoing in order to 
receive an exemption under such subsection. 
SEC. 526. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to deliver water to the Trinity River 
above the minimum requirements of the Trinity Record 
of Decision or to supplement flows in the Klamath River. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Energy and Water De-
velopment and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
2016’’. 
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any 
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for en-
ergy and water development and related agencies for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 2016, and for other pur-
poses, namely: 
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TITLE I 
CORPS OF ENGINEERS—CIVIL 
DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY 
CORPS OF ENGINEERS—CIVIL 
The following appropriations shall be expended under 
the direction of the Secretary of the Army and the super-
vision of the Chief of Engineers for authorized civil func-
tions of the Department of the Army pertaining to river 
and harbor, flood and storm damage reduction, shore pro-
tection, aquatic ecosystem restoration, and related efforts. 
INVESTIGATIONS 
For expenses necessary where authorized by law for the 
collection and study of basic information pertaining to 
river and harbor, flood and storm damage reduction, shore 
protection, aquatic ecosystem restoration, and related needs; 
for surveys and detailed studies, and plans and specifica-
tions of proposed river and harbor, flood and storm damage 
reduction, shore protection, and aquatic ecosystem restora-
tion projects, and related efforts prior to construction; for 
restudy of authorized projects; and for miscellaneous inves-
tigations, and, when authorized by law, surveys and de-
tailed studies, and plans and specifications of projects prior 
to construction, $109,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended. 
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CONSTRUCTION 
For expenses necessary for the construction of river 
and harbor, flood and storm damage reduction, shore pro-
tection, aquatic ecosystem restoration, and related projects 
authorized by law; for conducting detailed studies, and 
plans and specifications, of such projects (including those 
involving participation by States, local governments, or 
private groups) authorized or made eligible for selection by 
law (but such detailed studies, and plans and specifications, 
shall not constitute a commitment of the Government to 
construction); $1,641,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended; of which such sums as are necessary to cover the 
Federal share of construction costs for facilities under the 
Dredged Material Disposal Facilities program shall be de-
rived from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund as author-
ized by Public Law 104–303; and of which such sums as 
are necessary to cover one-half of the costs of construction, 
replacement, rehabilitation, and expansion of inland water-
ways projects shall be derived from the Inland Waterways 
Trust Fund, except as otherwise specifically provided for 
in law. 
MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND TRIBUTARIES 
For expenses necessary for flood damage reduction 
projects and related efforts in the Mississippi River alluvial 
valley below Cape Girardeau, Missouri, as authorized by 
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law, $330,000,000, to remain available until expended, of 
which such sums as are necessary to cover the Federal share 
of eligible operation and maintenance costs for inland har-
bors shall be derived from the Harbor Maintenance Trust 
Fund. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE 
For expenses necessary for the operation, maintenance, 
and care of existing river and harbor, flood and storm dam-
age reduction, aquatic ecosystem restoration, and related 
projects authorized by law; providing security for infra-
structure owned or operated by the Corps, including admin-
istrative buildings and laboratories; maintaining harbor 
channels provided by a State, municipality, or other public 
agency that serve essential navigation needs of general com-
merce, where authorized by law; surveying and charting 
northern and northwestern lakes and connecting waters; 
clearing and straightening channels; and removing obstruc-
tions to navigation, $2,909,000,000, to remain available 
until expended, of which such sums as are necessary to cover 
the Federal share of eligible operation and maintenance 
costs for coastal harbors and channels, and for inland har-
bors shall be derived from the Harbor Maintenance Trust 
Fund; of which such sums as become available from the spe-
cial account for the Corps of Engineers established by the 
Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 shall be 
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