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cally justified and environmentally acceptable and that the 
channel or breakwater was constructed in accordance with 
applicable permits and appropriate engineering and design 
standards: 
(1) Manatee Harbor basin, Florida. 
(2) Bayou LaFourche Channel, Port Fourchon, 
Louisiana. 
(3) Calcasieu River at Devil’s Elbow, Louisiana. 
(4) Pidgeon Industrial Harbor, Pidgeon Indus-
trial Park, Memphis Harbor, Tennessee. 
(5) Pix Bayou Navigation Channel, Chambers 
County, Texas. 
(6) Racine Harbor, Wisconsin. 
(b) COMPLETION OF ASSESSMENT.—Not later than 
6 months after the date of receipt of a request from a 
non-Federal interest for Federal assumption of mainte-
nance of a channel listed in subsection (a), the Secretary 
shall make a determination as provided in subsection (a) 
and advise the non-Federal interest of the Secretary’s de-
termination. 
SEC. 5002. WATERSHED MANAGEMENT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may provide tech-
nical, planning, and design assistance to non-Federal in-
terests for carrying out watershed management, restora-
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tion, and development projects at the locations described 
in subsection (d). 
(b) 
SPECIFIC
MEASURES.—Assistance 
provided 
under subsection (a) may be in support of non-Federal 
projects for the following purposes: 
(1) Management and restoration of water qual-
ity. 
(2) Control and remediation of toxic sediments. 
(3) Restoration of degraded streams, rivers, 
wetlands, and other waterbodies to their natural 
condition as a means to control flooding, excessive 
erosion, and sedimentation. 
(4) Protection and restoration of watersheds, 
including urban watersheds. 
(5) Demonstration of technologies for non-
structural measures to reduce destructive impacts of 
flooding. 
(c) NON-FEDERAL SHARE.—The non-Federal share 
of the cost of assistance provided under subsection (a) 
shall be 50 percent. 
(d) PROJECT LOCATIONS.—The locations referred to 
in subsection (a) are the following: 
(1) Charlotte Harbor watershed, Florida. 
(2) Big Creek watershed, Roswell, Georgia.
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(3) Those portions of the watersheds of the 
Chattahoochee, 
Etowah, 
Flint, 
Ocmulgee, 
and 
Oconee Rivers lying within the counties of Bartow, 
Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, DeKalb, Douglas, 
Fayette, Fulton, Forsyth, Gwinnett, Hall, Henry, 
Paulding, Rockdale, and Walton, Georgia. 
(4) Kinkaid Lake, Jackson County, Illinois. 
(5) Amite River basin, Louisiana. 
(6) East Atchafalaya River basin, Iberville Par-
ish and Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. 
(7) Red River watershed, Louisiana. 
(8) Taunton River basin, Massachusetts. 
(9) Lower Platte River watershed, Nebraska. 
(10) Rio Grande watershed, New Mexico. 
(11) Marlboro Township, New Jersey. 
(12) Buffalo River watershed, New York. 
(13) Cattaragus Creek watershed, New York. 
(14) Eighteenmile Creek watershed, Niagara 
County, New York. 
(15) Esopus, Plattekill, and Rondout Creeks, 
Greene, Sullivan, and Ulster Counties, New York. 
(16) Genesee River watershed, New York. 
(17) Greenwood Lake watershed, New York 
and New Jersey. 
(18) Long Island Sound watershed, New York.
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(19) Oswego River basin, New York. 
(20) Ramapo River watershed, New York. 
(21) Tonawanda Creek watershed, New York. 
(22) Tuscarawas River basin, Ohio. 
(23) Western Lake Erie basin, Ohio. 
(24) Those portions of the watersheds of the 
Beaver, Upper Ohio, Connoquenessing, Lower Alle-
gheny, 
Kiskiminetas, 
Lower 
Monongahela, 
Youghiogheny, Shenango, and Mahoning Rivers 
lying within the counties of Beaver, Butler, Law-
rence, and Mercer, Pennsylvania. 
(25) Otter Creek watershed, Pennsylvania. 
(26) Unami Creek watershed, Milford Town-
ship, Pennsylvania. 
(27) Sauk River basin, Washington. 
(28) Greater Milwaukee watersheds, Wisconsin. 
(e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
$15,000,000. 
SEC. 5003. DAM SAFETY. 
(a) ASSISTANCE.—The Secretary may provide assist-
ance to enhance dam safety at the following locations: 
(1) Fish Creek Dam, Blaine County, Idaho. 
(2) Hamilton Dam, Saginaw River, Flint, 
Michigan.