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SEC. 5126. BEAUFORT AND JASPER COUNTIES, SOUTH 
CAROLINA. 
The Secretary may accept from the Department of 
the Navy, and may use, not to exceed $23,000,000 to as-
sist the Beaufort Jasper Water and Sewage Authority, 
South Carolina, with its plan to consolidate civilian and 
military wastewater treatment facilities. 
SEC. 5127. EAST TENNESSEE. 
(a) EAST TENNESSEE DEFINED.—In this section, 
the term ‘‘East Tennessee’’ means the counties of Blount, 
Knox, Loudon, McMinn, Monroe, and Sevier, Tennessee. 
(b) ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM.—The Secretary 
may establish a program to provide environmental assist-
ance to non-Federal interests in East Tennessee. 
(c) FORM OF ASSISTANCE.—Assistance under this 
section may be in the form of design and construction as-
sistance for water-related environmental infrastructure 
and resource protection and development projects in East 
Tennessee, including projects for wastewater treatment 
and related facilities, water supply and related facilities, 
environmental restoration, and surface water resource pro-
tection and development. 
(d) OWNERSHIP REQUIREMENT.—The Secretary may 
provide assistance for a project under this section only if 
the project is publicly owned. 
(e) PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENTS.—
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(1) IN GENERAL.—Before providing assistance 
under this section, the Secretary shall enter into a 
partnership agreement with a non-Federal interest 
to provide for design and construction of the project 
to be carried out with the assistance. 
(2) REQUIREMENTS.—Each partnership agree-
ment entered into under this subsection shall provide 
for the following: 
(A) PLAN.—Development by the Secretary, 
in consultation with appropriate Federal and 
State officials, of a facilities or resource protec-
tion and development plan, including appro-
priate engineering plans and specifications. 
(B) LEGAL
AND
INSTITUTIONAL
STRUC-
TURES.—Establishment of such legal and insti-
tutional structures as are necessary to ensure 
the effective long-term operation of the project 
by the non-Federal interest. 
(3) COST SHARING.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Federal share of 
the project cost under each partnership agree-
ment entered into under this subsection shall be 
75 percent. The Federal share may be in the 
form of grants or reimbursements of project 
costs.
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(B) CREDIT FOR WORK.—The non-Federal 
interests shall receive credit for the reasonable 
cost of design work on a project completed by 
the non-Federal interest before entering into a 
partnership agreement with the Secretary for 
such project. 
(C) CREDIT FOR INTEREST.—In case of a 
delay in the funding of the non-Federal share 
of a project that is the subject of an agreement 
under this section, the non-Federal interest 
shall receive credit for reasonable interest in-
curred in providing the non-Federal share of 
the project cost. 
(D) LAND, EASEMENTS, AND RIGHTS-OF-
WAY CREDIT.—The non-Federal interest shall 
receive credit for land, easements, rights-of-
way, and relocations toward the non-Federal 
share of project cost (including all reasonable 
costs associated with obtaining permits nec-
essary for the construction, operation, and 
maintenance of the project on publicly owned or 
controlled land), but not to exceed 25 percent 
of total project cost. 
(E) OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE.—The 
non-Federal share of operation and mainte-
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nance costs for projects constructed with assist-
ance provided under this section shall be 100 
percent. 
(f) APPLICABILITY OF OTHER FEDERAL AND STATE 
LAWS.—Nothing in this section waives, limits, or other-
wise affects the applicability of any provision of Federal 
or State law that would otherwise apply to a project to 
be carried out with assistance provided under this section. 
(g) NONPROFIT ENTITIES.—Notwithstanding section 
221(b) of the Flood Control Act of 1970 (42 U.S.C. 
1962d-5b(b)), for any project undertaken under this sec-
tion, a non-Federal interest may include a nonprofit entity 
with the consent of the affected local government. 
(h) CORPS OF ENGINEERS EXPENSES.—Ten percent 
of the amounts appropriated to carry out this section may 
be used by the Corps of Engineers district offices to ad-
minister projects under this section at 100 percent Fed-
eral expense. 
(i) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
$40,000,000. Such sums shall remain available until ex-
pended. 
SEC. 5128. FRITZ LANDING, TENNESSEE. 
The Secretary shall—
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(1) conduct a study of the Fritz Landing Agri-
cultural Spur Levee, Tennessee, to determine the ex-
tent of levee modifications that would be required to 
make the levee and associated drainage structures 
consistent with Federal standards; 
(2) design and construct such modifications; 
and 
(3) after completion of such modifications, in-
corporate the levee into the project for flood control, 
Mississippi River and Tributaries, authorized by the 
Act entitled ‘‘An Act for the control of floods on the 
Mississippi River and its tributaries, and for other 
purposes’’, approved May 15, 1928 (45 Stat. 534–
539), commonly known as the ‘‘Flood Control Act of 
1928’’. 
SEC. 5129. J. PERCY PRIEST DAM AND RESERVOIR, TEN-
NESSEE. 
The Secretary shall plan, design, and construct a trail 
system at the J. Percy Priest Dam and Reservoir, Ten-
nessee, authorized by section 4 of the Act entitled ‘‘An 
Act authorizing the construction of certain public works 
on rivers and harbors for flood control, and for other pur-
poses’’, approved June 28, 1938 (52 Stat. 1217), includ-
ing design and construction of support facilities for public 
health and safety associated with trail development. In