H. R. 1495 
One Hundred Tenth Congress 
of the 
United States of America 
AT THE FIRST SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Thursday, 
the fourth day of January, two thousand and seven 
An Act 
To provide for the conservation and development of water and related resources, 
to authorize the Secretary of the Army to construct various projects for improve-
ments to rivers and harbors of the United States, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Water 
Resources Development Act of 2007’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for this Act 
is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Definition of Secretary. 
TITLE I—WATER RESOURCES PROJECTS 
Sec. 1001. Project authorizations. 
Sec. 1002. Small projects for flood damage reduction. 
Sec. 1003. Small projects for emergency streambank protection. 
Sec. 1004. Small projects for navigation. 
Sec. 1005. Small projects for improvement of the quality of the environment. 
Sec. 1006. Small projects for aquatic ecosystem restoration. 
Sec. 1007. Small projects for shoreline protection. 
Sec. 1008. Small projects for snagging and sediment removal. 
Sec. 1009. Small projects to prevent or mitigate damage caused by navigation 
projects. 
Sec. 1010. Small projects for aquatic plant control. 
TITLE II—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
Sec. 2001. Non-Federal contributions. 
Sec. 2002. Funding to process permits. 
Sec. 2003. Written agreement for water resources projects. 
Sec. 2004. Compilation of laws. 
Sec. 2005. Dredged material disposal. 
Sec. 2006. Remote and subsistence harbors. 
Sec. 2007. Use of other Federal funds. 
Sec. 2008. Revision of project partnership agreement; cost sharing. 
Sec. 2009. Expedited actions for emergency flood damage reduction. 
Sec. 2010. Watershed and river basin assessments. 
Sec. 2011. Tribal partnership program. 
Sec. 2012. Wildfire firefighting. 
Sec. 2013. Technical assistance. 
Sec. 2014. Lakes program. 
Sec. 2015. Cooperative agreements. 
Sec. 2016. Training funds. 
Sec. 2017. Access to water resource data. 
Sec. 2018. Shore protection projects. 
Sec. 2019. Ability to pay. 
Sec. 2020. Aquatic ecosystem and estuary restoration. 
Sec. 2021. Small flood damage reduction projects. 
Sec. 2022. Small river and harbor improvement projects. 
Sec. 2023. Protection of highways, bridge approaches, public works, and nonprofit 
public services.
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Sec. 2024. Modification of projects for improvement of the quality of the environ-
ment. 
Sec. 2025. Remediation of abandoned mine sites. 
Sec. 2026. Leasing authority. 
Sec. 2027. Fiscal transparency report. 
Sec. 2028. Support of Army civil works program. 
Sec. 2029. Sense of Congress on criteria for operation and maintenance of harbor 
dredging projects. 
Sec. 2030. Interagency and international support authority. 
Sec. 2031. Water resources principles and guidelines. 
Sec. 2032. Water resource priorities report. 
Sec. 2033. Planning. 
Sec. 2034. Independent peer review. 
Sec. 2035. Safety assurance review. 
Sec. 2036. Mitigation for fish and wildlife and wetlands losses. 
Sec. 2037. Regional sediment management. 
Sec. 2038. National shoreline erosion control development program. 
Sec. 2039. Monitoring ecosystem restoration. 
Sec. 2040. Electronic submission of permit applications. 
Sec. 2041. Project administration. 
Sec. 2042. Program administration. 
Sec. 2043. Studies and reports for water resources projects. 
Sec. 2044. Coordination and scheduling of Federal, State, and local actions. 
Sec. 2045. Project streamlining. 
Sec. 2046. Project deauthorization. 
Sec. 2047. Federal hopper dredges. 
TITLE III—PROJECT-RELATED PROVISIONS 
Sec. 3001. Black Warrior-Tombigbee Rivers, Alabama. 
Sec. 3002. Cook Inlet, Alaska. 
Sec. 3003. King Cove Harbor, Alaska. 
Sec. 3004. Seward Harbor, Alaska. 
Sec. 3005. Sitka, Alaska. 
Sec. 3006. Tatitlek, Alaska. 
Sec. 3007. Rio De Flag, Flagstaff, Arizona. 
Sec. 3008. Nogales Wash and tributaries flood control project, Arizona. 
Sec. 3009. Tucson drainage area, Arizona. 
Sec. 3010. Osceola Harbor, Arkansas. 
Sec. 3011. St. Francis River Basin, Arkansas and Missouri. 
Sec. 3012. Pine Mountain Dam, Arkansas. 
Sec. 3013. Red-Ouachita River Basin Levees, Arkansas and Louisiana. 
Sec. 3014. Cache Creek Basin, California. 
Sec. 3015. CALFED stability program, California. 
Sec. 3016. Compton Creek, California. 
Sec. 3017. Grayson Creek/Murderer’s Creek, California. 
Sec. 3018. Hamilton Airfield, California. 
Sec. 3019. John F. Baldwin Ship Channel and Stockton Ship Channel, California. 
Sec. 3020. Kaweah River, California. 
Sec. 3021. Larkspur Ferry Channel, Larkspur, California. 
Sec. 3022. Llagas Creek, California. 
Sec. 3023. Magpie Creek, California. 
Sec. 3024. Pacific Flyway Center, Sacramento, California. 
Sec. 3025. Petaluma River, Petaluma, California. 
Sec. 3026. Pinole Creek, California. 
Sec. 3027. Prado Dam, California. 
Sec. 3028. Redwood City Navigation Channel, California. 
Sec. 3029. Sacramento and American Rivers flood control, California. 
Sec. 3030. Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel, California. 
Sec. 3031. Sacramento River bank protection, California. 
Sec. 3032. Salton Sea restoration, California. 
Sec. 3033. Santa Ana River Mainstem, California. 
Sec. 3034. Santa Barbara Streams, Lower Mission Creek, California. 
Sec. 3035. Santa Cruz Harbor, California. 
Sec. 3036. Seven Oaks Dam, California. 
Sec. 3037. Upper Guadalupe River, California. 
Sec. 3038. Walnut Creek Channel, California. 
Sec. 3039. Wildcat/San Pablo Creek Phase I, California. 
Sec. 3040. Wildcat/San Pablo Creek Phase II, California. 
Sec. 3041. Yuba River Basin project, California. 
Sec. 3042. South Platte River basin, Colorado. 
Sec. 3043. Intracoastal Waterway, Delaware River to Chesapeake Bay, Delaware 
and Maryland.
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Sec. 3044. St. George’s Bridge, Delaware. 
Sec. 3045. Brevard County, Florida. 
Sec. 3046. Broward County and Hillsboro Inlet, Florida. 
Sec. 3047. Canaveral Harbor, Florida. 
Sec. 3048. Gasparilla and Estero Islands, Florida. 
Sec. 3049. Lido Key Beach, Sarasota, Florida. 
Sec. 3050. Peanut Island, Florida. 
Sec. 3051. Port Sutton, Florida. 
Sec. 3052. Tampa Harbor-Big Bend Channel, Florida. 
Sec. 3053. Tampa Harbor Cut B, Florida. 
Sec. 3054. Allatoona Lake, Georgia. 
Sec. 3055. Latham River, Glynn County, Georgia. 
Sec. 3056. Dworshak Reservoir improvements, Idaho. 
Sec. 3057. Little Wood River, Gooding, Idaho. 
Sec. 3058. Beardstown Community Boat Harbor, Beardstown, Illinois. 
Sec. 3059. Cache River Levee, Illinois. 
Sec. 3060. Chicago River, Illinois. 
Sec. 3061. Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal dispersal barriers project, Illinois. 
Sec. 3062. Emiquon, Illinois. 
Sec. 3063. Lasalle, Illinois. 
Sec. 3064. Spunky Bottoms, Illinois. 
Sec. 3065. Cedar Lake, Indiana. 
Sec. 3066. Koontz Lake, Indiana. 
Sec. 3067. White River, Indiana. 
Sec. 3068. Des Moines River and Greenbelt, Iowa. 
Sec. 3069. Perry Creek, Iowa. 
Sec. 3070. Rathbun Lake, Iowa. 
Sec. 3071. Hickman Bluff stabilization, Kentucky. 
Sec. 3072. Mcalpine Lock and Dam, Kentucky and Indiana. 
Sec. 3073. Prestonsburg, Kentucky. 
Sec. 3074. Amite River and tributaries, Louisiana, East Baton Rouge Parish Water-
shed. 
Sec. 3075. Atchafalaya Basin Floodway System, Louisiana. 
Sec. 3076. Atchafalaya Basin Floodway System, regional visitor center, Louisiana. 
Sec. 3077. Atchafalaya River and Bayous Chene, Boeuf, and Black, Louisiana. 
Sec. 3078. Bayou Plaquemine, Louisiana. 
Sec. 3079. Calcasieu River and Pass, Louisiana. 
Sec. 3080. Red River (J. Bennett Johnston) Waterway, Louisiana. 
Sec. 3081. Mississippi Delta Region, Louisiana. 
Sec. 3082. Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet relocation assistance, Louisiana. 
Sec. 3083. Violet, Louisiana. 
Sec. 3084. West bank of the Mississippi River (East of Harvey Canal), Louisiana. 
Sec. 3085. Camp Ellis, Saco, Maine. 
Sec. 3086. Cumberland, Maryland. 
Sec. 3087. Poplar Island, Maryland. 
Sec. 3088. Detroit River shoreline, Detroit, Michigan. 
Sec. 3089. St. Clair River and Lake St. Clair, Michigan. 
Sec. 3090. St. Joseph Harbor, Michigan. 
Sec. 3091. Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan. 
Sec. 3092. Ada, Minnesota. 
Sec. 3093. Duluth Harbor, McQuade Road, Minnesota. 
Sec. 3094. Grand Marais, Minnesota. 
Sec. 3095. Grand Portage Harbor, Minnesota. 
Sec. 3096. Granite Falls, Minnesota. 
Sec. 3097. Knife River Harbor, Minnesota. 
Sec. 3098. Red Lake River, Minnesota. 
Sec. 3099. Silver Bay, Minnesota. 
Sec. 3100. Taconite Harbor, Minnesota. 
Sec. 3101. Two Harbors, Minnesota. 
Sec. 3102. Deer Island, Harrison County, Mississippi. 
Sec. 3103. Jackson County, Mississippi. 
Sec. 3104. Pearl River Basin, Mississippi. 
Sec. 3105. Festus and Crystal City, Missouri. 
Sec. 3106. L–15 levee, Missouri. 
Sec. 3107. Monarch-Chesterfield, Missouri. 
Sec. 3108. River Des Peres, Missouri. 
Sec. 3109. Lower Yellowstone project, Montana. 
Sec. 3110. Yellowstone River and tributaries, Montana and North Dakota. 
Sec. 3111. Antelope Creek, Lincoln, Nebraska. 
Sec. 3112. Sand Creek watershed, Wahoo, Nebraska. 
Sec. 3113. Western Sarpy and Clear Creek, Nebraska. 
Sec. 3114. Lower Truckee River, McCarran Ranch, Nevada.
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Sec. 3115. Lower Cape May Meadows, Cape May Point, New Jersey. 
Sec. 3116. Passaic River basin flood management, New Jersey. 
Sec. 3117. Cooperative agreements, New Mexico. 
Sec. 3118. Middle Rio Grande restoration, New Mexico. 
Sec. 3119. Buffalo Harbor, New York. 
Sec. 3120. Long Island Sound oyster restoration, New York and Connecticut. 
Sec. 3121. Mamaroneck and Sheldrake Rivers watershed management, New York. 
Sec. 3122. Orchard Beach, Bronx, New York. 
Sec. 3123. Port of New York and New Jersey, New York and New Jersey. 
Sec. 3124. New York State Canal System. 
Sec. 3125. Susquehanna River and Upper Delaware River watershed management, 
New York. 
Sec. 3126. Missouri River restoration, North Dakota. 
Sec. 3127. Wahpeton, North Dakota. 
Sec. 3128. Ohio. 
Sec. 3129. Lower Girard Lake Dam, Girard, Ohio. 
Sec. 3130. Mahoning River, Ohio. 
Sec. 3131. Arcadia Lake, Oklahoma. 
Sec. 3132. Arkansas River Corridor, Oklahoma. 
Sec. 3133. Lake Eufaula, Oklahoma. 
Sec. 3134. Oklahoma lakes demonstration program, Oklahoma. 
Sec. 3135. Ottawa County, Oklahoma. 
Sec. 3136. Red River chloride control, Oklahoma and Texas. 
Sec. 3137. Waurika Lake, Oklahoma. 
Sec. 3138. Upper Willamette River watershed ecosystem restoration, Oregon. 
Sec. 3139. Delaware River, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. 
Sec. 3140. Raystown Lake, Pennsylvania. 
Sec. 3141. Sheraden Park Stream and Chartiers Creek, Allegheny County, Pennsyl-
vania. 
Sec. 3142. Solomon’s Creek, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. 
Sec. 3143. South Central Pennsylvania. 
Sec. 3144. Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania. 
Sec. 3145. Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. 
Sec. 3146. Missouri River Restoration, South Dakota. 
Sec. 3147. Cedar Bayou, Texas. 
Sec. 3148. Freeport Harbor, Texas. 
Sec. 3149. Lake Kemp, Texas. 
Sec. 3150. Lower Rio Grande Basin, Texas. 
Sec. 3151. North Padre Island, Corpus Christi Bay, Texas. 
Sec. 3152. Pat Mayse Lake, Texas. 
Sec. 3153. Proctor Lake, Texas. 
Sec. 3154. San Antonio Channel, San Antonio, Texas. 
Sec. 3155. Connecticut River restoration, Vermont. 
Sec. 3156. Dam remediation, Vermont. 
Sec. 3157. Lake Champlain Eurasian milfoil, water chestnut, and other nonnative 
plant control, Vermont. 
Sec. 3158. Upper Connecticut River Basin wetland restoration, Vermont and New 
Hampshire. 
Sec. 3159. Upper Connecticut River basin ecosystem restoration, Vermont and New 
Hampshire. 
Sec. 3160. Lake Champlain watershed, Vermont and New York. 
Sec. 3161. Sandbridge Beach, Virginia Beach, Virginia. 
Sec. 3162. Tangier Island Seawall, Virginia. 
Sec. 3163. Duwamish/Green, Washington. 
Sec. 3164. McNary Lock and Dam, McNary National Wildlife Refuge, Washington 
and Idaho. 
Sec. 3165. Snake River project, Washington and Idaho. 
Sec. 3166. Yakima River, Port of Sunnyside, Washington. 
Sec. 3167. Bluestone Lake, Ohio River Basin, West Virginia. 
Sec. 3168. Greenbrier River basin, West Virginia. 
Sec. 3169. Lesage/Greenbottom Swamp, West Virginia. 
Sec. 3170. Lower Mud River, Milton, West Virginia. 
Sec. 3171. Mcdowell County, West Virginia. 
Sec. 3172. Parkersburg, West Virginia. 
Sec. 3173. Green Bay Harbor, Green Bay, Wisconsin. 
Sec. 3174. Manitowoc Harbor, Wisconsin. 
Sec. 3175. Mississippi River headwaters reservoirs. 
Sec. 3176. Upper basin of Missouri River. 
Sec. 3177. Upper Mississippi River System environmental management program. 
Sec. 3178. Upper Ohio River and Tributaries navigation system new technology 
pilot program. 
Sec. 3179. Continuation of project authorizations.