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Red 
River 
Emergency 
Bank 
Protection, 
Louisiana,
$3,400,000;
Glen Foerd, Pennsylvania, $800,000;
South Central Pennsylvania Environmental Restoration
Infrastructure and Resource Protection Development Pilot Pro-
gram, Pennsylvania, $7,000,000;
Seekonk River, Rhode Island Bridge removal, $650,000;
Wallisville Lake, Texas, $7,500,000;
Richmond Filtration Plant, Virginia, $3,500,000;
Virginia Beach, Virginia, $8,000,000;
Hatfield Bottom (Levisa and Tug Forks of the Big Sandy
River and Upper Cumberland River), West Virginia, $1,300,000;
Lower Mingo (Kermit) (Levisa and Tug Forks of the Big
Sandy River and Upper Cumberland River), West Virginia,
$4,000,000;
Lower Mingo, West Virginia, Tributaries Supplement,
$105,000; and
Upper Mingo County (Levisa and Tug Forks of the Big
Sandy River and Upper Cumberland River), West Virginia,
$3,500,000: Provided, That of the funds provided for the Red
River Waterway, Mississippi River to Shreveport, Louisiana,
project, $3,000,000 is provided, to remain available until
expended, for design and construction of a regional visitor cen-
ter in the vicinity of Shreveport, Louisiana at full Federal
expense: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Army,
acting through the Chief of Engineers, is directed to use
$1,000,000 of the funds appropriated in Public Law 104–46
for construction of the Ohio River Flood Protection, Indiana,
project: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Army, acting
through the Chief of Engineers, is directed, in cooperation
with State, county, and city officials and in consultation with
the Des Moines River Greenbelt Advisory Committee, to provide
highway and other signs appropriate to direct the public to
the bike trail which runs from downtown Des Moines, Iowa,
to the Big Creek Recreation area at the Corps of Engineers
Saylorville Lake project and the wildlife refuge in Jasper and
Marion Counties in Iowa authorized in Public Law 101–302:
Provided further, That any law, regulation, documents or record
of the United States in which such projects are referred to
shall be held to refer to the bike trail as the Neal Smith
Bike Trail and to such centers as the Neal Smith Prairie
Wildlife Learning Center: Provided further, That the Secretary
is directed to initiate construction on the Joseph G. Minish
Historic Waterfront Park, New Jersey, project; furthermore,
the Secretary may transfer not to exceed $900,000 from General
Investigations appropriations made in title I of the Energy
and Water Development Appropriations Act, Public Law 103–
126 (107 Stat. 1313) for the Passaic River, Mainstem, New
Jersey, to Construction, General for the Joseph G. Minish His-
toric Waterfront Park, New Jersey, project and that the
Committees on Appropriations of the House and Senate shall
be promptly advised of such transfer: Provided further, That
of the funds provided herein, $1,000,000 shall be for payment
to the Kansas City Southern Industries, Inc., in partial
reimbursement of costs associated with the relocation and modi-
fication of the Louisiana and Arkansas (L&A) Railway Bridge
at Alexandria, Louisiana, for navigation requirements of the
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Red River navigation project: Provided further, That using
$500,000 of the funds appropriated for the Passaic River
Mainstem, New Jersey, project under the heading ‘‘General
Investigations’’ in Public Law 103–126, the Secretary of the
Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, is directed to
begin implementation of the Passaic River Preservation of
Natural Storage Areas separable element of the Passaic River
Flood Reduction Project, New Jersey: Provided further, That
the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engi-
neers, is authorized and directed to initiate construction on
the following projects in the amounts specified:
Humboldt Harbor, California, $2,500,000;
San Lorenzo River, California, $200,000;
Faulkner’s Island, Connecticut, $1,500,000;
Chicago Shoreline, Illinois, $8,000,000;
Pond Creek, Jefferson City, Kentucky, $1,500,000;
Natchez Bluff, Mississippi, $4,500,000;
Wood River, Grand Isle, Nebraska, $1,000,000;
New York City Watershed, New York, $1,000,000;
Duck Creek, Cincinnati, Ohio, $466,000;
Saw Mill Run, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, $500,000;
West Virginia and Pennsylvania Flooding, West Virginia
and Pennsylvania, $1,000,000;
Upper Jordan River, Utah, $500,000;
San Juan Harbor, Puerto Rico, $800,000; and
Allendale Dam, Rhode Island, $195,000: Provided further,
That no fully allocated funding policy shall apply to construction
of the projects listed above, and the Secretary of the Army
is directed to undertake these projects using continuing con-
tracts where sufficient funds to complete the projects are not
available from funds provided herein or in prior years.
FLOOD
CONTROL,
MISSISSIPPI
RIVER
AND
TRIBUTARIES,
ARKANSAS,
ILLINOIS, 
KENTUCKY, 
LOUISIANA, 
MISSISSIPPI, 
MISSOURI, 
AND
TENNESSEE
For expenses necessary for prosecuting work of flood control,
and rescue work, repair, restoration, or maintenance of flood control
projects threatened or destroyed by flood, as authorized by law
(33 U.S.C. 702a, 702g–1), $310,374,000, to remain available until
expended: Provided, That the President of the Mississippi River
Commission is directed henceforth to use the variable cost recovery
rate set forth in OMB Circular A–126 for use of the Commission
aircraft authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1946, Public Law
526: Provided further, That notwithstanding the funding limitations
set forth in Public Law 104–6 (109 Stat. 85), the Secretary of
the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, is authorized
and directed to use additional funds appropriated herein or pre-
viously appropriated to complete remedial measures to prevent
slope instability at Hickman Bluff, Kentucky.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, GENERAL
For expenses necessary for the preservation, operation, mainte-
nance, and care of existing river and harbor, flood control, and
related works, including such sums as may be necessary for the
maintenance of harbor channels provided by a State, municipality
or other public agency, outside of harbor lines, and serving essential
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needs of general commerce and navigation; surveys and charting
of northern and northwestern lakes and connecting waters; clearing
and straightening channels; and removal of obstructions to naviga-
tion, $1,697,015,000, to remain available until expended, of which
such sums as become available in the Harbor Maintenance Trust
Fund, pursuant to Public Law 99–662, may be derived from that
fund, and of which such sums as become available from the special
account established by the Land and Water Conservation Act of
1965, as amended (16 U.S.C. 460l), may be derived from that
fund for construction, operation, and maintenance of outdoor recre-
ation facilities, and of which funds are provided for the following
projects in the amounts specified:
Raystown Lake, Pennsylvania, $4,190,000; and
Cooper Lake and Channels, Texas, $2,601,000:
Provided, That using $1,000,000 of the funds appropriated herein,
the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers,
is directed to design and construct a landing at Guntersville, Ala-
bama, as described in the Master Plan Report of the Nashville
District titled ‘‘Guntersville Landing’’ dated June, 1996: Provided
further, That the Secretary of the Army is directed to design and
implement at full Federal expense an early flood warning system
for the Greenbrier and Cheat River Basins, West Virginia within
eighteen months from the date of enactment of this Act: Provided
further, That the Secretary of the Army is directed during fiscal
year 1997 to maintain a minimum conservation pool level of 475.5
at Wister Lake in Oklahoma: Provided further, That no funds,
whether appropriated, contributed, or otherwise provided, shall be
available to the United States Army Corps of Engineers for the
purpose of acquiring land in Jasper County, South Carolina, in
connection with the Savannah Harbor navigation project: Provided
further, That the Secretary of the Army is directed to use $600,000
of funding provided herein to perform maintenance dredging of
the Cocheco River navigation project, New Hampshire.
REGULATORY PROGRAM
For expenses necessary for administration of laws pertaining
to regulation of navigable waters and wetlands, $101,000,000, to
remain available until expended.
FLOOD CONTROL AND COASTAL EMERGENCIES
For expenses necessary for emergency flood control, hurricane,
and shore protection activities, as authorized by section 5 of the
Flood Control Act approved August 18, 1941, as amended,
$10,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That
the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers,
is directed to use up to $8,000,000 of the funds appropriated herein
and under this heading in Public Law 104–134 to rehabilitate
non-Federal flood control levees along the Puyallup and Carbon
Rivers in Pierce County, Washington.
GENERAL EXPENSES
For expenses necessary for general administration and related
functions in the Office of the Chief of Engineers and offices of
the Division Engineers; activities of the Coastal Engineering
Research Board, the Humphreys Engineer Center Support Activity,
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the Engineering Strategic Studies Center, and the Water Resources
Support Center, and for costs of implementing the Secretary of
the Army’s plan to reduce the number of division offices as directed
in title I, Public Law 104–46, $149,000,000, to remain available
until expended: Provided, That no part of any other appropriation
provided in title I of this Act shall be available to fund the activities
of the Office of the Chief of Engineers or the executive direction
and management activities of the Division Offices: Provided further,
That with funds provided herein and notwithstanding any other
provision of law, the Secretary of the Army shall develop and
submit to the Congress (including the Committee on Environment
and Public Works of the Senate and the Committee on Transpor-
tation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives) within
60 days of enactment of this Act, a plan which reduces the number
of division offices within the United States Army Corps of Engineers
to no less than 6 and no more than 8, with each division responsible
for at least 4 district offices, but does not close or change any
civil function of any district office: Provided further, That notwith-
standing any other provision of law, the Secretary of the Army
is directed to begin implementing the division office plan on April
1, 1997: Provided further, That up to $1,500,000 may be transferred
to this account from any other appropriation account in this title.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION
Appropriations in this title shall be available for official recep-
tion and representation expenses (not to exceed $5,000); and during
the current fiscal year the revolving fund, Corps of Engineers,
shall be available for purchase (not to exceed 100 for replacement
only) and hire of passenger motor vehicles.
GENERAL PROVISIONS
CORPS OF ENGINEERS—CIVIL
SEC. 101. (a) In fiscal year 1997, the Secretary of the Army
shall advertise for competitive bid at least 8,500,000 cubic yards
of the hopper dredge volume accomplished with government owned
dredges in fiscal year 1992.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, the Secretary
is authorized to use the dredge fleet of the Corps of Engineers
to undertake projects when industry does not perform as required
by the contract specifications or when the bids are more than
25 percent in excess of what the Secretary determines to be a
fair and reasonable estimated cost of a well equipped contractor
doing the work or to respond to emergency requirements.
SEC. 102. None of the funds appropriated herein or otherwise
made available to the Army Corps of Engineers, including amounts
contained in the Revolving Fund of the Army Corps of Engineers,
may be used to study, design or undertake improvements or major
repair of the Federal vessel, McFARLAND, except for normal
maintenance and repair necessary to maintain the vessel
McFARLAND’s current operational condition.
SEC. 103. The flood control project for Moorefield, West Virginia,
authorized by section 101(a)(25) of the Water Resources Develop-
ment Act of 1990 (Public Law 101–640, 104 Stat. 4610) is modified
to authorize the Secretary of the Army to construct the project
at a total cost of $26,200,000, with an estimated first Federal