IIB 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3224 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
OCTOBER 30, 2007 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and 
Public Works 
AN ACT 
To amend the National Dam Safety Program Act to establish 
a program to provide grant assistance to States for the 
rehabilitation and repair of deficient dams. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Dam Rehabilitation 
and Repair Act of 2007’’. 
SEC. 2. REHABILITATION AND REPAIR OF DEFICIENT 
DAMS. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—Section 2 of the National Dam 
Safety Program Act (33 U.S.C. 467) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (3), (4), (5), 
(6), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11), (12), and (13) as para-
graphs (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10), (12), (13), 
(14), and (15), respectively; 
(2) by inserting after paragraph (2) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(3) DEFICIENT
DAM.—The term ‘deficient 
dam’ means a dam that the State within the bound-
aries of which the dam is located determines— 
‘‘(A) fails to meet minimum dam safety 
standards of the State; and 
‘‘(B) poses an unacceptable risk to the 
public.’’; and 
(3) by inserting after paragraph (10) (as redes-
ignated by paragraph (1)) the following: 
‘‘(11) REHABILITATION.—The term ‘rehabilita-
tion’ means the repair, replacement, reconstruction, 
or removal of a dam that is carried out to meet ap-
plicable State dam safety and security standards.’’. 
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(b) PROGRAM FOR REHABILITATION AND REPAIR OF 
DEFICIENT DAMS.—The National Dam Safety Program 
Act is amended by inserting after section 8 (33 U.S.C. 
467f) the following: 
‘‘SEC. 8A. REHABILITATION AND REPAIR OF DEFICIENT 
DAMS. 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM.—The Director 
shall establish, within FEMA, a program to provide grant 
assistance to States for use in rehabilitation of publicly- 
owned deficient dams. 
‘‘(b) AWARD OF GRANTS.— 
‘‘(1) APPLICATION.—A State interested in re-
ceiving a grant under this section may submit to the 
Director an application for such grant. Applications 
submitted to the Director under this section shall be 
submitted at such times, be in such form, and con-
tain such information, as the Director may prescribe 
by regulation. 
‘‘(2) IN GENERAL.—Subject to the provisions of 
this section, the Director may make a grant for re-
habilitation of a deficient dam to a State that sub-
mits an application for the grant in accordance with 
the regulations prescribed by the Director. The Di-
rector shall enter into a project grant agreement 
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with the State to establish the terms of the grant 
and the project, including the amount of the grant. 
‘‘(3) APPLICABILITY OF STANDARDS.—The Di-
rector shall require States that apply for grants 
under this section to comply with the standards of 
section 611(j)(9) of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 
Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 
5196(j)(9)), as in effect on the date of enactment of 
this section, with respect to projects assisted under 
this section in the same manner as recipients are re-
quired to comply in order to receive financial con-
tributions from the Director for emergency pre-
paredness purposes. 
‘‘(c) PRIORITY SYSTEM.—The Director, in consulta-
tion with the Board, shall develop a risk-based priority 
system for use in identifying deficient dams for which 
grants may be made under this section. 
‘‘(d) ALLOCATION OF FUNDS.—The total amount of 
funds appropriated pursuant to subsection (f)(1) for a fis-
cal year shall be allocated for making grants under this 
section to States applying for such grants for that fiscal 
year as follows: 
‘‘(1) One-third divided equally among applying 
States. 
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