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111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1307 
To authorize improvements to flood damage reduction facilities adjacent to 
the American and Sacramento Rivers near Sacramento, California, and 
for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 4, 2009 
Ms. MATSUI introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 
A BILL 
To authorize improvements to flood damage reduction facili-
ties adjacent to the American and Sacramento Rivers 
near Sacramento, California, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Natomas Basin Flood 
Protection Improvements Act of 2009’’. 
SEC. 2. PROJECT MODIFICATION, AMERICAN AND SAC-
RAMENTO RIVERS, CALIFORNIA. 
The project for flood damage reduction, American 
and Sacramento Rivers, California, authorized by section 
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101(a)(1) of the Water Resources Development Act of 
1996 (Public Law 104–303; 110 Stat. 3662), and modi-
fied by section 366 of the Water Resources Development 
Act of 1999 (Public Law 106–53; 113 Stat. 319), is fur-
ther modified to authorize work to be carried out by Fed-
eral or non-Federal interests to construct improvements 
to flood damage reduction facilities adjacent to the Amer-
ican and Sacramento Rivers in the vicinity of Sacramento, 
California, substantially in accordance with the report en-
titled ‘‘Plan Formulation Report, Natomas Levee Im-
provement Program, Early Implementation Project, Feb-
ruary, 2009’’, prepared by the Sacramento Area Flood 
Control Agency in coordination with the State of Cali-
fornia, at an estimated total cost of $618,000,000, with 
an estimated Federal cost of $463,500,000 and an esti-
mated non-Federal cost of $154,500,000. 
SEC. 3. CREDIT OR REIMBURSEMENT FOR NON-FEDERAL 
WORK. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The non-Federal interests shall 
receive credit toward the non-Federal share of project 
costs for expenses incurred, or in-kind contributions pro-
vided, by the non-Federal interest in planning, engineer-
ing, design, construction, and acquisition of lands, ease-
ments, rights-of-way, relocations, and dredged material 
disposal areas for any of the work authorized by section 
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2 determined by the Secretary of the Army to be compat-
ible with Corps of Engineers design and construction prac-
tices. 
(b) 
AMOUNT
IN
EXCESS
OF
NON-FEDERAL 
SHARE.—For expenses and in-kind contributions that the 
non-Federal interests incur for planning, engineering, de-
sign, construction, and acquisition of lands, easements, 
rights-of-way, relocations, and dredged material disposal 
areas for work authorized by section 2 which exceed the 
non-Federal share of such work, the non-Federal interests 
shall receive— 
(1) credit toward the non-Federal share of 
other projects, or separable elements of other 
projects, for which the non-Federal interests con-
tribute funds, with the Secretary of the Army allo-
cating credit to projects or separable project ele-
ments as requested by the non-Federal interests; or 
(2) reimbursement to the non-Federal interests, 
subject to the appropriation of funds. 
(c) LIMITATIONS.— 
(1) COST AND AUDIT.—Amounts credited or re-
imbursed under this Act may not exceed the actual 
cost of such work accomplished by the non-Federal 
interests prior to or subsequent to completion of the 
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report referred to in section 2 and shall be subject 
to audit by the Secretary of the Army. 
(2) EXCEPTION.—Amounts credited or reim-
bursed under this Act shall not be subject to the 
limitations set forth in section 102 of Public Law 
109–103 (119 Stat. 2253). 
SEC. 4. COST SHARING. 
The non-Federal share of the cost of work carried 
out pursuant to section 2 shall be the same as the non- 
Federal share of the cost of the project referred to in sec-
tion 2. 
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