Title: A bill to provide for certain water resources development activities of the Corps of Engineers, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Water Resources Development

Summary:
This bill requires the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to (1) provide offsets against Louisiana's cost-share obligations under the Greater New Orleans Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction System for certain work performed by Louisiana; and (2) determine whether the flood control project for the Red River below Denison Dam should incorporate the Cherokee Park Levee in Caddo Parish, Louisiana.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3789 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3789

 To provide for certain water resources development activities of the 
              Corps of Engineers, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 19, 2018

  Mr. Kennedy introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide for certain water resources development activities of the 
              Corps of Engineers, 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. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
        of the Army.
            (2) State.--The term ``State'' means the State of 
        Louisiana.

SEC. 2. CREDIT FOR WORK PERFORMED BY THE STATE.

    (a) In General.--On request of the State, the Secretary shall 
credit any work performed or to be performed by the State that is part 
of the comprehensive coastal protection master plan described in 
section 7002(c) of the Water Resources Development Act of 2007 (121 
Stat. 1271; 128 Stat. 1319) as an offset against any outstanding or 
future cost-share obligation of the State under the Greater New Orleans 
Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction System.
    (b) Requirements.--The State shall describe in each request under 
subsection (a)--
            (1) the work performed or to be performed by the State for 
        which the credit is requested;
            (2) the amount of the requested credit;
            (3) the 1 or more projects authorized under title VII of 
        the Water Resources Development Act of 2007 (121 Stat. 1270) 
        that the State proposes to deauthorize in exchange for a credit 
        under subsection (a); and
            (4) the date on which the work performed was completed or 
        the scheduled date of completion of the work to be performed, 
        as applicable.
    (c) Credit Limitations and Requirements.--
            (1) Per request.--The Secretary shall ensure that the total 
        amount of the credit provided to the State for each request--
                    (A) is equal to the cost of the work performed or 
                to be performed by the State; but
                    (B) does not exceed the Federal share of the cost 
                of the 1 or more projects identified under subsection 
                (b)(3) for that request.
            (2) Total limitation.--The total amount of credit provided 
        to the State under this section may not exceed the Federal 
        share of the cost of the projects authorized under title VII of 
        the Water Resources Development Act of 2007 (121 Stat. 1270) as 
        authorized.
            (3) Deauthorized projects.--A project listed in a request 
        under subsection (b)(3) may be a deauthorized project, if that 
        deauthorized project was deauthorized before the date that is 1 
        year after the date of enactment of this Act.
    (d) Deauthorization.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than 30 days after the date on 
        which the Secretary receives a request under subsection (a), 
        the Secretary shall submit to Congress a copy of the request, 
        including any proposed deauthorization under subsection (b)(3).
            (2) Congressional review.--After the expiration of the 180-
        day period beginning on the date on which the request is 
        submitted to Congress under paragraph (1), the project proposed 
        to be deauthorized shall be deauthorized, unless Congress 
        passes a joint resolution disapproving the deauthorization 
        before the end of that period.

SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS RELATING TO PORT OF IBERIA NAVIGATION 
              PROJECT.

    It is the sense of Congress that--
            (1) the project for navigation, Port of Iberia, Louisiana, 
        authorized by section 1001(25) of the Water Resources 
        Development Act of 2007 (121 Stat. 1053; 128 Stat. 1351) is 
        valuable; and
            (2) not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of 
        this Act, the Corps of Engineers should expeditiously complete 
        the post-authorization change report for the project described 
        in paragraph (1).

SEC. 4. SENSE OF CONGRESS RELATING TO CERTAIN FLOOD PROTECTION 
              PROJECTS, JEAN LAFITTE, LOUISIANA.

    It is the sense of Congress that--
            (1) ongoing cooperation between the Louisiana Coastal 
        Protection and Restoration Authority and the Lafitte Area 
        Independent Levee District relating to flood protection 
        projects in Jean Lafitte, Louisiana, and the vicinity should 
        continue; and
            (2) to the maximum extent practicable, the Secretary should 
        support that cooperation in a manner that is consistent with 
        Louisiana's Comprehensive Master Plan for a Sustainable Coast.

SEC. 5. RED RIVER BELOW DENISON DAM, ARKANSAS, LOUISIANA, AND TEXAS.

    The Secretary shall--
            (1) review whether the project for flood control, Red River 
        below Denison Dam, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas, authorized 
        by section 10 of the Flood Control Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 647, 
        chapter 596) should be modified to incorporate the Cherokee 
        Park Levee, Caddo Parish, Louisiana;
            (2) determine whether to include the modification in the 
        report submitted to Congress pursuant to section 7001 of the 
        Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014 (33 U.S.C. 
        2282d); and
            (3) if the Secretary determines to include the modification 
        as described in paragraph (2), submit to Congress a 
        notification of that determination.
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