Title: Navigation Workers Protection Act of 2018
Policy area: Water Resources Development

Summary:
Navigation Workers Protection Act of 2018
This bill amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1990 to specify that operations and maintence of navigation generating facilities at U.S. Army Corps of Engineers water resources projects are to be considered as inherently governmental functions.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5688 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5688

 To amend the Water Resources Development Act of 1990 relating to the 
   operation and maintenance of navigation facilities, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 7, 2018

 Mrs. Bustos (for herself and Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois) introduced 
      the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                   Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Water Resources Development Act of 1990 relating to the 
   operation and maintenance of navigation facilities, 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.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Navigation Workers Protection Act of 
2018''.

SEC. 2. OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF NAVIGATION AND HYDROELECTRIC 
              FACILITIES.

    (a) In General.--Section 314 of the Water Resources Development Act 
of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2321) is amended--
            (1) in the heading by inserting ``navigation and'' before 
        ``hydroelectric facilities'';
            (2) in the first sentence, by striking ``Activities 
        currently performed'' and inserting the following:
    ``(a) In General.--Activities currently performed'';
            (3) in subsection (a) (as designated by paragraph (2)), by 
        inserting ``navigation or'' before ``hydroelectric'';
            (4) in the second sentence, by striking ``This section'' 
        and inserting the following:
    ``(b) Major Maintenance Contracts Allowed.--This section''; and
            (5) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(c) Exclusion.--This section does not--
            ``(1) apply to a navigation facility that was under 
        contract on or before the date of enactment of this subsection 
        with a non-Federal interest to perform operations or 
        maintenance; and
            ``(2) prohibit the Secretary from contracting out 
        commercial activities after the date of enactment of this 
        subsection at a navigation facility.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents contained in section 
1(b) of the Water Resources Development Act of 1990 (104 Stat. 4604) is 
amended by striking the item relating to section 314 and inserting the 
following:

``Sec. 314. Operation and maintenance of navigation and hydroelectric 
                            facilities.''.
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