Title: Great Lakes Navigation Act of 2020
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Great Lakes Navigation Act of 2020
This bill requires that at least 12% of funds made available each fiscal year from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund be used for projects that are located within the Great Lakes Navigation System.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4654 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4654

To amend the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 to require that at 
least 12 percent of amounts appropriated out of the Harbor Maintenance 
Trust Fund are used for projects on the Great Lakes Navigation System, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 22, 2020

Mr. Portman (for himself, Ms. Stabenow, Mr. Durbin, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. 
     Peters, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Young, Mr. Brown, Ms. Smith, and Ms. 
  Duckworth) 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 amend the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 to require that at 
least 12 percent of amounts appropriated out of the Harbor Maintenance 
Trust Fund are used for projects on the Great Lakes Navigation System, 
                        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 ``Great Lakes Navigation Act of 
2020''.

SEC. 2. GREAT LAKES NAVIGATION SYSTEM.

    Section 210 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 (33 
U.S.C. 2238) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (c)--
                    (A) by redesignating paragraph (4) as subparagraph 
                (A) and indenting appropriately;
                    (B) by inserting after paragraph (3) the following:
            ``(4) Great lakes navigation system.--''; and
                    (C) in paragraph (4) (as so designated), by adding 
                at the end the following:
                    ``(B) Requirement.--For each fiscal year, of the 
                amounts appropriated out of the Harbor Maintenance 
                Trust Fund, the Secretary shall use not less than 12 
                percent for projects that are located within the Great 
                Lakes Navigation System.''; and
            (2) in subsection (d)(1)(B)--
                    (A) by striking clause (ii);
                    (B) in clause (i), by striking ``; and'' at the end 
                and inserting a period; and
                    (C) by striking ``the Secretary shall'' in the 
                matter preceding clause (i) and all that follows 
                through ``5 percent'' in clause (i) and inserting ``the 
                Secretary shall use not less than 5 percent''.
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