Title: To require the Secretary of the Army to conduct a study to determine the costs for the Corps of Engineers to ensure that certain project activities authorized under Nationwide Permit 14 comply with public safety conditions, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
This bill requires the Army to report to Congress on the costs for the Army Corps of Engineers to (1) include public safety conditions on certain permits for water-related projects, and (2) conduct safety inspections to ensure that authorized projects comply with such public safety conditions.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8563 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8563

 To require the Secretary of the Army to conduct a study to determine 
  the costs for the Corps of Engineers to ensure that certain project 
  activities authorized under Nationwide Permit 14 comply with public 
               safety conditions, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 9, 2020

   Mr. Long introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the Secretary of the Army to conduct a study to determine 
  the costs for the Corps of Engineers to ensure that certain project 
  activities authorized under Nationwide Permit 14 comply with public 
               safety conditions, 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. STUDY.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of the Army, acting through the 
Chief of Engineers, shall conduct a study to determine the costs for 
the Corps of Engineers to--
            (1) include public safety as a condition for authorizing a 
        proposed project activity under Nationwide Permit 14; and
            (2) inspect an authorized project activity after 
        construction to ensure that such project activity is maintained 
        in compliance with all conditions related to public safety 
        under Nationwide Permit 14.
    (b) Report.--Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of 
this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Transportation 
and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
Environment and Public Works of the Senate a report containing the 
results of the study conducted under subsection (a).
    (c) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Nationwide permit 14.--The term ``Nationwide Permit 
        14'' means the nationwide permit, relating to linear 
        transportation projects, issued pursuant to section 10 of the 
        Act of March 3, 1899 (33 U.S.C. 403) and section 404 of the 
        Federal Water Pollution Control Act.
            (2) Project activity.--The term ``project activity'' means 
        an activity for which a permittee is required to submit a pre-
        construction notification under Nationwide Permit 14.
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