Title: Water Resources Development Act of 2020
Policy area: Water Resources Development

Summary:
This bill extends for an additional five years a pilot program administered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to evaluate the cost-effectiveness and efficiency of allowing nonfederal interests to carry out flood risk management, hurricane and storm damage reduction, coastal harbor and channel inland navigation, and aquatic ecosystem restoration projects. The bill also authorizes the Corps of Engineers to administer water conservation and efficiency, land idling, and groundwater use programs for waters associated with the Klamath Project in California and Oregon.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1811 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1811

To make technical corrections to the America's Water Infrastructure Act 
                    of 2018, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 12, 2019

  Mr. Barrasso (for himself and Mr. Carper) 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 make technical corrections to the America's Water Infrastructure Act 
                    of 2018, 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. NON-FEDERAL IMPLEMENTATION PILOT PROGRAM.

    Section 1043(b)(7) of the Water Resources Reform and Development 
Act of 2014 (33 U.S.C. 2201 note) is amended by striking ``5 years'' 
and inserting ``10 years''.

SEC. 2. MAINTENANCE AND CONSTRUCTION OF WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT 
              PROJECTS BY NON-FEDERAL INTERESTS.

    Section 204(c)(1) of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 
(33 U.S.C. 2232(c)(1)) is amended by striking ``under subsection (b)'' 
and inserting ``under this section''.

SEC. 3. WATERCRAFT INSPECTION STATIONS.

    Section 104(d)(1)(A)(iii) of the River and Harbor Act of 1958 (33 
U.S.C. 610(d)(1)(A)(iii)) is amended by striking ``Arizona River'' and 
inserting ``Arkansas River''.

SEC. 4. LOCAL GOVERNMENT RESERVOIR PERMIT REVIEW.

    Section 1119(b) of the America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 
(Public Law 115-270) is amended by striking ``owned or operated by the 
Secretary''.

SEC. 5. UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER PROTECTION.

    Section 2010(e) of the Water Resources Reform and Development Act 
of 2014 (128 Stat. 1270) is amended by striking ``the Act of October 
15, 1940 (33 U.S.C. 701h-1)'' and inserting ``section 5 of the Act of 
June 22, 1936 (commonly known as the `Flood Control Act of 1936') (49 
Stat. 1572, chapter 688; 33 U.S.C. 701h)''.

SEC. 6. BENEFICIAL USE OF DREDGED MATERIAL.

    Section 1148 of the America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 
(Public Law 115-270) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by striking ``grant'' and inserting 
                ``approve''; and
                    (B) by striking ``granting'' and inserting 
                ``approving''; and
            (2) in subsection (b), by striking ``grants'' and inserting 
        ``approves''.

SEC. 7. KLAMATH BASIN WATER SUPPLY ENHANCEMENT ACT OF 2000 TECHNICAL 
              CORRECTIONS.

    Section 4(b) of the Klamath Basin Water Supply Enhancement Act of 
2000 (114 Stat. 2222) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)--
                    (A) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A)--
                            (i) by striking ``Pursuant to the 
                        reclamation laws and subject'' and inserting 
                        ``Subject''; and
                            (ii) by striking ``may'' and inserting ``is 
                        authorized to''; and
                    (B) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ``, including 
                conservation and efficiency measures, land idling, and 
                use of groundwater,'' after ``administer programs'';
            (2) in paragraph (3)(A), by inserting ``and'' after the 
        semicolon at the end;
            (3) by redesignating the second paragraph (4) (relating to 
        the effect of the subsection) as paragraph (5); and
            (4) in paragraph (5) (as so redesignated)--
                    (A) by striking subparagraph (B);
                    (B) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``; or'' and 
                inserting a period; and
                    (C) by striking ``the Secretary--'' and all that 
                follows through ``to develop'' in subparagraph (A) and 
                inserting ``the Secretary to develop''.
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