Title: To amend the Water Resources Development Act of 1996 with respect to anadromous fish habitat and passage, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
This bill provides authority for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to carry out aquatic ecosystem restoration projects to improve habitat or passage for anadromous fish, including (1) installing fish bypass structures on small water diversions, (2) modifying tide gates, and (3) restoring or reconnecting floodplains and wetlands that are important for anadromous fish habitat or passage. Anadromous fish are species of fish that spawn in fresh or estuarine waters and that migrate to ocean waters.
The Corps must give such projects equal priority for implementation as other aquatic ecosystem restoration projects.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7657 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7657

 To amend the Water Resources Development Act of 1996 with respect to 
      anadromous fish habitat and passage, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 16, 2020

 Ms. Schrier introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the 
    Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Water Resources Development Act of 1996 with respect to 
      anadromous fish habitat and passage, 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. AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION FOR ANADROMOUS FISH.

    (a) Anadromous Fish Habitat and Passage.--Section 206 of the Water 
Resources Development Act of 1996 (33 U.S.C. 2330) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) Anadromous fish habitat and passage.--
                    ``(A) Measures.--A project under this section may 
                include measures to improve habitat or passage for 
                anadromous fish, including--
                            ``(i) installing fish bypass structures on 
                        small water diversions;
                            ``(ii) modifying tide gates; and
                            ``(iii) restoring or reconnecting 
                        floodplains and wetlands that are important for 
                        anadromous fish habitat or passage.
                    ``(B) Benefits.--A project that includes measures 
                under this paragraph shall be formulated to maximize 
                benefits for the anadromous fish species benefitted by 
                the project.''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(g) Prioritization.--The Secretary shall give projects that 
include measures described in subsection (a)(3) equal priority for 
implementation as other projects under this section.''.
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