Non-Federal Reservoir Operations Improvement Act

Bill: 115-hr-5726
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Costa, Jim [D-CA-16]
Introduced: 2018-05-09
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Floods and storm protection

Navigation, waterways, harbors

Water storage

Water use and supply
Latest action: action_date: 2018-05-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-05-09
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Non-Federal Reservoir Operations Improvement Act</b></p> <p>This bill authorizes the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to receive and expend funds from an owner of a nonfederal reservoir to formulate, review, or revise reservoir operational documents. The reservoir must have been constructed at least in part with federal funds provided for the use of storage for flood risk management or navigation.</p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5726 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 9, 2018 Mr. Costa (for himself, Mr. Denham , Mr. McClintock , and Mr. Garamendi ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure A BILL To authorize the use of certain contributed funds for activities relating to operational documents for non-Federal reservoirs, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Non-Federal Reservoir Operations Improvement Act . 2. Contributed funds for non-Federal reservoir operations Section 5 of the Act of June 22, 1936 (49 Stat. 1572, chapter 688; 33 U.S.C. 701h ), is amended by inserting after authorized purposes of the project: the following: Provided further , That the Secretary is authorized to receive and expend funds from an owner of a non-Federal reservoir to formulate, review, or revise operational documents for any non-Federal reservoir for which the Secretary is authorized to prescribe regulations for the use of storage allocated for flood risk management or navigation pursuant to section 7 of the Act of December 22, 1944 (58 Stat. 890, chapter 665; 33 U.S.C. 709 ): .