Navigation Workers Protection Act of 2018

Bill: 115-hr-5688
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Bustos, Cheri [D-IL-17]
Introduced: 2018-05-07
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources

Electric power generation and transmission

Government buildings, facilities, and property

Hydrology and hydrography

Navigation, waterways, harbors
Latest action: action_date: 2018-05-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-05-07
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Navigation Workers Protection Act of 2018</b></p> <p>This bill amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1990 to specify that operations and maintence of navigation generating facilities at U.S. Army Corps of Engineers water resources projects are to be considered as inherently governmental functions.</p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5688 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 7, 2018 Mrs. Bustos (for herself and Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure A BILL To amend the Water Resources Development Act of 1990 relating to the operation and maintenance of navigation facilities, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Navigation Workers Protection Act of 2018 . 2. Operation and maintenance of navigation and hydroelectric facilities (a) In general Section 314 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1990 ( 33 U.S.C. 2321 ) is amended— (1) in the heading by inserting navigation and before hydroelectric facilities ; (2) in the first sentence, by striking Activities currently performed and inserting the following: (a) In general Activities currently performed ; (3) in subsection (a) (as designated by paragraph (2)), by inserting navigation or before hydroelectric ; (4) in the second sentence, by striking This section and inserting the following: (b) Major maintenance contracts allowed This section ; and (5) by adding at the end the following: (c) Exclusion This section does not— (1) apply to a navigation facility that was under contract on or before the date of enactment of this subsection with a non-Federal interest to perform operations or maintenance; and (2) prohibit the Secretary from contracting out commercial activities after the date of enactment of this subsection at a navigation facility. . (b) Clerical amendment The table of contents contained in section 1(b) of the Water Resources Development Act of 1990 (104 Stat. 4604) is amended by striking the item relating to section 314 and inserting the following: Sec. 314. Operation and maintenance of navigation and hydroelectric facilities. .