To amend the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014 to modify the procedure for communicating certain emergency risks, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-hr-3944
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Hern, Kevin [R-OK-1]
Introduced: 2019-07-24
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Emergency planning and evacuation

Floods and storm protection

Lakes and rivers
Latest action: action_date: 2019-07-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-07-24
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill expands the situations&nbsp;in which&nbsp;the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers must provide information and assistance to the public and affected governments and Indian tribes in river basins where the corps&nbsp;carries out flood risk management activities. Specifically, the corps must provide these services when the National Weather Service forecasts a possibility that precipitation or runoff will exceed the calculations considered as the lowest risk to life and property contemplated by the annual operating plan. Current law directs the corps to do so only when precipitation or runoff actually exceeds such calculations. </p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3944 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 24, 2019 Mr. Kevin Hern of Oklahoma (for himself and Mr. Mullin ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure A BILL To amend the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014 to modify the procedure for communicating certain emergency risks, and for other purposes.

1. Emergency communication of risk Section 3027(d) of the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014 ( 33 U.S.C. 709c(d) ) is amended by inserting , or when the National Weather Service forecasts a possibility that precipitation or runoff will exceed, after when precipitation or runoff exceeds .