Great Lakes Navigation Act of 2020

Bill: 116-s-4654
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH]
Introduced: 2020-09-22
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Latest action: action_date: 2020-09-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-09-22
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Great Lakes Navigation Act of 2020</b></p> <p>This bill requires that at least 12% of funds made available each fiscal year from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund be used for projects that are located within the Great Lakes Navigation System.</p>

tv_txt: II 116th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 4654 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES September 22, 2020 Mr. Portman (for himself, Ms. Stabenow , Mr. Durbin , Ms. Klobuchar , Mr. Peters , Ms. Baldwin , Mr. Young , Mr. Brown , Ms. Smith , and Ms. Duckworth ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works A BILL To amend the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 to require that at least 12 percent of amounts appropriated out of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund are used for projects on the Great Lakes Navigation System, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Great Lakes Navigation Act of 2020 . 2. Great Lakes Navigation System Section 210 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 ( 33 U.S.C. 2238 ) is amended— (1) in subsection (c)— (A) by redesignating paragraph (4) as subparagraph (A) and indenting appropriately; (B) by inserting after paragraph (3) the following: (4) Great lakes navigation system ; and (C) in paragraph (4) (as so designated), by adding at the end the following: (B) Requirement For each fiscal year, of the amounts appropriated out of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund, the Secretary shall use not less than 12 percent for projects that are located within the Great Lakes Navigation System. ; and (2) in subsection (d)(1)(B)— (A) by striking clause (ii); (B) in clause (i), by striking ; and at the end and inserting a period; and (C) by striking the Secretary shall in the matter preceding clause (i) and all that follows through 5 percent in clause (i) and inserting the Secretary shall use not less than 5 percent .