Water Resources Development Act

Summary

Water Resource Development Act - Adopts and authorizes the following works of improvement for navigation, flood control, and other purposes, to be carried out by the Secretary of the Army through the Chief of the Corps of Engineers: (1) specified bridges of the Atlantic Intracostal Waterway Bridges, Virginia and North Carolina; (2) Kodiak Harbor, Alaska (navigation improvements); (3) Blair and Sitcum Waterways, Tacoma Harbor, Washington (project for navigation); (4) Agana River, Territory of Guam (flood control); (5) Chetco River, Oregon (construction of navigation improvements; (6) Root River Basin, Minnesota (flood control); (7) Panama City Beaches, Florida (beach erosion control and hurrincane flood protection); (8) Des Moines River Basin, Iowa and Minnesota (flood control); (9) Cazenovia Creek, Buffalo, New York (flood control); (10) Little Wood River, Idaho (flood control); (11) Greenville Harbor, Mississippi (navigation); (12) Gulfport Harbor, Mississippi (navigation); and (13) the project for extension of the navigation season on the Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence Seaway. Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1976 to authorize the project for harbor modification at Cleveland Harbor, Ohio for construction. Describes the stages of construction. Repeals the authorization of a specified portion of the project for the Nansemond River, Virginia. Directs the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to undertake a program of research to increase the capability of the Corps of Engineers to control river and harbor ice and to assist communities in breaking up such ice. Authorizes the use of the water storage capacity of the Belton Reservoir on Leon River, Texas, for water supply as well as irrigation purposes. Authorizes the construction of a public water supply system as part of the project for the Caesar Creek, Ohio River Basin, Ohio. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to construct, as part of the project for flood protection on the Sacramento River, California, bank protection works along specified portions of the River. Authorizes the project for flood protection for Jefferson City on Wears Creek, Missouri. Declares that each resolution adopted by the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate, or the Committee on Public Works and Transportation of the House of Representatives, or their predecessors, during the Eighty-ninth Congress or any earlier Congress for review of any flood control, river and harbor, or other water resource report shall not be in effect after the date of enactment of this section unless funds were expended for carrying out such resolution during the Ninetieth Congress or any subsequent Congress prior to the Ninety-sixth Congress. Directs the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to design and construct, at full Federal expense, such flood control measures as the Chief determines are necessary and advisable at or in the vicinity of Pikeville, Kentucky, on the Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy River; Pineville, Kentucky, on the Cumberland River; and Williamson and Matewan, West Virginia, on the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River. Authorizes and directs the Secretary to undertake measures including but not limited to dredging, clearing, and snagging, in the main streams and tributaries of the Tug and Levisa Forks of the Big Sandy River, West Virginia and Kentucky; and the Cumberland River, upstream of Cumberland Falls, Kentucky. Authorizes the replacement and expansion of the existing industrial canal lock, or the construction of an additional lock in the Mississippi River - Gulf Outlet at Meraux, Louisiana. Stipulates that, in the project for navigation improvements in Mobile Harbor, Theodore Ship Channel, Alabama, non-Federal interests shall contribute 25 percent of the costs of areas required for disposal of spoil and of necessary retaining dikes, bulkheads, embankments, and movement of materials therefor. Waives the requirement for such non-Federal constribution upon the determination by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency that, for the area to which such construction applies, the State of Alabama, units of local government, and industrial concerns are participating in an approved plan for the construction, modification, expansion, or rehabilitation of waste treatment facilities, and that applicable water quality standards are not being violated. Authorizes the Secretary, through the Chief of Engineers, to undertake the phase I design memorandum stage of advanced engineering and design of: (1) the project of flood control in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; (2) the project for beach erosion at Jekyll Island, Georgia; and (3) the project for navigation on the Sacramento River, California, from San Francisco Bay to the port of Sacramento. Extends from 15 years to 50 years the period during which the Secretary shall be authorized, under the Water Resources Development Act of 1976, to provide periodic beach nourishment for a water resources development project. Directs that the national shoreline erosion control development and demonstration program, established by the Water Resources Development Act of 1974, be completed by the end of fiscal year 1982. Extends from fiscal year 1979 through fiscal year 1984 the authorization of appropriations for projects established under the Water Resources Development Act of 1976 for the collection and removal of drift and debris from publicly maintained commercial boat harbors. Extends through fiscal year 1982 the authorization of appropriations for the purpose of obtaining increased law enforcement services at projects established under the Water Resources Development Act of 1976. Authorizes and directs the Secretary, through the Chief of Engineers, to implement a nonstructural project for the purposes of flood damage reduction and recreation on the Tittabawassee River at Midland, Michigan. Provides for non-Federal participation in such project. Specifies the procedure by which Congress shall approve or disapprove the promulgation or repromulgation of any rule or regulation relating to rivers and harbors, flood control, beach erosion and other water resource development projects under the Secretary of the Army. States that the Secretary shall transmit a copy of such rule or regulation to the Senate and the House of Representatives. Provides for such rule or regulation to become effective if, at the end of 60 calendar days of continuous session after promulgation, Congress has not disapproved the rule or regulation. Modifies the project for the East Fork Lake, Ohio River Basin, Ohio, to authorize and direct the Secretary, through the Chief of Engineers, to contruct a public water supply system in accordance with an existing plan. Stipulates that, in the project for harbor improvements at Noyo, Mendocino County, California, non-Federal interests shall contribute 25 percent of the costs of areas required for initial and subsequent disposal of spoil and of necessary retaining dikes, bulkheads, and embankments therefor. Waives the requirement for such non-Federal contribution upon the determination by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency that, for the area to which such construction applies, the State of Alabama, units of local government, and industrial concerns are participating in an approved plan for the construction, modification, expansion, or rehabilitation of waste treatment facilities, and that applicable water quality standards are not being violated. Stipulates that the Federal Government will bear the entire cost of disposal should ocean disposal be used. Authorizes and directs the Secretary, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to cause surveys for flood control and allied purposes to be made at specified locations in Mississippi, Arkansas, Florida, and Illinois. Authorizes and directs the Secretary, in cooperation with the governments of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, to make studies for the purposes of providing plans for the development, utilization, and conservation of water and related land resources of such territory and Commonwealth.

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  summary · EN · 4 October 1978

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  summary · EN · 8 June 1978

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