Water Resources Development Act of 1992
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The Water Resources Development Act of 1992 (WRDA 1992), , was enacted by Congress of the United States on October 31, 1992. Most of the provisions of WRDA 1992 are administered by the United States Army Corps of Engineers
.
projects in the following locations for improvements to navigation, flood control
, ecosystem restoration
, and beach erosion control
and hurricane protection: Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nevada, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, Texas, and Virginia.
Modifies projects at the following locations with respect to wildlife mitigation, flood control, beach erosion control and hurricane protection, navigation, and other improvements:, Alabama, Mississippi, California, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Rhode Island, Texas, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1986
to authorize a contract with the St. Johns River Water Management District
and the Southwest Florida Water Management District
for the continued operation and maintenance of portions of the Cross Florida barge canal project.
Authorizes
Authorizes studies and small navigation projects in Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Virginia, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Texas, and St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.
Directs a Sonoma Baylands wetland demonstration project in the San Francisco Bay-Delta estuary, California.
Sets forth funding limitations, constraints, transfers, obligations on various projects.
Directs construction of a research and quarantine facility in Florida, to be used in connection with efforts to control Melaleuca
and other exotic plant species that threaten native ecosystems in Florida.
Authorizes navigation access to, and berthing areas at, all currently operating public and private commercial dock facilities associated with or having access to the Federal navigation project on the Columbia, Snake, and Clearwater Rivers.
Directs a study for a streambank and shoreline protection project for Anaheim, California.
Directs design, land acquisition, and construction of the Montgomery Point Lock and Dam on the White River, Arkansas.
Authorizes a study for the purpose of determining whether there is contaminated ground water flowing downstream from and through existing Federal facilities at Whittier Narrows Dam, Los Angeles County, California.
Directs completion of general, feasibility, navigation, and other studies, design memorandum, economic reevaluations, in the following states: California, Florida, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Virginia, Texas, and West Virginia.
Directs a comprehensive assessment of adverse impacts to such watershed from Federal facilities, review current plans for reducing such adverse impacts, and carry out a feasibility study to identify and recommend measures for implementation to eliminate such adverse impacts.
Continues the authorization for projects and studies (for flood control and other purposes) in Iowa, Louisiana, Missouri, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Texas.
Deauthorizes navigation projects at the following locations: (1) Boothbay Harbor, Maine; (2) Boston Inner Harbor Channel, Massachusetts; (3) Newburyport, Massachusetts; (4) Greilickville, Michigan; (5) South Haven Harbor, Michigan; and (6) Sag Harbor, New York. Deauthorizes a portion of the Canaveral Harbor project, Florida.
Provides gratuitous political, by-name designation for the following structures:
to modify requirements concerning the ability of non-Federal interests to pay under cost-sharing agreements. Directs a review of regulations on ability to pay in light of locally prevailing conditions such as those associated with specified projects; and amends the regulations to the extent necessary to more appropriately account for locally prevailing conditions that would limit the ability of local interests to participate as non-Federal project sponsors in accordance with established cost-sharing formulas.
Prohibits project modifications for improvements of the environment without specific congressional authorization if the estimated cost exceeds $5 million.
Authorizes appropriation of not to exceed $25 million (currently, $15 million) annually to carry out provisions related to such modifications.
Authorizes accepting contributions for environmental and recreation projects, with funds received to be deposited into a specified account in the Treasury; and projects for the protection, restoration, and creation of aquatic and ecologically related habitats in connection with dredging of an authorized navigation project.
Extends specified State safety and training, research, and dam inventory programs.
Authorizes assistance to non-Federal interests for the repair, reconstruction, or other modification to Mussers Dam, Middle Creek, Snyder County, Pennsylvania.
Specifies that all costs incurred in carrying out the project to correct seepage problems at Beaver Lake, Arkansas, shall be treated as costs incurred for a dam safety project, subject to cost-sharing requirements of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986.
Authorizes materials necessary to promote the Corps safety program, for distribution to Corps employees, and to recognize outstanding safety performance by such employees. Authorizes appropriations.
Directs making use of private sector resources in carrying out surveying
and mapping activities in the Corps'
Civil Works Program, ensuring that procurement with funds appropriated to carry out this Act are conducted in compliance with the Buy American Act
.
Directs a study on the need for changes in Federal law and policy with respect to dredged material disposal areas for the construction and maintenance of harbors and inland harbors by the Secretary.
Authorizes assistance to non-Federal interests for carrying out specified projects for the beneficial reuse of waste water, including several specified places in California.
Authorizes design and construction assistance to the Santa Clara Valley Water District and to the city of San Jose, California to demonstrate and field test for innovative public use processes that advance the technology of waste water reuse and treatment and promote use of treated waste water for critical water supply purposes and protection of fish and wildlife in the San Francisco Bay.
Authorizes assistance to non-Federal interests to carry out water-related environmental infrastructure and resource protection and development projects relating to wastewater treatment and for other purposes in Washington D.C., Maryland, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and along the U.S.-Mexican border.
Authorizes design and construction assistance in Arkansas and New York.
Provides for the termination of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors; the Board was originally created in 1902 by President Theodore Roosevelt
to determine the feasibility of developing riverine
projects.
Authorizes a program to share the cost of managing recreation facilities and natural resources at water resource development projects.
Requires debarment
of persons convicted of intentionally affixing a label bearing a "Made in America" inscription to any product sold in or shipped to the United States that is not made in the United States and is used in a civil works project from contracting with the Federal Government for a period of from three to five years.
Directs a prevention monitoring program for zebra mussels throughout the New York City water supply system. Amends the Nonindigenous Aquatic Nuisance Prevention and Control Act of 1990 to direct the Coast Guard
to issue regulations to prevent the introduction and spread of aquatic nuisance species in the Great Lakes
through ballast water carried on vessels that, after operating on the waters beyond the exclusive economic zone, enter a U.S. port on the Hudson River north of the George Washington Bridge.
Authorizes a cooperative agreement with the Earth Conservancy to develop, and carry out along the Susquehanna River between Wilkes-Barre and Sunbury, Pennsylvania, a wetlands demonstration project.
Directs a cooperative agreement with non-Federal interests to develop and carry out along the Juniata River and its tributaries, Pennsylvania, a watershed reclamation and protection and wetlands creation and restoration project.
Authorizes boat ramps in Georgia and trailhead facilities in West Virginia.
Authorizes design and construction projects to address water quality problems Louisiana, New York, Maine, and Rhode Island.
Directs studies of Baltimore Harbor, Maryland, for the purpose of developing analytical procedures and criteria for contaminated dredged material in order to distinguish those materials that should be placed in containment sites from those that could be used in beneficial projects or placed in open waters without being chemically altered, and of determining the feasibility and necessity of decontaminating dredged materials and of dewatering and recycling such materials for use as marketable products.
Requires a study of the economic benefits of Federal and significant non-Federal shore protection activities in the Mid-Atlantic region from New York to Virginia.
Authorizes a memorandum of understanding between the Army
and the Department of Agriculture to study problems associated with flooding in Mississippi.
Authorizes review of documents of the Chief of Engineers
pertaining to Orchard Beach, Bronx, New York, and to make appropriate recommendations concerning storm damage prevention, recreation, environmental restoration, and other purposes; and a study on the need for erosion protection along the East River, New York, in the vicinity of Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan, with a view toward mitigating the deleterious effects of drift removal on protecting the adjacent shoreline from erosion. Authorizes appropriations.
Authorizes a reconnaissance and feasibility study of remediation of contaminated sediments in Lake Champlain and the Narrows of Lake Champlain, Vermont; (2) of providing additional boat access points on Lake Champlain, Vermont; and (2) on providing additional flood protection for Montpelier, Vermont.
Directs the feasibility study of Federal improvements to the St. John's River Channel, Florida, to examine the commercial and military uses of the channel in those areas traversed by both military and commercial vessels, and coordinate the Secretary's efforts with the Navy to use available studies and resources that project future military dredging needs in the St. John's River Channel.
Requires the Chief of Engineers
to review the report on central and southern Florida, and other pertinent reports, with a view to determining whether modifications to the existing project are advisable at the present time due to significantly changed physical, biological, demographic, or economic conditions.
Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1988
to authorize payomg tuition expenses of suitable, English-taught primary and secondary education in Puerto Rico for the children of Federal employees who are employed (currently, temporarily residing and employed) in Puerto Rico.
Directs dam drawdown mitigation, risk, and design deficiency studies in Washington. West Virginia, and California.
Requires a pilot program for providing environmental restoration infrastructure and resource protection development projects to non-Federal interests in south central Pennsylvania, subject to specified (including reporting) requirements.
Authorizes capital improvements to the Illinois and Michigan Canal and rehabilitate, renovate, preserve, and maintain the Illinois and Michigan Canal and its related facilities.
Directs dredging and transfer studies in California, Maryland, and Virginia.
Directs a plan for modifying projects in Kentucky and Pennsylvania
Authorizes study for developing and preserving seasonal wetlands in California and a water resources project Arizona.
Directs reviewing water supply needs in Ohio.
Authorizes assistance for the development of Environmental Improvement Programsin New Jersey.
Authorizes real estate and facility (e.g., locks and dam) transfers, conveyances, and other actions in Georgia, Wisconsin, Arkansas, New Jersey, and Michigan.
Requires a study of a hydro-environmental monitoring and information system in the New York Bight and Harbor and a national study on information that is currently available on contaminated sediments.
Authorizes completion of a study on contaminated sediments in Wisconsin.
Directs planning, design, and construction of a navigation project in New York and New Jersey.
Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) conduct investigations and surveys of the watersheds of the rivers in the Conemaugh River Basin, Pennsylvania; and (2) develop and implement restoration projects for abatement and mitigation of water quality degradation caused by abandoned mines and mining activity in such basin.
Declares portions of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, to be non-navigable waters of the United States, subject to specified limitations.
Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) use available resources to support the logistical and minor construction needs of the local organizing committee of the 1993 World University Games in western New York; and (2) undertake a program to control nuisance aquatic vegetation for the purpose of preserving the recreational uses of the waters of Lake Gaston, Virginia and North Carolina (and authorizes appropriations).
Directs the Secretary to establish a pilot program for providing water-related environmental assistance to non-Federal interests in southern West Virginia, subject to specified (including reporting) requirements. Authorizes appropriations.
Authorizes the Tennessee Valley Authority
(TVA) to establish the Tennessee River Heritage Museum and Education Facility to encourage science and technology as it relates to developing, managing, and preserving rivers as a nationally significant resource.
Requires the Comptroller General
to review the operation of the project for flood control, Red Rock Dam and Lake, Iowa, authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1938
.
Directs crediting specified flood control projects in California for various special expenditures not otherwise authorized under the Water Resources Development Act of 1986
Requires a study on bank stabilization and marsh creation in Louisiana.
Directs salt marsh
restoration projects in Connecticut.
Authorizes the Secretary to participate as an active Federal member in the Memorandum of Understanding for the Interagency Ecological Study Program for implementation of the monitoring requirements in the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary, California.
Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1988
to authorize a comprehensive flood warning and response system in Pennsylvania at full Federal expense.
Authorizes the Secretary to construct, establish, equip, maintain, and operate (or assist in doing so) an interagency child care facility at Fort Point, Galveston, Texas, to provide child care services for children of Federal employees. Sets forth provisions regarding the establishment of fees for such services, transfers of funds from Federal agencies in connection with such facility, and the Secretary's authority to accept donations. Authorizes appropriations.
Authorizes and directs the Secretary to offer technical assistance to the National Park Service (NPS) on infrastructure repairs and improvements at the Presidio of San Francisco, California, during the transition period from Army to NPS management and after its inclusion into the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
Requires the Secretary to assist the NPS in identifying opportunities at the Presidio for demonstration and education programs of environmentally suitable and innovative technologies, and make available a liaison from its Construction Engineering Research Laboratory for such purpose.
Directs the Secretary to develop a comprehensive five- and 20-year sediment management strategy for the Maumee River, Toledo Harbor, which may include a combination of several sediment disposal alternatives and shall emphasize innovative, environmentally benign alternatives, including reuse and recycling for wetland restoration. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct the engineering and construction activities necessary to implement the five-year sediment management strategy. Authorizes appropriations.
Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1990
to repeal an authorization of appropriations for the relocation of the Southeast Light on Block Island, Rhode Island.
Authorizes reconstruction of the Allendale Dam in North Providence, Rhode Island, subject to specified cost, cost-sharing, and other requirements.
Directs a water supply contract with the Ouachita River Water District for withdrawals from Lake DeGray, Arkansas, as provided in the agreement forwarded by the Vicksburg District Corps of Engineers dated March 1992.
Authorizes
Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide that the Environmental Protection Agency
or the State shall not require a permit for stormwater discharges; and not later than October 1, 1993 (currently, 1992) the EPA shall issue regulations that designate certain storm water discharges to be regulated to protect water quality and establish a comprehensive program to regulate such designated sources.
Authorizes studies on the dredging needs of the national ports and harbors of the United States.
Deauthorizes the responsibility of the Federal Government to maintain and operate a 1400 feet (426.7 m) eathen dike constructed by local interests in lieu of a 1400 feet (426.7 m) steel sheetpile breakwater authorized as part of the Flushing Bay and Creek, New York, project by the River and Harbor Act of 1962.
Authorizes and directs a data collection and monitoring program of coastal processes for the Atlantic Coast of New York.
Directs the Administrator and the Secretary: (1) within a year, based upon a review of decontamination technologies identified pursuant to the Water Resources Development Act of 1990
, to jointly select removal, pretreatment, post-treatment, and decontamination technologies for contaminated marine sediments for a decontamination project in the New York/New Jersey Harbor.
Directs the EPA to: (1) conduct a comprehensive national survey of data regarding aquatic sediment quality in the United States; and (2) compile all existing information on the quantity, chemical and physical composition, and geographic location of pollutants in aquatic sediment, including the probable source of such pollutants and identification of contaminated sediments. Sets forth reporting requirements.
Requires the EPA to conduct a comprehensive and continuing program to assess aquatic sediment quality. Sets forth reporting requirements.
Amends the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 to revise provisions regarding: (1) ocean dumping requirements (including the addition of a requirement that the Secretary, prior to issuing a permit, obtain the concurrence by the Administrator and the establishment of related procedures); (2) restrictions on States' rights to adopt or enforce requirements respecting ocean dumping (eases such restrictions under specified circumstances); (3) the designation of sites for dumping; (4) permit conditions; and (5) ocean dumping penalties.
Spells out various reporting requirements.
United States Army Corps of Engineers
The United States Army Corps of Engineers is a federal agency and a major Army command made up of some 38,000 civilian and military personnel, making it the world's largest public engineering, design and construction management agency...
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Title I: Water Resources Projects
Authorizes public worksPublic works
Public works are a broad category of projects, financed and constructed by the government, for recreational, employment, and health and safety uses in the greater community...
projects in the following locations for improvements to navigation, flood control
Flood control
In communications, flood control is a feature of many communication protocols designed to prevent overwhelming of a destination receiver. Such controls can be implemented either in software or in hardware, and will often request that the message be resent after the receiver has finished...
, ecosystem restoration
Ecosystem restoration
Ecosystem restoration is the return of a damaged ecological system to a stable, healthy, and sustainable state, often together with associated ecosystem services-Rationale:There are many reasons to restore ecosystems. Some include:...
, and beach erosion control
Beach nourishment
Beach nourishment— also referred to as beach replenishment—describes a process by which sediment lost through longshore drift or erosion is replaced from sources outside of the eroding beach...
and hurricane protection: Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nevada, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, Texas, and Virginia.
Modifies projects at the following locations with respect to wildlife mitigation, flood control, beach erosion control and hurricane protection, navigation, and other improvements:, Alabama, Mississippi, California, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Rhode Island, Texas, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1986
Water Resources Development Act of 1986
The Water Resources Development Act of 1986 is part of , a series of acts enacted by Congress of the United States on November 17, 1986....
to authorize a contract with the St. Johns River Water Management District
St. Johns River Water Management District
The St. Johns River Water Management District is one of five Florida water management districts that is responsible for managing groundwater and surface water resources in Florida. SJRWMD covers an 18-county region in northeast and east-central Florida...
and the Southwest Florida Water Management District
Southwest Florida Water Management District
The Southwest Florida Water Management District , unofficially nicknamed “Swiftmud” or SWFWMD, is one of five regional agencies directed by Florida state law to protect and preserve water resources. Established in 1961 the agency operates and maintains several large properties and flood protection...
for the continued operation and maintenance of portions of the Cross Florida barge canal project.
Authorizes
- visitor centers at Melvin Price Lock and Dam, Alton, Illinois, Mt. Morris Dam, New York, Northeastern New Jersey Regional Flood Operations-Response, Engineering, and Visitor Center, and at the John Hammerschmidt Lake, Arkansas River, Arkansas
- the Lower Mississippi River MuseumLower Mississippi River MuseumThe Lower Mississippi River Museum is a planned museum in Vicksburg, Mississippi.The Water Resources Development Act of 1992 authorized the Lower Mississippi River Museum and Riverfront Interpretive Site...
and Riverfront Interpretive Site, Vicksburg, Mississippi. Directs consultation with the Smithsonian InstitutionSmithsonian InstitutionThe Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, licensing activities, and magazines...
in the planning and design of the museum and site and with the Department of the Interior and the National Park ServiceNational Park ServiceThe National Park Service is the U.S. federal agency that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations...
in the planning, design, and implementation of interpretive programs.
Authorizes studies and small navigation projects in Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Virginia, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Texas, and St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.
Directs a Sonoma Baylands wetland demonstration project in the San Francisco Bay-Delta estuary, California.
Sets forth funding limitations, constraints, transfers, obligations on various projects.
Directs construction of a research and quarantine facility in Florida, to be used in connection with efforts to control Melaleuca
Melaleuca
Melaleuca is a genus of plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae known for its natural soothing and cleansing properties. There are well over 200 recognised species, most of which are endemic to Australia...
and other exotic plant species that threaten native ecosystems in Florida.
Authorizes navigation access to, and berthing areas at, all currently operating public and private commercial dock facilities associated with or having access to the Federal navigation project on the Columbia, Snake, and Clearwater Rivers.
Directs a study for a streambank and shoreline protection project for Anaheim, California.
Directs design, land acquisition, and construction of the Montgomery Point Lock and Dam on the White River, Arkansas.
Authorizes a study for the purpose of determining whether there is contaminated ground water flowing downstream from and through existing Federal facilities at Whittier Narrows Dam, Los Angeles County, California.
Directs completion of general, feasibility, navigation, and other studies, design memorandum, economic reevaluations, in the following states: California, Florida, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Virginia, Texas, and West Virginia.
Directs a comprehensive assessment of adverse impacts to such watershed from Federal facilities, review current plans for reducing such adverse impacts, and carry out a feasibility study to identify and recommend measures for implementation to eliminate such adverse impacts.
Continues the authorization for projects and studies (for flood control and other purposes) in Iowa, Louisiana, Missouri, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Texas.
Deauthorizes navigation projects at the following locations: (1) Boothbay Harbor, Maine; (2) Boston Inner Harbor Channel, Massachusetts; (3) Newburyport, Massachusetts; (4) Greilickville, Michigan; (5) South Haven Harbor, Michigan; and (6) Sag Harbor, New York. Deauthorizes a portion of the Canaveral Harbor project, Florida.
Provides gratuitous political, by-name designation for the following structures:
- Lock and dam 3, Arkansas River, Arkansas, as the "Joe Hardin Lock and Dam"
- The Greers Ferry Lake Visitors Center, Arkansas, as the "William Carl Garner Visitors Center"
- The reservoir created by the James W. Trimble Lock and Dam on the Arkansas River, Arkansas, as the "John Paul Hammerschmidt Lake"
- Lock 5 on the Red River Waterway, Louisiana, as the "Joe D. Waggonner, Jr. Lock"
- The area for which environmental and other stream bank restoration measures are authorized relating to the project for flood control, Passaic River Mainstem, New Jersey and New York, as the "Joseph G. Minish Passaic River Waterfront Park and Historic Area"
- The project for flood control, Buena Vista, Virginia, as the "James R. Olin Flood Control Project"
- The Gallipolis Locks and Dam, Ohio River, Ohio and West Virginia, as the "Robert C. Byrd Locks and Dam"
- The Mill Creek Reservoir, Washington, as the "Virgil B. Bennington Lake"
Title II: Generally Applicable Provisions
Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1986Water Resources Development Act of 1986
The Water Resources Development Act of 1986 is part of , a series of acts enacted by Congress of the United States on November 17, 1986....
to modify requirements concerning the ability of non-Federal interests to pay under cost-sharing agreements. Directs a review of regulations on ability to pay in light of locally prevailing conditions such as those associated with specified projects; and amends the regulations to the extent necessary to more appropriately account for locally prevailing conditions that would limit the ability of local interests to participate as non-Federal project sponsors in accordance with established cost-sharing formulas.
Prohibits project modifications for improvements of the environment without specific congressional authorization if the estimated cost exceeds $5 million.
Authorizes appropriation of not to exceed $25 million (currently, $15 million) annually to carry out provisions related to such modifications.
Authorizes accepting contributions for environmental and recreation projects, with funds received to be deposited into a specified account in the Treasury; and projects for the protection, restoration, and creation of aquatic and ecologically related habitats in connection with dredging of an authorized navigation project.
Extends specified State safety and training, research, and dam inventory programs.
Authorizes assistance to non-Federal interests for the repair, reconstruction, or other modification to Mussers Dam, Middle Creek, Snyder County, Pennsylvania.
Specifies that all costs incurred in carrying out the project to correct seepage problems at Beaver Lake, Arkansas, shall be treated as costs incurred for a dam safety project, subject to cost-sharing requirements of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986.
Authorizes materials necessary to promote the Corps safety program, for distribution to Corps employees, and to recognize outstanding safety performance by such employees. Authorizes appropriations.
Directs making use of private sector resources in carrying out surveying
Surveying
See Also: Public Land Survey SystemSurveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, and science of accurately determining the terrestrial or three-dimensional position of points and the distances and angles between them...
and mapping activities in the Corps'
United States Army Corps of Engineers
The United States Army Corps of Engineers is a federal agency and a major Army command made up of some 38,000 civilian and military personnel, making it the world's largest public engineering, design and construction management agency...
Civil Works Program, ensuring that procurement with funds appropriated to carry out this Act are conducted in compliance with the Buy American Act
Buy American Act
The Buy American Act passed in 1933 by Congress and signed by President Hoover on his last full day in office , required the United States government to prefer U.S.-made products in itspurchases...
.
Directs a study on the need for changes in Federal law and policy with respect to dredged material disposal areas for the construction and maintenance of harbors and inland harbors by the Secretary.
Authorizes assistance to non-Federal interests for carrying out specified projects for the beneficial reuse of waste water, including several specified places in California.
Authorizes design and construction assistance to the Santa Clara Valley Water District and to the city of San Jose, California to demonstrate and field test for innovative public use processes that advance the technology of waste water reuse and treatment and promote use of treated waste water for critical water supply purposes and protection of fish and wildlife in the San Francisco Bay.
Authorizes assistance to non-Federal interests to carry out water-related environmental infrastructure and resource protection and development projects relating to wastewater treatment and for other purposes in Washington D.C., Maryland, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and along the U.S.-Mexican border.
Authorizes design and construction assistance in Arkansas and New York.
Provides for the termination of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors; the Board was originally created in 1902 by President Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States . He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity...
to determine the feasibility of developing riverine
River
A river is a natural watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, a lake, a sea, or another river. In a few cases, a river simply flows into the ground or dries up completely before reaching another body of water. Small rivers may also be called by several other names, including...
projects.
Authorizes a program to share the cost of managing recreation facilities and natural resources at water resource development projects.
Requires debarment
Debar
Debar is a city in the western part of the Republic of Macedonia, near the border with Albania, on the road from Struga to Gostivar. It is the seat of Debar Municipality.-Geography:...
of persons convicted of intentionally affixing a label bearing a "Made in America" inscription to any product sold in or shipped to the United States that is not made in the United States and is used in a civil works project from contracting with the Federal Government for a period of from three to five years.
Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions
Extends the jurisdiction of the Mississippi River Commission.Directs a prevention monitoring program for zebra mussels throughout the New York City water supply system. Amends the Nonindigenous Aquatic Nuisance Prevention and Control Act of 1990 to direct the Coast Guard
Coast guard
A coast guard or coastguard is a national organization responsible for various services at sea. However the term implies widely different responsibilities in different countries, from being a heavily armed military force with customs and security duties to being a volunteer organization tasked with...
to issue regulations to prevent the introduction and spread of aquatic nuisance species in the Great Lakes
Great Lakes
The Great Lakes are a collection of freshwater lakes located in northeastern North America, on the Canada – United States border. Consisting of Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario, they form the largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth by total surface, coming in second by volume...
through ballast water carried on vessels that, after operating on the waters beyond the exclusive economic zone, enter a U.S. port on the Hudson River north of the George Washington Bridge.
Authorizes a cooperative agreement with the Earth Conservancy to develop, and carry out along the Susquehanna River between Wilkes-Barre and Sunbury, Pennsylvania, a wetlands demonstration project.
Directs a cooperative agreement with non-Federal interests to develop and carry out along the Juniata River and its tributaries, Pennsylvania, a watershed reclamation and protection and wetlands creation and restoration project.
Authorizes boat ramps in Georgia and trailhead facilities in West Virginia.
Authorizes design and construction projects to address water quality problems Louisiana, New York, Maine, and Rhode Island.
Directs studies of Baltimore Harbor, Maryland, for the purpose of developing analytical procedures and criteria for contaminated dredged material in order to distinguish those materials that should be placed in containment sites from those that could be used in beneficial projects or placed in open waters without being chemically altered, and of determining the feasibility and necessity of decontaminating dredged materials and of dewatering and recycling such materials for use as marketable products.
Requires a study of the economic benefits of Federal and significant non-Federal shore protection activities in the Mid-Atlantic region from New York to Virginia.
Authorizes a memorandum of understanding between the Army
Army
An army An army An army (from Latin arma "arms, weapons" via Old French armée, "armed" (feminine), in the broadest sense, is the land-based military of a nation or state. It may also include other branches of the military such as the air force via means of aviation corps...
and the Department of Agriculture to study problems associated with flooding in Mississippi.
Authorizes review of documents of the Chief of Engineers
Chief of Engineers
The Chief of Engineers commands the US Army Corps of Engineers. As a staff officer at The Pentagon, the Chief advises the Army on engineering matters and serves as the Army's topographer and the proponent for real estate and other related engineering programs....
pertaining to Orchard Beach, Bronx, New York, and to make appropriate recommendations concerning storm damage prevention, recreation, environmental restoration, and other purposes; and a study on the need for erosion protection along the East River, New York, in the vicinity of Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan, with a view toward mitigating the deleterious effects of drift removal on protecting the adjacent shoreline from erosion. Authorizes appropriations.
Authorizes a reconnaissance and feasibility study of remediation of contaminated sediments in Lake Champlain and the Narrows of Lake Champlain, Vermont; (2) of providing additional boat access points on Lake Champlain, Vermont; and (2) on providing additional flood protection for Montpelier, Vermont.
Directs the feasibility study of Federal improvements to the St. John's River Channel, Florida, to examine the commercial and military uses of the channel in those areas traversed by both military and commercial vessels, and coordinate the Secretary's efforts with the Navy to use available studies and resources that project future military dredging needs in the St. John's River Channel.
Requires the Chief of Engineers
Chief of Engineers
The Chief of Engineers commands the US Army Corps of Engineers. As a staff officer at The Pentagon, the Chief advises the Army on engineering matters and serves as the Army's topographer and the proponent for real estate and other related engineering programs....
to review the report on central and southern Florida, and other pertinent reports, with a view to determining whether modifications to the existing project are advisable at the present time due to significantly changed physical, biological, demographic, or economic conditions.
Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1988
Water Resources Development Act of 1988
Water Resources Development Act of 1988 , , is a public law passed by Congress on November 17, 1988 concerning water resources in the United States in the areas of flood control, navigation, dredging, environment, recreation, water supply, beach nourishment and erosion.Many of the provisions of the...
to authorize payomg tuition expenses of suitable, English-taught primary and secondary education in Puerto Rico for the children of Federal employees who are employed (currently, temporarily residing and employed) in Puerto Rico.
Directs dam drawdown mitigation, risk, and design deficiency studies in Washington. West Virginia, and California.
Requires a pilot program for providing environmental restoration infrastructure and resource protection development projects to non-Federal interests in south central Pennsylvania, subject to specified (including reporting) requirements.
Authorizes capital improvements to the Illinois and Michigan Canal and rehabilitate, renovate, preserve, and maintain the Illinois and Michigan Canal and its related facilities.
Directs dredging and transfer studies in California, Maryland, and Virginia.
Directs a plan for modifying projects in Kentucky and Pennsylvania
Authorizes study for developing and preserving seasonal wetlands in California and a water resources project Arizona.
Directs reviewing water supply needs in Ohio.
Authorizes assistance for the development of Environmental Improvement Programsin New Jersey.
Authorizes real estate and facility (e.g., locks and dam) transfers, conveyances, and other actions in Georgia, Wisconsin, Arkansas, New Jersey, and Michigan.
Requires a study of a hydro-environmental monitoring and information system in the New York Bight and Harbor and a national study on information that is currently available on contaminated sediments.
Authorizes completion of a study on contaminated sediments in Wisconsin.
Directs planning, design, and construction of a navigation project in New York and New Jersey.
Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) conduct investigations and surveys of the watersheds of the rivers in the Conemaugh River Basin, Pennsylvania; and (2) develop and implement restoration projects for abatement and mitigation of water quality degradation caused by abandoned mines and mining activity in such basin.
Declares portions of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, to be non-navigable waters of the United States, subject to specified limitations.
Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) use available resources to support the logistical and minor construction needs of the local organizing committee of the 1993 World University Games in western New York; and (2) undertake a program to control nuisance aquatic vegetation for the purpose of preserving the recreational uses of the waters of Lake Gaston, Virginia and North Carolina (and authorizes appropriations).
Directs the Secretary to establish a pilot program for providing water-related environmental assistance to non-Federal interests in southern West Virginia, subject to specified (including reporting) requirements. Authorizes appropriations.
Authorizes the Tennessee Valley Authority
Tennessee Valley Authority
The Tennessee Valley Authority is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected...
(TVA) to establish the Tennessee River Heritage Museum and Education Facility to encourage science and technology as it relates to developing, managing, and preserving rivers as a nationally significant resource.
Requires the Comptroller General
Comptroller General
Comptroller General or Comptroller-General or Controller General may refer to:* the Comptroller General of the United States, director of the Government Accountability Office* Comptroller General of Convicts...
to review the operation of the project for flood control, Red Rock Dam and Lake, Iowa, authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1938
Flood Control Act of 1938
The Flood Control Act of 1938 was an Act of the United States Congress signed into law by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt that authorized civil engineering projects such as dams, levees, dikes, and other flood control measures through the United States Army Corps of Engineers and other Federal...
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Directs crediting specified flood control projects in California for various special expenditures not otherwise authorized under the Water Resources Development Act of 1986
Water Resources Development Act of 1986
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Requires a study on bank stabilization and marsh creation in Louisiana.
Directs salt marsh
Salt marsh
A salt marsh is an environment in the upper coastal intertidal zone between land and salt water or brackish water, it is dominated by dense stands of halophytic plants such as herbs, grasses, or low shrubs. These plants are terrestrial in origin and are essential to the stability of the salt marsh...
restoration projects in Connecticut.
Authorizes the Secretary to participate as an active Federal member in the Memorandum of Understanding for the Interagency Ecological Study Program for implementation of the monitoring requirements in the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary, California.
Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1988
Water Resources Development Act of 1988
Water Resources Development Act of 1988 , , is a public law passed by Congress on November 17, 1988 concerning water resources in the United States in the areas of flood control, navigation, dredging, environment, recreation, water supply, beach nourishment and erosion.Many of the provisions of the...
to authorize a comprehensive flood warning and response system in Pennsylvania at full Federal expense.
Authorizes the Secretary to construct, establish, equip, maintain, and operate (or assist in doing so) an interagency child care facility at Fort Point, Galveston, Texas, to provide child care services for children of Federal employees. Sets forth provisions regarding the establishment of fees for such services, transfers of funds from Federal agencies in connection with such facility, and the Secretary's authority to accept donations. Authorizes appropriations.
Authorizes and directs the Secretary to offer technical assistance to the National Park Service (NPS) on infrastructure repairs and improvements at the Presidio of San Francisco, California, during the transition period from Army to NPS management and after its inclusion into the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
Requires the Secretary to assist the NPS in identifying opportunities at the Presidio for demonstration and education programs of environmentally suitable and innovative technologies, and make available a liaison from its Construction Engineering Research Laboratory for such purpose.
Directs the Secretary to develop a comprehensive five- and 20-year sediment management strategy for the Maumee River, Toledo Harbor, which may include a combination of several sediment disposal alternatives and shall emphasize innovative, environmentally benign alternatives, including reuse and recycling for wetland restoration. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct the engineering and construction activities necessary to implement the five-year sediment management strategy. Authorizes appropriations.
Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1990
Water Resources Development Act of 1990
The Water Resources Development Act of 1990 , , was enacted by Congress of the United States on November 12, 1990. Most of the provisions of WRDA 1990 are administered by the United States Army Corps of Engineers.-Title I: Water Resources Projects:...
to repeal an authorization of appropriations for the relocation of the Southeast Light on Block Island, Rhode Island.
Authorizes reconstruction of the Allendale Dam in North Providence, Rhode Island, subject to specified cost, cost-sharing, and other requirements.
Directs a water supply contract with the Ouachita River Water District for withdrawals from Lake DeGray, Arkansas, as provided in the agreement forwarded by the Vicksburg District Corps of Engineers dated March 1992.
Authorizes
- remove a sunken barge from waters off the shore of the Narragansett Town Beach in Narragansett, Rhode Island
- construct two elevated water storage towers at Quonset Point-Davisville, Rhode Island
- relocate 6000 feet (1,828.8 m) of sewer lines to West Davisville, Rhode Island
- undertake the repair and reconstruction of a flood wall system at Stillwater, Minnesota
Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide that the Environmental Protection Agency
United States Environmental Protection Agency
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is an agency of the federal government of the United States charged with protecting human health and the environment, by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress...
or the State shall not require a permit for stormwater discharges; and not later than October 1, 1993 (currently, 1992) the EPA shall issue regulations that designate certain storm water discharges to be regulated to protect water quality and establish a comprehensive program to regulate such designated sources.
Title IV: Infrastructure Technology, Research and Development
Authorizes activities to inform the U.S. maritime industry and port authorities of technological innovations abroad that could significantly improve waterborne transportation in the United States.Authorizes studies on the dredging needs of the national ports and harbors of the United States.
Deauthorizes the responsibility of the Federal Government to maintain and operate a 1400 feet (426.7 m) eathen dike constructed by local interests in lieu of a 1400 feet (426.7 m) steel sheetpile breakwater authorized as part of the Flushing Bay and Creek, New York, project by the River and Harbor Act of 1962.
Authorizes and directs a data collection and monitoring program of coastal processes for the Atlantic Coast of New York.
Directs the Administrator and the Secretary: (1) within a year, based upon a review of decontamination technologies identified pursuant to the Water Resources Development Act of 1990
Water Resources Development Act of 1990
The Water Resources Development Act of 1990 , , was enacted by Congress of the United States on November 12, 1990. Most of the provisions of WRDA 1990 are administered by the United States Army Corps of Engineers.-Title I: Water Resources Projects:...
, to jointly select removal, pretreatment, post-treatment, and decontamination technologies for contaminated marine sediments for a decontamination project in the New York/New Jersey Harbor.
Other Acts under Public Law 102-580
Title V is the National Contaminated Sediment Assessment and Management Act, which Establishes a National Contaminated Sediment Task Force. Sets forth provisions regarding the duties and compensation of the Task Force. Sets forth reporting requirements.Directs the EPA to: (1) conduct a comprehensive national survey of data regarding aquatic sediment quality in the United States; and (2) compile all existing information on the quantity, chemical and physical composition, and geographic location of pollutants in aquatic sediment, including the probable source of such pollutants and identification of contaminated sediments. Sets forth reporting requirements.
Requires the EPA to conduct a comprehensive and continuing program to assess aquatic sediment quality. Sets forth reporting requirements.
Amends the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 to revise provisions regarding: (1) ocean dumping requirements (including the addition of a requirement that the Secretary, prior to issuing a permit, obtain the concurrence by the Administrator and the establishment of related procedures); (2) restrictions on States' rights to adopt or enforce requirements respecting ocean dumping (eases such restrictions under specified circumstances); (3) the designation of sites for dumping; (4) permit conditions; and (5) ocean dumping penalties.
Spells out various reporting requirements.