WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT ACT OF 1996

1 public LAW 104 303 OCT. 12, 1996 WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT ACT OF1996110 STAT. 3658 public LAW 104 303 OCT. 12, 1996 public Law 104 303104th CongressAn ActTo provide for the conservation and DEVELOPMENT of WATER and related RESOURCES ,to authorize the Secretary of the Army to construct various projects for improve-ments to rivers and harbors of the United States, and for other it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives ofthe United States of America in congress assembled,SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.(a) SHORTTITLE. This Act may be cited as the WaterResources DEVELOPMENT Act of 1996 .

2 (b) TABLE OFCONTENTS. Sec. 1. Short title; table of I WATER RESOURCES PROJECTSSec. 101. Project 102. Small flood control 103. Small bank stabilization 104. Small navigation 105. Small shoreline protection 106. Small snagging and sediment removal project, Mississippi River, LittleFalls, 107. Small projects for improvement of the II GENERAL PROVISIONSSec. 201. Cost sharing for dredged material disposal 202. Flood control 203. Cost sharing for feasibility 204. Restoration of environmental 205. Environmental 206. Aquatic ecosystem 207. Beneficial uses of dredged 208.

3 Recreation policy and user 209. Recovery of 210. Cost sharing for environmental 211. Construction of flood control projects by non-Federal 212. Engineering and environmental innovations of national 213. Lease 214. Collaborative research and 215. National dam safety 216. Hydroelectric power project 217. Dredged material disposal facility 218. Obstruction removal 219. Small project 220. Uneconomical cost-sharing 221. Planning assistance to 222. Corps of Engineers 223. State and Federal agency review 224. Section 215 reimbursement limitation per 225.

4 226. Sediments decontamination 227. Shore 228. Conditions for project USC ResourcesDevelopment Actof 12, 1996 [S. 640]110 STAT. 3659 public LAW 104 303 OCT. 12, 1996 Sec. 229. Support of Army civil works 230. Benefits to 231. Loss of life 232. Scenic and aesthetic 233. Termination of technical advisory 234. Interagency and international support 235. Sense of congress ; requirement regarding 236. Technical 237. Hopper III PROJECT-RELATED PROVISIONSSec. 301. Project 302. Mobile Harbor, 303. Nogales Wash and Tributaries, 304. White River Basin, Arkansas and 305.

5 Channel Islands Harbor, 306. Lake Elsinore, 307. Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbors, San Pedro Bay, 308. Los Angeles County drainage area, 309. Prado Dam, 310. Queensway Bay, 311. Seven Oaks Dam, 312. Thames River, 313. Canaveral Harbor, 314. Captiva Island, 315. Central and Southern Florida, Canal 316. Central and Southern Florida, Canal 317. Jacksonville Harbor (Mill Cove), 318. Panama City Beaches, 319. Chicago, 320. Chicago Lock and Thomas J. O Brien Lock, 321. Kaskaskia River, 322. Locks and Dam 26, Alton, Illinois and 323. White River, 324.

6 Baptiste Collette Bayou, 325. Lake Pontchartrain, 326. Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet, 327. Tolchester Channel, 328. Cross Village Harbor, 329. Saginaw River, 330. Sault Sainte Marie, Chippewa County, 331. St. Johns Bayou and New Madrid Floodway, 332. Lost Creek, Columbus, 333. Passaic River, New 334. Acequias irrigation system, New 335. Jones Inlet, New 336. Buford Trenton Irrigation District, North 337. Reno Beach-Howards Farm, 338. Broken Bow Lake, Red River Basin, 339. Wister Lake project, Leflore County, 340. Bonneville Lock and Dam, Columbia River, Oregon and 341.

7 Columbia River dredging, Oregon and 342. Lackawanna River at Scranton, 343. Mussers Dam, Middle Creek, Snyder County, 344. Schuylkill River, 345. South Central 346. Wyoming Valley, 347. Allendale Dam, North Providence, Rhode 348. Narragansett, Rhode 349. Clouter Creek disposal area, Charleston, South 350. Buffalo Bayou, 351. Dallas floodway extension, Dallas, 352. Grundy, 353. Haysi Lake, 354. Rudee Inlet, Virginia Beach, 355. Virginia Beach, 356. East Waterway, 357. Bluestone Lake, West 358. Moorefield, West 359. Southern West 360. West Virginia trailhead STAT.

8 3660 public LAW 104 303 OCT. 12, 1996 Sec. 361. Kickapoo River, 362. Teton County, 363. Project 364. Project 365. Mississippi Delta Region, 366. Monongahela River, IV STUDIESSec. 401. Corps capability study, 402. Red River, 403. McDowell Mountain, 404. Nogales Wash and tributaries, 405. Garden Grove, 406. Mugu Lagoon, 407. Murrieta Creek, Riverside County, 408. Pine Flat Dam fish and wildlife habitat restoration, 409. Santa Ynez, 410. Southern California 411. Stockton, 412. Yolo Bypass, Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, 413. West Dade, 414.

9 Savannah River Basin comprehensive WATER RESOURCES 415. Chain of Rocks Canal, 416. Quincy, 417. Springfield, 418. Beauty Creek watershed, Valparaiso City, Porter County, 419. Grand Calumet River, Hammond, 420. Indiana Harbor Canal, East Chicago, Lake County, 421. Koontz Lake, 422. Little Calumet River, 423. Tippecanoe River watershed, 424. Calcasieu River, Hackberry, 425. Morganza, Louisiana, to Gulf of 426. Huron River, 427. City of North Las Vegas, Clark County, 428. Lower Las Vegas Wash wetlands, Clark County, 429. Northern 430. Saco River, New 431.

10 Buffalo River greenway, New 432. Coeymans, New 433. New York Bight and Harbor 434. Port of Newburgh, New 435. Port of New York-New Jersey navigation 436. Shinnecock Inlet, New 437. Chagrin River, 438. Cuyahoga River, 439. Columbia Slough, 440. Charleston, South 441. Oahe Dam to Lake Sharpe, South 442. Mustang Island, Corpus Christi, 443. Prince William County, 444. Pacific 445. Financing of infrastructure needs of small and medium 446. Evaluation of beach V MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONSSec. 501. Land 502. 503. Watershed management, restoration, and 504.