H.R. 4060 (rh) Making appropriations for energy and water development for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes. ...

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105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4060


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 23, 1998

                                Received

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                                 AN ACT


 
 Making appropriations for energy and water development for the fiscal 
        year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the 
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 1999, for energy and water development, and for other 
purposes, namely:

                                TITLE I

                      DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE--CIVIL

                         DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY

                       Corps of Engineers--Civil

    The following appropriations shall be expended under the direction 
of the Secretary of the Army and the supervision of the Chief of 
Engineers for authorized civil functions of the Department of the Army 
pertaining to rivers and harbors, flood control, beach erosion, and 
related purposes.

                         General Investigations

    For expenses necessary for the collection and study of basic 
information pertaining to river and harbor, flood control, shore 
protection, and related projects, restudy of authorized projects, 
miscellaneous investigations, and, when authorized by laws, surveys and 
detailed studies and plans and specifications of projects prior to 
construction, $162,823,000, to remain available until expended, of 
which funds are provided for the following projects in the amounts 
specified:
             Delaware Bay Coastline, Delaware and New Jersey, $570,000;
            Tampa Harbor, Alafia Channel, Florida, $200,000;
            Barnegat Inlet to Little Egg Harbor Inlet, New Jersey, 
        $322,000;
            Brigantine Inlet to Great Egg Harbor Inlet, New Jersey, 
        $313,000;
            Great Egg Harbor Inlet to Townsends Inlet, New Jersey, 
        $300,000;
            Lower Cape May Meadows--Cape May Point, New Jersey, 
        $100,000;
            Manasquan Inlet to Barnegat Inlet, New Jersey, $400,000;
            Raritan Bay to Sandy Hook Bay, New Jersey, $1,100,000; and
            Townsends Inlet to Cape May Inlet, New Jersey, $500,000: 
        Provided, That the Secretary of the Army, acting through the 
        Chief of Engineers, is directed to use $700,000 of the funds 
        appropriated in Public Law 102-377 for the Red River Waterway, 
        Shreveport, Louisiana, to Daingerfield, Texas, project for the 
        feasibility phase of the Red River Navigation, Southwest 
        Arkansas, study: Provided further, That the Secretary of the 
        Army is directed to use $500,000 of the funds appropriated 
        herein to implement section 211(f)(7) of Public Law 104-303 
        (110 Stat. 3684) and to reimburse the non-Federal sponsor a 
        portion of the Federal share of project costs for the Hunting 
        Bayou element of the project for flood control, Buffalo Bayou 
        and tributaries, Texas: Provided further, That the Secretary of 
        the Army is directed to use $300,000 of the funds appropriated 
        herein to implement section 211(f)(8) of Public Law 104-303 
        (110 Stat. 3684) and to reimburse the non-Federal sponsor a 
        portion of the Federal share of project costs for the project 
        for flood control, White Oak Bayou watershed, Texas.

                         Construction, General

    For the prosecution of river and harbor, flood control, shore 
protection, and related projects authorized by laws; and detailed 
studies, and plans and specifications, of projects (including those for 
development with participation or under consideration for participation 
by States, local governments, or private groups) authorized or made 
eligible for selection by law (but such studies shall not constitute a 
commitment of the Government to construction), $1,456,529,000, to 
remain available until expended, of which such sums as are necessary 
for the Federal share of construction costs for facilities under the 
Dredged Material Disposal Facilities program shall be derived from the 
Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund, as authorized by Public Law 104-303; and 
of which such sums as are necessary pursuant to Public Law 99-662 shall 
be derived from the Inland Waterways Trust Fund, for one-half of the 
costs of construction and rehabilitation of inland waterways projects, 
including rehabilitation costs for the Lock and Dam 25, Mississippi 
River, Illinois and Missouri; Lock and Dam 14, Mississippi River, Iowa; 
Lock and Dam 24, Part 1, Mississippi River, Illinois and Missouri; and 
Lock and Dam 3, Mississippi River, Minnesota, projects, and of which 
funds are provided for the following projects in the amounts specified:
            Norco Bluffs, California, $4,400,000;
            Tybee Island, Georgia, $1,200,000;
            Indianapolis Central Waterfront, Indiana, $4,000,000;
            Indiana Shoreline Erosion, Indiana, $700,000;
            Ohio River Flood Protection, Indiana, $1,700,000;
            Harlan/Clover Fork, Williamsburg, Middlesboro, Martin 
        County, Pike County, and Town of Martin elements of the Levisa 
        and Tug Forks of the Big Sandy River and Upper Cumberland 
        River, Kentucky, $26,730,000;
            Southern and Eastern Kentucky, Kentucky, $4,000,000;
            Lake Pontchartrain and Vicinity (Hurricane Protection), 
        Louisiana, $18,000,000;
            Lake Pontchartrain (Jefferson Parish) Stormwater Discharge, 
        Louisiana, $3,000,000;
            Southeast Louisiana, Louisiana, $85,200,000;
            Jackson County, Mississippi, $7,000,000;
            Passaic River Streambank Restoration, New Jersey, 
        $5,000,000;
            Lackawanna River, Olyphant, Pennsylvania, $14,400,000;
            Lackawanna River, Scranton, Pennsylvania, $43,551,000;
             South Central Pennsylvania Environment Improvement 
        Program, $45,000,000, of which $15,000,000 shall be available 
        only for water-related environmental infrastructure and 
        resource protection and development projects in Lackawanna, 
        Lycoming, Susquehanna, Wyoming, Pike, and Monroe counties in 
        Pennsylvania in accordance with the purposes of subsection (a) 
        and requirements of subsections (b) through (e) of section 313 
        of the Water Resources Development Act of 1992, as amended;
            Wallisville Lake, Texas, $5,500,000;
            Virginia Beach, Virginia (Hurricane Protection), 
        $13,000,000; and
             West Virginia and Pennsylvania Flood Control, West 
        Virginia and Pennsylvania, $750,000: Provided, That the 
        Secretary of the Army is directed to incorporate the economic 
        analyses for the Green Ridge and Plot sections of the 
        Lackawanna River, Scranton, Pennsylvania, project with the 
        economic analysis for the Albright Street section of the 
        project, and to cost-share and implement these combined 
        sections as a single project with no separable elements, except 
        that each section may be undertaken individually when the non-
        Federal sponsor provides the applicable local cooperation 
        requirements: Provided further, That any funds heretofore 
        appropriated and made available in Public Law 103-126 for 
        projects associated with the restoration of the Lackawanna 
        River Basin Greenway Corridor, Pennsylvania, may be utilized by 
        the Secretary of the Army in carrying out other projects and 
        activities on the Lackawanna River in Pennsylvania: Provided 
        further, That the Secretary of the Army is directed to use 
        $6,000,000 of the funds appropriated herein to implement 
        section 211(f)(6) of Public Law 104-303 (110 Stat. 3683) and to 
        reimburse the non-Federal sponsor a portion of the Federal 
        share of project construction costs for the flood control 
        components comprising the Brays Bayou element of the project 
        for flood control, Buffalo Bayou and tributaries, Texas.

 Flood Control, Mississippi River and Tributaries, Arkansas, Illinois, 
       Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee

    For expenses necessary for prosecuting work of flood control, and 
rescue work, repair, restoration, or maintenance of flood control 
projects threatened or destroyed by flood, as authorized by law (33 
U.S.C. 702a, 702g-1), $312,077,000, to remain available until expended.

                   Operation and Maintenance, General

    For expenses necessary for the preservation, operation, 
maintenance, and care of existing river and harbor, flood control, and 
related works, including such sums as may be necessary for the 
maintenance of harbor channels provided by a State, municipality or 
other public agency, outside of harbor lines, and serving essential 
needs of general commerce and navigation; surveys and charting of 
northern and northwestern lakes and connecting waters; clearing and 
straightening channels; and removal of obstructions to navigation, 
$1,637,719,000, to remain available until expended, of which such sums 
as become available in the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund, pursuant to 
Public Law 99-662, may be derived from that Fund, and of which such 
sums as become available from the special account established by the 
Land and Water Conservation Act of 1965, as amended (16 U.S.C. 460l), 
may be derived from that Fund for construction, operation, and 
maintenance of outdoor recreation facilities, and of which $4,200,000 
is provided for repair of Chickamauga Lock, Tennessee, subject to 
authorization.

                           Regulatory Program

    For expenses necessary for administration of laws pertaining to 
regulation of navigable waters and wetlands, $110,000,000, to remain 
available until expended.

            Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program

    For expenses necessary to clean up contaminated sites throughout 
the United States where work was performed as part of the Nation's 
early atomic energy program, $140,000,000, to remain available until 
expended.

                            General Expenses

    For expenses necessary for general administration and related 
functions in the Office of the Chief of Engineers and offices of the 
Division Engineers; activities of the Coastal Engineering Research 
Board, the Humphreys Engineer Center Support Activity, the Water 
Resources Support Center, and headquarters support functions at the 
USACE Finance Center; $148,000,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That no part of any other appropriation provided in title I 
of this Act shall be available to fund the activities of the Office of 
the Chief of Engineers or the executive direction and management 
activities of the division offices: Provided further, That none of 
these funds shall be available to support an office of congressional 
affairs within the executive office of the Chief of Engineers.

                        Administrative Provision

    Appropriations in this title shall be available for official 
reception and representation expenses (not to exceed $5,000); and 
during the current fiscal year the Revolving Fund, Corps of Engineers, 
shall be available for purchase (not to exceed 100 for replacement 
only) and hire of passenger motor vehicles.

                                TITLE II

                       DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

                          Central Utah Project

                central utah project completion account

    For carrying out activities authorized by the Central Utah Project 
Completion Act, and for activities related to the Uintah and Upalco 
Units authorized by 43 U.S.C. 620, $39,665,000, to remain available 
until expended, of which $15,476,000 shall be deposited into the Utah 
Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Account: Provided, That of the 
amounts deposited into that account, $5,000,000 shall be considered the 
Federal contribution authorized by paragraph 402(b)(2) of the Central 
Utah Project Completion Act and $10,476,000 shall be available to the 
Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Commission to carry out 
activities authorized under that Act.
    In addition, for necessary expenses incurred in carrying out 
related responsibilities of the Secretary of the Interior, $1,283,000, 
to remain available until expended.

                         bureau of reclamation

    For carrying out the functions of the Bureau of Reclamation as 
provided in the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 
Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto) and 
other Acts applicable to that Bureau as follows:

                      water and related resources

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For management, development, and restoration of water and related 
natural resources and for related activities, including the operation, 
maintenance and rehabilitation of reclamation and other facilities, 
participation in fulfilling related Federal responsibilities to Native 
Americans, and related grants to, and cooperative and other agreements 
with, State and local governments, Indian Tribes, and others, 
$622,054,000, to remain available until expended, of which $1,873,000 
shall be available for transfer to the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund 
and $49,908,000 shall be available for transfer to the Lower Colorado 
River Basin Development Fund, and of which such amounts as may be 
necessary may be advanced to the Colorado River Dam Fund: Provided, 
That such transfers may be increased or decreased within the overall 
appropriation under this heading: Provided further, That of the total 
appropriated, the amount for program activities that can be financed by 
the Reclamation Fund or the Bureau of Reclamation special fee account 
established by 16 U.S.C. 460l-6a(i) shall be derived from that Fund or 
account: Provided further, That funds contributed under 43 U.S.C. 395 
are available until expended for the purposes for which contributed: 
Provided further, That funds advanced under 43 U.S.C. 397a shall be 
credited to this account and are available until expended for the same 
purposes as the sums appropriated under this heading: Provided further, 
That of the total appropriated, $25,800,000 shall be derived by 
transfer of unexpended balances from the Bureau of Reclamation Working 
Capital Fund.

               bureau of reclamation loan program account

    For the cost of direct loans and/or grants, $12,000,000, to remain 
available until expended, as authorized by the Small Reclamation 
Projects Act of August 6, 1956, as amended (43 U.S.C. 422a-422l): 
Provided, That such costs, including the cost of modifying such loans, 
shall be as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974: Provided further, That these funds are available to subsidize 
gross obligations for the principal amount of direct loans not to 
exceed $38,000,000.
     In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to carry out 
the program for direct loans and/or grants, $425,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That of the total sums 
appropriated, the amount of program activities that can be financed by 
the Reclamation Fund shall be derived from that Fund.

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