{"format":1,"id":"118-hr-8812","congress":118,"number":"H.R. 8812","kind":"bill","group":"bills","title":"Water Resources Development Act of 2024","title_source":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","official_title":"To provide for improvements to the rivers and harbors of the United States, to provide for the conservation and development of water and related resources, and for other purposes.","titles":[{"type":"Official Title as Introduced","title":"To provide for improvements to the rivers and harbors of the United States, to provide for the conservation and development of water and related resources, and for other purposes."},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","title":"Water Resources Development Act of 2024"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Reported to House","title":"Water Resources Development Act of 2024"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Introduced","title":"Water Resources Development Act of 2024"},{"type":"Display Title","title":"Water Resources Development Act of 2024"}],"outcome":"passed_house","law_number":null,"introduced":"2024-06-25","chambers":{"house":{"status":"roll_call","date":"2024-07-22","vote":{"id":"118-2024-h358","question":"On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended","title":"Water Resources Development Act","result":"Passed","yea":359,"nay":13,"present":0,"not_voting":59,"source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2024/roll358.xml"}},"senate":{"status":"na","date":null,"vote":null}},"president":{"status":"na","date":null},"vice_president_tie_breaker":null,"latest_action":{"text":"Received in the Senate.","date":"2024-07-23"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[],"other_votes":[],"crs_summary":{"date":"2024-07-18","stage":"Reported to House","blocks":[{"k":"h","t":"Water Resources Development Act of 2024"},{"k":"p","t":"This bill authorizes, deauthorizes, and modifies various water resources feasibility studies and projects of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, such as studies or projects to"},{"k":"p","t":"• make certain waterways more navigable,"},{"k":"p","t":"• reduce flood and storm damage,"},{"k":"p","t":"• restore aquatic ecosystems,"},{"k":"p","t":"• maintain ports and harbors,"},{"k":"p","t":"• support water supply and storage projects,"},{"k":"p","t":"• construct water and wastewater infrastructure,"},{"k":"p","t":"• manage recreational sites and facilities,"},{"k":"p","t":"• rehabilitate dams, and"},{"k":"p","t":"• support other water resources infrastructure."}],"words":82},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Authorizes and modifies U.S. Army Corps of Engineers water resources studies, projects, programs and policies, including feasibility studies, deauthorizations, environmental infrastructure projects and specific project authorizations.","cites":[{"label":"Title I","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H771D3D332D964576847E92B061CACA7E"},{"label":"Title II","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H88B69A40880F4AD2B720C710E239AB1F"},{"label":"Title III","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H421BA9F5881444B8A0742903448271A1"},{"label":"Title IV","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H20B206584D684C79BD797DBE11333AE9"}]},"core_areas":["Corps of Engineers continuing authority programs and project delivery","Authorization of feasibility studies and required reports","Deauthorization of projects and modification of existing projects","Water-related environmental infrastructure funding","Authorization of specific navigation, flood and storm damage projects","Dam safety, dredged material and recreation site management"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Requires the Secretary of the Army to implement a pilot program allowing a non-Federal interest or the Secretary to carry out continuing authority program projects through alternative delivery methods, and authorizes $50,000,000 for each fiscal year for it.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 101","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-HF423BCA91C6D4D2897DB7FFFB9787F45"}},{"text":"Requires the Secretary to include water supply as a primary mission of the Corps of Engineers and to give it equal consideration in planning, designing, constructing, operating and maintaining water resources development projects.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 121","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-HF88DD90956004279981EC40433376355"}},{"text":"Amends the National Dam Safety Program Act to define underserved communities, to require a national inventory of dams and low-head dams, and to extend authorizations of appropriations from 2023 to 2028.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 128","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H254F61C73E6D43359F12A79D894A96B4"}},{"text":"Requires the Secretary to set a national goal that not less than 70 percent by tonnage of suitable dredged material be used beneficially, and to maximize beneficial use in dredged material management plans.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 117","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-HDAC538562C68406383701266678167F5"}},{"text":"Authorizes the Secretary to conduct feasibility studies for 126 listed new projects and 35 listed project modifications.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 201","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H0C3D5567C881438FAC6D7F124E14A36D"}},{"text":"Replaces the process for identifying inactive projects for deauthorization, requiring a proposed list, a 90-day public comment period, and submission of a final list to congressional committees.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 301","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H58ECF3E49B2B48B59253A40C2D3C10E3"}},{"text":"Deauthorizes listed flood channels, navigation channel portions and projects, including designated Los Angeles County Drainage Area channels beginning 18 months after enactment.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 341","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H37D48BF34DCB463598EDBAFD24C60705"}},{"text":"Adds listed water and wastewater infrastructure projects to section 219(f) of the Water Resources Development Act of 1992, each with a stated dollar amount, and raises amounts for listed existing projects.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 340","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-HFB47530A95FD45F3B7C1442EFC05B8A7"}},{"text":"Authorizes 13 listed navigation, coastal storm, flood and ecosystem projects, with their estimated costs, to be carried out substantially in accordance with the cited reports or decision documents.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 401","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H0D03A73EBA1E4A2A843BF1D318B42D1F"}},{"text":"Requires a report on the Corps of Engineers' comprehensive recreational access for individuals with disabilities, along with other listed reports on topics such as Soo Locks security and boat ramps.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 204","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H6C20EB2D8FBD4A1B9AE2E3B973BEB1EA"}}],"unexpected":[{"category":"off_subject","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 126","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H09E7214F6ED04F67B1E130CBBE17F689"},"heading":"Services of volunteers","effect":"Lets the Secretary recognize a volunteer providing services under the cited 1983 appropriations heading through an award or other means, other than a cash award.","amount":null,"quote":"The Secretary may recognize a volunteer providing services under the heading"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 127","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-HAF5BEC048C0F49A6B8C2C7BD6039CB4B"},"heading":"Nonrecreation outgrant policy","effect":"Requires the Secretary to update Corps policy guidance for evaluating and approving nonrecreational real estate outgrant requests to install broadband infrastructure on lands and waters the Secretary operates and maintains.","amount":null,"quote":"nonrecreational real estate outgrant requests for the installation, on lands and waters operated and maintained by the Secretary, of infrastructure for the provision of broadband services"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 148","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-HAFDB343756804E57A432800DCA6000F7"},"heading":"Sense of Congress related to water data","effect":"States the sense of Congress that the Secretary should develop a framework and common national standards for integrating, sharing and using water data; it creates no binding requirement.","amount":null,"quote":"develop and implement a framework for integrating, sharing, and using water data;"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 205","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H05DC3D46C870404EB75694233D58FCC7"},"heading":"GAO studies","effect":"Directs the Comptroller General to conduct several studies; one is a review of the Risk Rating 2.0 initiative and its effects on floodplain maps and property owners, and another covers homeless encampments on Corps property.","amount":null,"quote":"the Comptroller General of the United States shall initiate a review on the Risk Rating 2.0 initiative"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 207","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H32AE10988C124CE99BCCCB793E56E29C"},"heading":"Examination of reduction of microplastics","effect":"Directs the Corps of Engineers, subject to appropriations, to carry out research and development on reducing the release of microplastics tied to its civil works missions.","amount":null,"quote":"carry out research and development activities relating to measures that may be implemented to reduce the release of microplastics into the environment associated with carrying out the civil works missions of the Corps of Engineers."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 218","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-HC52CC5F1598145BC8D7B908BBF16A898"},"heading":"Sea sparrow accounting","effect":"Directs the Secretary to coordinate with agencies to count Cape Sable Seaside Sparrows in Florida each year and to report the counts to Congress annually for 10 years.","amount":null,"quote":"obtain an accurate count of Cape Sable Seaside Sparrows in Florida during each year"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 306","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H8F93265FA1564BC7B42AED5F2F3DFD1C"},"heading":"Asset divestiture","effect":"Sets terms for transferring Corps-owned bridges to State authorities or political subdivisions and requires a report on the Corps bridge inventory.","amount":null,"quote":"the Secretary and the State authority, or political subdivision thereof, execute an agreement containing the following terms and conditions"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 402","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H6ACD7EB1B2F3464889B563255458C78A"},"heading":"Facility investment","effect":"Allows the Secretary to use unobligated amounts in the Corps revolving fund to design and construct three named facilities: a building in Galveston, Texas, a warehouse near Lee’s Summit, Missouri, and a joint office in Corpus Christi, Texas. The revolving fund is then to be reimbursed from Corps program appropriations.","amount":null,"quote":"design and construct the new warehouse facility at the Longview Lake Project near Lee’s Summit, Missouri, described in the prospectus"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 137","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H8D886849A1E74A818CF8208B061C8947"},"heading":"Harmful algal bloom demonstration program","effect":"Raises the authorization for the harmful algal bloom demonstration program from $25,000,000 to $35,000,000, widens its participants, and adds priorities and agreement authority.","amount":"$35,000,000","quote":"in subsection (e), by striking “$25,000,000” and inserting “$35,000,000”"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 139","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H085339698E984B0AAC2BA2205814B82F"},"heading":"National coastal mapping program","effect":"Authorizes a national coastal mapping program supporting Corps missions and authorizes $15,000,000 for each fiscal year, to remain available until expended.","amount":"$15,000,000","quote":"The Secretary is authorized to carry out a national coastal mapping program to provide recurring national coastal mapping along the coasts of the United States"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 141","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H0E463E7C87C44CB3A23EB40AE6FC2288"},"heading":"Removal of abandoned vessels","effect":"Authorizes the Secretary to remove certain abandoned or seized vessels that do not obstruct navigation, makes owners liable for removal costs, and authorizes $10,000,000 per year for fiscal years 2025 through 2029.","amount":"$10,000,000","quote":"There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2025 through 2029."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 324","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-HCD79661E685F42B68099E4BE6354E8C8"},"heading":"Dillard Road, Patoka Lake, Indiana","effect":"Authorizes transfer without consideration of road easements on about 11.85 acres associated with Dillard Road, Crawford County, to the State of Indiana, with reversion if the land stops being used as a road.","amount":null,"quote":"The Secretary is authorized to transfer, without consideration, to the State of Indiana, all right, title, and interest of the United States"}]},{"category":"narrow_beneficiary","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 114","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H5E2981EED0AC480A9A0956FC9521895E"},"heading":"Additional projects for underserved community harbors","effect":"Adds criteria for underserved community harbor projects covering harbors serving island communities dependent on passenger and freight service, and lakes covered by the Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909. It also allows up to 10 marina or berthing area projects.","amount":null,"quote":"in a harbor where passenger and freight service is provided to island communities dependent on that service"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 142","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H612B33527AEB4CC0B34E0EF1BEA5A0ED"},"heading":"Corrosion prevention","effect":"Adds corrosion-prevention activities carried out through a program offered or accredited by an organization that sets industry standards, or an industrial coatings applicator program, to an existing Corps corrosion prevention provision.","amount":null,"quote":"offered or accredited by an organization that sets industry standards for corrosion mitigation and prevention"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 219","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H987E4D0D6EE64F41AA40FF0AA8FC2F2E"},"heading":"Wilson Lock floating guide wall, Alabama","effect":"Directs the Secretary, on request, to provide technical assistance to an unnamed 'relevant Federal entity' to address navigation impacts at Wilson Lock and Dam, Alabama.","amount":null,"quote":"use all relevant authorities to expeditiously provide technical assistance, including engineering and design assistance, and cost estimation assistance to the relevant Federal entity"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 308","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-HC48E3A6689C641D3A6DF878A70DCBEA4"},"heading":"Coastal community flood control and other purposes","effect":"Changes the prepayment condition for an eligible deferred payment agreement to an additional $200,000,000 payment. It also directs excess credits to stay on the remaining principal or, on request, be transferred back to the non-Federal interest.","amount":"$200,000,000","quote":"made a payment of an additional $200,000,000 for that eligible deferred payment agreement on or before"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 335","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H525E9103735B40B8B30BEB3FB88DFFA9"},"heading":"Columbia River Channel, Oregon and Washington","effect":"Allows the Secretary to include agreed dredge replacement costs in the full operating costs of the Cutter Suction Dredge provided by the non-Federal interest for the Columbia River Channel project.","amount":null,"quote":"the full operating costs of the Cutter Suction Dredge provided by the non-Federal interest for the project"}]},{"category":"named_funding","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 101","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-HF423BCA91C6D4D2897DB7FFFB9787F45"},"heading":"Continuing authority programs","effect":"Amends the community revitalization program to have the Secretary prioritize named projects: coastal communities in western Alaska affected by Typhoon Merbok, the Hatch Dam project in Arizona, and projects in Guam. It also authorizes $50,000,000 for each fiscal year for that program.","amount":null,"quote":"The Hatch Dam project, Arizona, carried out pursuant to section 205 of the Flood Control Act of 1948 (33 U.S.C. 701s)"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 117","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-HDAC538562C68406383701266678167F5"},"heading":"Maximization of beneficial use","effect":"Among its beneficial-use provisions, adds Osceola County, Florida to the list of areas in the regional sediment management authority.","amount":null,"quote":"(2) in subsection (f), by adding at the end the following: “(12) Osceola County, Florida.”"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 131","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H04E6B81472A64C9DB93BFA092FE7A528"},"heading":"Ability to pay","effect":"Revises ability-to-pay criteria for non-Federal cost shares. Subsection (c) then requires ability-to-pay determinations for a list of named projects and programs in places including Alaska, California, Florida, Guam, Hawaii, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Texas, Vermont, New York, Oregon and the U.S. Virgin Islands.","amount":null,"quote":"The Chattahoochee River Program, authorized by section 8144 of the Water Resources Development Act of 2022 (136 Stat. 3724)."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 135","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H18AF14B8D6F34755B3D3318E739D4C36"},"heading":"Control of aquatic plant growths and invasive species","effect":"Adds the Connecticut River Basin to the list of basins in the aquatic plant growth and invasive species control authority, and adds monitoring and contingency planning.","amount":null,"quote":"by inserting “the Connecticut River Basin,” after “the Ohio River Basin,”"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 138","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H92C4AAFB69E1413AAC04EE97143ECF1D"},"heading":"Support of Army civil works missions","effect":"Adds three named universities to the list of institutions the Secretary supports for academic research on water resources topics: Western Washington University, Bellingham; the University of North Carolina Wilmington; and California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.","amount":null,"quote":"the University of North Carolina Wilmington to conduct academic research on flood mitigation, coastal resiliency"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 140","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H6FF496986ED14CE59E4887F3F007D2AE"},"heading":"Watershed and river basin assessments","effect":"Adds the Connecticut River, Lower Rouge River and Grand River watersheds to the list of watershed assessments. It also directs the Secretary to give priority in feasibility reports to named Maui watersheds and to the watersheds of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa and Guam.","amount":null,"quote":"the watersheds of the island of Maui, Hawaii, including the Wahikuli, Honokōwai, Kahana, Honokahua, and Honolua watersheds"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 302","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-HBC052BC1B2C548379BC023BBBC53E0BC"},"heading":"General reauthorizations","effect":"Extends several program dates and raises the Las Vegas, Nevada authorization from $40,000,000 to $60,000,000. It also lists nine named projects the Secretary must prioritize under a rural and disadvantaged community pilot program.","amount":null,"quote":"is amended by striking “$40,000,000” and inserting “$60,000,000”."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 317","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-HFA73C6B9E80D45CFAFD882F8B374A355"},"heading":"Faulkner Island, Connecticut","effect":"Raises the authorization under section 527 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1996 (Faulkner Island, Connecticut) from $4,500,000 to $8,000,000.","amount":"$8,000,000","quote":"is amended by striking “$4,500,000” and inserting “$8,000,000”."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 325","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-HD4028ECF0A57430DB43A0C6E48569458"},"heading":"Larose to Golden Meadow, Louisiana","effect":"Requires a study of the Larose to Golden Meadow project in Louisiana and authorizes $3,000,000 to carry out the section.","amount":"$3,000,000","quote":"There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $3,000,000."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 329","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-HB4AC6796F515428ABD02B1C1668180BB"},"heading":"Missouri River levee system, Missouri","effect":"Raises the amount in section 111 of the 2009 Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act (Missouri River levee system) from $7,000,000 to $65,000,000.","amount":"$65,000,000","quote":"is amended by striking “$7,000,000” and inserting “$65,000,000”."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 340","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-HFB47530A95FD45F3B7C1442EFC05B8A7"},"heading":"Environmental infrastructure","effect":"Adds paragraphs (406) through (572) to section 219(f) of the Water Resources Development Act of 1992, each authorizing a stated dollar amount for water and wastewater infrastructure in a named city, county, or district. It also raises amounts for earlier-listed places.","amount":null,"quote":"(450) San Diego County, California.—$200,000,000 for water and wastewater infrastructure, including water supply, in San Diego County, California."}]},{"category":"place_specific_amount","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 130","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H5ED062FE1A6A46B1ADB56C2A1C524F90"},"heading":"Treatment of projects in covered communities","effect":"Requires an adjusted benefit-cost ratio for feasibility studies of projects serving communities in Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, or American Samoa. Construction costs are adjusted to those of the nearest comparable community in the contiguous States.","amount":null,"quote":"the Secretary shall adjust the calculation of the benefit-cost ratio for the project in order to equitably compare such project to projects carried out in the contiguous States"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 311","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-HDF11DF1ADCA24F6DA9DD9ED001A06560"},"heading":"Acequias irrigation systems","effect":"Sets the Federal share of a reconnaissance study under the acequias irrigation systems program at 100 percent and raises that program's authorization from $80,000,000 to $90,000,000.","amount":"$90,000,000","quote":"the Federal share of a reconnaissance study carried out by the Secretary under this section shall be 100 percent."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 313","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-HFA5434072A1D436CAA096266EB639BB6"},"heading":"Selma, Alabama","effect":"Sets the Federal share of the cost of the Selma Flood Risk Management and Bank Stabilization project, Alabama, at 100 percent.","amount":null,"quote":"Alabama, authorized by section 8401(2) of the Water Resources Development Act of 2022 (136 Stat. 3838), shall be 100 percent."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 321","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H8004C78B12C14926836318F3C26D412A"},"heading":"Washington Metropolitan Area, Washington, District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia","effect":"Sets the Federal share of the cost of the Washington, District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia water supply feasibility study at 100 percent.","amount":null,"quote":"The Federal share of the cost of the feasibility study for the project for water supply, Washington, District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 322","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-HB670683FF9774EDF8D6055EFBC575AF6"},"heading":"Northern estuaries ecosystem restoration, Florida","effect":"Sets the Federal share of the cost of carrying out the Northern estuaries ecosystem restoration authority, Florida, at 100 percent.","amount":null,"quote":"The Federal share of the cost of carrying out paragraph (1) shall be 100 percent."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 323","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-HE8275C72E5E94C17BC51EF7FAE9A7C43"},"heading":"New Savannah Bluff Lock and Dam, Georgia and South Carolina","effect":"Modifies the New Savannah Bluff Lock and Dam project, conveys adjacent park land to Augusta-Richmond County, Georgia without consideration, and caps the Georgia Ports Authority's construction costs at the cost of the fish passage structure.","amount":null,"quote":"The costs of construction to be paid by the Georgia Ports Authority as a non-Federal interest for the Project for the modifications authorized under paragraph (1) shall not exceed"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 337","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H85717EB822CC4972A962AF805EF7C83A"},"heading":"Matagorda Ship Channel Jetty Deficiency, Port Lavaca, Texas","effect":"Authorizes repairs to the Matagorda Ship Channel jetty at Port Lavaca, Texas, and sets the non-Federal share of those repairs at 10 percent.","amount":null,"quote":"The non-Federal share of the cost of the repairs carried out pursuant to subsection (a) shall be 10 percent."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 339","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H0A06E1A2BD514BF783A9561CA58DC935"},"heading":"Western Washington State, Washington","effect":"Authorizes an environmental assistance program limited to nine named Washington counties, with a 75 percent Federal share, a credit cap of 25 percent, and an authorization of $242,000,000.","amount":"$242,000,000","quote":"There is authorized to be appropriated $242,000,000 to carry out this section."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 210","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H604EC1B17E854F9E9416DC7D085741EE"},"heading":"Upper Mississippi River System Flood Risk and Resiliency Study","effect":"Sets the Federal share of the cost of the Upper Mississippi River System flood study, and any studies continuing from it, at 75 percent.","amount":null,"quote":"The Federal share of the cost of the study carried out under subsection (a) and any study carried out pursuant to subsection (d) shall be 75 percent."}]},{"category":"selective_carve_out","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 109","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H1C62138D3DEB4B579AC7875520543DC5"},"heading":"Systemwide improvement framework and encroachments","effect":"Makes non-Federal interests with an approved systemwide improvement plan eligible for repair assistance regardless of their compliance status. It also limits when the Secretary may treat a covered encroachment as a deficiency requiring corrective action.","amount":null,"quote":"Notwithstanding the status of compliance of a non-Federal interest with the requirements of a levee owner’s manual"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 113","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H642B870F08134B24BAE9496EC3A2CFF7"},"heading":"Remote and subsistence harbors","effect":"Rewrites the remote and subsistence harbors eligibility criteria so that eligible projects are those in Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, or American Samoa that meet a goods-consumption test or a community-viability test.","amount":null,"quote":"the project would be located in the State of Hawaii or Alaska, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 128","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H254F61C73E6D43359F12A79D894A96B4"},"heading":"Improvements to National Dam Safety Program","effect":"Exempts projects carried out by or for an underserved community from the cited limitation in the high hazard dam rehabilitation grant program. An underserved community is defined as one with a population under 50,000 and median household income under 80 percent of the statewide median.","amount":null,"quote":"Subparagraph (A) shall not apply to a project carried out by or for the benefit of an underserved community."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 145","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H3D97296CDA7B4717B4B1CDBEF8A3364E"},"heading":"Temporary relocation assistance pilot program","effect":"Adds one named project, Norfolk Coastal Storm Risk Management in Virginia, to the list of projects covered by the temporary relocation assistance pilot program created in a 2022 water resources law.","amount":null,"quote":"Project for hurricane and storm damage risk reduction, Norfolk Coastal Storm Risk Management, Virginia, authorized by section 401(3) of the Water Resources Development Act of 2020 (134 Stat. 2738)."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 146","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-HC1FF0AD33D684DAF96DDAAA33A8EB478"},"heading":"Easements for hurricane and storm damage reduction projects","effect":"For 2 years, directs the Secretary to carry out authorized hurricane and storm damage reduction projects at listed Florida locations consistent with prior construction and nourishment, notwithstanding a Corps memorandum on standard perpetual easements.","amount":null,"quote":"During the 2-year period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, notwithstanding any requirement of the Secretary for a covered project to comply with the memorandum of the Corps of Engineers entitled"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 147","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H14D0D57D46D84463BE6F3A70574EE578"},"heading":"Shoreline and riverine protection and restoration","effect":"Adds the shoreline of the State of Connecticut to the list in a 1999 water resources law provision on shoreline and riverine protection and restoration.","amount":null,"quote":"(L) Shoreline of the State of Connecticut."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 151","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-HCA010FEF251444259F7CC8208B69AA12"},"heading":"Sacramento River watershed Native American site and cultural resource protection pilot program","effect":"Creates a 4-year pilot program to recover and rebury Native American remains and cultural resources at Army civil works projects in the Sacramento River watershed in California, and makes section 208 of the Water Resources Development Act of 2000 not apply to those projects during the pilot.","amount":null,"quote":"Section 208 of the Water Resources Development Act of 2000 (33 U.S.C. 2338) shall not apply to a covered civil works project during the period during which the Secretary is carrying out the pilot program."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 152","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H1686DE790DBA40BE8A460772167EFF69"},"heading":"Emergency drought operations pilot program","effect":"Allows the Secretary to run a pilot program operating certain Corps projects with water supply as the primary purpose during a drought emergency, limited to projects in three named states.","amount":null,"quote":"that is located in the State of California, the State of Nevada, or the State of Arizona"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 303","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H6C60C07E7A2A4E0A9E9F50298B012122"},"heading":"Conveyances","effect":"Authorizes conveyances of specific Corps properties to named entities in California and Washington at fair market value. It exempts these conveyances from the property screening provisions of 10 U.S.C. 2696, and one from a provision of Public Law 100–581.","amount":null,"quote":"Section 2696 of title 10, United States Code, shall not apply to any conveyance under this section."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 314","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H25FCA413025F430F80FABC63CCC5BCE4"},"heading":"Barrow, Alaska","effect":"Allows the Secretary to treat the North Slope Borough as in compliance with the floodplain management requirement for the Barrow, Alaska coastal erosion project once it adopts an approved plan.","amount":null,"quote":"the Secretary may consider the North Slope Borough to be in compliance with section 402(a) of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 326","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-HD93D3C427C384EB781DBC3227B8CC425"},"heading":"Morganza to the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana","effect":"Requires the Secretary to credit toward the non-Federal share of the Morganza to the Gulf of Mexico project the cost of interim flood protection work done after March 31, 1989, if conditions are met.","amount":null,"quote":"The Secretary shall credit toward the non-Federal share of the cost of the project described in subparagraph (A) the cost of work carried out by the non-Federal interest for interim flood protection after March 31, 1989"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 330","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H29CD18858F3A4AA3955DAB7F9BC1BD35"},"heading":"Table Rock Lake, Missouri and Arkansas","effect":"Requires the Secretary to permit the ongoing presence of eligible privately owned structures, including sewer and septic systems and dwelling units, at the Table Rock Lake project.","amount":null,"quote":"The Secretary shall permit the ongoing presence of an eligible structure at the Table Rock Lake project."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 123","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-HA387A1B234C74C9EB5756B69F4FE37CB"},"heading":"Challenge cost-sharing program for management of recreation facilities","effect":"Lets non-Federal public entities and private nonprofit entities with recreation agreements collect user fees and keep up to 100 percent of them, with the retained-fee use set 'notwithstanding' a provision of the Flood Control Act of 1968.","amount":null,"quote":"notwithstanding section 210(b)(4) of the Flood Control Act of 1968 (16 U.S.C. 460d–3(b)(4)), shall use any retained amounts for operation, maintenance, and management activities"}]},{"category":"rule_delay","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 334","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H48FF73DA70FB46CDA35B888C0978DA3E"},"heading":"Willamette Valley, Oregon","effect":"Bars the Secretary from completing the review and consultation on operation and maintenance of the Willamette River Basin projects until an alternative that ceases hydropower operations is prepared and analyzed.","amount":null,"quote":"The Secretary may not complete its review of, and consultation with other Federal agencies on, the operation and maintenance of the projects"}]},{"category":"process_change","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 107","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H36E813D0B3014735B9813D06EAE946A9"},"heading":"Electronic submission and tracking of permit applications","effect":"Requires the Secretary to run an electronic system for submitting permit applications and jurisdictional determination requests and for tracking federal environmental review documents, and moves the implementation deadline to 1 year after enactment.","amount":null,"quote":"The Secretary shall implement an electronic system to allow the electronic—"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 133","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H4E3F3A02D9DD4E4B87BEBDD10E155815"},"heading":"Funding to process permits","effect":"Adds Indian Tribes to the entities that may contribute funds to the Corps for permit processing, allows aquatic ecosystem restoration projects, and strikes paragraph (4) of section 214(a).","amount":null,"quote":"by inserting “Indian Tribe,” after “public-utility company,” each place it appears"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 136","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-HC85853E210C94A63863C5D0832B954F7"},"heading":"Remote operations at Corps dams","effect":"For 10 years, bars the Secretary from replacing on-site personnel activities with remote operation at Corps navigation or hydroelectric facilities unless written notice with specified findings is given to the House and Senate committees.","amount":null,"quote":"the Secretary may not use remote operation activities at a navigation or hydroelectric power generating facility at such project as a replacement for activities performed"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 327","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H02FD2A78A76347DC9CD8367A867264A9"},"heading":"Port Fourchon Belle Pass Channel, Louisiana","effect":"Sets 30-day and 180-day deadlines for the Secretary's determinations, reviews, and findings on a feasibility study for the Port Fourchon Belle Pass Channel project in Louisiana.","amount":null,"quote":"not later than 180 days after the Secretary receives the study for the Port Fourchon project described in subsection (b), the Secretary shall complete the analyses, review, and compliance processes"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 143","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H1B966744769D4C19A859E03F41AC575C"},"heading":"Missouri River existing features protection","effect":"Requires the Secretary to analyze specified flood, drought, navigation, erosion, port and sand-harvesting effects before acting on certain Missouri River in-river features, and to mitigate any such outcomes.","amount":null,"quote":"Before carrying out a covered action with respect to a covered in-river feature, the Secretary shall perform an analysis to identify whether such action will—"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 154","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh#toc-H8B52E03643684CAC871B945206F71B0A"},"heading":"Levee Owners Board","effect":"Replaces section 9003 of the 2007 water resources law to establish an eleven-member Levee Owners Board appointed by the Secretary, which advises the Secretary and Congress on levee system reliability and flood risk management priorities.","amount":null,"quote":"composed of the eleven members appointed by the Secretary."}]}],"version":{"type":"Engrossed in House","date":"2024-07-22","rule":"passed","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text/eh"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-10-01","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8812/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/118-hr-8812.png","v":"47d026eda627","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 8812, 118th Congress: Water Resources Development Act of 2024. House: 359 Yea, 13 Nay. Outcome: Passed House, 22 Jul 2024."}}