bill_id,congress,bill_type,bill_number,title,policy_area,introduced_date,latest_action_date,latest_action_text,origin_chamber,sponsor_name,sponsor_state,sponsor_party,sponsor_bioguide_id,cosponsor_count,summary_text,update_date,url
98-s-3046,98,s,3046,"A bill to modify the project for flood protection on the Chariton River, Iowa and Missouri, to direct the Secretary of the Army to sell storage space in Rathbun Lake, Iowa, to the Rathbun Regional Water Association, and for other purposes.",Water Resources Development,1984-10-02,1984-10-02,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Jepsen, Roger W. [R-IA]",IA,R,J000101,0,"Modifies the project for flood protection on the Chariton River, Iowa and Missouri, to direct the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to sell storage space in Rathbun Lake, Iowa, to the Rathbun Regional Water Association.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,
98-hr-6340,98,hr,6340,"A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to undertake further engineering and design of water resources development projects following the submission of a report to Congress recommending implementation of the projects.",Water Resources Development,1984-10-01,1984-10-01,Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation.,House,"Rep. Howard, James J. [D-NJ-3]",NJ,D,H000840,1,"Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to undertake advanced engineering and design of water resources development projects after submitting a report to Congress recommending project implementation.",2024-02-07T16:02:17Z,
98-hr-6325,98,hr,6325,Great Lakes Preservation Act of 1984,Water Resources Development,1984-09-26,1984-10-01,"Referred to Subcommittee on Natural Resources, Agricultural Research, and Environment.",House,"Rep. Siljander, Mark D. [R-MI-4]",MI,R,S000409,0,"Great Lakes Preservation Act of 1984 - Establishes within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration the Great Lakes Research and Management Office to be headed by a Director. Requires as responsibilities of the Office the following:  (1) identifying Federal and State research programs relating to the Great Lakes system on an annual basis; (2) establishing a Great Lakes research exchange; (3) identifying priority Great Lakes research; (4) conducting appropriate current Great Lakes research and monitoring activities; (5) establishing a Great Lakes water quality monitoring system, with specific emphasis on toxic pollutant levels; (6) developing the long term, comprehensive environmental, resource, and economic data bases required for assessing impacts of proposed decisions on the environmental health, productivity, and economic well-being of the Great Lakes; (7) conducting an inventory of all State, Federal, and international agencies with management responsibilities for the Great Lakes system, and updating such information annually; (8) identifying priority management needs to protect and rehabilitate the Great Lakes and their resources, and developing management plans where needed; (9) developing an annual report on the state of the Great Lakes; (10) actively promoting the adoption and execution of the management and rehabilitation plans; (11) serving as the source of issues which the Federal Government refers to the International Joint Commission for study; and (12) hosting a meeting (not less often than annually) for officials of State and Federal agencies involved with the Great Lakes. Requires the Administrator, in the agency's annual budget submission to Congress, to include a funding request for the Office as a separate budget line item. Allows the Administrator to provide financial assistance in the form of grants or contracts for research, monitoring, and planning projects and activities necessary to address Great Lakes priorities.  Allows any person, higher education institution, or Federal, State, or local agency or department to apply for such assistance.  Requires the Administrator to act upon each grant or contract application within six months of its receipt.  Permits the grant to cover, in the discretion of the Administrator, up to 100 percent of the total project cost. Requires each recipient of such financial assistance to keep full and accurate financial records.  Requires such records to be maintained for three years after the completion of such project or activity.  Allows access to such records for audit and examination by the Administrator and the Comptroller General. Directs the head of each department or agency of the Federal Government which is in any way connected with the enhancement of the Great Lakes to:  (1) cooperate fully with the Administrator and the Director; (2) make available such personnel, services, or facilities as may be necessary to assist the Administrator or Director in their purpose; and (3) furnish, upon written request, such data or information deemed necessary by the Administrator or the Director. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Chief of Engineers of the Army, the Chief of the Soil Conservation Service, the Commandant of the Coast Guard, and the Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service to each submit annual reports to the Administrator regarding their efforts to comply with the Water Quality Agreement of 1978 and with recommendations made by the Office. States that this Act does not affect the jurisdiction or powers of any Federal or State department or agency or international bodies created by treaty with authority relating to the Great Lakes. Authorizes appropriations to the Administration for FY 1985 through 1989.",2025-08-29T17:37:59Z,
98-s-3012,98,s,3012,"A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to undertake further engineering and design of water resources development projects following the submission of a report to Congress recommending implementation.",Water Resources Development,1984-09-20,1984-09-20,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Stafford, Robert T. [R-VT]",VT,R,S000776,0,"Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to undertake advance engineering and design of water resources development projects after submitting a report to Congress recommending project implementation.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,
98-s-3006,98,s,3006,A bill to amend the Federal Power Act.,Water Resources Development,1984-09-18,1984-09-18,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.,Senate,"Sen. Evans, Daniel J. [R-WA]",WA,R,E000236,3,"Amends the Federal Power Act to prohibit the granting of a license for the development of dams or other works for the storage of water, or for the development of power, on the Columbia River or its tributaries until the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has developed and adopted, in consultation with the Pacific Northwest Electric Power and Conservation Planning Council, detailed procedures for:  (1) prior consolidated reviews of individual proposals in a given river basin; (2) prior assessment of cumulative impacts of individual projects in a given river basin; and (3) a timetable for implementation of the Council's Columbia River Fish and Wildlife Program.",2025-04-23T11:41:33Z,
98-hr-6159,98,hr,6159,"A bill to permit the Secretary of the Army to authorize the delivery of water from the District of Columbia water system to water systems in the Metropolitan Washington area in Maryland, and the purchase of water for the District of Columbia water system from certain systems.",Water Resources Development,1984-08-10,1984-08-30,"Executive Comment Requested from Army, OMB.",House,"Rep. Hoyer, Steny H. [D-MD-5]",MD,D,H000874,2,"Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, upon request of any competent State or local authority in the Washington metropolitan area in Maryland, and on the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers, to permit delivery of water from the District of Columbia water system to such authority. Authorizes the Secretary to purchase water from any State or local authority in the Washington metropolitan area in Maryland which has completed a connection with the District of Columbia water system.",2024-02-07T16:02:17Z,
98-s-2947,98,s,2947,"A bill to designate the lock and dam on the Warrior River in Hale County, Alabama, as the ""Armistead I. Selden Lock and Dam"".",Water Resources Development,1984-08-10,1984-10-25,Became Public Law No: 98-546.,Senate,"Sen. Denton, Jeremiah [R-AL]",AL,R,D000259,1,"Designates the lock and dam on the Warrior River in Hale County, Alabama, as the Armistead I. Selden Lock and Dam.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,
98-hr-6115,98,hr,6115,A bill to require the Tennessee Valley Authority to maintain the levels of Fontana Lake and Santeetlah Lake in North Carolina at certain levels from May through October.,Water Resources Development,1984-08-09,1984-08-30,"Executive Comment Requested from TVA, OMB.",House,"Rep. Clarke, James McC. [D-NC-11]",NC,D,C000462,0,"Directs the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), from May 1 through October 15 of each year following the enactment of this Act, to maintain specified water levels for Fontana and Santeetlah Lakes, North Carolina. Permits such water level requirements to be suspended by the TVA for reasons of public health or emergency.  Allows any affected entity to bring suit to require the TVA to comply with this Act.",2024-02-07T16:02:17Z,
98-hr-6133,98,hr,6133,"A bill to modify the project for flood protection on the Chariton River, Iowa and Missouri, to direct the Secretary of the Army to sell storage space in Rathbun Lake, Iowa, to the Rathbun Regional Water Association, and for other purposes.",Water Resources Development,1984-08-09,1984-08-30,"Executive Comment Requested from Army, OMB.",House,"Rep. Leach, James A. [R-IA-1]",IA,R,L000169,0,"Modifies the project for flood protection on the Chariton River, Iowa and Missouri, to authorize and direct the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to sell storage space in Rathbun Lake, Iowa, to the Rathbun Regional Water Association.",2024-02-07T16:02:17Z,
98-hjres-636,98,hjres,636,"A joint resolution to authorize and request the President of the United States to issue a proclamation designating the week commencing October 7, 1984 as National Port Week.",Water Resources Development,1984-08-08,1984-10-03,Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.,House,"Rep. Biaggi, Mario [D-NY-19]",NY,D,B000432,223,"Authorizes and requests the President to designate the week beginning October 7, 1984, as National Port Week.",2025-07-21T19:32:26Z,
98-s-2885,98,s,2885,Nebraska Streambank Erosion Prevention and Control Demonstration Act of 1984,Water Resources Development,1984-07-31,1984-07-31,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Exon, J. James [D-NE]",NE,D,E000284,1,"Nebraska Streambank Erosion Prevention and Control Demonstration Act of 1984 - Authorizes and directs the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to establish and conduct for a period of five fiscal years a streambank erosion prevention and control demonstration program at multiple sites in Nebraska. Directs the Secretary, for each demonstration project under this section, to evaluate the environmental impacts of such project, with the view of minimizing environmental losses.  Specifies various sites within the State of Nebraska at which such demonstration projects shall be conducted. Directs the Secretary to establish a Nebraska Streambank Erosion Advisory Group. Provides that all projects shall be carried out at full Federal expense. Directs non-Federal interests to agree to provide without costs all necessary lands, easements, and rights-of-way necessary for conducting such projects, to hold the United States free from liability for work done under such project, and to operate and maintain such projects upon completion. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1984. Directs the Secretary to report annually to Congress concerning such programs.",2025-08-29T17:38:33Z,
98-hr-6022,98,hr,6022,A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to make available the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin program pumping power to the Hilltop Irrigation District and the Gray Goose Irrigation District.,Water Resources Development,1984-07-25,1984-09-06,Referred to Subcommittee on Water and Power Resources.,House,"Rep. Daschle, Thomas A. [D-SD-At Large]",SD,D,D000064,0,"Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to make available the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin program pumping power to the Hilltop Irrigation District and the Gray Goose Irrigation District, South Dakota.",2024-02-07T13:32:55Z,
98-s-2861,98,s,2861,A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to make available the Pick-Sloan Missouri basin program pumping power to the Hilltop and Gray Goose irrigation projects.,Water Resources Development,1984-07-25,1984-08-10,"Committee on Energy and Natural Resources requested executive comment from Interior Department, Energy Department, OMB.",Senate,"Sen. Abdnor, James [R-SD]",SD,R,A000009,1,"Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to make available the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin program pumping power to the Hilltop irrigation projects and the Gray Goose irrigation projects, South Dakota.",2025-04-23T11:41:33Z,
98-hr-5959,98,hr,5959,Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1984,Water Resources Development,1984-06-28,1984-09-21,"Received in the Senate, read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1220.",House,"Rep. Madigan, Edward R. [R-IL-15]",IL,R,M000041,24,"(Measure passed House, amended, roll call #396 (366-27)) Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1984 - Title I:  Public Water Systems - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act (the Act) to revise provisions for national primary drinking water regulations. Provides that, effective on the date of enactment of this Act, each national interim primary drinking water regulation promulgated before such date shall be deemed to be a national primary drinking water regulation.  Provides that no such regulation shall be required to comply with specified standards under this Act unless such regulation is amended to establish a different maximum contaminant level after the date of enactment of such amendments. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), within specified time periods for certain contaminants, to:  (1) simultaneously propose maximum contaminant level goals and national primary drinking water regulations; and (2) after opportunity for public comment simultaneously publish maximum contaminant level goals and promulgate national water regulations.  Directs the Administrator to do so:  (1) within 18 months after the enactment date of this Act, for the 14 contaminants listed in the Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in a specified issue of the Federal Register; and (2) within 36 months after such enactment date, for each of the contaminants listed in the Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in a specified later issue of the Federal Register.  Requires the Administrator, if such goals and regulations for a particular contaminant are not to be proposed and published by such deadlines, to make and publish a determination in the Federal Register that there is not sufficient evidence to constitute a rational basis to believe that the contaminant may have any adverse effect on the health of persons. Directs the Administrator to publish maximum contaminant level goals and simultaneously promulgate national primary drinking water regulations for each substance (other than those contaminants referred to in the previous paragraph) which, in the Administrator's judgment, may have an adverse effect on the health of persons.  Requires the Administrator on January 1, 1988, and at annual intervals thereafter, to publish a list establishing priorities for the review of substances which may require regulation under the Act to prevent known or anticipated adverse effects on the health of persons.  Requires the Administrator's consideration, in establishing such priorities, to include substances regulated as toxic water pollutants under the Clean Water Act and substances registered as pesticides under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act.  Directs the Administrator, within three years of each contaminant's being listed on the priority list, to either:  (1) simultaneously propose a maximum contaminant level goal and a national primary drinking water regulation, and, after opportunity for public comment, simultaneously publish a maximum contaminant level goal and a national primary drinking water regulation; or (2) make and publish a determination in the Federal Register that there is not sufficient evidence to constitute a rational basis to believe that the contaminant may have any adverse effect on the health of persons. Requires that each maximum contaminant level goal established under this Act be set at the level which, in the Administrator's judgment, no known or anticipated adverse effects on the health of persons occur and which allows an adequate margin of safety. Requires that each national primary drinking water regulation for a contaminant for which such a goal is established specify a maximum level which is as close to the goal as is feasible. Directs the Administrator, in the case of any contaminant the level of which cannot be accurately enough measured in drinking water to establish a maximum contaminant level goal and which may have an adverse effect on the health of persons, in lieu of establishing a maximum contaminant level goal for such contaminant, to:  (1) list such contaminant; and (2) promulgate treatment techniques for such contaminant which requires treatment necessary in the Administrator's judgment to prevent known or anticipated adverse effects on the health of persons to the extent feasible.  Requires that the specified regulatory deadlines for certain contaminants be complied with in the promulgation of any such treatment technique use requirement for any such contaminant. Directs the Administrator to propose and promulgate regulations requiring that all surface waters be treated by such processes as coagulation, sedimentation, or filtration or their equivalent prior to disinfection unless it can be shown on the basis of a sanitary survey that such treatment is not necessary.  Directs the Administrator to develop rules for the granting of waivers for local supplies of water prior to the implementation of such requirement for proposal and promulgation of such regulations. Requires each national primary water regulation which establishes a maximum contaminant level to list the technology, treatment techniques, and other means which the Administrator finds to be feasible for purposes of meeting such maximum contaminant level. Directs the Administrator to propose and promulgate regulations requiring disinfection as a treatment technique for all public water systems.  Authorizes the Administrator to grant variances from this requirement. Authorizes the administrator, after opportunity for public comment, to change maximum contaminant level goals or the list of treatment techniques.  Requires the Administrator, simultaneously with such change, to amend the national primary drinking water regulations concerned accordingly. Requires the Administrator to make specified findings with respect to best available technology, treatment techniques, and other means to be used for feasible attainment of recommended maximum contaminant levels only after examination for efficacy under field conditions and not solely under research laboratory conditions.  Deletes ""generally"" as a qualifier for the availability of such technology, techniques, and means. Provides that, for purposes of specified provisions for national primary drinking water regulations, the best available technology which is feasible for the control of synthetic organic chemicals includes the use of adsorption techniques such as the use of granular activated carbon and other comparably effective techniques. Makes technical and conforming amendments. Directs the Administrator to provide the Science Advisory Board an opportunity to comment prior to proposal of a maximum contaminant level goal and national primary drinking water regulation. Adds provisions for monitoring unregulated contaminants. Authorizes the Administrator to take into consideration the size of a public water system and the contaminants likely to be found in its drinking water in requiring a system to monitor for unregulated contaminants. Directs the Administrator, within 18 months after enactment of this Act, to promulgate regulations for every public water system to conduct a monitoring program for unregulated contaminants.  Provides that such regulations shall:  (1) require monitoring of drinking water supplied by the system; and (2) vary the frequency and schedule of monitoring requirements for systems based on the number of persons served and the contaminants likely to be found, but requires each system to monitor surface sources and representative supply wells at least once within five years after the effective date of the Administrator's regulations. Requires such regulations to list the unregulated contaminants for which the systems may be required to monitor, but allows each State with primary enforcement authority to add or delete contaminants for individual systems on the basis of approved assessments.  Requires each such State to submit to the Administrator an assessment which shall be treated as approved on the date 30 days after its submission unless disapproved by the Administrator within such 30-day period. Requires that notification of the availability of the results of such monitoring (or of monitoring by a system which is given a waiver) be given to the persons served by the system and the Administrator. Authorizes the Administrator to waive the monitoring requirements for a system which has conducted a monitoring program after January 1, 1983, upon determination that the program has been consistent with regulations promulgated under specified provisions for records and inspections. Provides that any system supplying less than 150 service connections shall be treated as complying with such monitoring requirements if such system supplies appropriate water samples to the Administrator.  Directs the Administrator to arrange for analysis of such samples. Revises provisions for enforcement of national primary drinking water regulations. Directs the Administrator to notify the public water system involved, as well as the State, in cases of noncompliance with regulations under this Act. Directs the Administrator, if the State has not commenced appropriate enforcement action within 30 days of the notification of noncompliance, or if the State does not have primary enforcement responsibility, to either:  (1) issue an order requiring the public water system to comply with the regulation or requirement; or (2) commence a civil action in the appropriate U.S. district court to require such compliance. Sets forth provisions for compliance orders by the Administrator. Authorizes the Administrator to issue such orders in any case in which the Administrator is authorized to bring a civil action for compliance with respect to any regulation under the Act.  Provides for notice and opportunity for public hearing, and an opportunity to confer with the Administrator for any State with primary enforcement responsibility, before such an order takes effect. Requires that copies of any such order issued to a corporation be issued to appropriate corporate officers.  Sets forth civil penalties of up to $25,000 per day for violation of such orders. Authorizes the Administrator to assess such penalties up to $5,000 per day, but requires that such penalties above $5,000 per day be assessed by the appropriate U.S. district court. Directs the Administrator, within 12 months after the enactment date of this Act, to amend regulation relating to public notification of such violations of regulation in order to provide for different types and frequencies of notice based on differences between intermittent or infrequent violations and those which are continuous or frequent, and taking into account the seriousness of any potential adverse health effects.  Requires that notice for violations designated by the Administrator as continuous or posing a serious potential adverse health effect:  (1) be given no less frequently then every three mnoths; and (2) include notice in a newspaper of general circulation serving the area served by the public water system (as determined by the Administrator). Requires all public notices of violations to provide a clear and readily understandable explanation of the violation, the steps that the system is taking to correct such violation, and, if necessary, the consumers who should seek alternative water supplies until the violation is corrected.  Provides that the regulations in effect on the enactment date of this Act shall remain in effect until such amendments are promulgated. Revises provisions for variances. Provides that a variance may only be issued to a public water system after a system's application of the best technolgy, treatment techniques, or other means, which the Administrator finds are available (taking cost into consideration). Directs the Administrator to propose and promulgate such findings at the time of proposal and promulgation of the maximum contaminant levels involved.  Allows such finding to vary depending on the number of persons served by the system or for other physical conditions related to engineering feasibility and costs of compliance. Requires a State to prescribe a schedule for compliance and implementation of any additional control measures at the same time it grants a variance.  (Current law gives the State one year to prescribe such schedule after granting a variance.) Revises provisions for exemptions. Requires a State to prescribe a schedule for compliance and implementation of control measures at the same time it grants an exemption.  (Current law gives the State one year to prescribe such schedule after granting an exemption.) Requires that such schedules require compliance by the public water system with each contaminant level and treatment technique requirement with respect to which the exemption was granted as expeditiously as practicable but not later than: (1) 12 months after the enactment date of this Act, in the case of exemptions granted with respect to such a level or requirement prescribed by the national primary drinking water regulations promulgated before such enactment date; and (2) 12 months after the issuance date of the exemption, in the case of exemptions from such regulations promulgated after such enactment date. Authorizes States with primary enforcement responsibility, or the Administrator in any other case, to extend such compliance deadlines for a period not to exceed three years after the issuance date of the exemption, if the public water system establishes that it:  (1) cannot meet the standard without capital improvements which cannot be completed within the exemption period; (2) has entered into an agreement to obtain necessary financial assistance for necessary improvements; or (3) has entered into an enforceable agreement to become a part of a regional public water system.  Allows one or more two-year renewals of such extensions of exemptions in the case of any system which does not serve more than 500 service connections, which needs financial assistance for the necessary improvements, and which establishes that it is taking all practicable steps to meet the standard. Adds new provisions relating to tampering with public water systems. Sets forth civil and criminal penalties for such tampering and for attempts or threats to tamper. Adds new technical assistance provisions. Authorizes the Administrator to provide technical assistance to small public water systems to enable such systems to achieve and maintain compliance with national drinking water regulations.  Permits such assistance to include ""circuit-rider"" programs, training, and preliminary engineering studies. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1989 for such technical assistance. Title II:  Protection of Underground Sources of Drinking Water - Revises provisions for protection of underground sources of drinking water. Adds new provisions for restrictions on underground injection of hazardous waste. Prohibits disposal of any hazardous waste by underground injection  above or into a formation which contains (within one-quarter mile of the injection well bore) a drinking water source. Authorizes the Administrator to allow injection of contaminated ground water into the aquifer from which it was withdrawn, upon determination (pursuant to specified approved procedures) that such injection is an appropriate and environmentally acceptable aspect of a cleanup, removal, or remedial action for the contaminated acquifer. Adds new provisions relating to the regulation of State programs. Directs the Administrator, within 18 months after enactment of this Act, to revise regulations issued under the Act to require monitoring of underground drinking water sources down gradient from a class I injection well. Directs the Administrator, in cooperation with the States, to compile an inventory of all wells in the United States which inject hazardous wastes.  Requires that such inventory be made available to the public within nine months after the enactment of this Act.  Requires that the inventory include such information as the Administrator deems necessary to define the scope and nature of hazardous waste disposal in the United States through underground injection.  Provides that the Administrator, in conducting such inventory, need not be limited to the information which the States are required to make available for the inventory. Revises provisions for enforcement of State underground injection control programs. Directs the Administrator, if the State has not commenced appropriate enforcement action within 30 days of the notification of a violation by any person subject to a requirement of an applicable underground injection control program, or if the State does not have primary enforcement responsibility, to either:  (1) issue an order requiring the person to comply with such requirement; or (2) commence a civil action in the appropriate U.S. district court to require such compliance.  Declares that such court has the jurisdiction to require such compliance with any requirement of an applicable underground injection program.  Raises from $5,000 to $25,000 the amount of the civil penalty which may be imposed by such court for each day of such a violation.  Shortens to 30 days (currently 60 days) the period after notification which must expire before imposition of such civil penalty may begin. Sets forth provisions for compliance orders by the Administrator.  Authorizes the Administrator to also issue such orders in any case in which the Administrator is authorized to bring a civil action for compliance with respect to any requirement of an applicable underground injection program. Provides for notice and opportunity for public hearing, and an opportunity to confer with the Administrator for any State with primary enforcement responsibility, before such an order takes effect. Requires that copies of any such order issued to a corporation be issued to appropriate corporate officers.  Sets forth civil penalties of up to $25,000 per day of violation of such orders.  Authorizes the Administrator to assess such penalties of up to $5,000 per day of violation, but requires that such penalties above $5,000 per day be assessed by the appropriate U.S. district court. Adds new provisions for State plans to protect underground sources of drinking water. Requires each State, after notice and opportunity for public hearing and within 36 months after the enactment of this Act, to adopt and submit to the Administrator a comprehensive State plan to protect underground sources of drinking water from contamination that may adversely affect the health of persons.  Sets forth minimum requirements for such plans. Requires each State, to the maximum extent possible, to establish procedures, including but not limited to the establishment of technical and citizens' advisory committees to encourage the public to participate in developing the ground water protection plan. Sets forth procedures for approval of such plans. Prohibits any State which exercises primary enforcement responsibility for a State underground injection control program from receiving any assistance under the Act for purposes of such program if that State has not complied with specified requirements for approval or if any portion of the plan has not been approved by the Administrator before the expiration of specified periods. Requires, in States where oil or natural gas exploration occurs, that such State plan (consistent with underground injection requirements of the Act, and with requirements of the Solid Waste Disposal Act and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act) protect underground sources of drinking water from brine contamination which may adversely affect public health and which is associated with the recovery of oil or natural gas. Provides that no funds authorized to be appropriated under such provisions for State plans to protect underground sources of drinking water may be used to:  (1) support activities authorized under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, the Solid Waste Disposal Act, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, or other provisions of the Act; or (2) bring individual sources of contamination into compliance. Requires each State to:  (1) make every reasonable effort to implement such State plan within two years of its adoption; and (2) submit to the Administrator a status report describing the State's progress in implementing the plan, within two years after the approval of the plan. Directs each Federal agency conducting or supporting an activity affecting a critical recharge area identified in an approved State ground water protection plan to conduct or support those activities in a manner which is consistent with the approved plan. Adds new provisions for protection of sole or principal source ground water recharge areas. Allows municipalities within a sole or principal source area to initiate proceedings for the designation of a ""special protection area"" within such area by petitioning the State Governor to apply to the Administrator for such designation. Requires such petitions to propose boundaries for the special protection area and make specified evaluations. Requires the Governor to take specified criteria into consideration and to approve or disapprove such petition within 180 days following receipt.  Directs the Governor, upon approving such petition, to:  (1) propose boundaries; (2) designate or establish a planning entity to develop a comprehensive management plan; and (3) establish procedures for public participation in plan development, for plan review, approval, and adoption, and for assistance to municipalities and other public agencies implementing the plan.  Requires that the planning entity be a public agency and include local and State governmental representation. Provides that, where a local government planning agency exists with adequate authority to carry out such planning with respect to any proposed protection area, such agency must be designated as the planning entity.  Directs the Governor to submit such approved petition and a summary of such actions taken to the Administrator. Directs the Administrator to:  (1) approve or disapprove such petition within 120 days after receipt; and (2) approve the petition upon making specified findings. Authorizes the Administrator, upon approval of the petition, to make a matching grant to the State for 50 percent of the costs of petition preparation and plan development (or 60 percent of such costs in the case of a municipality with a population of 10,000 or less). Makes the designated planning entity, through the Governor, eligible for preliminary planning funds for up to a two-year period. Directs the designated planning entity to prepare a comprehensive management plan for the special protection area.  Requires that such plan: (1) be designed to maintain the quality of the ground water in the special protection area through maintenance, to the maximum extent possible, of the natural vegetative and hydrogeological conditions; (2) include specified types of information and requirements. Requires the planning entity, during plan development to consult with and consider the comments of appropriate officials of any municipal, State, or Federal agency with jurisdiction over lands and waters within the special protection area, with other concerned organizations, and with technical and citizen advisory committees established by the Governor.  Requires the planning entity to conduct public hearings at places within the special protection area to provide an opportunity for comment on any aspect of the plan. Directs the planning entity to submit a final plan to the Governor for review. Directs the Governor to approve or disapprove the plan based upon a determination that such plan protects underground sources of drinking water covered therein from contamination that may adversely affect the health of persons.  Directs the Governor to submit an approved plan to the Administrator for review.  Directs the Administrator, within 120 days, to approve the plan or submit in writing to the Governor the reasons for not approving it.  Authorizes the Governor to resubmit any plan which is not approved. Directs the Administrator to approve any plan which satisfies specified requirements. Authorizes the Administrator, upon approval of the plan, to make a matching grant to the State for 50 percent of the costs of plan implementation (or 60 percent of such costs in the case of an aquifer serving a population of 10,000 or less). Authorizes the Administrator (or any State with primary enforcement responsibility for public water systems under the Act) to issue an order requiring that adequate supplies of potable drinking water be provided to persons served by a public water system by any person who has caused or contributed to the presence of any health-threatening contaminant in any sole or principal source aquifer designated under such special protection area provisions. Allows any interested person to obtain review of such an order in the appropriate U.S. district court within 30 days after the issuance of the order.  Sets forth civil penalties for violations of such orders. Provides that nothing in such provisions for special protection areas shall be construed to restrict or preempt any legal right which any public water system or any other person (or class of persons) may have under any statute or common law regarding the contamination of any drinking water supply. Directs the Administrator, within 12 months after the enactment of this Act, to establish, by rule, criteria for the areas to be designated sole or principal source areas and to be eligible for special protections.  Requires that such criteria include aquifer use, vulnerability, water quality, and unavailability of alternative supplies of drinking water. Requires that sole or principal source area designations made before the enactment of this Act be reviewed and reevaluated in accordance with such criteria. Title III:  General Provisions - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1989 for the following programs under the Act:  (1) research, technical assistance, information, personnel training; (2) grants for State programs for supervision of public water systems; and (3) grants for State programs for underground water source protection. Provides that any need certifications or orders issued under provisions for assurances of availability of adequate supplies of water treatment chemicals shall remain in effect for up to one year. Directs the Administrator, upon the application of any State, to make grants to the State for 50 percent of the costs incurred by such State (as determined by the Administrator) in developing and implementing a State plan to protect underground sources of drinking water. Authorizes appropriations for such purpose for FY 1986 through 1989. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1989 for grants for plan implementation under provisions for special protection of sole or principal source ground water recharge areas. Provides that such matching grants may also be used to implement or update any water quality management plan for a sole or principal source aquifer approved before the enactment of this Act by the Administrator under specified provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. Repeals specified provisions for grants to public water systems which are required under State law to meet drinking water turbidity standards more stringent than those in effect under the Act.",2024-02-05T14:30:09Z,
98-sjres-314,98,sjres,314,"A joint resolution to designate 1984 as the ""Year of the St. Lawrence Seaway"" and June 27, 1984, as ""St. Lawrence Seaway Day"".",Water Resources Development,1984-06-19,1984-07-11,See H.J.Res.567.,Senate,"Sen. D'Amato, Alfonse [R-NY]",NY,R,D000018,26,"Designates 1984 as Year of the St. Lawrence Seaway and June 27, 1984, as St. Lawrence Seaway Day.",2025-07-21T19:32:26Z,
98-hr-5836,98,hr,5836,"A bill to extend the service area for the San Luis unit of the Central Valley project, California, and for other purposes.",Water Resources Development,1984-06-13,1984-09-18,For Further Action See H.R.4712.,House,"Rep. Coelho, Anthony Lee [D-CA-15]",CA,D,C000581,0,"Extends the service area for the San Luis unit of the Central Valley (water irrigation) project, California, to include the Pleasant Valley Water District in Fresno County, California.",2024-02-07T13:32:55Z,
98-s-2751,98,s,2751,Save the Lakes Act of 1984,Water Resources Development,1984-06-13,1984-06-13,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.,Senate,"Sen. Kasten, Robert W., Jr. [R-WI]",WI,R,K000019,13,"Great Lakes Preservation Act of 1984 - Establishes within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration the Great Lakes Research and Management Office to be headed by a Director. Requires as responsibilities of the Office the following:  (1) identifying Federal and State research programs relating to the Great Lakes system on an annual basis; (2) establishing a Great Lakes research exchange; (3) identifying priority Great Lakes research; (4) conducting appropriate current Great Lakes research and monitoring activities; (5) establishing a Great Lakes water quality monitoring system, with specific emphasis on toxic pollutant levels; (6) developing the long term, comprehensive environmental, resource, and economic data bases required for assessing impacts of proposed decisions on the environmental health, productivity, and economic well-being of the Great Lakes; (7) conducting an inventory of all State, Federal, and international agencies with management responsibilities for the Great Lakes system, and updating such information annually; (8) identifying priority management needs to protect and rehabilitate the Great Lakes and their resources, and developing management plans where needed; (9) developing an annual report on the state of the Great Lakes; (10) actively promoting the adoption and execution of the management and rehabilitation plans; (11) serving as the source of issues which the Federal Government refers to the International Joint Commission for study; and (12) hosting a meeting (not less often than annually) for officials of State and Federal agencies involved with the Great Lakes. Requires the Administrator, in the agency's annual budget submission to Congress, to include a funding request for the Office as a separate budget line item. Allows the Administrator to provide financial assistance in the form of grants or contracts for research, monitoring, and planning projects and activities necessary to address Great Lakes priorities.  Allows any person, higher education institution, or Federal, State, or local agency or department to apply for such assistance.  Requires the Administrator to act upon each grant or contract application within six months of its receipt.  Permits the grant to cover, in the discretion of the Administrator, up to 100 percent of the total project cost. Requires each recipient of such financial assistance to keep full and accurate financial records.  Requires such records to be maintained for three years after the completion of such project or activity.  Allows access to such records for audit and examination by the Administrator and the Comptroller General. Directs the head of each department or agency of the Federal Government which is in any way connected with the enhancement of the Great Lakes to:  (1) cooperate fully with the Administrator and the Director;(2) make available such personnel, services, or facilities as may be necessary to assist the Administrator or Director in their purpose; and (3) furnish, upon written request, such data or information deemed necessary by the Administrator or the Director. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Chief of Engineers of the Army, the Chief of the Soil Conservation Service, the Commandant of the Coast Guard, and the Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service to each submit annual reports to the Administrator regarding their efforts to comply with the Water Quality Agreement of 1978 and with recommendations made by the Office. States that this Act does not affect the jurisdiction or powers of any Federal or State department or agency or international bodies created by treaty with authority relating to the Great Lakes. Authorizes appropriations to the Administration for FY 1985-1989.",2025-08-29T17:41:47Z,
98-hr-5817,98,hr,5817,"A bill to designate the Calion Lock and Dam located on the Ouachita River, near Calion, Arkansas, as the ""H.K. Thatcher Lock and Dam"".",Water Resources Development,1984-06-11,1984-10-11,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,House,"Rep. Hammerschmidt, John P. [R-AR-3]",AR,R,H000124,0,"Designates the Calion Lock and Dam on the Ouachita River near Calion, Arkansas, as the H. K. Thatcher Lock and Dam.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,
98-hr-5755,98,hr,5755,A bill to amend the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act.,Water Resources Development,1984-05-31,1984-09-17,Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,House,"Rep. Breaux, John B. [D-LA-7]",LA,D,B000780,1,"(Measure passed House, amended) Amends the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act (Act) to provide that either the National Marine Fisheries Service or the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (whichever is the responsible Federal Agency) must be consulted where the waters of any stream or other body of water are proposed or authorized to be impounded, diverted, or controlled by any department or agency of the United States, or by any public or private agency under Federal permit or license. Requires that reports and recommendations of the Secretaries of Commerce and Interior on the wildlife aspects of water projects which are based on surveys or investigations of the National Marine Fisheries Service or the United States Fish and Wildlife Service be made a part of certain Federal reports submitted to Congress.  Requires that certain such recommendations of such Secretaries, regarding proposed mitigation measures, cover both onsite and offsite locations. Requires (currently authorizes) any agency planning the construction of a water resource development project to transfer sufficient funds to the responsible Federal agency to allow it to carry out its responsibility under the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act. Requires the United States Fish and Wildlife Service or the National Marine Fisheries Service (whichever is the responsible Federal Agency) to: (1) compile an inventory of water projects, by categories, for which consultations and recommendations were made under this Act; and (2) select a statistically significant sample of such projects in order to evaluate the extent to which such recommendations were incorporated into licenses or permits, to notify Federal agencies having jurisdiction over such projects of such evaluation, and to evaluate compliance. Requires each Federal agency having jurisdiction over such projects to supply the responsible Federal agency appropriate information. Allows either the Secretary of Commerce or Interior to: (1) participate or cooperate with Federal, State, local, or private agencies in the preparation of certain wildlife conservation plans; and (2) enter into contractural agreements with those parties that provide assurances, consistent with law, regarding the value and extent of habitat to be conserved or enhanced, the mitigation to be provided for the affected wildlife resources, and the nature and extent of habitat modifications which may be permitted in the future.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,
98-hjres-576,98,hjres,576,"A joint resolution to designate the 7th through the 14th of October, 1984, as ""National Coast Week"".",Water Resources Development,1984-05-23,1984-05-23,Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.,House,"Rep. Studds, Gerry E. [D-MA-10]",MA,D,S001040,0,"Designates the week of October 7 through October 14, 1984, as National Coast Week.",2024-02-06T20:04:02Z,
98-s-2701,98,s,2701,"An original bill to extend the Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended, for one year.",Water Resources Development,1984-05-22,1984-05-22,Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 909.,Senate,"Sen. Durenberger, Dave [R-MN]",MN,R,D000566,0,"Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act (title XIV of the Public Health Service Act) to revise provisions relating to assurance of availability of adequate supplies of water treatment chemicals.  Extends until September 30, 1985, the date upon which certifications of need or orders issued under such provisions may no longer remain in effect. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 under the Safe Drinking Water Act for:  (1) research, technical assistance, information, and training of personnel; and (2) grants for State programs for public water system supervision and underground water source protection.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,
98-s-2692,98,s,2692,"A bill to exempt water conveyance systems from fees and conditions under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, and for other purposes.",Water Resources Development,1984-05-21,1984-09-21,Committee on Energy and Natural Resources received executive comment from AgricultureDepartment. Unfavorable.,Senate,"Sen. Armstrong, William L. [R-CO]",CO,R,A000219,5,"Amends the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to grant rights-of-way which traverse public lands within the national forest system for certain water usages. Identifies right-of-way grants to be subject to Federal fees.  Exempts from fees all grants issued before October 21, 1976. Prescribes recordation requirements for right-of-way grants. Requires re-recording every 30 years, upon notice by the Federal Government. Authorizes the Federal Government to charge a maximum annual fee of $100 for rights-of-way granted after October 1976. Requires holders of right-of-way grants to indemnify the United States for damages caused by the holders' negligent use or occupancy of the granted right-of-way. Empowers the Secretary of the Interior to incur repair and maintenance costs caused by a holder's refusal to perform necessary repairs, and to assess such holder for such costs.",2025-04-23T11:41:33Z,
98-hr-5666,98,hr,5666,"A bill to designate the Calion Lock and Dam located on the Ouachita River, near Calion, Arkansas, as the H. K. Thatcher Lock and Dam.",Water Resources Development,1984-05-16,1984-06-28,See H.R.3678.,House,"Rep. Anthony, Beryl, Jr. [D-AR-4]",AR,D,A000213,0,"Designates the Calion Lock and Dam on the Ouachita River near Calion, Arkansas, as the H. K. Thatcher Lock and Dam.",2024-02-07T16:02:17Z,
98-s-2676,98,s,2676,"A bill to permit the Secretary of the Army to authorize the delivery of water from the District of Columbia water system to water systems in the Metropolitan Washington area in Maryland, and the purchase of water for the District of Columbia water system from certain systems.",Water Resources Development,1984-05-16,1984-05-16,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Mathias, Charles McC., Jr. [R-MD]",MD,R,M000241,1,"Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, upon request of any competent State or local authority in the Washington metropolitan area in Maryland, and on the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers, to permit delivery of water from the District of Columbia water system to such authority. Authorizes the Secretary to purchase water from any State or local authority in the Washington metropolitan area in Maryland which has completed a connection with the District of Columbia water system.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,
98-s-2677,98,s,2677,"A bill to designate the Calion Lock and Dam located on the Ouachita River, near Calion, Arkansas, as the ""H. K. Thatcher Lock and Dam"".",Water Resources Development,1984-05-16,1984-05-16,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Pryor, David H. [D-AR]",AR,D,P000556,1,"Designates the Calion Lock and Dam on the Ouachita River near Calion, Arkansas, as the H. K. Thatcher Lock and Dam.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,
98-s-2643,98,s,2643,"A bill to extend the service area for the San Luis Unit of the Central Valley Project, and for other purposes.",Water Resources Development,1984-05-08,1984-09-20,Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 98-224 Pt. 4.,Senate,"Sen. Cranston, Alan [D-CA]",CA,D,C000877,1,"Extends the service area for the San Luis unit of the Central Valley (water irrigation) project, California, to include the Pleasant Valley Water District in Fresno County, California. Provides financing for the inclusion of such district in the project.",2025-04-23T11:41:33Z,
98-s-2649,98,s,2649,Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1984,Water Resources Development,1984-05-08,1984-09-28,Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1273.,Senate,"Sen. Durenberger, Dave [R-MN]",MN,R,D000566,2,"(Reported to Senate from the Committee on Environment and Public Works with amendment, S. Rept. 98-641) Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1984 - Part A:  Goals and Policy - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act (the Act) to add a declaration of goals and policy relating to the protection of public water supply systems and ground water resources. Part B:  Public Water Systems - Revises provisions for national primary drinking water regulations. Provides that, effective on the date of enactment of this Act, each national interim primary drinking water regulation promulgated before such date shall be deemed to be a national primary drinking water regulation. Provides that no such regulation shall be required to comply with specified standards under this Act unless such regulation is amended to establish a different maximum contaminant level after the date of enactment of such amendments. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), within specified time periods for certain contaminants, to: (1) simultaneously propose maximum contaminant level goals and national primary drinking water regulations; and (2) after opportunity for public comment, simultaneously publish maximum contaminant level goals and promulgate national water regulations. Directs the Administrator to do so:  (1) within 18 months after the enactment date of this Act, for the 14 contaminants listed in the Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in a specified issue of the Federal Register; and (2) within 36 months after such enactment date, for each of the contaminants listed in the Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in a specified later issue of the Federal Register. Requires the Administrator, if such goals and regulations for a particular contaminant are not to be proposed and published by such deadlines, to make and publish a determination in the Federal Register that such a regulation is not necessary because the levels of such contaminant currently found in public water systems do not represent a threat of a known or anticipated adverse effect on the health of persons. Directs the Administrator to publish maximum contaminant level goals and simultaneously promulgate national primary drinking water regulations for each substance (other than those contaminants referred to in the previous paragraph) which, in the Administrator's judgment, may have an adverse effect on the health of persons.  Requires the Administrator on January 1, 1988, and at annual intervals thereafter, to publish a list establishing priorities for the review of substances which may require regulation under the Act to prevent known or anticipated adverse effects on the health of persons.  Requires the Administrator's consideration, in establishing such priorities, to include substances regulated as toxic water pollutants under the Clean Water Act and substances registered as pesticides under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act.  Directs the Administrator, within three years of each contaminant's being listed on such priority list, to either:  (1) simultaneously propose a maximum contaminant level goal and a national primary drinking water regulation and, after opportunity for public comment, simultaneously publish a maximum contaminant level goal and promulgate a national primary drinking water regulation for those contaminants which in the Administrator's judgment may have any adverse effect on the health of persons; or (2) make and publish in the Federal Register a determination that, in the Administrator's judgment, promulgation of such a regulation is not justified under such criterion. Provides that such determination shall be considered a final agency action for purposes of judicial review. Requires that each maximum contaminant level goal established under this Act be set at the level which, in the Administrator's judgment, no known or anticipated adverse effects on the health of persons occur and which allows an adequate margin of safety.  Requires that each national primary drinking water regulation for a contaminant for which such a goal is established specify a maximum level which is as close to the goal as is feasible. Authorizes the Administrator to promulgate a national primary drinking water regulation that requires the use of a treatment technique in lieu of establishing a maximum contaminant level, upon a finding that it is not economically or technologically feasible to ascertain the level of contaminant. Requires the Administrator, in such case, to identify those treatment techniques which, in the Administrator's judgment, would prevent known or anticipated adverse effects on the health of persons to the extent feasible.  Requires that such regulations specify each treatment technique known to the Administrator which meets such requirements, but authorizes the Administrator to grant a variance from any such specified treatment technique.  Requires that the specified regulatory deadlines for certain contaminants be complied with in the promulgation of any such treatment technique use requirement for any such contaminant. Directs the Administrator to propose and promulgate primary drinking water regulations requiring all public water systems using surface water as a source of supply to provide treatment by processes such as (1) filtration and (2) coagulation and sedimentation, as appropriate.  Authorizes the Administrator to specify treatment techniques which are equivalent.  Directs the Administrator to promulgate a rule specifying criteria that will be used by the Administrator or delegated State authorities to grant variances from this requirement.  Requires that such criteria include an evaluation of raw water quality, watershed control, and other protection measures. Directs the Administrator to propose and promulgate regulations requiring disinfection as a treatment technique for all public water systems.  Directs the Administrator to promulgate a rule specifying criteria that will be used by the Administrator or delegated State authorities to grant variances from this requirement. Requires the Administrator or the delegated State authority to provide, to the extent feasible, technical assistance to small public water systems in complying with such requirement. Authorizes the Administrator, after opportunity for public comment, to change maximum contaminant level goals or the list of treatment techniques.  Requires the Administrator, simultaneously with such change, to amend the appropriate national primary drinking water regulations accordingly. Defines ""feasible,"" for purposes of the establishment of maximum contaminant levels or treatment technique requirements, to mean feasible with the use of best technology, treatment techniques, or other means which the Administrator finds, after examination under field conditions are available (taking cost into consideration). Provides, for purposes of provisions relating to maximum contaminant level goals, that:  (1) the use of granular activated carbon is available (taking costs into consideration) for the control of synthetic organic chemicals; and (2) any technology, treatment technique, or other means found to be best available for the control of synthetic organic chemicals must be at least as effective in controlling synthetic organic chemicals as the use of granular activated carbon. Requires that each national primary drinking water regulation which establishes a maximum contaminant level shall list the technology, treatment techniques, and other means which the Administrator finds to be feasible for purposes of meeting such level. Prohibits a primary drinking water regulation from requiring that a specified technology, treatment technique, or other means be used for purposes of meeting such level. Directs the Administrator to provide the Science Advisory Board an opportunity to comment prior to proposal of a maximum contaminant level goal and national primary drinking water regulation. Revises provisions for enforcement of national primary drinking water regulations. Directs the Administrator to notify the public water system involved, as well as the State, in cases of noncompliance with regulations under the Act. Directs the Administrator, if the State has not commenced appropriate enforcement action within 30 days of the notification of noncompliance, or if the State does not have primary enforcement responsibility, to either:  (1) issue an order requiring the public water system to comply with the regulation or requirement; or (2) commence a civil action in the appropriate U.S. district court to require such compliance. Sets forth provisions for compliance orders by the Administrator.  Authorizes the Administrator to issue such orders in any case in which the Administrator is authorized to bring a civil action for compliance with respect to any regulation under the Act.  Provides for notice and opportunity for public hearing, and an opportunity to confer with the Administrator for any State with primary enforcement responsibility, before such an order takes effect.  Requires that copies of any such order issued to a corporation be issued to appropriate corporate officers.  Sets forth civil penalties of up to $25,000 per day for violation of such orders.  Authorizes the Administrator to assess such penalties up to $5,000 per day, but requires that such penalties above $5,000 per day be assessed by the appropriate U.S. district court. Directs the Administrator, within 12 months after the enactment date of this Act, to amend regulations relating to public notification of such violations of regulations to provide for different types and frequencies of notice based on differences between intermittent or infrequent violations and those which are continuous or frequent, and taking into account the seriousness of any potential adverse health effects.  Requires that notice of any violation of a maximum contaminant level and any other notice of a volation designated by the Administrator as continous or posing a serious potential adverse health effect be given no less frequently than every three months. Requires that, in all cases, such notices be given at least annually.  Requires that such notice:  (1) include notification in a newspaper of general circulation serving the area served by the public water system; and (2) provide a clear and readily understandable explanation of the violation, the steps that the system is taking to correct such violation, and the necessity for seeking alternative water supplies, if any, until the violation is corrected. Provides that the regulations in effect on the enactment date of this Act shall remain in effect until such amendments are promulgated. Revises provisions for variances. Provides that a variance may only be issued to a public water system after a system's application of technology, treatment techniques, or other means, which the Administrator finds are the best available (taking cost into consideration). Directs the Administrator to propose and promulgate such findings at the time of the proposal and promulgation of the maximum contaminant levels involved.  Allows such finding to vary depending on the number of persons served by the system or for other physical conditions related to engineering feasibility and costs of compliance. Requires a State to prescribe a schedule for compliance and implementation of any additional control measures at the same time it grants a variance. (Current law gives the State one year to prescribe such schedule after granting a variance.) Revises provisions for exemptions. Requires a State to prescribe a schedule for compliance and implementation of control measures at the same time it grants an exemption.  (Current law gives the State one year to prescribe such schedule after granting an exemption.) Requires that such schedules require compliance by the public water system with each contaminant level and treatment technique requirement with respect to which the exemption was granted as expeditiously as practicable but not later than:  (1) 12 months after the enactment date of this Act, in the case of exemptions granted with respect to such a level or requirement prescribed by the national primary drinking water regulations promulgated before such enactment date; and (2) 12 months after the issuance date of the exemption, in the case of exemptions from such regulations promulgated after such enactment date. Authorizes States with primary enforcement responsibility, or the Administrator in any other case, to extend of such compliance deadlines for a period not to exceed three years after the issuance date of the exemption, if the public water system establishes that it is taking all practicable steps to meet the standard and that it:  (1) cannot meet the standard without capital improvements which cannot be completed within the exemption period; (2) has entered into agreement to obtain necessary financial assistance for necessary improvements; or (3) has entered into an enforceable agreement to become a part of a regional public water system.  Allows one or more additional two-year period renewals of such extensions granted on the basis of clauses (1) or (2), in the case of any system which does not serve more than 500 service connections, which needs financial assistance for the necessary improvements, and which continues to take all practicable steps to meet the standard. Adds provision for monitoring unregulated contaminants. Authorizes the Administrator to take into consideration the size of a public water system and the contaminants likely to be found in its drinking water in requiring a system to monitor for unregulated contaminants. Directs the Administrator, within 18 months after enactment of this Act, to promulgate regulations for every public water system to conduct a monitoring program for unregulated contaminants.  Provides that such regulations shall: (1) require monitoring of drinking water supplied by the system; and (2) vary the frequency and schedule of monitoring requirements for systems based on the number of persons served and the contaminants likely to be found.  Requires each system to monitor at least once within five years of the effective date of such regulations, unless the Administrator requires more frequent monitoring.  Requires such regulations to:  (1) list the unregulated contaminants for which the systems may be required to monitor; and (2) include criteria by which the primary enforcement authority in each State could show cause for deletion of a contaminant from the designated list. Authorizes the primary State enforcement authority to delete contaminants, in accordance with such criteria, with an approved assessment of the contaminants potentially to be found in the system.  Requires any such State to submit an assessment to the Administrator which shall be regarded as approved 60 days after its submission unless the Administrator disapproves the assessment. Requires that notification of the availability of the results of such monitoring program (and of the results of monitoring programs for which a waiver is granted) be given to the persons served by the system and the Administrator. Authorizes the Administrator to waive this monitoring requirement for a system which has conducted a monitoring program after January 1, 1983, upon determination that the program has been consistent with regulations promulgated under specified provisions for records and inspections. Provides that any system supplying less than 150 service connections shall be regarded as complying with such monitoring requirement if such system provides water samples according to the rules established by the Administrator.  Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 to carry out such monitoring program requirements. Adds new technical assistance provisions. Authorizes the Administrator to provide technical assistance to small public water systems to enable such systems to achieve and maintain compliance with national drinking water regulations. Permits such assistance to include ""circuit-rider"" programs, training, and preliminary engineering studies.  Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1989 for such technical assistance. Adds new provisions relating to tampering with public water systems. Sets forth civil and criminal penalties for such tampering and for attempts or threats to tamper. Part C:  Protection of Underground Sources of Drinking Water - Revises provisions for protection of underground sources of drinking water. Extends to natural gas storage operations specified limitations on regulation of underground injection of brine or other fluids which are brought to the surface in connection with oil or natural gas production. Adds new provisions for restrictions on underground injection of hazardous waste. Prohibits disposal of any hazardous waste by underground injection above or into a formation which contains (within one-quarter mile of the injection well bore) a drinking water source.  Authorizes the Administrator to allow injection of contaminated ground water into the aquifer from which it was withdrawn, upon determination (pursuant to specified approved procedures) that such injection is an appropriate and environmentally acceptable aspect of a cleanup, removal, or remedial action for the contaiminated aquifer. Adds new provisions relating to the regulation of State programs. Directs the Administrator, within 18 months after enactment of this Act to revise regulations issued under the Act to require monitoring at locations and in such a way that would provide the earliest possible detection of fluid migration into, or in the direction of, underground drinking water sources from a class I injection well unless the Administrator or delegated State authority concludes, on the basis of the applicant's demonstration, that monitoring is not necessary because no potential exists for migration from the injection zone in quantities that may be harmful to human health or the environment. Directs the Administrator to submit a report to Congress by September, 1987, summarizing the results of State surveys, currently required by the Administrator, three years after the delegation of the underground injection control program to a primary State enforcement authority.  Requires such report to include specified information. Revises provisions for enforcement of State underground injection control programs. Directs the Administrator, if the State has not commenced appropriate enforcement action within 13 days of the notification of a violation by any person subject to a requirement of an applicable underground injection control program, or if the State does not have primary enforcement responsibility, to either:  (1) issue an order  requiring the person to comply with such requirement; or (2) commence a civil action in the appropriate U.S. district court to require such compliance.  Declares that such court has the jurisdiction to require such compliance with any requirement of an applicable underground injection program.  Raises from $5,000 to $25,000 the amount of the civil penalty which may be imposed by such court for each day of such a violation.  Shortens to 30 days (currently 60 days) the period after notification which must expire before imposition of such civil penalty may begin. Sets forth provisions for compliance orders by the Administrator.  Authorizes the Administrator to also issue such orders in any case in which the Administrator is authorized to bring a civil action for compliance with respect to any requirement of an applicable underground injection program.  Provides for notice and opportunity for public hearing, and an opportunity to confer with the Administrator for any State with primary enforcement responsibility, before such an order takes effect.  Requires that copies of any such order issued to a corporation be issued to appropriate corporate officers.  Sets forth civil penalties of up to $25,000 per day of violation of such orders.  Authorizes the Administrator to assess such penalties up to $5,000 per day of violation, but requires that such penalties above $5,000 per day be assessed by the appropriate U.S. district court. Adds new provisions for a critical aquifer protection area demonstration program. Establishes procedures for development, implementation, and assessment of demonstration programs designed to protect critical aquifer protection areas located within areas designated as sole or principal aquifers under specified provisions of the Act. Defines ""critical aquifer protection area"" as an area which:  (1) is located within an area for which an application for designation as sole or principal source aquifer has been submitted to or approved by the Administrator as of the date of enactment of this Act; and (2) satisfies criteria established by the Administrator under this Act. Sets forth provisions for applications to the Administrator for the selection of critical aquifer protection areas for demonstration programs.  Allows such application to be made by any State, municipal, or local government or political subdivision thereof or any planning entity (including any regional planning entity) that identifies such an area over which it has authority or jurisdiction.  Requires applicants to consult with other appropriate government or planning entities with authority or jurisdiction in such area prior to application.  Requires applications to include a certification by the Governor that the plan is consistent with State laws, regulations, and policies. Directs the Administrator, within 12 months after the enactment of this Act, to establish criteria for identifying critical aquifer protection areas by taking the following factors into consideration:  (1) the existence of one or more recharge zones through which significant volumes of ground water flow to an underground source of drinking water; (2) the number of persons or the proportion of the population using the ground water as a drinking water source; (3) the availability of alternative supplies of drinking water; (4) the vulnerability of the aquifer to contamination due to hydrogeologic characteristics; (5) the economic, social and ecological benefits that would result to the area from maintenance of high quality water recharging the aquifer; and (6) the economic, social, and ecological costs that would result from degradation of the quality of recharged water. Authorizes the Administrator, within 120 days after receipt of an application, to enter into a cooperative agreement with the applicant to establish a demonstration program, upon determination that the area satisfies the criteria established and that a demonstration program would provide a useful model for other ground water protection programs.  Requires such program to include the development and implementation of a plan for the protection of the ground water recharged through the critical protection area. Authorizes the Administrator, upon entering such a cooperative agreement, to make a matching grant to the applicant for 50 percent of the costs of developing and implementing the plan.  Limits the total amount of such grants for any one aquifer to not more than $2,000,000 in any fiscal year. Prohibits funds authorized for the critical aquifer protection area demonstration program from being used to:  (1) carry out activities required under other provisions of the Act or other Federal laws; or (2) clean up individual sources of contamination or bring such sources into compliance with Federal, State, or local statutes. Provides that nothing under provisions for such critical aquifer protection area demonstration program shall be construed to amend, supercede, or abrogate rights to quantities of water which have been established by interstate water compacts, Supreme Court decrees, or State water laws, or any requirement imposed or right provided under any Federal or State environmental or public health statute. Authorizes appropriations for the critical aquifer protection area demonstration program for FY 1986 through 1989. Part D:  General Provisions - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1989 for the following programs under the Act:  (1) research, technical assistance, information, personnel training; (2) grants for State programs for supervision of public water systems; and (3) grants for State programs for underground water source protection. Provides that any need certifications or orders issued under provisions for assurances of availability of adequate supplies of water treatment chemicals shall remain in effect for up to one year. Revises judicial review provisions of the Act. Provides that petitions for review of actions of the Administrator in promulgating regulations under the Act may be filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit or in any U.S. court of appeals for a circuit in which the petitioner resides or transacts business.  (Current law permits such petitions to be filed only in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.) Requires that a random selection system be used by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts to select the court of appeals in which such an agency action is to be reviewed when petitions for review have been filed in two or more courts of appeal.  Authorizes any court in which such a petition has been filed, including any court selected according to such procedure, to transfer such petition to any other court of appeals for the convenience of the parties or otherwise in the interest of justice. Changes the period with which such a petition for review must be filed from 45 days to 120 days from the date of the action with respect to which review is sought.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,
98-hr-5489,98,hr,5489,"A bill to designate the lock and dam on the Warrior River in Hale County, Alabama, as the ""Armistead I. Selden Lock and Dam"".",Water Resources Development,1984-04-12,1984-10-10,Other Measure S.2947 Passed House in Lieu.,House,"Rep. Shelby, Richard C. [D-AL-7]",AL,D,S000320,7,"Designates the lock and dam on the Warrior River in Hale County, Alabama, as the Armistead I. Selden Lock and Dam.",2024-02-07T16:02:17Z,
98-s-2558,98,s,2558,"A bill to authorize funds for the completion of certain comprehensive river basin plans for flood control, navigation, and other purposes.",Water Resources Development,1984-04-11,1984-04-11,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Stafford, Robert T. [R-VT]",VT,R,S000776,0,Authorizes appropriations for the completion of comprehensive plans of development for specified river basins throughout the United States.  Includes completion of local flood protection in the Columbia River Basin under the Act's authorization.,2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,
98-hr-5348,98,hr,5348,A bill to terminate certain authority of the executive branch of the Government which is subject to congressional review unless that authority is approved by an enactment of the Congress.,Water Resources Development,1984-04-04,1984-04-19,Referred to Subcommittee on Water Resources.,House,"Rep. Levitas, Elliott H. [D-GA-4]",GA,D,L000265,0,Terminates certain water project reviewing authority of the Secretary of the Army (formerly subject to congressional veto) unless such authority is approved by an act of Congress within 180 days after enactment of this Act.,2024-02-07T16:02:17Z,
98-hr-5340,98,hr,5340,A bill to authorize the President to negotiate an agreement with Canada creating a joint commission to oversee water policy on lakes bordering Canada and Minnesota.,Water Resources Development,1984-04-03,1984-04-12,Referred to Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs.,House,"Rep. Stangeland, Arlan [R-MN-7]",MN,R,S000795,0,Authorizes the President to invite Canada to join with the United States in the creation of a commission to oversee water policy on the lakes bordering Minnesota and Canada. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the commission: (1) should be a permanent commission composed of three members from the United States and three from Canada; (2) should have the authority to establish and enforce licensing fees and fish catch limits; and (3) should use the proceeds from such fees to pay for replenishing the resources of the lakes.,2025-01-23T13:14:35Z,
98-sjres-265,98,sjres,265,"A joint resolution designating the week of April 29 through May 5, 1984 as ""National Week of the Ocean"".",Water Resources Development,1984-03-26,1984-05-07,See H.J.Res.478.,Senate,"Sen. Hawkins, Paula [R-FL]",FL,R,H000374,28,"Designates the week of April 29 through May 5, 1984, as National Week of the Ocean.",2025-07-21T19:32:26Z,
98-s-2410,98,s,2410,A bill to provide that the costs of certain investigation activities by the Bureau of Reclamation shall be reimbursable.,Water Resources Development,1984-03-12,1984-03-12,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.,Senate,"Sen. McClure, James A. [R-ID]",ID,R,M000346,0,Amends Federal law to permit the costs of an advance planning study of a proposed project by the Bureau of Reclamation to be considered reimbursable construction costs and included in the allocation of construction costs to the proposed project's beneficiaries.,2025-04-23T11:41:33Z,
98-hjres-511,98,hjres,511,"A joint resolution designating the one-year period beginning July 1, 1984 and ending June 30, 1985, as the ""Year of the Ocean"", and the first day of such year as ""Ocean Day"".",Water Resources Development,1984-03-08,1984-03-13,Referred to Subcommittee on Census and Population.,House,"Rep. Forsythe, Edwin B. [R-NJ-13]",NJ,R,F000286,13,"Designates:  (1) July 1, 1984, through June 30, 1985, as the Year of the Ocean; and (2) July 1, 1984, as Ocean Day.",2024-02-06T20:04:02Z,
98-sjres-257,98,sjres,257,"A joint resolution to designate the period July 1, 1984, through July 1, 1985, as the ""Year of the Ocean"".",Water Resources Development,1984-03-08,1984-07-02,Became Public Law No: 98-331.,Senate,"Sen. Stevens, Ted [R-AK]",AK,R,S000888,35,"Designates July 1, 1984, through July 1, 1985, as Year of the Ocean.",2025-07-21T19:32:26Z,
98-s-2361,98,s,2361,State Comprehensive River Planning Act,Water Resources Development,1984-02-28,1984-02-28,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.,Senate,"Sen. Mitchell, George J. [D-ME]",ME,D,M000811,0,"State Comprehensive River Planning Act - Amends the Federal Power Act to permit a State to submit to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for its approval a comprehensive plan allocating the use of its waterways with respect to commerce, water power development and other beneficial uses.  Sets forth the requirements which a plan must meet in order for it to be approved by the Commission.  Requires that such plans be reviewed and updated at least every five years. Requires an applicant for a license to develop a water power project to submit to the Commission and to the State within which the proposed project is to be located a certification that the project complies with the State's comprehensive plan. Requires the State to notify the public of such a certification and to arrange for public hearing if necessary.  Prohibits approval of such a project by the Commission without the State's concurrence.",2025-08-29T17:39:05Z,
98-s-2290,98,s,2290,"A bill to amend the Act entitled ""An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the Auburd-Folsom South unit, American River division, Central Valley project, California, under Federal reclamation laws"", enacted September 2, 1965.",Water Resources Development,1984-02-09,1984-02-09,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.,Senate,"Sen. Wilson, Pete [R-CA]",CA,R,W000607,1,"Directs the Secretary of the Interior to enter into negotiations directed toward agreements with non-Federal entities which provide for cost-sharing toward financing the construction, operation, and maintenance of the Auburn-Folsom South unit of the American River division, Central Valley irrigation project, California. Prohibits any agreement from taking effect until funds are appropriated to carry out such agreement. Authorizes participating non-Federal entities to share in the power and other project services of the Auburn-Folsom South unit.  Directs the Secretary to report to the appropriate House and Senate committees concerning such agreements.",2025-04-23T11:41:33Z,
98-hjres-478,98,hjres,478,"A joint resolution designating the week of April 29 through May 5, 1984 as ""National Week of the Ocean"".",Water Resources Development,1984-02-08,1984-05-07,Became Public Law No: 98-274.,House,"Rep. Shaw, E. Clay, Jr. [R-FL-15]",FL,R,S000303,228,"Designates the week of April 29 through May 5, 1984, as National Week of the Ocean.",2025-07-21T19:32:26Z,
98-hr-4746,98,hr,4746,A bill to authorize and direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study of the feasibility of Federal development of the water and related land resources in certain counties in south central Oklahoma.,Water Resources Development,1984-02-02,1984-03-01,Executive Comment Requested from Interior.,House,"Rep. Watkins, Wes [D-OK-3]",OK,D,W000194,0,"Requires the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Reclamation, to conduct a feasibility study of Federal water and related land resources development in certain areas of south-central Oklahoma.  Directs the Secretary, upon completion of such study, to prepare a plan for the development of such resources. Directs the Secretary to prepare and submit to the Congress, within three years of the enactment of this Act, a report containing the results of such study, together with any recommendations.",2024-02-07T13:32:55Z,
98-s-2238,98,s,2238,A bill to repeal section 203 (b) of the Reclamation Reform Act of 1982.,Water Resources Development,1984-01-31,1984-01-31,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.,Senate,"Sen. McClure, James A. [R-ID]",ID,R,M000346,0,Amends the Reclamation Reform Act of 1982 to repeal the provision which gives a district four and one-half years from the date of enactment to amend its existing repayment of water service contracts to comply with such Act.,2025-04-23T11:41:33Z,
98-hr-4606,98,hr,4606,"A bill to designate the lock and dam on the Tombigbee River in Pickensville, Alabama, and the visitor center to be constructed for the Tennessee-Tombigbee waterway in Pickensville, Alabama, as the ""Tom Bevill Lock and Dam"" and the ""Tom Bevill Visitor Center"", respectively.",Water Resources Development,1984-01-23,1984-02-06,Referred to Subcommittee on Water Resources.,House,"Rep. Shelby, Richard C. [D-AL-7]",AL,D,S000320,5,"Designates the lock and dam on the Tombigbee River in Pickensville, Alabama, and an adjoining visitor center as the Tom Bevill Lock and Dam and the Tom Bevill Visitor Center, respectively.",2024-02-07T16:02:17Z,
98-hr-4480,98,hr,4480,Water Project Financing and Insurance Fund Act of 1983,Water Resources Development,1983-11-18,1984-09-26,Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.,House,"Rep. Pashayan, Charles, Jr. [R-CA-17]",CA,R,P000097,23,"Water Project Financing and Insurance Fund Act of 1983 - Establishes the Water Project Insurance Fund to provide for the insurance of tax-exempt bonds to finance the costs of acquisition and construction of reclamation, irrigation, and other water-related projects.  Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to administer such Fund in accordance with provisions of this Act. Exempts projects funded under such Act from Federal reclamation laws unless such projects are otherwise subject to such laws.",2025-08-29T17:38:27Z,
98-hr-4496,98,hr,4496,Central South Dakota Water Supply System Act of 1984,Water Resources Development,1983-11-18,1984-07-24,Subcommittee Hearings Held.,House,"Rep. Daschle, Thomas A. [D-SD-At Large]",SD,D,D000064,0,"Central South Dakota Water Supply System Act of 1984 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the Central South Dakota Water Supply System (CENDAK unit) of the Pick-Sloan Missouri basin program to provide irrigation water to 74,000 acres of land in South Dakota.  States that the project will include measures to mitigate for project-caused impacts on wildlife habitat.  Requires the CENDAK unit to be integrated physically and financially with other Federal works constructed under a plan approved by the Flood Control Act. Directs that facilities constructed and acquired for use in the previous Oahe water supply unit shall be salvaged and utilized and included in the CENDAK unit costs as far as is feasible. Authorizes the Secretary to sell, exchange, or otherwise dispose of lands acquired for the previous Oahe unit in order to develop and maintain the CENDAK unit, provided that the Secretary reconvey to former landowners at no less than market value any lands deemed unsuitable for the CENDAK unit. Directs the Secretary to make appropriate allocations of project costs to irrigation, municipal and industrial water supply, fish and wildlife, and recreation.  Prohibits private lands from being acquired for mitigation purposes until optimum utilization for fish and wildlife has been made of Federal and State lands in South Dakota. Provides that repayment contracts for the return of construction costs allocated to irrigation shall require that, as a prerequisite to water service, water users enter into agreements to:  (1) participate in an irrigation management system; (2) participate in a program to provide habitat replacement for losses resulting from irrigation; and (3) establish and implement a program for mitigation of any net losses of wildlife due to the use of grassland for irrigated crops. Determines interest rates for the unpaid balance of capital costs of the CENDAK unit.  Authorizes the Secretary to transfer to water users' organization(s)  the care, operation, and maintenance of the works herein authorized. Authorizes appropriations.",2025-08-29T17:39:31Z,
98-hr-4497,98,hr,4497,"A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate and maintain the Lake Andes-Wagner Unit, South Dakota Pumping Division, Pick-Sloan Missouri River Basin Program, South Dakota.",Water Resources Development,1983-11-18,1984-07-24,Subcommittee Hearings Held.,House,"Rep. Daschle, Thomas A. [D-SD-At Large]",SD,D,D000064,0,"Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the Lake Andes-Wagner Unit, South Dakota Pumping Division, Pick-Sloan Missouri River basin program, South Dakota, for the purpose of providing irrigation water. Requires such unit to be integrated physically and financially with other Federal works under the Flood Control Act. Directs that user repayment of construction costs of the irrigation project will be based upon ability to pay as determined by the Secretary. Authorizes appropriations.",2024-02-07T13:32:55Z,
98-hr-4545,98,hr,4545,Great Lakes Protection Act,Water Resources Development,1983-11-18,1984-01-18,"Executive Comment Requested from Army, OMB.",House,"Rep. Oberstar, James L. [D-MN-8]",MN,D,O000006,0,"Great Lakes Protection Act - Provides that no Great Lakes State shall sell or otherwise transfer out of such State water which is taken from any Great Lakes State or the Great Lakes drainage basin unless:  (1) there is in effect an interstate compact among the Great Lakes States which governs such sale or transfer; or (2) each of the Great Lakes States consents to such sale or transfer.  Defines Great Lakes States as Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Wisconsin. Prohibits any Federal study of Great Lakes water diversion unless such study is undertaken by the Corps of Engineers under the direction of the International Joint Commission in accordance with the Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909.",2025-08-29T17:41:44Z,
98-s-2176,98,s,2176,"A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the Lake Andes-Wagner Unit, South Dakota Pumping Division, Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, South Dakota.",Water Resources Development,1983-11-18,1983-11-18,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.,Senate,"Sen. Abdnor, James [R-SD]",SD,R,A000009,1,"Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the Lake Andes-Wagner Unit, South Dakota Pumping Division, Pick-Sloan Missouri River basin program, South Dakota, for the purpose of providing irrigation water. Requires such unit to be integrated physically and financially with other Federal works under the Flood Control Act. Directs that user repayment of construction costs of the irrigation project will be based upon ability to pay as determined by the Secretary. Authorizes appropriations.",2025-04-23T11:41:33Z,
98-s-2189,98,s,2189,Central South Dakota Water Supply System Act of 1984,Water Resources Development,1983-11-18,1983-11-18,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.,Senate,"Sen. Abdnor, James [R-SD]",SD,R,A000009,2,"Central South Dakota Water Supply System Act of 1984 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the Central South Dakota Water Supply System (CENDAK unit) of the Pick-Sloan Missouri basin program to provide irrigation water to 74,000 acres of land in South Dakota.  States that the project will include measures to mitigate for project-caused impacts on wildlife habitat.  Requires the CENDAK unit to be integrated physically and financially with other Federal works constructed under a plan approved by the Flood Control Act. Directs that facilities constructed and acquired for use in the previous Oahe water supply unit shall be salvaged and utilized and included in the CENDAK unit costs as far as is feasible.  Authorizes the Secretary to sell, exchange, or otherwise dispose of lands acquired for the previous Oahe unit in order to develop and maintain the CENDAK unit, provided that the Secretary reconvey to former landowners at no less than market value any lands deemed unsuitable for the CENDAK unit. Directs the Secretary to make appropriate allocations of project costs to irrigation, municipal and industrial water supply, fish and wildlife, and recreation.  Prohibits private lands from being acquired for mitigation purposes until optimum utilization for fish and wildlife has been made of Federal and State lands in South Dakota. Provides that repayment contracts for the return of construction costs allocated to irrigation shall require that, as a prerequisite to water service, water users enter into agreements to: (1) participate in an irrigation management system; (2) participate in a program to provide habitat replacement for losses resulting from irrigation; and (3) establish and implement a program for mitigation of any net losses of wildlife due to the use of grassland for irrigated crops. Determines interest rates for the unpaid balance of capital costs of the CENDAK unit.  Authorizes the Secretary to transfer to water users' organization(s) the care, operation, and maintenance of the works herein authorized. Authorizes appropriations.",2025-08-29T17:38:49Z,
98-hr-4444,98,hr,4444,"A bill to amend the Small Reclamation Projects Act of 1956, as amended.",Water Resources Development,1983-11-17,1984-07-31,Rules Committee Resolution H.Res.559 Reported to House.,House,"Rep. Kazen, Abraham, Jr. [D-TX-23]",TX,D,K000025,7,"(Reported to House from the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs with amendment, H. Rept. 98-868) Amends the Small Reclamation Projects Act of 1956 to authorize an additional $600,000,000 for assistance to non-Federal organizations in developing reclamation projects.",2024-02-07T13:32:55Z,
98-hr-4452,98,hr,4452,"A bill to amend the Act entitled ""An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the Auburn-Folsom South unit, American River division, Central Valley project, California, under Federal reclamation laws"", enacted September 2, 1965, and the Flood Control Act of 1970.",Water Resources Development,1983-11-17,1984-01-26,Executive Comment Requested from Interior.,House,"Rep. Shumway, Norman D. [R-CA-14]",CA,R,S000393,13,"Amends Federal law to authorize certain principal works for the Auburn-Folsom South unit of the American River Division, Central Valley irrigation project, California.  Directs that certain expenditures, as determined by the Secretary of the Army, shall be nonreimbursable. Authorizes the Secretary to:  (1) maintain minimum water flows in the American River (downstream from Nimbus Dam) for fish, recreation, and National Wild and Scenic River System purposes; and (2) release water from the Nimbus Dam necessary for the operation of an expansion of the Nimbus fish hatchery.  Requires the cost of water to be nonreimbursable, provided that the costs of construction, operation, and maintenance of such hatchery are borne by the State of California. Requires that the costs for maintaining minimum flows in the American River shall be nonreimbursable, provided that the costs of constructing and operating the Hood-Clay Pump Connection and Clay Station Reservoir shall be reimbursable. Authorizes appropriations for the Auburn-Folsom South unit in terms of July 1982 prices, starting with FY 1985. (Current law authorizes appropriations of a lesser sum in terms of 1965 prices.) Amends the Flood Control Act of 1970 provide for the relocation of the southern terminus of the existing Placer County Road from Auburn to Foresthill, California.",2024-02-07T13:32:55Z,
98-hr-4453,98,hr,4453,"A bill to amend the Act entitled ""An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the Auburn-Folsom South unit, American River division, Central Valley project, California, under Federal reclamation laws"", enacted September 2, 1965.",Water Resources Development,1983-11-17,1984-01-26,Executive Comment Requested from Interior.,House,"Rep. Shumway, Norman D. [R-CA-14]",CA,R,S000393,13,"Directs the Secretary of the Interior to enter into negotiations directed toward agreements with non-Federal entities which provide for cost-sharing toward financing the construction, operation, and maintenance of the Auburn-Folsom South unit of the American River division, Central Valley irrigation project, California. Prohibits any agreement from taking effect until funds are appropriated to carry out such agreement. Authorizes participating non-Federal entities to share in the power and other project services of the Auburn-Folsom South unit.  Directs the Secretary to report to the appropriate House and Senate committees concerning such agreements.",2024-02-07T13:32:55Z,
98-hr-4454,98,hr,4454,"A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to make necessary repairs to the Milton Dam in Mahoning County, Ohio.",Water Resources Development,1983-11-17,1984-01-18,"Executive Comment Requested from Army, OMB.",House,"Rep. Williams, Lyle [R-OH-17]",OH,R,W000528,0,"Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to make repairs to the Milton Dam, Mahoning County, Ohio. Authorizes appropriations.",2024-02-07T16:02:17Z,
98-sjres-202,98,sjres,202,"A joint resolution to designate 1984 as ""The Year of Water"".",Water Resources Development,1983-11-17,1984-02-28,Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.,Senate,"Sen. Armstrong, William L. [R-CO]",CO,R,A000219,34,"Designates 1984 as the Year of Water.  Requests the President to welcome the delegates of the International Congress on Irrigation and Drainage in Fort Collins, Colorado.",2025-07-21T19:32:26Z,
98-hjres-424,98,hjres,424,"A joint resolution to designate the year 1984 as the ""Year of Water"".",Water Resources Development,1983-11-16,1983-11-22,Referred to Subcommittee on Census and Population.,House,"Rep. Kogovsek, Ray [D-CO-3]",CO,D,K000304,13,"Designates 1984 as the Year of Water.  Requests the President to welcome the delegates of the International Congress on Irrigation and Drainage in Fort Collins, Colorado.",2024-02-06T20:04:02Z,
98-hr-4397,98,hr,4397,Water Project Feasibility Study Act of 1983,Water Resources Development,1983-11-15,1984-01-26,Executive Comment Requested from Interior.,House,"Rep. Vento, Bruce F. [D-MN-4]",MN,D,V000087,4,"Water Project Feasibility Study Act of 1983 - Requires non-Federal interests to pay 50 percent of the costs of any feasibility study of any water project under the jurisdiction of the Corps of Engineers, the Bureau of Reclamation, or the Soil Conservation Service.",2025-08-29T17:39:04Z,
98-s-2098,98,s,2098,"A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the Seward project, Oklahoma, and for other purposes.",Water Resources Development,1983-11-15,1984-01-10,"Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held Guthrie, OK. Hearings printed:  S.Hrg. 98-1217.",Senate,"Sen. Nickles, Don [R-OK]",OK,R,N000102,0,"Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the Seward project, Oklahoma.  Declares that the principal features of such project shall consist of the Navina Dam and Reservoir, appurtenant conveyance facilities, pumping plants, water treatment works, and public outdoor recreation facilities. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into a contract with a qualified entity or entities, for delivery of water and for repayment of all the reimbursable construction costs.  Prohibits construction of such project from commencing until such a contract has been executed. Requires that the conservation and development of the fish and wildlife resources and the enhancement of recreation opportunities in connection with such project be in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Water Project Recreation Act. Authorizes appropriations.",2025-04-23T11:41:33Z,
98-hr-4366,98,hr,4366,Great Lakes Water Preservation Act,Water Resources Development,1983-11-10,1984-01-17,"Executive Comment Requested from Army, OMB.",House,"Rep. Lipinski, William O. [D-IL-5]",IL,D,L000342,17,"Great Lakes Water Preservation Act - Provides that Great Lakes water shall not be diverted for use outside a Great Lakes State unless such diversion is approved by all eight Great Lakes States (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Wisconsin) and the International Joint Commission. Prohibits any Federal study of Great Lakes water diversion unless such study is undertaken by the Corps of Engineers under the direction of the International Joint Commission in accordance with the Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909.",2025-08-29T17:39:08Z,
98-s-2068,98,s,2068,"A bill to provide funds for construction of irrigation facilities in the Pleasant Valley Water District, California.",Water Resources Development,1983-11-08,1983-11-08,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.,Senate,"Sen. Cranston, Alan [D-CA]",CA,D,C000877,0,"Amends Federal law to make the Pleasant Valley Water District part of the San Luis unit of the Central Valley project. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, for the purpose of furnishing water for irrigation for any lands within the Pleasant Valley Water District, to enter into a contract for the sale of up to 100,000 acre feet of water under applicable Federal reclamation law provisions. Authorizes appropriations.",2025-04-23T11:41:33Z,
98-hr-4317,98,hr,4317,A bill to prohibit the Secretary of the Army from issuing certain permits in connection with a proposed water pipeline project until an environmental impact statement for that project has been completed.,Water Resources Development,1983-11-04,1984-02-08,Subcommittee Hearings Held.,House,"Rep. Jones, Walter B. [D-NC-1]",NC,D,J000256,4,"Prohibits the Secretary of the Army from issuing certain permits in connection with a proposed water pipeline project between Lake Gaston, Virginia, and Virginia Beach, Virginia, until an environmental impact statement for such project has been completed.",2024-02-07T16:02:17Z,
98-s-2026,98,s,2026,Great Lakes Water Diversion Act,Water Resources Development,1983-10-28,1983-10-28,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Percy, Charles H. [R-IL]",IL,R,P000222,11,"Great Lakes Water Diversion Act - Provides that Great Lakes water shall not be diverted for use outside a Great Lakes State unless such diversion is approved by all eight Great Lakes States (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Wisconsin) and the International Joint Commission. Prohibits any Federal study of Great Lakes water diversion unless such study is undertaken by the Corps of Engineers under the direction of the International Joint Commission in accordance with the Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909.",2025-08-29T17:41:32Z,
98-s-1981,98,s,1981,"A bill to amend the Small Reclamation Projects Act of 1956, as amended.",Water Resources Development,1983-10-20,1984-09-20,Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 98-224 Pt. 4.,Senate,"Sen. McClure, James A. [R-ID]",ID,R,M000346,1,"Amends the Small Reclamation Projects Act of 1956 to authorize an additional $600,000,000 for assistance to non-Federal organizations in developing reclamation projects.",2025-04-23T11:41:33Z,
98-sjres-174,98,sjres,174,"A joint resolution to designate the week of October 9, 1983 through October 16, 1983, and ""National Coast Week"".",Water Resources Development,1983-09-30,1983-09-30,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.,Senate,"Sen. Tsongas, Paul E. [D-MA]",MA,D,T000393,0,"Designates October 9 through October 16, 1983, as National Coast Week.",2025-07-21T19:32:26Z,
98-s-1884,98,s,1884,A bill to relieve the Elephant Butte Irrigation District of certain repayment obligations and for other purposes.,Water Resources Development,1983-09-23,1984-09-20,Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 98-224 Pt.4.,Senate,"Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM]",NM,R,D000407,0,Relieves the Elephant Butte Irrigation District of any obligation to reimburse the Bureau of Reclamation for leave and severance payments to certain employees of the Rio Grande project separated as a result of the transfer of operation and maintenance responsibilities of the Elephant Butte Irrigation District.,2025-04-23T11:41:33Z,
98-hr-3958,98,hr,3958,"A bill making appropriations for water resource development for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1984, and for other purposes.",Water Resources Development,1983-09-22,1983-10-19,Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 483.,House,"Rep. Bevill, Tom [D-AL-4]",AL,D,B000431,0,"(Reported to Senate from the Committee on Appropriations with amendment, S. Rept. 98-274) Authorizes appropriations, $9,300,000 of which is to be derived from the Inland Waterways Trust Fund, for river and harbor, flood control, shore protection, and other related projects, and for detailed plans and specifications of projects authorized by law. Directs the Chief of Engineers to proceed with the planning, design, engineering, and construction of the following projects:  (1) Atchafalaya Basin Floodway System, Louisiana; (2) Baltimore Harbor and Channel, Maryland and Virginia; (3) Bassett Creek, Minnesota; (4) Bodega Bay, California; (5) Bonneville Navigation Lock, Oregon and Washington; (6) Dade County, Florida; (7) Eight Mile Creek, Arkansas; (8) Ellicott Creek, New York; (9) Fisherman's Wharf Area, San Franciso Harbor, California; (10) Freeport Harbor, Texas; (11) Gallipolis Locks and Dam, Ohio and West Virginia; (12) Gulfport Harbor, Mississippi; (13) Jonesport Harbor, Maine; (14) Kahoma Stream, Hawaii; (15) Liberty State Park Levee and Seawall, New Jersey; (16) Little Dell Lake, Utah; (17) Locks and Dam 26, Illinois and Missouri (Second Lock), including environmental management along the Upper Mississippi River Basin; (18) Merced County Streams, California; (19) Mississippi River Ship Channel, Gulf to Baton Rouge, Louisiana; (20) Mobile Harbor, Alabama; (21) Moriches Inlet, New York; (22) Norfolk Harbor, Virginia; (23) Richmond Filtration Plant, Virginia; and (24) Sacramento River Deep Water Ship Channel, California.  Provides that the funding for such projects may come out of the Inland Waterways Trust Fund. Makes an appropriations transfer to the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund, provided that $5,000,000 is expended by the Bureau of Reclamation for the design and construction of the Headgate Rock Hydroelectric project, Arizona.",2025-01-14T18:18:18Z,
98-s-1874,98,s,1874,"A bill to provide for the restoration of the fish and wildlife in the Trinity River Basin, California, and for other purposes.",Water Resources Development,1983-09-22,1984-09-26,Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ordered favorably reported H.R. 1438 in lieu of this measure.,Senate,"Sen. Cranston, Alan [D-CA]",CA,D,C000877,1,"Directs the Secretary of the Interior to develop and implement a basin-wide fish and wildlife management program for the Trinity River Basin in California.  Requires that such program include fish habitat rehabilitation, hatchery modernization, and fish and wildlife monitoring in such program. Establishes the Trinity River Basin Fish and Wildlife Task Force to assist the Secretary in establishing such program. Authorizes appropriations for:  (1) construction; and (2) fish and wildlife management.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,
98-hjres-362,98,hjres,362,"A joint resolution to declare June 4-10, 1984, as National Fisheries Week.",Water Resources Development,1983-09-19,1983-09-26,Referred to Subcommittee on Census and Population.,House,"Rep. Forsythe, Edwin B. [R-NJ-13]",NJ,R,F000286,17,"Designates the week beginning June 4 through June 10, 1984 as National Fisheries Week.",2024-02-06T20:04:02Z,
98-s-1834,98,s,1834,A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Army to make modifications in certain water projects in Florida.,Water Resources Development,1983-09-13,1983-09-13,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Hawkins, Paula [R-FL]",FL,R,H000374,0,Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to modify the water delivery schedule from central and southern Florida to the Everglades National Park and to conduct an experimental program to improve such water delivery. Directs the Secretary to make such flood control modifications as are necessary to restore the natural flow of water to the Everglades National Park.  Directs the Secretary to undertake necessary flood protection measures for homes affected by water delivery modifications or by the restoration of natural water flow.,2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,
98-hr-3844,98,hr,3844,"A bill to authorize the United States Army Corps of Engineers to undertake a program of research demonstration in the Saint John River Basin, Maine.",Water Resources Development,1983-08-04,1983-09-20,"Executive Comment Requested from Army, OMB.",House,"Rep. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME-2]",ME,R,S000663,0,"Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to implement a research program demonstrating irrigation and conservation techniques for the Saint John River Basin, Maine. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1986.",2024-02-07T16:02:17Z,
98-s-1789,98,s,1789,Rural Water and Waste Disposal Program Improvement Act of 1983,Water Resources Development,1983-08-04,1983-08-04,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.,Senate,"Sen. Huddleston, Walter (Dee) [D-KY]",KY,D,H000905,4,"Rural Water and Waste Disposal Program Improvement Act of 1983 - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to require the Secretary of Agriculture to provide for a graduated scale of rural water and waste disposal grants based on income and population levels. Restricts the maximum rate to projects in communities with populations of 1500 or less and a median income level below 80 percent of the statewide nonmetropolitan median income level. Directs the Secretary to establish a project selection system based on income, population, and health hazards due to lack of potable water or inadequate waste disposal. Authorizes predevelopment grants and technical assistance. Revises the standard for five-percent loans from one based on the Federal poverty line to one based on the statewide nonmetropolitan median income level.  Establishes a seven- percent loan for communities with median incomes of between 80 and 100 percent of such statewide income level.",2025-08-29T17:39:02Z,
98-s-1811,98,s,1811,High Plains States Groundwater Demonstration Program Act of 1983,Water Resources Development,1983-08-04,1984-09-28,See H.R. 71.,Senate,"Sen. Nickles, Don [R-OK]",OK,R,N000102,3,"High Plains States Groundwater Demonstration Program Act of 1983 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Reclamation (Bureau), to conduct, in two phases, an investigation of and to establish demonstration projects for groundwater recharge of aquifers in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas and Wyoming (the High Plains States) as well as in Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, Utah and Washington (the other Reclamation Act States).  Directs the Bureau to consult with the U.S. Geological Survey, other appropriate Federal agencies and departments, the High Plains States, and the other Reclamation Act States to carry out this Act. Directs the Bureau, during phase I, to develop a detailed plan for not less than 12 demonstration projects in the High Plains States and for not less than 9 demonstration projects in the other Reclamation Act States.  Requires such plan to determine whether various recharge technologies may be applied to diverse geologic and hydrologic conditions.  Directs the Bureau to recommend the demonstration projects to be designed, constructed, and operated during phase II. Requires the Secretary, within six months of enactment of an appropriation Act to carry out phase I, to select and initiate projects to receive further planning and development. Requires the Secretary, within 24 months of enactment of an appropriation Act to carry out phase I, to transmit a report to Congress containing recommendations for phase II and a detailed statement of findings and conclusions. Directs the Bureau during phase II to design, construct, and operate such demonstration projects as are recommended in the Secretary's report to Congress. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Bureau, to contract with the High Plains States and the other Reclamation Act States to conduct a study to:  (1) identify and evaluate alternative means by which the costs of groundwater recharge projects could be allocated among the project beneficiaries; and (2) identify and evaluate the economic feasibility of and the legal authority for utilizing groundwater recharge in water resource development projects. Requires the Secretary to submit interim reports to Congress on the progress of provisions of this Act within 12 months after the initiation of phase II and a final report within five years. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1983 for phases I and II. Authorizes the matching of Federal funds to meet the costs of phase II and authorizes the Secretary to enter into memoranda of agreement with the High Plains States and the other Reclamation Act States to meet the costs of phase II.  Provides that inkind services or other contributions by the States, their political subdivisions, or other non-Federal entities shall be considered in the determination of the matching non-Federal share.",2025-08-29T17:41:56Z,
98-sjres-154,98,sjres,154,A joint resolution to recognize the contributions of the Illinois Waterway to the development of the State of Illinois after fifty years of operation.,Water Resources Development,1983-08-04,1983-08-04,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.,Senate,"Sen. Dixon, Alan J. [D-IL]",IL,D,D000366,0,Commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the Illinois Waterway.,2025-07-21T19:32:26Z,
98-s-1739,98,s,1739,Water Resources Development Act of 1983,Water Resources Development,1983-08-03,1984-06-08,Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 973.,Senate,"Sen. Abdnor, James [R-SD]",SD,R,A000009,1,"(Reported to Senate from the Committee on Finance with amendment, S. Rept. 98-509) Water Resources Development Act of 1983 - Title I - Directs the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to obligate no sums in excess of those specified in this title for the combined purpose of the ""Construction General"" account and the ""Flood Control, Mississippi River and Tributaries"" account.  Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1989. Title II:  General Provisions - Directs the Secretary to enter into agreements with landowners who are benefitted by local flood control projects to assure that such owners will contribute 50 percent of that project's cost.  Limits the commencement period for any such flood control project to ten years from the date of authorization of such project unless the Secretary shows that such project remains needed and justified. Allows for the submission of Federal projects with a cost of up to $10,000,000 provided, however, that any project with a cost exceeding $10,000,000 must be authorized by Act of Congress.  Provides further that each such project must contain benefits directly related to agriculture that account for at least 20 percent of the total benefits of the project. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to study and report to the appropriate congressional committees on the feasibility of requiring full public access to all water impoundment facilities that have recreation-related potential. Amends Federal law to provide for the compatability of Federal flood control projects with any existing or planned local flood control improvement programs. Directs the Secretary of the Army to undertake a program for the control of river ice, to assist communities in the breakup of such ice, and to provide technical assistance to local units of government to control or break up such ice. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1989. Authorizes and directs the Secretary of the Army to undertake a demonstration program for the control of river ice at Hardwick, Vermont.  Authorizes appropriations for such program.  Directs the Secretary to report to Congress by March 1, 1988, on activities under this section. Directs the Secretary, upon request, to survey the potential of rehabilitating former industrial sites, millraces, etc. already constructed for use as hydroelectric facilities.  Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1989. Amends the Flood Control Act of 1970 concerning agreements made between Federal and State governments for cooperation in payment of mutually-beneficial flood control projects.  Requires a favorable report from the Chief of Engineers before any flood control facility construction may begin. Provides that the Secretary shall not require non-Federal interests to assume operation of any Federally-run facility as a condition to the construction of new recreational facilities.  Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts with area Federal Project Repayment Districts for the recovery of appropriate shares of project costs.  Requires the Secretary to determine that revenues derived from such contracts will be sufficient to meet cost recovery requirements under Federal law. Expresses the sense of Congress that all parties to various lawsuits concerning the issuance of Federal permits necessary for the construction of a coal slurry pipeline development which would use Missouri River River water should work to resolve such issues in an expeditious and reasonable manner. Prohibits the Secretary from initiating construction of any water resources project if such project has been modified to increase any of the following project parameters by more than 25 percent:  (1) acreage of land acquisition; (2) linear miles of stream channel innundated; (3) width or depth of any navigation channel; (4) displacement of dwelling units; (5) hydroelectric generating capacity; or (6) linear miles of stream channelization.  Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress, within 180 days of proposal, a report on any such project modification together with his recommendations thereon. Amends the Water Research and Development Act of 1978 to add the following new title:  Title V - Ogallala Aquifer Research and Development.  Establishes the High Plains Study Council to:  (1) review research work conducted by State advisory committees; and (2) coordinate such research to avoid duplication of efforts by States of the High Plains.  Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish within each State of the High Plains Region an Ogallala Aquifer technical advisory committee (the State Committee). Directs such State Committee to:  (1) review existing State laws concerning water management and recommend appropriate changes; (2) establish State priorities for water resources research and demonstration projects; and (3) provide information and technical assistance concerning the need for water conservation and management. Directs the Secretary to allocate annually funds to States of the High Plains Region for research in water-use efficiency, cultural methods, irrigation technologies, water-efficient crops, and water and soil conservation.  Directs that such funds shall be distributed to State institutions of higher learning on the basis of merit. Directs the Secretary to divide funds among the States of the High Plains Region for research into:  (1) precipitation management; (2) weather modification; (3) aquifer recharge opportunities; (4) saline water uses; (5) desalinization technologies; (6) salt-tolerant crops; and (7) local water-transfer opportunities. Directs the Secretary to allocate annually funds to High Plains Region States for grants to farmers for demonstration projects in:  (1) water-efficient irrigation technologies and practices; (2) soil and water conservation management systems; and (3) the growth and marketing of more water-efficient crops.  Provides that such grants to farmers shall be made on the basis of merit. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to study the feasibility of water transfers into the High Plains Region, and report annually to Congress. Authorizes the Secretary to monitor the levels of the Ogallala Aquifer, and to report annually to Congress. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to make grants to States for programs in water conservation and nonstructural flood control alternatives.  Outlines the qualifications for States receiving such grants. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1989.  Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on this program by October 1, 1987. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct a study of shoreline protection and beach erosion control policy in view of the prospect for long-term increases in the level of the ocean.  Requires the Secretary, within three years of the date of enactment of this Act, to transmit the study together with recommendations to the appropriate Congressional committees.  Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to require a review of the cost effectiveness of design of each water resources project which has a cost in excess of $10,000,000. Requires the Secretary to prepare a feasibility report for each such project being reviewed, after conducting a reconnaissance of the water resources problems, in order to identify potential solutions.  Requires such reconnaissance to be limited to 18 months.  Requires non-Federal interests to contribute 50 percent of the cost of any such study. Requires the mitigation of fish and wildlife losses to be undertaken before construction on the project involved begins. Authorizes the Secretary to mitigate damages to fish and wildlife to the extent that such mitigation costs do not exceed $7,500,000 per project.  Requires a report to Congress when mitigation costs are expected to exceed $7,500,000 per project. Requires the Secretary to submit with each proposal for the authorization of a water resources project, either: (1) a recommendation with a specific plan to mitigate fish and wildlife losses; or (2) a determination that such project will have negligible adverse impact on fish and wildlife.  Directs that when the Secretary recommends activities to enhance fish and wildlife resources, the cost of such enhancement shall be a Federal cost when its benefits are determined to be national in character. Authorizes the Secretary to plan, design, and construct streambank erosion control projects not specifically authorized by Congress when such work is economically feasible and environmentally acceptable. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning with FY 1985.  Prohibits the cost of any single project in this section from exceeding $2,000,000. Title III:  Project Provisions - Authorizes and directs the Secretary to undertake the following flood control improvement projects:  (1) Warrior River, Mound State Park, Moundville, Alabama; (2) Fort Toulouse National Historic Landmark and Taskigi Indian Mound, Alabama; and (3) Tangier Island, Virginia. Authorizes and directs the Secretary to undertake the following navigation and channel improvement projects:  (1) Christiana River, Wilmington, Delaware; (2) Abiquiu Dam, New Mexico; (3) Richard B. Russell Dam and Lake, Abbeville, South Carolina; (4) Winooski River Basin, Waterbury, Vermont; (5) Tacoma Harbor, Washington; (6) Northern Mariana Islands; and (7) Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin. Provides that the operation and maintenance of Jackson Hole Snake River project, Wyoming, shall be the responsibility of the Secretary, provided that non-Federal interests contribute the initial $35,000 in construction costs.  Modifies the Rio Grande Floodway project, Truth or Consequences Unit, New Mexico, to authorize the Secretary to construct a flood control dam on the Cuchillo Negro Creek.  Authorizes and directs the Secretary to undertake restoration measures for the Acequia Systems in New Mexico, provided that the State contribute 20 percent of any project costs. Authorizes appropriations.  Authorizes and directs the Secretary to consider the Acequia Systems as public entities for purposes of contractual agreements. Authorizes the Secretary to institute cropland irrigation research for the St. John River Basin, Maine.  Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes bank protection activities in Starr County, Texas, in accordance with certain specifications. Authorizes the Secretary, upon completion of recording of plats for townsites, to:  (1) sell lands in accordance with a certain preference scheme; (2) transfer municipal facilities to the appropriate local government entity; and (3) transfer all facilities used for educational purposes to the appropriate school district.  Outlines the preference scheme for land sales.  Authorizes the Secretary to accept notes secured by mortgages and to provide temporary financial assistance to local government entities in order to facilitate such land sales.  Defines ""townsite"" as including the areas of Fort Peck, Montana, Riverdale, North Dakota, and Pickstown, South Dakota. Authorizes the Secretary to begin a program for the removal of silt from Lake Herman, South Dakota.  Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to begin a program of silt traps and silt removal in Lake Worth, Texas.  Authorizes and directs the Secretary to conduct mitigation activities in Warwick, Rhode Island.  Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes and directs the Secretary to undertake studies of the impact on the United States of Canadian tidal power development in the Bay of Fundy, and to submit such studies to the appropriate congressional committees.  Authorizes appropriations. Declares downstream recreation on the Gauley River to be an additional project purpose of the Summerville Lake project, West Virginia. Authorizes the construction of three flood control structures on the Johns Creek tributary in the Nonconnah Creek Basin, Tennessee. Authorizes the Secretary to participate in a project to demonstrate the feasibility of non-Federal cost sharing for rural flood protection on the James River in South Dakota.  Requires a report to be submitted to the Congress concerning such project by September 30, 1985. Modifies the project for local flood protection on the Milk River at Havre, Montana.  Authorizes the Secretary to modify the schedule for delivery of water from central and southern Florida to the Everglades National Park.  Authorizes and directs the Secretary to undertake road improvement measures at Pearson-Skubitz Big Hill Lake, Kansas.  Declares a described portion of the Hudson River in New York Bay to be nonnavigable.  Deauthorizes the William L. Springer Lake project on the Sangamon River, Illinois. Designates the former Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area as the John Sherman Cooper National Recreation Area. Declares the Port of Houston Authority bridge over Greens Bayou, Texas, to be a lawful bridge. Authorizes the Secretary to undertake the following reconnaissance studies in the State of Utah:  (1) the Provo River; (2) existing levees along Utah Lake; (3) Interstate Highway 15, adjacent to Utah Lake; (4) Rock, Little Rock, and Slate Canyons in Provo; (5) the Bear River; (6) the Weber River; and (7) the Sevier River. Directs the Secretary to make certain amendments to the contract between the State of Illinois and the United States for water supply storage at Rend Lake on the Big Muddy River, Illinois.  Authorizes increased appropriations for the repair and modification of the Illinois and Mississippi Canal. Designates the Lowndesville Recreation Area in the Richard B. Russel Dam and Lake project, South Carolina and Georgia, as the Jim Rampey Recreation Area. Title IV:  Dam Safety - Dam Safety Act of 1983 - Amends public law concerning the definition of ""dam"".  Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1987.  Provides for the distribution of such funds among the States. Directs the Secretary to provide assistance to any State that establishes and maintains a dam safety program which includes the following:  (1) a procedure for the review of dam plans to determine its safety; (2) a procedure to determine that such dam will be operated in a safe manner; (3) a procedure for inspection at least once every three years, or more if warranted; (4) the State has the power to modify the dam to assure its safety; (5) the State develops a system of emergency procedures to be followed in the event of dam failure; and (6) the State has the necessary emergency funds to make immediate repairs in order to protect human life and property.  Provides for the approval of submitted programs within 120 days unless notified prior to that by the Secretary.  Provides for periodic review of dam safety programs by the Secretary.  Requires the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to report to Congress on the need for Federally-sponsored programs of guarantees of insurance for owners of dams. Authorizes to be established a Federal Dam Safety Review Board responsible for reviewing the design and safety of dams constructed in the United States, and to monitor State implementation of this Act.  Requires the Board to file an advisory report on proposed dams prior to their construction.  Directs the Board also to study the need for a Federal loan program to assist owners of non-Federal dams in rehabilitating such structures to assure their safety.  Provides for the composition of Board members. Directs the Secretary to provide training for dam safety inspectors.  Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1989. Directs the Secretary to begin research to develop techniques and equipment for more efficient dam inspection.  Provides for State participation in such research. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1989. Authorizes the Secretary to maintain and publish information on the inventory of dams authorized under this Act.  Authorizes appropriations. Title V:  Inland Navigation - Directs the Secretary to obligate no more than $646,000,000 for construction, renovation, and maintenance of the inland waterways of the United States from FY 1986 through 1999. Prohibits any toll or fee from being collected from any vessel passing through any lock, canal, canalized river, or other work for the use and benefit of navigation that belongs to the United States. Requires any proposal relating to the imposition of any fee for the use of harbors, waterways, etc. to be submitted by the Secretary of the Army to specified congressional committees.  States that such no-toll provisions do not apply with respect to the Panama Canal. Establishes an Inland Waterways Users Board (the Users Board) to represent the shippers and users of such waterways.  Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary shall not obligate funds in excess of levels recommended by the Users Board.  Directs the Secretary to report annually to the President and the Congress on the implementation of this title. Authorizes the Secretary to operate and maintain any navigational project, provided that when replacement of such project is deemed essential and the cost is less than $25,000,000, the Secretary may proceed with such work. Authorizes the following works of improvement to the inland waterways by the Secretary:  (1) Helena Harbor, Arkansas; (2) White River Navigation to Batesville, Arkansas; (3) Lake Pontchartrain, North Shore, Louisiana; (4) Greenville Harbor, Mississippi; (5) Vicksburg Harbor, Mississippi; (6) Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway Bridges, North Carolina; (7) Olcott Harbor, New York; (8) Bonneville Lock and Dam, Oregon and Washington; (9) Memphis Harbor, Memphis, Tennessee; (10) Gallipolis Locks and Dam Replacement, Ohio and West Virginia; (11) Lock and Dam 7 and 8 Replacement, Monongahela River, Pennsylvania; and (12) the New York State Barge Canal, provided that control and operation of the Canal continues to reside with the State of New York and that such State provides one half of all operational costs. Upper Mississippi River System Management Act of 1983 - Provides that Congress recognizes the Upper Mississippi River System as a nationally significant ecosystem and commercial navigation system, and provides for the administration and regulation of such system. Provides that Congress approves of a ""Master Plan"" as a guide for future water policy on the Upper Mississippi River System.  Provides for cooperation of several States in the System among one another toward the growth and development of the System.  Authorizes the Secretary to provide for the construction of a second lock at locks and dam 26, Mississippi River, Alton, Illinois and Missouri.  Authorizes such sums as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this section.  Directs the Secretary to monitor traffic movements on the System in order to determine any future capacity expansion. Authorizes appropriations for such monitoring.  Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to undertake various programs for the enhancement of the Upper Mississippi River System.  Authorizes appropriations for this purpose.  Authorizes such Secretary to implement a program of Recreational  Projects for the System. Authorizes appropriations for this purpose. Title VI:  Cost Sharing - Directs that the construction of any water resource project authorized to be constructed by the Secretary either in this Act or after the enactment of this Act can only be initiated after the Federal agency and the non-Federal sponsor have contractually agreed to share the project's costs in accordance with certain guidelines (share of cost depends upon type of project provided).  Enumerates the non-Federal share for each type of water resource project.  Provides for the repayment period of the non-Federal share, with appropriate interest.  Provides that any cost-sharing agreement with a non-Federal private or public sponsor shall be subject to the ability of such sponsor to pay.  Provides for the sharing of costs up to the date of enactment of this Act.  Prohibits the Secretary, after the date of enactment of this Act, from submitting any proposal for the authorization of any water resource project to Congress which has a hydroelectric power component unless such proposal contains comments on the ability of the appropriate Power Marketing Administration to market such power so as to recover 100 percent of all operation, maintenance, replacement, and capital investment costs associated with such component. Title VII:  Adopts and authorizes the following works of improvement to rivers, harbors, and other waterways for flood control and other purposes to be undertaken by the Secretary in accordance with specified plans and provisions:  (a) Flood Control: (1) Village Creek, Jefferson County, Alabama; (2) Eight Mile Creek, Paragould, Arkansas; (3) Fourche Bayou Basin, Little Rock, Arkansas; (4) Helena and vicinity, Arkansas; (5) Little Colorado River at Holbrook, Arizona; (6) Cache Creek Basin, California; (7) Redbank and Fancher Creeks, California; (8) Santa Ana River Mainstem, including Santiago Creek, California; (9) Fountain Creek, Pueblo, Colorado; (10) Metropolitan Denver and South Platte River and Tributaries, Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska; (11) Oates Creek, Georgia; (12) Agana River, Guam; (13) Alenaio Stream, Hawaii; (14) Big Wood River and Tributaries, Idaho; (15) North Branch of Chicago River, Illinois; (16) Rock River at Rockford and vicinity, Illinois; (17) Little Calumet River, Indiana; (18) Des Moines River Basin, Iowa and Minnesota; (19) Mississippi River, Iowa; (20) Perry Creek, Iowa; (21) Halstead, Kansas; (22) Atchafalaya Basin Floodway system, Louisiana; (23) Bushley Bayou, Louisiana; (24) Louisiana State Penitentiary Levee, Mississippi River; (25) Quincy Coastal Streams, Massachusetts; (26) Mississippi River at St. Paul, Minnesota; (27) Redwood River at Marshall, Minnesota; (28) Root River Basin, Minnesota; (29) South Fork Zumbro River Watershed at Rochester, Minnesota; (30) Horn Lake Creek and Tributaries, Tennessee and Mississippi; (31) Sowashee Creek, Mississippi; (32) Brush Creek and Tributaries, Missouri and Kansas; (33) Maline Creek, Missouri; (34) St. Johns Bayou and New Madrid Floodway, Missouri; (35) Robinson's Branch of the Rahway River at Clark, Scotch Plains, and Rahway, New Jersey; (36) Rahway River and Van Winkles Brook at Springfield, New Jersey; (37) Green Brook Subbasin, Raritan River Basin, New Jersey; (38) Middle Rio Grande Flood Protection, Bernalillo to Belen, New Mexico; (39) Puerco River and Tributaries, Gallup, New Mexico; (40) Cazenovia Creek Watershed, New York; (41) Mamaroneck and Sheldrake Rivers Basin and Byram River Basin, New York and Connecticut; (42) Hocking River at Logan and Nelsonville, Ohio; (43) Miami River, Fairfield, Ohio; (44) Miami River, Little Miami River, Ohio; (45) Muskingum River Basin, Ohio; (46) Scioto River at North Chillicothe, Ohio; (47) Fry Creeks, Oklahoma; (48) Mingo Creek, Tulsa, Oklahoma; (49) Parker Lake, Muddy Boggy Creek, Oklahoma; (50) Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; (51) Lock Haven, Pennsylvania; (52) Saw Mill Run, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; (53) Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania; (54) Big River Reservoir, Rhode Island; (55) Nonconnak Creek, Tennessee and Mississippi; (56) Buffalo Bayou and Tributaries, Texas; (57) Boggy Creek, Austin, Texas; (58) Lake Wichita, Holliday Creek, Texas; (59) Lower Rio Grande, Texas; (60) James River Basin, Richmond, Virginia; (61) Sims Bayou, Texas; (62) Chehalis River at South Aberdeen and Cosmopolis, Washington; and (63) Yakima Union Gap, Washington; (b) Hydropower Development:  (1) Scammon Bay, Alaska; (2) South Central Railbelt Area, Alaska, Hydroelectric Power, Valdez and Copper River Basin; (3) Murray Lock and Dam, Hydropower, Arkansas; (4) Arkansas River and Tributaries, Hydropower, Arkansas and Oklahoma; (5) Metropolitan Atlanta Area, Water Resources Management Study, Georgia; (6) Lucky Peak Dam and Lake, Idaho; (7) W.D. Mayo Lock and Dam 14, Hydropower, Oklahoma; (8) Blue River Lake, Hydroelectric Power, Willamette River Basin, Oregon; (9) McNary Lock and Dam Second Powerhouse, Columbia River, Oregon and Washington; and (10) Gregory County Hydroelectric Pumped Storage Facility, South Dakota; (c) Shoreline Protection:  (1) Charlotte County, Florida; (2) Indian River County, Florida; (3) Panama City Beaches, Florida; (4) Saint Johns County, Florida; (5) Jekyll Island, Georgia; (6) Casino Beach, Illinois Shoreline, Illinois; (7) Atlantic Coast of Maryland and Assateaque Island, Virginia; (8) Atlantic Coast of New York City from Rockaway Inlet to Norton Point, New York; (9) Maumee Bay, Lake Erie, Ohio; (10) Presque Isle Peninsula, Erie, Pennsylvania; and (11) Folly Beach, South Carolina; (d) Mitigation: (1) Fish and Wildlife Program for the Sacramento River Bank Protection Project, California; (2) Richard B. Russel Dam and Lake, Savannah River, Georgia and South Carolina; (3) Davenport, Iowa Local Protection Project-Fish and Wildlife Mitigation Plan; (4) West Kentucky Tributaries Projects, Fish and Wildlife Mitigation Plan, Obion Creek, Kentucky; (5) Downstream Measures at Harry S. Truman Dam and Reservoir, Missouri; (6) Smithville Lake, Little Platte River, Missouri-Plan for Replacement of the Trimble Wildlife Area; (7) Cape May Inlet to Lower Township, New Jersey; and (8) Cooper Lake and Channels Project, Texas, Report on Fish and Wildlife Mitigation; (e) Bank Stabilization:  (1) Bethel, Alaska; (f) Demonstration:  (1) Cabin Creek, West Virginia; and (2) Lava Flow Control, Island of Hawaii, Hawaii. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to undertake a feasibility study of the water supply and irrigation features of the Gregory Facility and prohibits construction of such facility until such study, together with a favorable certification  by the Secretary of the Interior, is submitted to Congress, and Congress has authorized appropriations for construction of such facility. Title VIII:  Water Supply Loans - Water Supply Rehabilitation and Conservation Act of 1983 - Authorizes the Secretary to make loans to departments, agencies, units of State or local government, or any person operating a water supply system for the purpose of improving such system. Directs the Secretary to allocate one-half of the funds in proportion to each State's population, the other half to be allocated at the Secretary's discretion.  Prohibits loans for purposes other than water supply or water conservation. Requires operators of water supply systems to submit loan applications to the Secretary.  Lists requirements for loan applications, including:  (1) a detailed plan and estimated cost of the project; (2) a showing that the applicant holds all necessary rights to land and water use; and (3) an assessment of the improvements the proposed project will make.  Permits the Secretary to make only such loans which the Secretary determines to be technically feasible and which constitute a reasonable financial risk. Directs the Secretary, in making loans, to give priority to:  (1) water supply systems unable to obtain financial assistance; and (2) water supply systems  using such loans to pay for the cost of installing a new system or improving an existing system in order to comply with the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974. Authorizes the Governor of each State to submit by April 1, 1984, and annually thereafter, a priority list of water supply projects in such State to be financed by loans under this title.  Allows the granting of loans only if the operator of a water supply system to whom the loan is granted implements a model water conservation program.  Defines a ""model water conservation program."" Requires the agreement reached between the Secretary and any loan grantee to include:  (1) the amount of the loan and its interest rate; (2) a repayment period; and (3) such provisions as are deemed necessary to assure prompt repayment. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1989. Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress by September 30, 1988, a report concerning loans granted and water supply improvements made under this title. Enumerates specific information and recommendations to be included in such report. Authorizes appropriations. Declares the improvement of water supply and distribution systems to be a legitimate Federal purpose. Title IX:  Water Resource Planning - Establishes a National Board of Water Policy (the ""Board"").  Directs the Board to meet at least six times annually to:  (1) advise the President and Congress on matters relating to water resources policy; (2) identify inconsistencies in such policy and programs; (3) establish and issue rules and procedures designed to assure the implementation of a national water resources policy and program; (4) recommend to appropriate Federal agencies goals and priorities for programs within their jurisdiction; and (5) prepare periodic assessments of national water needs. Directs the Board to establish principles, standards, and procedures for Federal participation in the preparation of comprehensive regional or river basin plans and for the formulation and evaluation of Federal water and related land resources management and development plans.  Requires that every report relating to any such water or related land resources project include specific information on the benefits and costs attributable to each of such objectives.  Authorizes appropriations to the Board for FY 1985 through 1989. Establishes a State advisory committee to review actions and proposals made by the Board. Requires such committee to meet at least six times annually. Authorizes appropriations for administrative expenses of the committee for FY 1985 through 1989. Prohibits provisions of this title from being applicable to any water resource policy, program, law, or project administered by or under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior. Title X:  Harbors - National Harbors Improvement Act of 1983 - Establishes a National Commission on Harbor Maintenance (the Commission) to report to appropriate Congressional committees on the annual and long-term costs of maintaining the Nation's harbors and make recommendations for the sharing of such costs by non-Federal interests.  Authorizes the establishment of a Shipping Advisory Board to aid the Commission in its work. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985.  Prohibits the Secretary from obligating more than $350,000,000 in any single fiscal year for maintaining harbors until such time as the report of the Commission is submitted to Congress (i.e., within two years of the date of enactment of this Act). Directs that non-Federal interests shall pay 50 percent of surveying, planning, designing, and engineering costs prior to the construction of a general cargo harbor. Allows non-Federal interests to undertake feasibility studies for improvements to a general cargo harbor, and submit such study to the Secretary. Provides for the review of such studies by the Secretary.  Requires the Secretary, within 180 days after receiving any such study, to transmit to Congress the results of such study together with any recommendations the Secretary may have. Directs that the non-Federal share of the cost of construction of general cargo harbors on which construction has not commenced shall be 30 percent.  Directs the Secretary and the non-Federal interest to enter into a cooperative agreement prior to Federal initiation of construction.  Sets forth conditions which any non-Federal interest must assume in such agreement. Authorizes any non-Federal interest to undertake navigational improvements in deep-draft harbors of the United States upon obtaining the proper permits.  Authorizes the Secretary to complete and transmit to the appropriate non-Federal interest any study for improvements to deep-draft harbors of the United States.  Authorizes the Secretary to complete deep-draft harbor construction projects for which construction was initiated prior to the enactment of this Act, upon certain conditions.  Authorizes the Secretary to guarantee the payment of the principal amount and interest on loans made or bonds sold to finance projects for the deepening of a draft harbor of the United States.  Prohibits the obligation of the United States under such a guarantee from exceeding 70 percent of the principal and interest of such loan, including reasonable administrative costs.  Prohibits the total outstanding amount of such loans guaranteed in any fiscal year from exceeding $1,500,000,000.  Authorizes necessary appropriations to make payments under such loan guarantee program. Provides that whenever a non-Federal interest constructs improvements to any harbors, the Secretary shall be responsible for maintenance to forty-five feet below mean low water, and for 50 percent of maintenance costs beyond forty-five feet below mean low water, provided that the Secretary certifies proper construction. Directs that non-Federal interests shall provide 50 percent of the costs of any necessary relocation and alteration of existing pipelines, cables, and related facilities. Allows any authorized project to include additional improvements requested by non-Federal interests, provided that such non-Federal interest contracts with the Secretary to pay that portion of the project's costs deemed to be non-defense-related. Authorizes the Secretary to contract to pay to non-Federal interests that part of a projects's cost which provide direct national defense benefits and which were originally borne by the non- Federal interests. Allows any non-Federal interest which has constructed, maintained,or funded a project to submit to specified congressional committees proposals for legislation which would authorize the collection of fees for the use of such project. Requires the Secretary, upon receipt from a non-Federal interest of a notice of intent to construct improvements, to establish procedures for the joint processing of all required Federal permits for such construction. Requires the Secretary to publish in the Federal Register such intent to construct within 15 days of receipt of such intent.  Requires the Secretary to enter into agreement with the Secretaries of the Interior and Commerce, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and any other appropriate local authority to establish expedient processing of all required construction permits.  Sets forth provisions to be included in such agreements.  Requires, within six months of the final date of a project's compliance determination schedule, a report by the Secretary to the appropriate Congressional committees.  Requires notification of non-Federal interests as to whether permits will be issued. Requires the Secretary, on or before March 1, 1985, to prepare and transmit to Congress a report, together with recommendations, on the amount of time required to issue Federal environmental permits related to construction of harbor improvements. Adopts and authorizes the following works of improvement to general cargo harbors: (1) Kodiak Harbor, Alaska; (2) Oakland Outer Harbor, California; (3) Richmond Harbor, California; (4) Sacramento River, Deepwater Ship Channel, California; (5) New Haven Harbor, Connecticut; (6) Jacksonville Harbor, Mill Cove, Florida; (7) Manatee Harbor, Florida; (8) Tampa Harbor, East Bay Channel, Florida; (9) Savannah Harbor, Widening, Georgia; (10) Grand Haven Harbor, Michigan; (11) Monroe Harbor, Michigan; (12) Gulfport Harbor, Mississippi; (13) Wilmington Harbor, Northeast Cape Fear River, North Carolina; (14) Portsmouth Harbor and the Piscataqua River Basin, Maine and New Hampshire; (15) Gowanus Creek, Channel, New York; (16) Kill Van Kull and Newark Bay Channels, New York and New Jersey; (17) San Juan Harbor, Puerto Rico; (18) Charleston Harbor, South Carolina; (19) Brazos Island Harbor, Texas, Brownsville Channel; (20) Crown Bay Channel-Saint Thomas Harbor, Virgin Islands; (21) Blair and Sitcum Waterways, Tacoma Harbor, Washington, and (22) Grays Harbor, Washington. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the following navigational improvements for deep-draft harbors should be constructed by non-Federal interest in an expeditious manner:  (1) Norfolk Harbor and Channels, Virginia; (2) Mobile Harbor, Alabama; and (3) Mississippi River Ship Channel, Gulf to Baton Rouge, Louisiana.",2025-04-23T11:41:33Z,
98-sjres-145,98,sjres,145,"A joint resolution to designate the week of October 2, 1983 through October 8, 1983, as ""National Port Week"".",Water Resources Development,1983-08-03,1983-10-04,Passed Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Voice Vote.,Senate,"Sen. Long, Russell B. [D-LA]",LA,D,L000428,35,"Designates the week of October 2 through October 8, 1983, as National Port Week.",2025-07-21T19:32:26Z,
98-hr-3678,98,hr,3678,"Water Resources Conservation, Development, and Infrastructure Improvement and Rehabilitation Act of 1983",Water Resources Development,1983-07-27,1984-07-24,"Received in the Senate, read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1062.",House,"Rep. Roe, Robert A. [D-NJ-8]",NJ,D,R000383,37,"(Measure passed House, amended, roll call #305 (259-33)) Water Resources Conservation, Development, and Infrastructure Improvement and Rehabilitation Act of 1983 - Imposes a ceiling on amounts authorized for projects under this Act, subject to specified exceptions. Title I:  Port Development - Port Development and Navigation Improvement Act of 1984 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to develop the following port projects:  (1) Norfolk Harbor and Channels, Virginia; (2) Mobile Harbor, Alabama; (3) Mississippi River Ship Channel, Gulf to Baton Rouge, Louisiana; (4) Texas City Channel, Texas; (5) New York Harbor and adjacent channels, New York and New Jersey; (6) Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbors, San Pedro Bay, California; (7) Portsmouth Harbor and Piscataqua River, New Hampshire; (8) New Haven Harbor, Connecticut; (9) Gowanus Creek Channel, Brooklyn, New York; (10) Kill Van Kull, New York and New Jersey; (11) Arthur Kill, New York and New Jersey; (12) Wilmington Harbor--Northeast Cape Fear River, North Carolina; (13) Charleston Harbor, South Carolina; (14) Savannah Harbor, Georgia; (15) Manatee Harbor, Florida; (16) Tampa Harbor, East Bay Channel, Florida; (17) San Juan Harbor, Puerto Rico; (18) Crown Bay Channel--St. Thomas Harbor, Virgin Islands; (19) Gulfport Harbor, Mississippi; (20) Cleveland Harbor, Ohio; (21) Lorain Harbor, Ohio; (22) Grand Haven Harbor, Michigan; (23) Monroe Harbor, Michigan; (24) Brazos Island Harbor, Texas--Brownsville Channel; (25) Duluth-Superior, Minnesota and Wisconsin; (26) San Francisco Harbor, California--Fisherman's Wharf area; (27) Oakland Outer Harbor, California; (28) Richmond Harbor and Oakland Inner Harbor, California; (29) Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel, California; (30) Hilo Harbor, Hawaii; (31) Blair and Sitcum Waterways, Tacoma Harbor, Washington; (32) Grays Harbor, Washington; and (33) East, West, and Duwamish Waterways, Washington. Prohibits the disposal of dredged material from any of the New York projects from taking place at specified areas of Queens, New York. Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress any final environmental impact statements concerning any such port development project.  Allows any non-Federal entity to submit to the Secretary for review plans for port development not authorized by Federal law.  Requires the Secretary within 180 days to submit to Congress a report containing results and recommendations of such non-Federal port development review.  Provides for reimbursement to non-Federal entities for plan development costs.  Provides for the undertaking by non-Federal entities of navigation projects approved by the Secretary.  Provides for reimbursement to non-Federal interests of the Federal share of any navigation project approved. Specifies the Federal share of costs for planning, designing, engineering, and surveying of navigation projects.  Allows ship levies and fees to be collected in limited circumstances. Provides congressional consent to the levy of tonnage duties by a non-Federal interest on vessels entering deep-draft ports, subject to certain conditions. Expresses the policy of Congress that use of the disposal site known as ""Mud Dump"" near Sandy Hook, New Jersey, shall be terminated, and replacement sites shall be designated by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency within four years of the enactment of this Act. Requires annual reports by the Administrator concerning such designation. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to any non-Federal interest operating a project for a port for provision of emergency response services in such port. Authorizes the Secretary to make a grant to the non-Federal interest operating Morro Bay Harbor, California, for construction of a new port office. Authorizes appropriations from the Port Infrastructure Development and Improvement Trust Fund for fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1983, to make remibursements and to pay the Federal share of project costs. Title II:  Inland Waterway Transportation System - Authorizes the Secretary to commence the following navigation improvement projects:  (1) Oliver Lock and Dam, Black Warrior-Tombigbee River, Alabama; (2) Gallipolis Locks and Dam, Ohio River, Ohio and West Virginia; (3) Winfield Locks and Dam, Kanawha River, West Virginia; (4) Lock and Dam 7, Monongahela River, Pennsylvania; (5) Lock and Dam 8, Monongahela River, Pennsylvania; (6) Lock and Dam 26, Mississippi River, Alton, Illinois, and Missouri; and (7) Bonneville Lock and Dam, Oregon and Washington--Columbia River and tributaries, Washington. Title III:  Flood Control - Authorizes the Secretary to commence the following flood control projects:  (1) Quincy Coastal Streams, Massachusetts; (2) Roughans Point, Massachusetts; (3) Cazenovia Creek, New York; (4) Mamaroneck, Sheldrake, and Byram Rivers, New York and Connecticut; (5) Rahway River and Van Winkles Brook, New Jersey; (6) Robinson's Branch--Rahway River, New Jersey; (7) Green Brook Sub-Basin, Raritan River Basin, New Jersey; (8) James River Basin, Virginia; (9) Oates Creek, Georgia; (10) Village Creek, Alabama; (11) Threemile Creek, Alabama; (12) Bushley Bayou, Louisiana; (13) Louisiana State Penitentiary Levee, Mississippi River, Louisiana; (14) Sowashee Creek, Meridian, Mississippi; (15) Nonconnah Creek and St. Johns Creek, Tennessee and Mississippi; (16) Horn Lake Creek and Tributaries, Tennessee and Mississippi; (17) Muskingum River, Killbuck, Ohio; (18) Muskingum River, Mansfield, Ohio; (19) Hocking River, Logan, Ohio; (20) Hocking River, Nelsonville, Ohio; (21) Scioto River, Ohio; (22) Little Miami River, Ohio; (23) Miami River, Fairfield, Ohio; (24) Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; (25) Lock Haven, Pennsylvania; (26) Schuylkill River Basin, Pottstown, Pennsylvania; (27) Saw Mill Run, Pennsylvania; (28) Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania; (29) Eight Mile Creek, Paragould, Arkansas; (30) Fourche Bayou Basin, Arkansas; (31) Helena and Vicinity, Arkansas; (32) West Memphis and Vicinity, Arkansas; (33) Mingo Creek, Oklahoma; (34) Fry Creeks, Oklahoma; (35) Maline Creek, Missouri; (36) St. John's Bayou and New Madrid Floodway, Missouri; (37) Brush Creek and Tributaries, Missouri and Kansas; (38) Cape Girardeau, Missouri; (39) Halstead, Kansas; (40) Upper Little Arkansas River, Kansas; (41) Rock River, Illinois; (42) Green Bay Levee and Drainage District Number 2, Iowa; (43) South Quincy Drainage and Levee District, Illinois; (44) North Branch of Chicago River, Illinois; (45) Little Calumet River, Indiana; (46) Perry Creek, Iowa; (47) Muscatine Island, Iowa; (48) Des Moines River Basin, Iowa and Minnesota; (49) Redwood River, Minnesota; (50) Root River Basin, Minnesota; (51) South Fork Zumbro River, Minnesota; (52) Mississippi River at St. Paul, Minnesota; (53) Park River, Grafton, North Dakota; (54) Fountain Creek, Colorado; (55) Metropolitan Denver, Colorado; (56) Boggy Creek, Texas; (57) Buffalo Bayou and Tributaries, Texas; (58) Lake Wichita, Holliday Creek, Texas; (59) Lower Rio Grande, Texas; (60) Sims Bayou, Texas; (61) Middle Rio Grande, New Mexico; (62) Little Colorado River, Arizona; (63) Cache Creek Basin, California; (64) Redbank and Fancher Creeks, California; (65) Santa Ana River Mainstem, California; (66) Alenaio Stream, Hawaii; (67) Agana River, Guam; (68) Little Wood River, Idaho; (69) Yakima-Union Gap, Washington; (70) Chehalis River, Washington; (71) Centralia, Washington; (72) Licking River, Salyersville, Kentucky; (73) Gold Gulch, California; (74) Pearl River Basin, Louisiana; (75) Amite River, Louisiana; (76) Comite River, Louisiana; (77) Tangipahoa River, Louisiana; (78) Tchefuncte River, Louisiana; (79) Tickfaw River, Louisiana; (80) Bogue Chitto River, Louisiana; (81) Natalbany River, Louisiana; (82) St. Genevieve, Missouri; (83) Passaic River Basin, New Jersey and New York; (84) Meredosia, Illinois; (85) Mission Zanja Creek, Redlands, California; (86) Rio Puerto Nuevo, Puerto Rico; (87) Salt and Eel River confluence, California; (88) Malhauer and Harney Lakes, Oregon; (89) O'Hare System of the Chicagoland Underflow Plan, Illinois; (90) Louisville, Kentucky; (91) Poplar Brook, New Jersey; and (92) Pearl River Basin, Mississippi. Authorizes and directs the Secretary to purchase certain land in Minnesota for construction of a levee and to upgrade existing facilities in Noyes, Minnesota. Directs the Secretary to transmit to the Congress any final environmental impact statement required by law. Authorizes the Secretary to undertake flood control projects at: (1) Calleguas and Conego Creek, California; (2) Coyote Creek, California; (3) Guadalupe River, California; (4) Monroe and West Monroe, Louisiana; and (5) Quachita Parish, Louisiana.  Directs the Secretary to include as part of the non-Federal contribution of the projects any local flood protection work carried out by non-Federal interests after January 1, 1983, and before the enactment of this Act. Provides that the non- Federal share of the cost of any flood control project authorized under this Act shall be 25 percent. Defines certain costs, values, and non-Federal contributions for purposes of this Act. Title IV:  Shoreline Protection - Authorizes the Secretary to effectuate the following shoreline protection projects:  (1) Rockaway Inlet to Norton Point, New York; (2) Cape May Inlet to Lower Township, New Jersey; (3) Atlantic Coast of Maryland (Ocean City); (4) Willoughby Spit, Virginia; (5) Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina; (6) Folly Beach, South Carolina; (7) Panama City Beaches, Florida; (8) St. Johns County, Florida; (9) Charlotte County, Florida; (10) Indian River County, Florida; (11) Dade County, Florida; (12) Monroe County, Florida; (13) Presque Isle Peninsula, Erie, Pennsylvania; (14) Indiana Shoreline, Indiana; (15) Maumee Bay, Lake Erie, Ohio; (16) Tangier Island, Virginia; (17) Monmouth Beach and Sea Bright, New Jersey; (18) Fort Elsinboro, New Jersey; (19) Sea Breeze, New Jersey; (20) Gandys Beach, New Jersey; (21) Reeds Beach, New Jersey; (22) Pierces Point, New Jersey; (23) Fortescue, New Jersey; (24) Casino Beach, Chicago, Illinois; (25) Illinois Beach State Park, Illinois; (26) Coconut Point, Tutuila Island, American Samoa; and (27) Union Beach, Monmouth County, New Jersey. Requires the Secretary to submit to Congress a report on each site following its construction. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning in 1984. Title V:  Water Resources Conservation and Development - Authorizes the Secretary to carry out the following works of improvement for water resources development and conservation:  (1) Neponset River, Norfolk, Massachusetts; (2) Big River Reservoir, Rhode Island; (3) Olcott Harbor, New York; (4) Hampton Roads Debris Removal, Virginia; (5) Rudee Inlet, Virginia; (6) Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway Bridges, North Carolina; (7) Richard B. Russell Dam and Lake, Georgia and South Carolina; (8) Metropolitan Atlanta Area, Georgia; (9) Jacksonville Harbor (Mill Cove), Florida; (10) Yazoo Backwater Area, Mississippi; (11) Greenville Harbor, Mississippi; (12) Vicksburg Harbor, Mississippi; (13) Memphis Harbor, Memphis, Tennessee; (14) Lake Pontchartrain North Shore, Louisiana; (15) Atchafalaya Basin, Louisiana; (16) Cabin Creek, West Virginia; (17) Obion Creek, Kentucky; (18) Muddy Boggy Creek, Parker Lake, Oklahoma; (19) Fort Gibson Lake, Oklahoma; (20) Harry S. Truman Dam and Reservoir, Missouri; (21) Trimble Wildlife Area, Smithville Lake, Little Platte River, Missouri; (22) St. Louis Harbor, Missouri and Illinois; (23) Missouri River Mitigation, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska; (24) Davenport, Iowa (Nahant Marsh); (25) Helena Harbor, Phillips County, Arkansas; (26) White River Navigation to Batesville, Arkansas; (27) Trinity River, Texas; (28) Cooper Lake and Channels, Texas; (29) Sacramento River Bank Protection, California; (30) Sweetwater River, California; (31) Lava Flow Control, Hawaii; (32) City Waterway, Tacoma, Washington; (33) McNary Lock and Dam, Washington and Oregon; (34) Bethel Bank Stabilization, Alaska; (35) Kodiak Harbor, Alaska; (36) St. Paul Island, Alaska; (37) Red River Waterway, Louisiana; and (38) Wailua Falls, Wailua River, Kauai, Hawaii. Requires the Secretary to submit to appropriate congressional committees any final environmental impact studies on any of the above projects which may become available. Authorizes and directs the Secretary to undertake the following demonstration projects:  (1) Albert Lea Lake, Minnesota; and (2) Des Moines River, Iowa.  Sets up an advisory committee for the Iowa demonstration project.  Authorizes the Secretary to make any purchases deemed necessary to carry out such project. Sets forth the Federal share of such projects and authorizes appropriations beginning after September 30, 1983. Authorizes the Secretary to undertake the following waterway improvement and shore protection projects:  (1) Hereford Inlet, Delaware Bay and Cape May Canal, New Jersey; (2) Barnegat Inlet to Longport, New Jersey; (3) Lake George, Hobart, Indiana; (4) Ohio River (various sites); (5) Bird Island, Niagara River and Lake Erie, Buffalo, New York; (6) Passaic and Pequannock Rivers, New Jersey; (7) Small Boat Harbor, Buffalo, New York; (8) Red Lake River, Minnesota; (9) Yazoo River, Mississippi; (10) Greenwood Lake and Belcher Creek, New Jersey; (11) Coosa River, Alabama; (12) Black Warrior River, Alabama; (13) Larkspur Ferry Channel, Larkspur, California; (14) Weeks Bay, Vermilion Bay, and Southwest Pass, Louisiana; (15) Swinomish Channel, La Conner, Washington; (16) Sauk Lake, Minnesota; and (17) Muck Levee, Salt Creek, Illinois. Directs the Secretary to carry out a demonstration project for bank stabilization and development of a recreation area along the east bank of the Passaic River, New Jersey.  Permits the Secretary to acquire all necessary lands and interests to carry out this project.  Declares the Federal share of the cost of such project to be 100 percent.  Authorizes appropriations for such project beginning with FY 1985. Authorizes the Secretary to undertake the following waterway improvement and shore protection projects:  (1) Rillito River, Tucson, Arizona; (2) Pebble Beach Drive, Crescent City, California; (3) Little River, Horatio, Kansas; (4) Swan Creek, Newport, Michigan; (5) Caney Creek, Jackson, Mississippi; and (6) Deal Lake, New Jersey. Directs the Secretary to transfer to New Hanover County, North Carolina, all title and interest to a surplus dredging vessel in Wilmington, North Carolina, known as the Hyde hopper dredge. Authorizes the Secretary to lease specified land in Wilson County, Tennessee, to a nonprofit youth ranch in Tennessee. Authorizes and directs the Secretary to conduct for five years at multiple sites on the Platte River and its tributaries in Nebraska a flood control and erosion prevention demonstration program.  Outlines measures to be taken under such program. Requires the Secretary to evaluate the environmental impacts of such project. Specifies sites on the Platte River at which such program shall be conducted.  Directs the Secretary to establish a Platte River Advisory Group. Authorizes appropriations for this project beginning with FY 1985 and requires an annual report to Congress by the Secretary on work undertaken. Authorizes the Secretary to undertake interim emergency flood control measures along Wheeling Creek in specified areas of Ohio.  Authorizes appropriations for such project. Authorizes the Secretary to undertake the following nevigation and flood control projects: (1) Wilson Harbor, Wilson, New York; (2) Oak Orchard Harbor, Carlton, New York; and (3) Five Mile Creek, Dallas, Texas. Title VI:  Water Resources Studies - Authorizes and directs the Secretary to prepare and submit to Congress feasibility reports on the following water resources projects: (1) Illinois River, Hardin, Illinois; (2) Kinnickinnic River, Wisconsin; (3) Milton, Pennsylvania; and (4) Guam, American Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.  Directs the Secretary to study the possibility of converting former industrial sites, millraces, etc. for use as new hydroelectric projects.  Authorizes appropriations for this section.  Directs the Secretary to study utilizing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to conserve fish and wildlife. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct demonstration projects of alternate habitats for fish and wildlife, including man-made reefs for fish. Authorizes a study of national flood control problems.  Directs the Secretary to determine the extent of shoreline erosion damage due to joint U.S.-Canadian regulation of Lake Superior. Directs the Secretary, within two years of enactment of this Act, to prepare and submit to Congress an estimate of the long-range capital investment needs for water resources programs under the jurisdiction of the Secretary.  Defines the information to be included in such report. Directs the Secretary to expedite completion of the study of New York Harbor and Adjacent Channels, New York and New Jersey.  Directs a study of the extent and adverse environmental effects of dioxin contamination in the Passaic River-Newark Bay navigation system.  Requires a report to Congress within a year of enactment of this Act. Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress a list of water resource studies authorized but not reported to Congress.  Outlines information concerning such studies to be included with the list.  Directs the Secretary to submit certain reports, both for congressional use and for public information.  Authorizes and directs the Secretary to undertake a feasibility study of navigation improvements at Saginaw Bay and River, Michigan. Directs the Secretary to complete studies for shoreline protection and navigation improvement for the following:  (1) Rancho Palos Verdes coastline, California; (2) Sunset Harbor, California; (3) Southwest Pass to Sabine Pass, offshore waters of Louisiana; and (4) Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Borgne, Louisiana. Authorizes the Secretary to undertake a study on the feasibility of opening a channel between Jamaica Bay and Reynolds Channel, Long Island, New York, for the purpose of water quality improvement. Directs the Secretary to study land acquisition policies applicable to water resources projects carried out by the Secretary.  Requires a report by the Secretary concerning such study to the appropriate congressional committees within one year of enactment of this Act. Prohibits the study of any river basin plan which has as its objective the transfer of water from either the Columbia or Arkansas River Basins to any other region or major river basin. Directs the Secretary to immediately investigate erosion problems of the Black Warrior-Tombigbee River and make a report to Congress within six months after the enactment of this Act.  Authorizes the Secretary to conduct a feasibility study for controling storm water runoff on a watershed basis and report to Congress on such study within two years of enactment of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct a feasibility study for reallocating water quality storage space in the Blue Marsh Reservoir, Pennsylvania, and report to Congress within one year of enactment of this Act.  Authorizes various further studies by the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to complete a study of Army Corps of Engineers project evaluation and selection criteria in relation to rural areas and areas with greater percentages of low-income individuals. Authorizes and directs the Secretary to study the eradication and control of hydrilla in the Potomac River and to submit to Congress a report on such study by May 31, 1985. Title VII:  Project Modifications - Modifies the following channel improvement and flood control projects:  (1) Lynnhaven Inlet and Bay, Virginia; (2) Southern Branch of Elizabeth River, Virginia; (3) Ohio River Basin; (4) Mamaroneck Harbor, New York; (5) Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana; (6) Reelfoot Lake Number 9, Kentucky; (7) Yaquina Bay and Harbor, Oregon; (8) South Platte River Basin, Colorado; (9) Sacramento River, California; (10) King Harbor, Redondo Beach, California; (11) Honolulu Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii; (12) Santa Cruz Harbor, Santa Cruz, California; (13) Colorado River, Texas; (14) Niobrara, Nebraska; (15) Alabama-Coosa River, Alabama; (16) Kickapoo River, Wisconsin; (17) East St. Louis and vicinity, Illinois; (18) Winona, Minnesota; (19) Wenatchee, Washington; (20) Mississippi River, Alton, Illinois and Missouri; (21) Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana; (22) Houston Ship Channel, Greens Bayou, Texas; (23) Rio Grande bank protection, Texas; (24) Anacostia River, District of Columbia and Maryland; (25) Richard B. Russell Dam and Lake Project, Abbeville, South Carolina; (26) Yazoo River, Mississippi; (27) Corte Madera Creek, California; (28) Mississippi River, Teche- Vermilion Basins, Louisiana; (29) Granger Dam, San Gabriel River, Texas; (30) Lewisville Lake, Texas; (31) Dardanelle lock and dam, Arkansas; (32) Susquehanna River, Sunbury, Pennsylvania; (33) Hudson River, New York; (34) San Lorenzo River, California; (35) New Melones Dam and Reservoir, California; (36) McMicken Dam and Outlet Channel, Gila River Basin, Arizona; (37) Great Egg Harbor Inlet and Peck Beach, New Jersey; (38) Corson Inlet and Ludlam Beach, New Jersey; (39) Townsend Inlet and Seven Mile Beach, New Jersey; (40) Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint Rivers, Georgia and Florida; (41) Cowlitz and Toutle Rivers, Washington; (42) Milk River, Havre, Montana; (43) Snake River, Oregon, Washington, and Idaho; (44) Curwensville Lake, Pennsylvania; (45) Waterloo, Iowa; (46) Western Tennessee tributaries, Tennessee and Kentucky; (47) Kawkawlin River, Michigan; (48) Buffalo Ship Canal, Buffalo, New York; (49) Newport Bay Harbor, California; (50) Beaver Lake, Arkansas; and (51) Mississippi River, Baton Rouge to Gulf of Mexico. Directs the Secretary to conduct studies of shoaling problems related to the Santa Cruz Harbor, California, and requires reports to Congress.  Authorizes appropriations for such studies.  Directs the Secretary to make a maximum effort to employ minority groups in any construction required in the aforementioned projects. Modifies channel improvement and flood control projects in:  (1) Denison Dam, Red River, Texas and Oklahoma; (2) Jackson Hole, Snake River, Wyoming; (3) Saginaw River, Michigan; (4) Brunswick Harbor, Georgia;  (5) Houston Ship Channel, Texas; (6) Hansen Dam, Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers, California; (7) Newport News Creek, Virginia; (8) Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania; (9) Dunkirk Harbor, New York; (10) Bayport Ship Channel, Texas; (11) Honolulu Harbor, Hawaii; (12) Bayou Lafourche and Lafourche-Jump Waterway, Louisiana; (13) Noyo, California; (14) Sardis Lake, Oklahoma; and (15) Cambridge Creek, Maryland. Title VIII:  Water Supply - Subtitle A:  Loan Program - Water Supply Rehabilitation and Conservation Act of 1983 - Authorizes the Secretary to make loans to departments, agencies, units of State or local government, or any person operating a water supply system for the purpose of improving such system.  Provides that the amount of such loan shall not exceed 80 percent of the cost of the project. Sets limitations on the total amount of loans permitted.  Enumerates conditions upon which no loan will be made.  Requires approval of any loans made by both houses of Congress.  Lists requirements for loan applications, including:  (1) a detailed plan and estimated cost of the project; (2) a showing that the applicant holds all necessary rights to land and water use; (3) applicant ability to finance the non-Federal portion of the project; and (4) a showing of the improvements the plan would make in water supply.  Gives priority in loans to water systems currently polluted and posing a potential danger to human health. Allows the granting of loans only if the operator of a water supply system to whom the loan is granted implements a model water conservation program. Defines a ""model water conservation program.""  Requires that the agreement reached between the Secretary and any loan grantee include:  (1) the amount of the loan and its interest rate; (2) a repayment period; and (3) such provisions deemed necessary to assure prompt repayment.  Allows the Secretary to increase the maximum percentage of the cost of a project in specified circumstances.  Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984-1987, and such sums as may be necessary thereafter. Authorizes the following water supply projects to receive loans:  (1) Buffalo, New York; (2) Berlin, New Hampshire; (3) Rochester, New Hampshire; (4) Saint Thomas, Croix, and John, Virgin Islands; (5) Dupage County, Illinois; (6) New York City, New York; (7) Fort Smith and Van Buren, Arkansas; (8) American Samoa; (9) William H. Harsha Lake, Ohio; (10) Totowa, New Jersey; (11) Jersey City, New Jersey; (12) Rockaway Township, New Jersey; (13) Falmouth, Kentucky; (14) Borough of Ford City, Pennsylvania; (15) Tucson, Arizona; (16) Boston, Massachusetts; (17) Cook County, Illinois; (18) Brockton, Massachusetts; (19) Hesperia, California; (20) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; (21) Huntington, West Virginia; (22) Grand Haven, Michigan; (23) Battle Creek Michigan; (24) Western Tutuila Island, American Samoa; (25) Beccaria-Houtzdale area, Pennsylvania; (26) Blue Creek, Ohio; and (27) Morris County, New Jersey. Subtitle B:  Water Supply Projects - Authorizes and directs the Secretary to survey, plan, and recommend to Congress: (1) projects for the repair, rehabilitation, expansion, and improvement of water supply systems; and (2) projects for the construction of single and multiple-purpose water supply systems needed to meet existing and anticipated future demand.  Allows no appropriation for any survey unless such appropriation has been approved by either house of Congress. Requires the appropriate non-Federal interests to provide the necessary land, easements, and rights-of-way for any such project.  Allows the Secretary to reduce the percentage amount of the project to be paid by non-Federal interests in specified circumstances.  Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical assistance to water supply system operators in identifying problems and initiating repair, rehabilitation, expansion, and improvement to the system. Directs the Secretary to study existing water resources projects to determine the feasibility of using such projects for water supply on an interim or permanent basis. Authorizes the Secretary to design and construct a treatment plant and water conveyance system from Lake Arcadia to Edmond, Oklahoma, with specified conditions. Authorizes and directs the construction of treatment and conveyance facilities for Parker Lake, Oklahoma. Modifies the water supply project at Caesar Creek, Ohio River Basin, Ohio, with specified conditions. Directs the Secretary, in cooperation with the States, to make a detailed estimate of needed repair, rehabilitation, and construction of water supply and distribution facilities and the costs thereof in each and all of the States.  Directs the transmitting of such estimate to Congress within two years of enactment of this Act. Title IX:  Namings - Designates the following reservoirs, harbors, and locks and dams:  (1) Winthrop Rockefeller Reservoir, Arkansas; (2) Emmett Sanders Lock and Dam, Arkansas; (3) Joe Hardin Lock and Dam, Arkansas; (4) James W. Trimble Lock and Dam, Arkansas; (5) Arthur Ormond Lock and Dam, Arkansas; (6) Greilickville Harbor, Michigan; (7) Elvis Stahr Harbor, Kentucky; (8) Wilbur D. Mills Dam, Arkansas; (9) S. W. Taylor Memorial Park, Alabama; (10) Jack D. Maltester Channel, California; (11) Peyton S. Hawes Visitors Center, South Carolina and Georgia; (12) Armistead I. Selden Lock and Dam, Alabama; and (13) H. K. Thatcher Lock and Dam, Arkansas. Title X:  Project Deauthorizations - Deauthorizes the following flood control, hydroelectric power, or navigation projects, by State:  (1) Alabama: (a) Alabama River; (b) Big Wills Creek Lake; (c) Crooked Creek Lake; (d) Hatchet Creek Lake; (e) Little River Lake; (f) Mill Creek Lake; (g) Terrapin Creek Lake; (h) Waxahatchee Creek Lake; (i) Weogufka Creek Lake; (j) Yellowleaf Creek; (k) Big Canoe Creek Lake; (2) Alaska:  (a) Myers Chuck Harbor; (b) Nome Harbor; (c) Skagway River; (3) Arkansas: (a) Crooked Creek Lake Levee; (b) Gillette New Levee, Lower Arkansas River; (d) Murfreesboro Reservoir; (4) California:  (a) Alhambra Creek; (b) Aliso Creek Dam, Santa Ana River Basin; (c) Bear River; (d) Butler Valley Dam, Mad River; (e) Eel River; (f) Sierra Madre Wash, Los Angeles County Drain Area; (g) Los Angeles County Drain Area; (h) Monterey Harbor; (i) Napa River Basin; (j) Napa River; (k) Old River; (l) San Juan Dam, Santa Ana River Basin; (m) Trabuco Dam, Santa Ana River Basin; (n) University Wash and Spring Brook; (o) Calusa to Red Bluff, Sacramento River; (p) San Joaquin River; (5) Colorado:  (a) Boulder; (b) Castlewood Lake; (6) Connecticut: (a) Bridgeport Harbor--Black Rock Harbor; (b) Connecticut River below Hartford; (c) Mystic River; (d) Silver Beach to Cedar Beach; (e) Stonington Harbor; (f) Thames River; (g) New Haven Harbor; (h) Milford Harbor; (7) District of Columbia:  Washington, D.C. and vicinity; (8) Florida:  (a) Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, Miami to Key West; (b) Biscayne Bay; (c) Cedar Keys Harbor; (d) Broward County and Hillsboro Inlet; (e) Intracoastal Waterway, Jacksonville to Miami; (f) Jacksonville Harbor Mooring Basin; (g) Key West Harbor; (h) Miami Harbor, Miami River; (i) Okeechobee Waterway; (j) Oklawaha River; (k) Palm Beach Harbor; (l) Lake Worth Inlet to South Lake Worth Inlet; (m) Apalachicola Bay to St. Marks River; (n) Saint Marks to Tampa Bay; (o) Pensacola Harbor; (p) Saint Augustine Harbor; (q) Tampa Harbor; (9) Georgia:  (a) Canton Lake; (b) Cartecay Lake; (c) Gilmer Lake; (d) Kingston Lake; (e) Lazer Creek Lake; (f) Lower Auchumpkee Creek Lake; (g) Spewrell Bluff Lake; (10) Hawaii:  (a) Ala Wai Harbor, Oahu; (b) Hanapepe Bay Seawall; (c) Kaunakakai Deep Draft Harbor, Molokai; (d) Waimea Beach Seawall, Kauai; (11) Idaho:  (a) Mud Lake Area; (b) South Fork, Clearwater River; (c) Teton River; (d) Blackfoot Reservoir; (e) Boise Valley; (f) Cottonwood Creek Dam; (g) Heise-Roberts Levee Extension; (h) Weiser River; (i) Whitebird Creek; (12) Illinois:  (a) Chicago River, Cook County; (b) Dam 43, Ohio River; (c) Farmers Drainage and Levee District; (d) Freeport; (e) Illinois Waterway Navigation Project; (f) Kenilworth, Shore of Lake Michigan; (g) Levee Unit 1, Wabash River; (h) Levees District 21, Vandalia; (i) Little Calumet River; (j) Metropolis; (k) Mississippi River between Missouri River and Minneapolis; (l) Ohio River Open Channel, Louis District; (m) Ice Pier; (n) Peoria County Levees, Peoria; (o) Shawneetown; (p) Scott County Drainage and Levee District; (q) South Beloit; (r) Waukegan Harbor; (s) William L. Springer Lake; (t) Alton Commercial Harbor; (u) Keach Drainage and Levee District, Green County; (v) Big Swan Drainage and Levee District; (w) Fort Chartres and Ivy Landing Drainage District 5; (13) Indiana:  (a) Anderson, Madison County; (b) Illinois Waterway, Cal-Sag Channel, Part 2; (c) Levees between Shelby Bridge and Baums Bridge; (d) Marion; (e) Vincennes; (14) Iowa: (a) Davids Creek Lake; (b) Fort Madison Harbor; (c) Keokuk Small Boat Harbor; (d) Missouri Levee System; (15) Kansas: (a) El Dorado, West Branch, Walnut River; (b) Garnett Lake, Pottawatomie Creek; (c) Grove Lake; (d) Indian Lake; (e) Kansas River Navigation; (f) Missouri River Levee System; (g) Neodesha Lake, Verdigris River; (h) Tomahawk; (i) Towanda Lake; (j) Tuttle Creek Lake; (k) Wolf-Coffee Lake; (l) Cedar Point Lake; (m) Cow Creek-Hutchinson; (n) Missouri River Levee System; (16) Kentucky:  (a) Caseyville; (b) Cloverport; (c) Concordia; (d) Louisville; (e) Middlesboro, Yellow Creek; (f) Tolu; (17) Louisiana: (a) Black Bayou Reservoir; (b) Overton-Red River Waterway above Mile 31; (c) Bayou La Fourche; (18) Maine:  (a) Bar Harbor; (b) Dickey-Lincoln School project, Saint John River; (c) Kennebec River; (d) Rockland Harbor; (19) Maryland:  Baltimore Harbor and channels; (20) Massachusetts: (a) Edgartown Harbor; (b) Fall River Harbor Channel; (c) Ipswich River; (d) Nantucket Harbor of Refuge, Anchorage; (e) New Bedford and Fairhaven Harbor; (f) Newburyport Harbor; (g) Nookagee Lake, North Nashua River; (h) Pleasant Bay; (i) Salem Harbor; (j) Winthrop Beach; (k) Lynn Harbor; (l) Monoosnoc Brook; (m) Monoosnoc Lake; (n) Cape Cod Canal to Provincetown; (21) Michigan:  (a) Forestville Harbor; (b) Middle Channel, Saint Clair River; (c) Red Run Drain, Lower Clinton River; (d) Grand Marais Harbor; (e) Keweenaw Waterway; (f) Ontonagon Harbor; (g) Sanilac Flats, Saginaw River; (h) Corunna feature, Saginaw River; (i) Owosso feature, Saginaw River; (j) Berrien County; (k) Alpena Harbor; (22) Minnesota:  (a) Warroad River and Bull Dog Creek; (b) Mississippi River between the Missouri River and Minneapolis Harbor; (23) Mississippi:  (a) Biloxi Harbor, Old Fort Bayou; (b) Buffalo River; (c) Pascagoula Harbor, Main Channel; (24) Missouri: (a) Angler Use Sites; (b) Braymer Lake Shoal Creek; (c) Brookfield Lake, Yellow Creek; (d) East Muddy Creek; (e) Mercer Lake; (f) Mississippi River, Agricultural Area 12; (g) Pattonsburg Lake; (h) Pomme de Terre Lake; (i) Sandy Slough Remedial Measures; (j) Trenton Lake; (k) Upper Grand River; (l) Mill Creek Lake; (25) Nebraska:  Little Nemaha River; (26) Nevada:  (a) Gleason Creek Dam; (b) Humboldt River and Tributaries; (27) New Jersey:  Newark Bay, Hackensack and Passaic Rivers; (28) New Mexico:  (a) Rio Grande Floodway, San Acacia to Bosque; (b) Rio Grande Floodway, Espanola Valley Unit; (29) New York:  (a) Allegany; (b) Unit 1, Allegany River; (c) Hudson River, New York City to Albany; (d) Ogdensburg Harbor; (e) Red Creek; (f) Ticonderoga River; (g) Cape Vincent Harbor; (h) East Chester Creek; (i) East Rockaway Inlet to Rockaway Inlet, Part 2; (j) Hammondsport, Glen Brook; (30) North Carolina: (a) Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, Peltier Creek; (b) Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway Tidal Lock in Snows Cut; (c) Carolina Beach and Vicinity, South Area; (d) Fort Macon State Park; (e) Morehead City Harbor; (f) Ocracoke Island; (g) Ocracoke Island--Village Shore; (h) Ocracoke Inlet Jetty; (i) Roanoke River; (31) Ohio:  (a) Ohio River; (b) Burlington; (c) Chesapeake; (d) Empire-Stratton; (e) Martins Ferry; (f) Powhatan Point; (g) Proctorville; (h) South Point; (32) Oregon:  (a) Columbia Drainage District No. 1; (b) Deer Island Drainage District; (c) Shelton Ditch; (d) Umpqua River-Scholfield River; (e) Cascadia Lake; (f) Gate Creek Lake; (g) Grande Ronde Lake; (h) Grande Ronde Valley; (i) Holley Lake; (j) Pendleton Levees, Riverside Area; (k) Willamette River above Portland and Yamill River; (l) Willamette River at Willamette Falls; (33) Pennsylvania:  (a) Brackenridge, Tarentum, and Natrona; (b) Chester River; (c) Leetsdale; (d) Muddy Creek Lake; (e) Neville Island; (f) New Kensington and Parnassus; (g) Rochester; (h) Trexler Dam and Lake; (i) Youghiogheny River Canalization; (j) Aquashicola Lake; (k) Maiden Creek Lake Earth Dam; (34) Puerto Rico:  (a) Fajardo Harbor; (b) Guayanes Harbor; (35) Rhode Island: (a) Great Salt Pond; (b) Harbor of Refuge, Block Island; (c) Pawcatuck River; (d) Providence River and Harbor; (e) Westerly Hurricane Protection; (36) South Carolina:  (a) Charleston Harbor, Ft. Moultrie Anchorage Area; (b) Myrtle Beach, Anchorage Basin; (c) Reedy River, Greenville; (37) Tennessee:  (a) Cumberland River above Nashville; (b) Hiwassee River; (c) Rossview Lake; (d) Alabama-Coosa River Basin, Jacks River Lake; (38) Texas:  (a) Alpine; (b) Brazos Island Harbor; (c) Brazos River, Velasco to Old Washington; (d) Cedar Bayou, Harris; (e) Channel to Port Bolivar; (f) Duck Creek Channel Improvement; (g) Gulf Intracoastal Waterway Channel to Harlingen; (h) Gulf Intracoastal Waterway--Chocolate Bayou; (i) Houston Ship Channels, Greens Bayou; (j) Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, Matagorda Bay; (k) Lake Brownwood; (l) Lake Fork Lake - Lake Fork Creek; (m) Navasota Lake; (n) Pecan Bayou Lake; (o) Peyton Creek; (p) Plainview; (q) Roanoke Lake; (r) Sahine Neches Waterway Channel to Echo; (s) Sabine River, Echo to Morgan Bluff; (t) Trinity River; (39) Utah:  Weber River and Tributaries; (40) Vermont: (a) Bennington; (b) Otter Creek; (c) Rutland Otter Creek; (41) Virginia:  (a) Thimble Shoal Channel; (b) Moore's Ferry Lake; (c) Pamunkey River; (42) Virgin Islands:  (a) Christiansted Harbor-St. Croix; (b) St. Thomas Harbor; (43) Wake Island:  Wake Island Harbor; (44) Washington:  (a) Entiat River; (b) Lower Walla Walla River; (c) Methow River; (d) Okanogan River, Okanogan; (e) Quillayute River; (f) Seattle Harbor; (g) Spokane River, Spokane; (h) Yakima River at Ellensburg; (i) Palouse River; (j) Pullman Palouse River; (k) Stillaquamish River; (45) West Virginia:  (a) Moundsville, Marshall County Levees; (b) Panther Creek Lake; (c) Proctor; (d) Ravenswood; (e) Rowlesburg Lake; (f) Warwood, Wall and Drainage; (g) North Wheeling; (h) Wheeling; (i) Wheeling Island; (j) Birch Lake; (k) Woodlands; (46) Wisconsin:  (a) Hudson Small Boat Harbor; (b) Cassville Small Boat Harbor; and (47) Wyoming:  Buffalo. Deauthorizes the following projects after the date of enactment of this Act: (1) Eastport Harbor, Maine; (2) Onaga Lake Project, Vermillion Creek, Kansas; (3) William L. Springer Lake, Sangamon River, Illinois; and (4) Lakeport Lake, California. Title XI:  General Provisions - Directs the Secretary to prepare a feasibility report for every water resource study authorized. Enumerates information to be included in such report.  Directs the Secretary, before preparing a feasibility report, to perform a reconnaissance survey of the potential water resource project to define problems with the project, together with their possible solutions.  Provides that non-Federal interests shall contribute 25 percent of the cost of any such report or survey. Establishes an Environmental Protection and Mitigation Fund.  Authorizes appropriations for this Fund for fiscal years beginning 1984.  States various purposes for which the Fund may be used. Authorizes the Secretary to study the water resources needs of river basins and regions of the United States.  Requires a report to Congress on the results of such study before October 1, 1987. Authorizes the Secretary to establish and develop campgrounds for individuals 62 years of age or older at any lake or reservoir under the Secretary's jurisdiction.  Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning 1984. Authorizes the development of and appropriations for a 62-or-older campground in Texas. Identifies such parcel of land by metes and bounds. Authorizes and direct the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to undertake measures to prevent flood damage along the route of the Meramec River in Missouri. Authorizes the Secretary to repair dams found to be in a hazardous or unsafe condition.  Authorizes the Secretary to repair the spillway at Schuyler County Public Water Supply District No. 1.  Directs the Secretary to make necessary repairs to the Milton Dam in Mahoning County, Ohio.  Requires the Secretary to annually update the inventory of dams.  Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning in 1984. Directs the Secretary to maintain a water resources project at Buffalo Harbor, New York. Declares Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho, to be nonnavigable. Authorizes the Secretary, upon official request, to provide designs, plans, and/or technical assistance to States or local governments for removing snags and other debris in channels. Authorizes the Secretary to provide assistance in the breakup of river and harbor ice. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984-1986. Authorizes the Secretary to preserve historic sites under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Army if such properties are entered in the National Register of Historic Places.  Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning in 1984. Directs the Secretary to convey a parcel of land to Metropolitan Park in Ohio for a flood control project. Directs the Secretary to maintain the navigation projects on the Delaware River in the Philadelphia and Trenton area. Declares downstream recreation on the Gauley River, West Virginia, to be an additional project.  Provides for incremental whitewater release and water storage at the Summerville Dam in West Virginia to aid in such recreation project. Recognizes the Upper Mississippi River to be a nationally significant ecosystem and commercial navigation system.  Approves a ""master plan"" as a guide for future water policy on the Upper Mississippi.  Grants the consent of Congress to several midwestern States bordering the Mississippi for cooperative efforts and mutual planning in the development of such river.  Designates the Upper Mississippi River Basin Association as the caretaker of the ""master plan."" Authorizes the Secretary, in consultation with the aforementioned midwestern States, to undertake:  (1) a program for planning, construction, and evaluation of fish and wildlife enhancement measures; (2) implementation of a long-term resource monitoring program; and (3) implementation of a computerized inventory and analysis system. Provides for termination of such programs ten years from the date of enactment of this Act, with specified evaluations and reports.  Authorizes appropriations for ten fiscal years after the date of enactment of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to implement a program of recreational projects for the Upper Mississippi River System.  Authorizes appropriations for this purpose for ten fiscal years after the date of enactment of this Act, along with specified evaluations and reports. Directs the Secretary to dispose of dredged materials from the System and to request funding for a program to facilitate productive uses of dredged materials. Declares the intent of Congress to recognize the importance of the Great Lakes region.  Establishes the Great Lakes Commodities Marketing Board (the Board) to develop a strategy to improve the capacity of the Great Lakes region to produce, market, and transport commodities in a timely manner and to maximize the efficiency and benefits of market products produced in and/or shipped through the Great Lakes region.  Requires the strategy to address environmental issues relating to transportation on the Great Lakes and marketing difficulties experienced due to late harvest seasons in the Great Lakes region. Requires such strategy to develop and analyze various information concerning marketaing and shipping in the Great Lakes region.  Outlines the composition and organizational rules for the Board. Requires the Board, no later than September 30, 1987, to submit a report to the President and both Houses of Congress on strategy developed under this section. Terminates the Board 180 days after such report is submitted.  Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985-1987. Directs the President to invite the Government of Canada to join in the formation of an international advisory group whose duty it shall be to:  (1) develop a bilateral program for improving navigation on the Great Lakes; and (2) conduct investigations and make recommendations for a systemwide navigation improvement program on the Great Lakes.  Outlines the composition and organizational rules for such advisory group.  Requires such group, one year after its formation and biennially thereafter, to report to Congress and the Canadian Parliament on its progress. Directs the Secretary and the Administrator of the Environmemntal Protection Agency to carry out a review of the environmental, economic, and social impacts of navigation in the U.S. portion of the Great Lakes. Requires the Secretary and the Administrator to submit an interim report to Congress by September 30, 1986, and a final report by September 30, 1988. Requires acquisition by the Secretary of all lands and interest before authorized construction begins on any water resources project in this Act. Establishes an Office of Environmental Policy within the Office of the Chief of Engineers to be responsible for all environmental policy matters as they relate to the water resources programs. Limits appropriations for the repair and modification of the Illinois and Mississippi Canal.  Provides that certain prohibitions and provisions for review of activities in waters of the U.S. shall not apply to any water development projects at the Great Miami River Basin or the Great Miami River and its tributaries in Ohio. Provides a maximum time limitation for construction of any project in this Act of five years after the date of enactment of this Act. Provides that all leases for projects in this Act shall continue in effect on and after December 31, 1989, until such lease is terminated by the leaseholder. Requires fair market values for such leases after such date.  Enumerates conditions required before the Secretary may terminate a lease on or after December 31, 1989. Limits modifications to projects to those which: (1) do not materially alter the scope or function of the project; and (2) reflect changes in construction costs and are the result of additional plans and studies. Authorizes review by the Secretary of previous (before this Act) water projects. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a demonstration project within two years from enactment of this Act for the purpose of making modifications in the structures and operations of water projects constructed before the enactment of this Act. Requires a report to Congress concerning such project. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to reimburse the State of New York for 50 percent of the costs of maintaining and operating the New York State Barge Canal, and 50 percent of the cost of reconstructing and rehabilitating the Canal. Requires the Secretary to study the need for reconstructing and rehabilitating the New York State Barge Canal for commercial, recreational, historic, and environmental purposes. Requires the Secretary and New York State to each provide 50 percent of the annual cost of maintaining such canal.  Requires a report on the Canal to both houses of Congress within two years of enactment of this Act. Provides that no appropriation shall be made for such Canal project unless both houses of Congress approve of such by resolution.  Defines areas included within the New York State Barge Canal. Authorizes the Secretary to develop and implement a flood warning system for the Whitewater River, California. Requires the Secretary to provide for employment of residents in high-unemployment areas where water projects are being constructed. Requires a report to Congress by the Secretary within 90 days after requests for project appropriations.  Requires such report to contain current information on the potential benefits of such project to unemployed residents of the area. Requires the Secretary to amend a Federal contract with the State of Illinois concerning the use of water supply storage space on the Big Muddy River in Illinois. Directs the Secretary to make a loan to the city of Hawaiian Gardens, California, to pay the cost of acquisition and rehabilitation of a water supply system. Abolishes the California Debris Commission, transferring its duties to the Secretary. Authorizes the Chief of Engineers to perform emergency work upon public or private land for ten days following a Governor's request for such emergency or disaster relief. Makes technical amendments to various flood control acts relating to amounts of appropriations. Requires the Secretary to expedite completion of a study for a new lock parallel to Poe Lock on the Saint Lawrence Seaway and submit a report to Congress. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress every January 15th on activities undertaken in the development of water resources projects.  Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 and 1985. Directs the Secretary to reevaluate the feasibility of the Elk Creek Lake feature of the project for the Rogue River, Oregon and California. Directs the Secretary to implement a study of the possibility of increased use of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the planning and construction of water resources projects. Requires the Secretary to transmit to both Houses of Congress a report which specifies the amount of electricity generated, the revenues received, and the operational costs of each water resource facility. Authorizes the President to appoint a regular officer from the Armed Forces as the Federal Commissioner of the Red River Compact Commission. Amends the River and Harbor Act to provide for reconstruction of water works as necessary to provide adequate facilities for navigation.  Requires congressional approval of such reconstruction before any appropriations are made. Authorizes the Secretary to construct and improve facilities at the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, Port of Buffalo. Authorizes the Secretary to construct and maintain a navigation channel from the mouth of the Beaver River at Bridgewater, Pennsylvania, to New Brighton, Pennsylvania. Authorizes the Secretary to plan, design, and construct a demonstration project for groundwater recharge in the drainage basin of Tucson, Arizona. Authorizes the Secretary to modify the water delivery schedule from the central and southern Florida project to the Everglades National Park and to conduct experimental delivery programs there.  Authorizes modifications in the flood control plan for central and southern Florida in order to restore the natural flow of water to the Everglades National Park. Authorizes the Secretary to bring suit in order to acquire lands necessary for construction, operation, and maintenance of any water resources project and to enforce permits issued by the Secretary. Authorizes and directs the Secretary to undertake emergency bank stabilization measures to protect bridges on Elm Creek near Decatur, Nebraska. Authorizes the Secretary to improve public access to and lessen the safety hazard of Pearson-Skubitz Big Hill Lake, Kansas. Amends the Flood Control Act of 1970 to prohibit funds from being appropriated or expended to construct chloride control projects within the Arkansas River Basin. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct a feasibility restudy of the Arkansas River chloride control project and report the findings to Congress.  Makes technical amendments. Requires a value engineering review during design for each water resource project whose cost is in excess of $10,000,000.  Defines ""value engineering review."" Requires appropriate non-Federal interests to provide the necessary lands, easements, and rights-of-way for any water resources demonstration project authorized by this or any future Act. Requires the Secretary, beginning October 1, 1983, to carry out measurements and make necessary computations relating to the diversion of water from Lake Michigan and to coordinate the results with downstate interests.  Defines the measurements to be taken. Authorizes appropriations beginning with FY 1984. Provides that the total amount for construction of water resources projects shall not exceed $1,500,000,000 for each of FY 1984 and 1985, and $1,600,000,000 for each of FY 1986 through 1988. Authorizes and directs the Secretary to remove the Berkeley Pier, San Francisco Bay, California.  Authorizes the Secretary to implement a cropland irrigation research program for the Saint John River Basin, Maine. Authorizes appropriations for such program for FY 1985-1987. Authorizes the Secretary to undertake certain construction and repair on the Tutuila Islands, American Samoa. Amends the Flood Control Act of 1968 to increase the per-project Federal reimbursement to States or political subdivisions for water resources development projects. Directs the Secretary, the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the Administrator of the Soil Conservation Service to ensure that information relating to flood hazard areas is generally available to the public. Authorizes the Secretary to accept funds from any entity for the purpose of enhancing fish and wildlife in connection with projects constructed or operated by the Secreatary. Authorizes the Secretary to take certain specified actions when the Secretary finds that any non-Federal interest is not complying with required cooperation in carrying out any water resources project. Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to conduct a study concerning Great Lakes water use.  Specifies certain analyses and reviews to be included in such study.  Authorizes appropriations, beginning with FY 1985, for such study. (States findings and defines terms.) Prohibits water from being diverted from any portion of the Great Lakes within the United States unless such diversion is approved by all eight Great Lakes States and the International Joint Commission (made up of the United States, Great Britain, and Canada). Authorizes the Secretary to remove and dispose of toxic pollutants from areas of the Buffalo River, New York, if such removal is approved by appropriate congressional committees.  Requires the Secretary to conduct a study concerning toxic pollutants in such river and report his findings to the appropriate congressional committees within one year of enactment of this Act.  Authorizes appropriations for such study, beginning with FY 1985. Declares Bayou Lafourche, Louisiana, to be a nonnavigable waterway. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire from willing sellers land which is subject to frequent flood damage, located within the Passaic River Basin flood control study area. Directs the Secretary to report quarterly to appropriate congressional committees concerning civil works construction contracts and their availability to small businesses. Authorizes the Secretary to dispose of any dredging vessels under control of the Corps of Engineers. Authorizes and directs the Secretary to construct a second lock adjacent to the existing lock at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Authorizes the collection of tolls or user fees from vessels using the William G. Stone Lock in Yolo County, California. Title XII:  Water Resources Policy Act - Subtitle A:  Short Title - Water Resources Policy Act of 1983. Subtitle B:  National Board - Establishes a National Board on Water Resources Policy (the Board) to:  (1) perform studies and prepare assessments of the adequacy of water supplies in each water resource region in the United States; and (2) study and assess the adequacy of administrative and statutory means for the coordination of water and related land resources policies and programs of the several Federal agencies and make recommendations to the President and Congress with respect to such programs. Directs the Board to assist in interagency coordination of Federal water resources research, including review, research, and recommendations to Federal agencies.  Requires the Board to report annually to Congress. Requires the Board to establish principles, standards, and procedures for Federal participants in the preparation of regional or river basin plans and for the formulation and evaluation of Federal water and related land resources projects.  Directs that such principles, standards, and procedures shall be designed so as to:  (1) reduce the demand for water; (2) improve efficiency in use and reduce losses and waste of water; or (3) improve land management practices to conserve water.  Prohibits any river basin plan which has as its objective the transfer of water from the Columbia River Basin to any other region or any other major river basin of the country. Authorizes the Board, in carrying out its functions, to:  (1) hold hearings, take testimony, and distribute reports; (2) acquire and equip necessary office space; (3) use the U.S. mails in the same manner as other departments and agencies of the United States; (4) employ personnel; (5) procure services; (6) purchase and maintain motor vehicles; and (7) incur such necessary expenses and exercise such powers as are consistent with their function. Authorizes any member of the Board to administer oaths.  Makes all appropriate records and papers of the Board available for public inspection. Authorizes the head of any Federal department or agency to:  (1) furnish necessary information; and (2) detail necessary temporary personnel to the Board as it requires. Establishes a regional-State water resources advisory committee (the committee).  States membership qualifications for the committee. Authorizes the committee to submit to the Board recommendations on any matter before the Board, such recommendations to be included in the Board's report to the President and Congress. Requires certain reports to be filed by the Board with the House of Representatives and the Senate. Directs that any rules promulgated by the Board shall not take effect before 90 days of continual session of Congress after the date such reports are filed. Defines terms. Requires the Board, no later than 15 days after the President's budget is submitted to Congress, to transmit to both Houses of Congress reports on water resources studies or projects:  (1) which are not included in the President's budget submittal; (2) for which feasibility studies or construction have been previously authorized; and (3) the construction of which has not been completed.  Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C:  Assistance for State Water Planning and Management - Authorizes the Board to make grants to States for the development, implementation, and modification of comprehensive programs and plans for State and regional water and related land resources.  Specifies application criteria for such grants.  Requires such Federal grants to be matched at least dollar-for- dollar by non-Federal funds. Authorizes appropriations.  Defines ""State"" for purposes of this subtitle. Subtitle D:  General Provisions - Repeals the Water Resources Planning Act. Title XIII:  Port Infrastructure Development and Improvement Trust Fund - Establishes in the Treasury of the United States a trust fund to be known as the Port Infrastructure Development and Improvement Trust Fund (the Trust Fund).  Authorizes appropriations to the Trust Fund for each fiscal year beginning after September 30, 1983.  Provides that amounts in the Trust Fund shall be available for: (1) feasibility studies, construction, operation, and maintenance of projects for ports by the Secretary; (2) feasibility studies, construction, operation, and maintenance of projects for ports for the Saint Lawrence Seaway by the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation; (3) relocation of utilities and structures necessary for the construction and operation of such projects; and (4) making payments to non- Federal interests who take part in the planning, design, or construction of a port. Provides for the monthly transfer of funds from the general fund of the Treasury to the Trust Fund.  Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to maintain the Trust Fund and to report annually to Congress concerning its financial condition.  Requires the Secretary to invest in interest-bearing obligations of the United States that portion of the Trust Fund not required to meet current withdrawals.  Defines ""construction"" and ""port"" for purposes of this section. Title XIV:  Bridges Over Navigable Waters - Authorizes the Secretary to reimburse the owner of the Port of Houston Authority bridge over Greens Bayou, Texas, for work done prior to the enactment of this section.  Limits the amount of such reimbursement to $450,000. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to transmit to Congress a list of those bridges over navigable waters of the United States constructed, reconstructed, or removed between January 1, 1948, and January 1, 1984. Authorizes the Secretary to reimburse the owner of the pipeline bridge immediately adjacent to the Port of Houston Authority bridge over Greens Bayou, Texas, for work done prior to the enactment of this section. Limits the amount of such reimbursement to $250,000. Amends Federal law to grant the State of Massachusetts exclusive authority to regulate the opening of the James A. Burke Bridge. Title XV:  Reports - Requires that any report pertaining in whole or in part to fish and wildlife mitigation, benthic environmental repercussions, or ecosystem mitigation shall be transmitted to the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries.",2024-02-07T16:02:17Z,
98-s-1669,98,s,1669,"A bill to authorize the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to undertake a program of research demonstration in the St. John River Basin, Maine.",Water Resources Development,1983-07-22,1983-07-22,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Mitchell, George J. [D-ME]",ME,D,M000811,1,"Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to implement a research program demonstrating irrigation and conservation techniques for the Saint John River Basin, Maine. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1986.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,
98-s-1656,98,s,1656,Ogallala Aquifer Research and Development Act of 1983,Water Resources Development,1983-07-21,1983-07-21,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM]",NM,R,D000407,0,"Ogallala Aquifer Research and Development Act of 1983 - Amends the Water Research and Development Act of 1978 to direct the Secretary of the Interior to establish within each State of the High Plains Region an Ogallala Aquifer technical advisory committee (the State Committee). Directs such State Committee to:  (1) review existing State laws concerning water management and recommend appropriate changes; (2) establish State priorities for water resources research and demonstration projects; and (3) provide information and technical assistance concerning the need for water conservation and management. Directs the Secretary to allocate annually funds to States of the High Plains Region for research in water-use efficiency, cultural methods, irrigation technologies, water-efficient crops, and water and soil conservation.  Directs that such funds shall be distributed to State institutions of higher learning on the basis of merit. Directs the Secretary to divide funds among the States of the High Plains Region for research into:  (1) precipitation management; (2) weather modification; (3) aquifer recharge opportunities; (4) saline water uses; (5) desalinization technologies; (6) salt-tolerant crops; and (7) local water-transfer opportunities. Directs the Secretary to allocate annually funds to High Plains Region States for grants to farmers for demonstration projects in:  (1) water-efficient irrigation technologies and practices; (2) soil and water conservation management systems; and (3) the growth and marketing of more water-efficient crops.  Provides that such grants to farmers shall be made on the basis of merit. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to study the feasibility of water transfers into the High Plains Region, and report annually to Congress. Authorizes the Secretary to monitor the levels of the Ogallala Aquifer, and to report annually to Congress. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1989.",2025-08-29T17:40:56Z,
98-hr-3444,98,hr,3444,A bill to revise the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to deliver water to the North Platte Irrigation Project.,Water Resources Development,1983-06-29,1983-09-15,Executive Comment Requested from Interior.,House,"Rep. Cheney, Dick [R-WY-At Large]",WY,R,C000344,1,"Directs the Secretary of the Interior, notwithstanding provisions relating to the use of public lands or State laws, to deliver water free of charge to the North Platte irrigation districts.",2024-02-07T13:32:55Z,
98-s-1590,98,s,1590,Reclamation Hydroelectric Act of 1983,Water Resources Development,1983-06-29,1983-11-15,Committee on Energy and Natural Resources received executive comment from Energy Department. Unfavorable.,Senate,"Sen. Wallop, Malcolm [R-WY]",WY,R,W000092,1,"Directs the Secretary of the Interior, notwithstanding provisions relating to the use of public lands or State laws, to deliver water free of charge to the North Platte irrigation districts.",2025-08-29T17:41:34Z,
98-hr-3422,98,hr,3422,"A bill relating to the naming of certain locks, dams, and reservoirs on the Arkansas River, Arkansas.",Water Resources Development,1983-06-28,1983-07-27,Similar Provisions Included in H.R.3678.,House,"Rep. Bethune, Ed [R-AR-2]",AR,R,B000422,0,"Designates dam numbered 2 on the Arkansas River, Arkansas, as the Wilber D. Mills Dam. Designates lock and dam numbered 3 on the Arkansas River, Arkansas, as the Joe Hardin Lock and Dam. Designates lock and dam numbered 13 on the Arkansas River, Arkansas, as the James W. Trimble Lock and Dam. Designates lock and dam numbered 9 on the Arkansas River, Arkansas, as the Arthur Ormond Lock and Dam. Designates the reservoir created by dam numbered 9 on the Arkansas River, Arkansas, as the Winthrop Rockefeller Reservoir. Designates lock and dam numbered 4 on the Arkansas River, Arkansas, as the Emmett Sanders Lock and Dam.",2024-02-07T16:02:17Z,
98-s-1523,98,s,1523,"A bill to direct the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to construct a project for modification of Portsmouth Harbor and the Piscataqua River Basin in Maine and New Hampshire.  ",Water Resources Development,1983-06-23,1983-11-08,Committee on Environment and Public Works. Provisions of measure incorporated into measure S. 1739 ordered to be reported.,Senate,"Sen. Humphrey, Gordon J. [R-NH]",NH,R,H000951,1,"Requires the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to construct the project for modification of Portsmouth Harbor and the Piscataqua River Basin in Maine and New Hampshire.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,
98-hr-3293,98,hr,3293,"A bill to amend the authorization of the demonstration project at Broadway Lake, South Carolina.",Water Resources Development,1983-06-14,1983-07-19,"Executive Comment Requested from Army, OMB.",House,"Rep. Derrick, Butler C. [D-SC-3]",SC,D,D000267,0,"Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1974 to increase the authorization for the silt and aquatic growth removal demonstration project at Broadway Lake, South Carolina.",2024-02-07T16:02:17Z,
98-s-1450,98,s,1450,"A bill to authorize water supply for the Brazos River Basin, Texas.",Water Resources Development,1983-06-13,1983-11-08,Committee on Environment and Public Works. Provisions of measure incorporated into measure S. 1739 ordered to be reported.,Senate,"Sen. Bentsen, Lloyd M. [D-TX]",TX,D,B000401,0,"Amends the Flood Control Act of 1946 to revise provisions relating to projects in the Brazos River Basin, Texas, to provide that a specified portion of the conservation storage capacity of the Belton Reservoir on the Leon River shall be available for water supply (as well as irrigation) purposes in the Leon, Lampasas, and Little River Valleys.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,
98-s-1452,98,s,1452,A bill to amend Section 221 of the Flood Control Act of 1970.,Water Resources Development,1983-06-13,1983-11-08,Committee on Environment and Public Works. Provisions of measure incorporated into measure S. 1739 ordered to be reported.,Senate,"Sen. Bentsen, Lloyd M. [D-TX]",TX,D,B000401,0,Amends the Flood Control Act of 1970 to permit specified cooperation agreements relating to water resources project construction to reflect that such agreements do not obligate future legislative appropriations or other funds for performance of the terms of the agreement and payment of damages in the event of failure to perform:  (1) where the non-Federal interest is in the State itself; and (2) when obligating future appropriations or other funds would be inconsistent with State constitutional limitations.,2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,
98-s-1456,98,s,1456,"A bill to provide for municipal use of storage water in Benbrook Dam, Texas.",Water Resources Development,1983-06-13,1983-06-13,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Bentsen, Lloyd M. [D-TX]",TX,D,B000401,0,Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to contract with specified local governments for the use of water supply storage in the Benbrook Reservoir in Texas.,2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,
98-s-1460,98,s,1460,A bill to authorize limited local action on water resources under the jurisdiction of the Corps of Engineers.,Water Resources Development,1983-06-13,1983-11-08,Committee on Environment and Public Works. Provisions of measure incorporated into measure S. 1739 ordered to be reported.,Senate,"Sen. Bentsen, Lloyd M. [D-TX]",TX,D,B000401,0,"Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1976 to authorize and direct the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to enable the engineering officer in charge of each district to certify that flood control improvements are compatible with local improvement projects then under study.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,
98-s-1428,98,s,1428,A bill to authorize amendments to certain repayment and water service contracts for the Frenchman unit of the Pick-Sloan Missouri River Basin program.,Water Resources Development,1983-06-08,1984-09-12,Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered favorably reported H.R. 3130 in lieu of this measure.,Senate,"Sen. Exon, J. James [D-NE]",NE,D,E000284,1,Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to make amendments to certain repayment and water service contracts for the Frenchman unit of the Pick-Sloan Missouri River Basin program.,2025-04-23T11:41:33Z,
98-hr-3162,98,hr,3162,"A bill to name a dam on the Arkansas River, Arkansas, as the ""Wilbur D. Mills Dam"".",Water Resources Development,1983-05-26,1984-10-11,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,House,"Rep. Hammerschmidt, John P. [R-AR-3]",AR,R,H000124,0,"Designates dam numbered 2 on the Arkansas River, Arkansas, as the Wilbur D. Mills Dam.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,
98-hr-3163,98,hr,3163,"A bill to name a lock and dam on the Arkansas River, Arkansas, as the ""Joe Hardin Lock and Dam"".",Water Resources Development,1983-05-26,1984-10-11,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,House,"Rep. Hammerschmidt, John P. [R-AR-3]",AR,R,H000124,0,"Designates lock and dam numbered 3 on the Arkansas River, Arkansas, as the Joe Hardin Lock and Dam.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,
98-hr-3164,98,hr,3164,"A bill to name a lock and dam on the Arkansas River, Arkansas, as the ""James W. Trimble Lock and Dam"".",Water Resources Development,1983-05-26,1984-10-11,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,House,"Rep. Hammerschmidt, John P. [R-AR-3]",AR,R,H000124,0,"Designates lock and dam numbered 13 on the Arkansas River, Arkansas, as the James W. Trimble Lock and Dam.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,
98-hr-3165,98,hr,3165,"A bill to name a lock and dam on the Arkansas River, Arkansas, as the ""Arthur Ormond Lock and Dam"".",Water Resources Development,1983-05-26,1984-10-11,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,House,"Rep. Hammerschmidt, John P. [R-AR-3]",AR,R,H000124,0,"Designates lock and dam numbered 9 on the Arkansas River, Arkansas, as the Arthur Ormond Lock and Dam.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,
98-hr-3166,98,hr,3166,"A bill to name a reservoir created by a dam on the Arkansas River, Arkansas, as the ""Winthrop Rockefeller Reservoir"".",Water Resources Development,1983-05-26,1984-10-11,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,House,"Rep. Hammerschmidt, John P. [R-AR-3]",AR,R,H000124,0,"Designates the reservoir created by dam numbered 9 on the Arkansas River, Arkansas, as the Winthrop Rockefeller Reservoir.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,
98-hr-3167,98,hr,3167,"A bill to name a lock and dam on the Arkansas River, Arkansas, as the ""Emmett Sanders Lock and Dam"".",Water Resources Development,1983-05-26,1984-10-11,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,House,"Rep. Hammerschmidt, John P. [R-AR-3]",AR,R,H000124,0,"Designates lock and dam numbered 4 on the Arkansas River, Arkansas, as the Emmett Sanders Lock and Dam.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,
98-hr-3143,98,hr,3143,"A bill to direct the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to provide technical assistance for streambank failure and erosion control.",Water Resources Development,1983-05-25,1983-07-27,See H.R.3678.,House,"Rep. Miller, Clarence E. [R-OH-10]",OH,R,M000718,0,"Directs the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to provide technical assistance for streambank failure retardation and erosion control. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act through FY 1988.",2024-02-07T16:02:17Z,
98-hr-3130,98,hr,3130,A bill to authorize amendments to certain repayment and water service contracts for the Frenchman unit of the Pick-Sloan Missouri River Basin program.,Water Resources Development,1983-05-24,1984-10-11,Became Public Law No: 98-470.,House,"Rep. Smith, Virginia [R-NE-3]",NE,R,S000622,0,"(Measure passed House, amended) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to make amendments to certain repayment and water service contracts for the Frenchman unit of the Pick-Sloan Missouri River Basin program, Nebraska.",2025-04-23T11:41:33Z,
98-hr-3085,98,hr,3085,Water Supply Rehabilitation and Conservation Act of 1983,Water Resources Development,1983-05-23,1983-07-27,Similar Provisions Included in H.R.3678.,House,"Rep. Hammerschmidt, John P. [R-AR-3]",AR,R,H000124,0,"Water Supply Rehabilitation and Conservation Act of 1983 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, through the Chief of Engineers, to make loans for the rehabilitation, expansion, or improvement of certain water supply systems to: (1) any department, agency, or instrumentality of a State or local government which operates a water supply system for at least 10,000 persons; or (2) any person who operates a water supply system under certain conditions. Prohibits such loans from exceeding 80 percent of the cost of such water supply project. Limits the amount the Secretary may lend under this Act, in any fiscal year:  (1) to any water system supply operator; and (2) for water supply projects in any State. Prohibits any loans under this Act:  (1) which do not have a purpose related to water supply or water conservation; (2) for water acquisition by one water supplier of another water supplier who services more than 1,000 persons; or (3) for any project solely intended to increase the number of persons served by a water supply system. Sets forth procedures for applying for such loans (including the payment of one percent of the amount of such loan requested). Authorizes the Secretary to make loans under this Act only to technologically and financially feasible systems which constitute a reasonable risk under this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to make loans under this Act to an operator of a water supply system only if the Secretary determines that such operator will implement a model water conservation program or its equivalent.  Defines ""model water conservation program."" Requires the Secretary to enter into an agreement with each person to whom a loan is made under this Act.  Sets forth some of the terms of such agreement. Directs that amounts submitted with loan applications and loan repayments be deposited in the Treasury. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1987.",2025-08-29T17:41:37Z,
98-s-1289,98,s,1289,An original bill to establish an obligation ceiling for the civil work construction program of the United States Army Corps of Engineers.,Water Resources Development,1983-05-16,1984-08-01,Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent.,Senate,"Sen. Abdnor, James [R-SD]",SD,R,A000009,0,"Prohibits the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, from obligating more than $1,500,000,000 during FY 1984 for the combined purpose of the ""Construction General"" and the ""Flood Control, Mississippi River and Tributaries"" account.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,
98-hr-2995,98,hr,2995,"A bill to modify the authority for the Richard B. Russell Dam and Lake project, and for other purposes.",Water Resources Development,1983-05-12,1984-03-13,See S.912.,House,"Rep. Derrick, Butler C. [D-SC-3]",SC,D,D000267,0,"Modifies the Richard B. Russell Dam and Lake project in South Carolina and Georgia to authorize the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to provide such power to the city of Abbeville, South Carolina, as may be necessary to mitigate the reduction in hydroelectric power produced at the city-owned hydroelectric power plant caused by the construction and operation of such project.",2024-02-07T16:02:17Z,
98-hr-2982,98,hr,2982,"A bill to exempt irrigation conveyance systems from fees and conditions under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, and for other purposes.",Water Resources Development,1983-05-11,1984-06-28,Subcommittee on Public Lands and Reserved Water. Hearings held. Hearings printed:  S.Hrg. 98-1180.,House,"Rep. Kogovsek, Ray [D-CO-3]",CO,D,K000304,0,"(Measure passed House, amended) Amends the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to grant rights-of-way for irrigation systems constructed prior to October 21, 1976 and still in use on October 21, 1983 for agricultural purposes, and which traverse public lands or lands within the national forest system.  Provides that any previous grants given should be considered in full force unless the holder of such grant elects to be covered under these provisions.  Exempts grants made under this subsection from any right-of-way fees or payments to the United States. Provides that such grant shall continue in effect as long as the system is used for agricultural, livestock, or private domestic purposes, and that the holder of such grant complies with the following requirements:  (1) timely and proper recording of such grant; (2) free access to the Federal government and the public to such right-of-way for purposes not inconsistent with the exercise of such grant; (3) safe construction of facilities, with due regard to any wildlife involved; (4) providing indemnification to the United States Government against liability arising from use of the granted right-of-way. Authorizes the appropriate Secretary to terminate, suspend, or abate the use of any granted right-of-way only upon abandonment or noncompliance with the use for which the grant was made.  Declares that structures or improvements not removed within a reasonable time after termination or abandonment shall become property of the United States.  Provides that mineral and vegetation material within such a granted right-of-way remains the property of the United States, but may be used on the right-of-way in case of emergency.",2025-04-23T11:41:33Z,
98-hr-2951,98,hr,2951,A bill to restrict the authority of the Chief of Engineers to terminate certain leases on the Upper Mississippi River.,Water Resources Development,1983-05-09,1983-07-27,Similar Provisions Included in H.R.3678.,House,"Rep. Tauke, Thomas Joseph [R-IA-2]",IA,R,T000053,8,"Requires the Secretary of the Army to continue in effect any cottage site lease of property located along the Mississippi River between Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the mouth of the Missouri River. Prohibits the Secretary from terminating such a lease unless: (1) the property covered by the lease is needed for immediate use for public park purposes or other higher public use or for a navigation or flood control project; or (2) the lessee violates a provision of such lease.",2024-02-07T16:02:17Z,
98-hr-2884,98,hr,2884,"A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers and in cooperation with the government of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands and the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, to study and draft plans for the development, utilization, and conservation of water and related land resources of such territory and Commonwealth, and for other purposes.",Water Resources Development,1983-05-04,1983-07-27,See H.R.3678.,House,"Rep. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI-2]",HI,D,A000069,0,"Directs the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers and in cooperation with the Governments of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, to study and draft plans for development, utilization, and conservation of water and land resources in such areas. Authorizes appropriations.",2024-02-07T16:02:17Z,
98-hr-2911,98,hr,2911,Water Resources Research Act of 1983,Water Resources Development,1983-05-04,1983-10-31,Other Measure S.684 (Amended) Passed House in Lieu.,House,"Rep. McNulty, James F., Jr. [D-AZ-5]",AZ,D,M000589,77,"(Measure passed House, amended) Water Resources Research Act of 1983 - Title I: Authorizes the establishment, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, of one water resources research and technology institute in each State at certain colleges or universities. States that each such institute shall:  (1) have responsibility for planning, conducting, and/or arranging for competent research in relation to water resources; and (2) cooperate with other colleges and universities in the State to develop a statewide program designed to resolve State and regional water and related land problems. Requires the Secretary to make grants to each institute to be matched at specified rates by non-Federal dollars. Requires each institute, prior to the receipt of funds each fiscal year, to submit to the Secretary a water research program. Requires the Secretary to establish procedures for a detailed evaluation of each institute to determine whether such institute warrants continued Federal support.  Provides for such evaluations within two years of establishment and for reevaluations at intervals not to exceed four years. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1989. Permits the Secretary to make additional grants (on a dollar-for-dollar-matching basis) to other qualified institutions and agencies of local or State government for research concerning any aspect of a water-related problem which the Secretary may deem to be in the national interest.  States the application requirements for such grants.  Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1989. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to certain organizations for technology development concerning any aspect of water-related technology which the Secretary may deem to be of State, regional, or national importance.  Authorizes the Secretary to establish any condition for the matching of funds for such grants in the best interest of the Nation considering the technology needs for water resources.  States the requirements for applications for grants under this section.  Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1989. Repeals the Water Research and Development Act of 1978.  Requires that rules and regulations established under such Act shall remain in effect until superseded by new rules and regulations promulgated under this Act. Title II:  Directs the Secretary to convey to the city of Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, by January 24, 1984, and without consideration, all right, title, and interest of the United States in real property located in Wrightsville Beach known as the Wrightsville Beach Test Facility.  States that such transfer is conditioned upon the facility being operated and maintained for desalinization or other related research purposes for the next four years.  Describes such property. Directs the Secretary to convey to the city of Rosewell, New Mexico, by December 31, 1983, and without consideration, all right, title, and interest of the United States in real property located in Rosewell, New Mexico, and known as the Rosewell Test facility.  States that such transfer is conditioned upon the facility being operated and maintained for desalinization or other related research purposes for the next four years.  Describes such property. Provides that each conveyance of land shall revert to the United States if used for a non-public purpose during a period of 15 years from the date of conveyance.",2024-02-07T13:32:55Z,