S.Amdt. 4794

SA 4794. Mr. VITTER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 4789 proposed by Mr. Reid to the bill H.R. 2642, making appropriations for military construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. ___. USE OF FUNDS FOR CONSTRUCTION.

(a) In General.--Not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall use for construction, at the alignment and elevation described in the programmatic environmental impact statement, of the project identified in the report of the Chief of Engineers for Morganza to the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, authorized by section 1001(24) of the Water Resources Development Act of 2007 (121 Stat. 1053) (including any modifications to that project agreed to by the Secretary and the non-Federal interest)-- (1) of the unexpended funds made available under the heading “flood control, mississippi river and tributaries, arkansas, illinois, kentucky, louisiana, mississippi, missouri, and tennessee”, under the heading “Corps of engineers-civil”, under the heading “Department of the Army” of chapter 3 of title I of division B of Public Law 109-148 (119 Stat. 2762; 120 Stat. 455), $20,000,000; and (2) of the funds made available for non-Federal levees and associated protection measures in Terrebonne Parish under the heading “flood control and coastal emergencies”, under the heading “Corps of engineers-civil”, under the heading “Department of the Army” of chapter 3 of title II of Public Law 109-234 (120 Stat. 455), $2,000,000.

(b) Treatment of Certain Data.--The Secretary shall consider to be current any data, including previously developed environmental and economic data contained in the report and environmental impact statement described in subsection (a), collected for the project described in that subsection.