S.Amdt. 1890Senate111th Congress (2009-2011)2nd degree

S.Amdt. 1890

Submitted July 29, 2009

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July 29, 2009

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SA 1890. Mr. SPECTER (for himself and Mr. Casey) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 1813 submitted by Mr.
Dorgan to the bill H.R. 3183, making appropriations for energy and
water development and related agencies for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 2010, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on
the table; as follows:

On page 17, between lines 16 and 17, insert the following:
Sec. 1__. (a) The project for flood protection, Lackawanna
River at Scranton, Pennsylvania, as authorized under section
101(17) of the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 (106
Stat. 4803; 110 Stat. 3672), is modified to authorize the
Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers,
to implement nonstructural flood control measures in
accordance with section 103 of the Water Resources
Development Act of 1986 (33 U.S.C. 2213).
(b) The non-Federal sponsor for the project described in
subsection (a) shall receive credit towards the share of the
nonstructural project costs of the non-Federal sponsor for
work carried out by the non-Federal sponsor, as described in
the document entitled ``Federal Emergency Management Agency
Mitigation Plan, Scranton, Pennsylvania'' and dated June
2009.
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