Amendment sought to require USACE to contract with private sector surveying and mapping firms, wherever practical, in performance of surveying and mapping services and activities for Corps projects. Amendment also sought to require the Secretary to issue agency guidance to encourage use of the private sector for surveying and mapping services and require a process to provide oversight of the performance of compliance with the guidance.

1. Adds SEC. __. GEOSPATIAL SURVEYING AND MAPPING at the end of title I

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   Inserted: SEC. __. GEOSPATIAL SURVEYING AND MAPPING.

   Inserted: Section 918 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 (33 U.S.C. 2292) is amended to read as follows:

   Inserted: "SEC. 918. GEOSPATIAL SURVEYING AND MAPPING.

   Inserted: "(a) Procurement of Surveying and Mapping Services.--Any surveying or mapping services to be performed in connection with a water resources project which is or has been authorized to be undertaken by the Secretary shall be procured in accordance with chapter 11 of title 40, United States Code.

   Inserted: "(b) Geospatial Surveying and Mapping Activities.--In carrying out water resources projects, the Secretary shall, wherever practicable, utilize the private sector for commercially available geospatial surveying and mapping activities. The Secretary shall not start or carry on any activity to provide a commercially available geospatial surveying and mapping service that duplicates, competes with, or can be procured from a commercial source.

   Inserted: "(c) Guidance.--

   Inserted: "(1) Issuance.--The Secretary shall issue guidance to encourage entities in the Corps of Engineers to utilize, to the maximum extent practicable, contracting with private sector sources for geospatial surveying and mapping services for water resources projects.

   Inserted: "(A) Contents.--In carrying out this subsection, the Secretary shall--

   Inserted: "(i) define appropriate inherently governmental roles in geospatial surveying and mapping activities, which roles shall include--

   Inserted: "(I) activities so defined in section 5 of the Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act of 1998 (112 Stat. 2384);

   Inserted: "(II) preparation of standards and specifications;

   Inserted: "(III) research of geospatial surveying and mapping instrumentation and procedures that are not commercially available, with prompt technology transfer to the private sector;

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   Inserted: "(IV) providing technical guidance, coordination, and administration of geospatial surveying and mapping activities; and

   Inserted: "(V) contracting with private sector sources for geospatial surveying and mapping activities.

   Inserted: "(ii) define commercially available geospatial surveying and mapping activities to include activities described in--

   Inserted: "(I) section 36.601-4(a)(4)(A) of the Engineer Federal Acquisition Regulation; and

   Inserted: "(II) section 467 of title 10, United States Code.

   Inserted: "(d) Implementation.--The Secretary shall develop a process for the oversight and monitoring, on an annual basis, of compliance with the guidance issued under subsection (c).

   Inserted: "(e) Assessment.--Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this subsection, the Secretary shall conduct an assessment of all entities in the Corps of Engineers, including divisions, districts, laboratories, and technical centers, to determine the extent to which each entity is utilizing governmental and private sector sources for commercially available geospatial surveying and mapping services. In conducting the assessment, the Secretary shall consult with organizations of commercial geospatial surveying and mapping firms.".

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   At the end of title I, add the following:

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