Amendment allows the Army Corps of Engineers to pursue projects and technologies that prevent and mitigate flood damages associated with ice jams (chunks of ice floating on a river that catch on an obstruction such as bridge pilings, rocks, logs, etc., that pile up to form an ice dam, and cause flooding upstream from the blockage, and then possibly downstream again when the ice finally releases).

1. Adds SEC. ___. ICE JAM PREVENTION AND MITIGATION at the end of title I

   Adds a section

   Inserted: SEC. ___. ICE JAM PREVENTION AND MITIGATION.

   Inserted: (a) In General.--The Secretary may carry out projects under section 205 of the Flood Control Act of 1948 (33 U.S.C. 701s), including planning, design, construction, and monitoring of structural and nonstructural technologies and measures for preventing and mitigating flood damages associated with ice jams.

   Inserted: (b) Inclusion.--The projects described in subsection (a) may include the development and demonstration of cost-effective technologies and designs developed in consultation with--

   Inserted: (1) the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory of the Corps of Engineers;

   Inserted: (2) universities;

   Inserted: (3) Federal, State, and local agencies; and

   Inserted: (4) private organizations.

   Original wording

   At the end of title I, add the following:

Read automatically from the Congressional Record. Check the original before relying on it.

As printed