S.Amdt. 4989

SA 4989. Mr. MARKEY (for himself and Ms. Warren) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 4979 proposed by Mr.
Inhofe to the bill S. 2848, to provide for the conservation and
development of water and related resources, to authorize the Secretary
of the Army to construct various projects for improvements to rivers
and harbors of the United States, and for other purposes; which was
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of title II, add the following:

SEC. 20___. REGIONAL SEDIMENT MANAGEMENT.

Section 204 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1992
(33 U.S.C. 2326) is amended--
(1) in subsection (a)(1)--
(A) by striking ``For sediment'' and inserting the
following:
``(A) In general.--For sediment'';
(B) in subparagraph (A) (as designated by subparagraph
(A))--
(i) by striking ``an authorized'' and inserting ``any type
of authorized''; and
(ii) by striking ``at locations'' and inserting ``at
nearshore or onshore locations''; and
(C) by adding at the end the following:
``(B) Sediment from other federal sources and non-federal
sources.--For purposes of projects carried out under this
section, the Secretary may include sediment from other
Federal sources and non-Federal sources, subject to the
requirement that any sediment obtained from a non-Federal
source shall not be obtained at Federal expense.''; and
(2) in subsection (c), by adding at the end the following:
``(3) Appropriate application of non-federal
responsibilities.--
``(A) Definition of period of analysis.--In this paragraph,
the term `period of analysis', with respect to a project
under this section, means the period--
``(i) beginning on the date of implementation of the
project; and
``(ii) ending on the date on which the project no longer
produces the beneficial outputs for which the project was
designed.
``(B) Requirement.--For any project under this section, the
Secretary shall ensure that the non-Federal requirements
described in subsections (a)(1)(B), (b)(1), and (i) of
section 103 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986
(33 U.S.C. 2213) shall apply to the project only during the
period of analysis of the project.''.
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