S.Amdt. 4998

SA 4998. Mr. KIRK (for himself, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Portman, Mr.
Durbin, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Donnelly, Mr. Brown, Ms. Stabenow, Ms.
Baldwin, and Mr. Franken) 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__. GREAT LAKES NAVIGATION SYSTEM.

Section 210(c)(4) of the Water Resources Development Act of
1986 (33 U.S.C. 2238(c)(4)) is amended--
(1) by striking ``To sustain'' and inserting the following:
``(A) In general.--To sustain''; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
``(B) Funding.--Notwithstanding any other provision of this
subsection, in making expenditures under paragraph (1) for
each of fiscal years 2015 through 2024, the Secretary shall
allocate for operation and maintenance costs of projects
within the Great Lakes Navigation System an amount that is
not less than 10 percent of the funds made available under
this section for fiscal year 2015 to pay the costs described
in subsection (a)(2).''.
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