S.Amdt. 5012

SA 5012. Mr. INHOFE (for Mr. Flake) submitted an amendment intended
to be proposed to amendment SA 4979 proposed by Mr. McConnell (for Mr.
Inhofe (for himself and Mrs. Boxer)) 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 section 5001, add the following:
(i) Project Deauthorizations.--Section 1001(b)(2) of the
Water Resources Development Act of 1986 (33 U.S.C.
579a(b)(2)) is amended--
(1) in the first sentence, by striking ``every year after
the transmittal of the list under paragraph (1)'' and
inserting ``not later than October 1 of each fiscal year'';
and
(2) by adding at the end the following: ``If the Secretary
fails to submit to Congress the list of projects by October 1
of any fiscal year, no Federal funds made available to the
Secretary for the fiscal year shall be expended for
nonessential travel expenses of employees of the Corps of
Engineers, as determined by the Secretary, until the date on
which the list is submitted to Congress in accordance with
this paragraph.''.
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