The Water Resources Development Act of 2000 (WRDA 2000), , was enacted by Congress of the United States on December 11, 2000. Public Law 106-541 at Government Printing Office Most of the provisions of WRDA 2000 are administered by the United States Army Corps of Engineers.
Title I: Water Resources Projects Authorizes projects for water resources development, conservation, and related purposes at specified water resources projects in Alaska, Arizona, California, the Delaware coast, Florida, Hawaii, Indiana and Kentucky, Kentucky and Ohio, the Ohio River in Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, Louisiana to the Gulf of Mexico, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Tennessee, Washington, and Wyoming.
Directs a study of, and if feasible, projects for: emergency streambank protection in Indiana and Louisiana; navigation in Alaska, Florida, Louisiana, Minnesota, New York, and Wisconsin; aquatic ecosystem restoration in Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Oregon, and Pennsylvania; shoreline protection in Louisiana and New York; snagging and sediment removal in Illinois and Louisiana; and mitigation of shore damage in Washington.
Authorizes certain projects in Louisiana, Minnesota, and Ohio for the beneficial uses of dredged material.
Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1999 to authorize a shore protection project in Washington.
Authorizes a flood protection project in California.
Title II: General Provisions Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 to assess the water resources needs of watersheds (currently only river basins and regions) of the United States. to require cost-sharing agreements for environmental protection and restoration, navigation, storm damage or hurricane protection, shoreline erosion, or recreation projects under such Act (currently, only for flood control or agricultural water supply) to be subject to the non-Federal interest's ability to pay. to require certain guidelines developed therein to address measures undertaken by non- Federal interests to preserve a project's flood protection level. to require enhanced public participation in the development of each project feasibility study under that Act, including the use of a stakeholder advisory group. to direct mitigation projects to reflect contemporary understanding of the science of such mitigation.
Authorizes studying the feasibility of water resources development projects that will substantially benefit Indian tribes; and are located primarily within Indian country or in proximity to Alaska Native villages.
Authorizes a program to reduce vandalism and destruction of property at water resources development projects, including awards to those providing information.
Authorizes participation in the National Recreation Reservation Service and pay the Army's share of activities required to maintain such Service.
Amends Water Resources Development Act of 1996 to adjust and extend permanently the authorization of appropriations for interagency and international support to address problems of national significance to the United States.
Authorizes areas at Army civil works projects for the reburial of certain Native American remains discovered on project lands.
Amends various WRDA Acts to allow a non-Federal sponsor to include a nonprofit entity, with the consent of the affected local government, in projects for environmental dredging, the lakes program, and environmental improvement.
Authorizes the Corps of Engineers to provide specialized or technical services to a Federal agency (other than an agency of the Department of Defense) only if the chief executive of the requesting entity submits a request describing the scope of such services, an agreement to reimburse the Corps for their costs; and a certification that such services are not reasonably and quickly available through ordinary business channels.
Authorizes various funding and cooperative agreement mechanisms with various entities, both Federal and non-Federal.
Directs a program to allow the direct marketing of dredged materials to public agencies and private entities.
Directs a contract with the National Academy of Sciences to study, and make recommendations relating to, the independent peer review of water resources project feasibility reports, including a review of methods for project analysis.
Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1990 to extend through FY 2005 the authorization of appropriations for the rehabilitation of Federal flood control levees. to increase and extend through FY 2005 the authorization of appropriations for Great Lakes remedial action plans and sediment remediation.
Amends the Flood Control Act of 1948 to increase from $40,000 to $50,000 the maximum expenditure for small flood control projects.
Authorizes a pilot program to test the design-build method of project delivery on various authorized Corps civil works projects.
Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1999 to add sites in Iowa, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas to authorized flood mitigation and riverine restoration projects.
Title III: Project-Related Provisions Modifies the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway wildlife mitigation project, Alabama and Mississippi, to authorize removal of the wildlife mitigation purpose designation from up to of such project's land, and to take related actions.
Modifies funding ratios and agreements on the following projects: flood control project in Nogales, Arizona navigation project in the Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel, California navigation on the Delaware River, Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, storm damage reduction and shoreline protection, Rehoboth and Dewey Beach, Delaware, shore protection, Gasparilla and Estero Island, Florida the Upper Des Plaines River and tributaries, Illinois and Wisconsin. dredging project at Poplar Island, Maryland the project for navigation, Pemiscot County Harbor, Missouri. the project for flood control, Duck Creek, Ohio the Fox Point hurricane barrier in Providence, Rhode Island (by amending the WRDA 1999) the flood control project, Levisa and Tug Forks of the Big Sandy River and Upper Cumberland River, Virginia Chesapeake Bay oyster restoration in Maryland and Virginia (by amending WRDA 1986)
Modifies the following projects navigation, Fernandina Harbor, Florida, to authorize the Secretary to realign the access channel flood protection, East St. Louis and vicinity, Illinois, to include ecosystem restoration navigation, Kaskaskia River, Illinois, to include recreation navigation, Waukegan Harbor, Illinois, to extend such project's upstream limit. flood control and power generation project, White River Basin, Arkansas and Missouri, to provide minimum flows necessary to sustain tail water trout fisheries. a visitors center and other recreational features at the flood control project, Atchafalaya Basin Floodway System, Louisiana. mitigation of fish and wildlife losses project, Red River Waterway, Louisiana, to authorize the purchase of additional mitigation lands navigation project, Georges River, Maine, to redesignate a specified project portion navigation project, Duluth Harbor, Minnesota, to include the relocation of Scenic Highway 61 clearing, snagging, and sediment removal, East Bank of the Mississippi River, Little Falls, Minnesota project for flood control, Passaic River, New Jersey and New York, to give priority to nonstructural approaches to flood control as alternatives to construction of the Passaic River tunnel element. Establishes the Passaic River Flood Management Task Force the project for environmental quality, Times Beach Nature Preserve, Buffalo, New York, to include recreation the project for shoreline protection, Rockaway Inlet to Norton Point, New York, to authorize T-groins to improve sand retention. the project for flood control, Nonconnah Creek, Tennessee and Mississippi, to authorize a protected area and hiking and biking trails the flood control project, San Antonio channel, Texas, to include environmental restoration and recreation the project for beach erosion control and hurricane protection, Sandbridge Beach, Virginia, to provide 50 years of periodic nourishment sediment control project, Mount St. Helens, Washington, to maintain specified flood protection levels
Directs construction of an authorized flood control project in Cumberland, Kentucky.
Authorizes design and construction assistance for recreational facilities at William Jennings Randolph Lake, Maryland and West Virginia; and complete the project for flood damage reduction, Breckenridge, Minnesota, at a specified cost.
Authorizes the project for navigation, New Madrid County Harbor, Missouri.
Authorizes a project at Fort Peck Lake, Montana, for the design and construction of a fish hatchery and associated facilities necessary to sustain a multispecies fishery.
Directs maintenance dredging of the Sagamore Creek Channel, New Hampshire.
Directs a study of the Garrison Dam, North Dakota, feature of the project for flood control, Missouri River Basin, to determine if the damage to a certain water transmission line is the result of a design deficiency and, if so, to correct the deficiency.
Declares specified portions of Erie County, New York, to be nonnavigable waters of the United States, unless the Secretary finds that proposed projects there are not in the public interest.
Deauthorizes specified navigation projects Black Warrior and Tombigbee Rivers, Jackson, Alabama; Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel, California Bay Island Channel, Illinois Warsaw Boat Harbor, Illinois Kennebunk River, Maine Rockport Harbor, Massachusetts (with a project modification) Scituate Harbor, Massachusetts Duluth- Superior Harbor, Minnesota and Wisconsin Tremley Point, New Jersey Angola, New York Wallabout Channel, New York New York and New Jersey Channels Warwick Cove, Rhode Island.
Directs certain real estate transactions in Connecticut, Illinois, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Michigan, and South Carolina.
Authorizes projects on the Narraguagus River, Maine, and Cedar Bayou, Texas, to be carried out by the Secretary, but prohibits construction therein until the Secretary determines that the project is technically sound, environmentally acceptable, and economically justified.
Continues project authorizations for: (1) flood control, Sacramento River, California; and (2) flood protection on a portion of such River.
Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 to include St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, within authorized projects to address water quality problems associated with storm water runoffs.
Title IV: Studies Authorizes project studies in Florida, Illinois, Oregon, the Lower Mississippi River, the Upper Mississippi River, the Ohio River, Alabama, the Arkansas River, California, the Delaware River, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine and New Hampshire, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Wisconsin.
Title V: Miscellaneous Provisions Amends WRDA 1986 to direct construction of an environmental education and research facility at Otsego Lake, New York. to encourage the Great Lakes States to develop and implement a mechanism that provides a common conservation standard with respect to the withdrawal and use of Great Lakes water require approval of the Great Lakes Board of Governors prior to the export of Great Lakes water to express the sense of Congress that the Secretary of State should work with the Canadian Government to develop a standard for the Great Lakes. to extend permanently (currently ends after FY 2003) the authorization of appropriations for the project for Lake Michigan diversion, Illinois.