The Water Resources Development Act of 1992 (WRDA 1992), , was enacted by Congress of the United States on October 31, 1992.Law 102-580 at Congress.gov (Library of Congress) Most of the provisions of WRDA 1992 are administered by the United States Army Corps of Engineers.
Title I: Water Resources Projects Authorizes public works projects in the following locations for improvements to navigation, flood control, ecosystem restoration, and beach erosion control and hurricane protection: Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nevada, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, Texas, and Virginia.
Modifies projects at the following locations with respect to wildlife mitigation, flood control, beach erosion control and hurricane protection, navigation, and other improvements:, Alabama, Mississippi, California, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Rhode Island, Texas, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 to authorize a contract with the St. Johns River Water Management District and the Southwest Florida Water Management District for the continued operation and maintenance of portions of the Cross Florida barge canal project.
Authorizes visitor centers at Melvin Price Lock and Dam, Alton, Illinois, Mt. Morris Dam, New York, Northeastern New Jersey Regional Flood Operations-Response, Engineering, and Visitor Center, and at the John Hammerschmidt Lake, Arkansas River, Arkansas the Lower Mississippi River Museum and Riverfront Interpretive Site, Vicksburg, Mississippi. Directs consultation with the Smithsonian Institution in the planning and design of the museum and site and with the Department of the Interior and the National Park Service in the planning, design, and implementation of interpretive programs.
Authorizes studies and small navigation projects in Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Virginia, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Texas, and St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.
Directs a Sonoma Baylands wetland demonstration project in the San Francisco Bay-Delta estuary, California.
Sets forth funding limitations, constraints, transfers, obligations on various projects.
Directs construction of a research and quarantine facility in Florida, to be used in connection with efforts to control Melaleuca and other exotic plant species that threaten native ecosystems in Florida.
Authorizes navigation access to, and berthing areas at, all currently operating public and private commercial dock facilities associated with or having access to the Federal navigation project on the Columbia, Snake, and Clearwater Rivers.
Directs a study for a streambank and shoreline protection project for Anaheim, California.
Directs design, land acquisition, and construction of the Montgomery Point Lock and Dam on the White River, Arkansas.
Authorizes a study for the purpose of determining whether there is contaminated ground water flowing downstream from and through existing Federal facilities at Whittier Narrows Dam, Los Angeles County, California.
Directs completion of general, feasibility, navigation, and other studies, design memorandum, economic reevaluations, in the following states: California, Florida, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Virginia, Texas, and West Virginia.
Directs a comprehensive assessment of adverse impacts to such watershed from Federal facilities, review current plans for reducing such adverse impacts, and carry out a feasibility study to identify and recommend measures for implementation to eliminate such adverse impacts.
Continues the authorization for projects and studies (for flood control and other purposes) in Iowa, Louisiana, Missouri, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Texas.
Deauthorizes navigation projects at the following locations: (1) Boothbay Harbor, Maine; (2) Boston Inner Harbor Channel, Massachusetts; (3) Newburyport, Massachusetts; (4) Greilickville, Michigan; (5) South Haven Harbor, Michigan; and (6) Sag Harbor, New York. Deauthorizes a portion of the Canaveral Harbor project, Florida.
Provides gratuitous political, by-name designation for the following structures: Lock and dam 3, Arkansas River, Arkansas, as the "Joe Hardin Lock and Dam" The Greers Ferry Lake Visitors Center, Arkansas, as the "William Carl Garner Visitors Center" The reservoir created by the James W. Trimble Lock and Dam on the Arkansas River, Arkansas, as the "John Paul Hammerschmidt Lake" Lock 5 on the Red River Waterway, Louisiana, as the "Joe D. Waggonner, Jr. Lock" The area for which environmental and other stream bank restoration measures are authorized relating to the project for flood control, Passaic River Mainstem, New Jersey and New York, as the "Joseph G. Minish Passaic River Waterfront Park and Historic Area" The project for flood control, Buena Vista, Virginia, as the "James R. Olin Flood Control Project" The Gallipolis Locks and Dam, Ohio River, Ohio and West Virginia, as the "Robert C. Byrd Locks and Dam" The Mill Creek Reservoir, Washington, as the "Virgil B. Bennington Lake"
Title II: Generally Applicable Provisions Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 to modify requirements concerning the ability of non-Federal interests to pay under cost-sharing agreements. Directs a review of regulations on ability to pay in light of locally prevailing conditions such as those associated with specified projects; and amends the regulations to the extent necessary to more appropriately account for locally prevailing conditions that would limit the ability of local interests to participate as non-Federal project sponsors in accordance with established cost-sharing formulas.
Prohibits project modifications for improvements of the environment without specific congressional authorization if the estimated cost exceeds $5 million.
Authorizes appropriation of not to exceed $25 million (currently, $15 million) annually to carry out provisions related to such modifications.
Authorizes accepting contributions for environmental and recreation projects, with funds received to be deposited into a specified account in the Treasury; and projects for the protection, restoration, and creation of aquatic and ecologically related habitats in connection with dredging of an authorized navigation project.
Extends specified State safety and training, research, and dam inventory programs.
Authorizes assistance to non-Federal interests for the repair, reconstruction, or other modification to Mussers Dam, Middle Creek, Snyder County, Pennsylvania.
Specifies that all costs incurred in carrying out the project to correct seepage problems at Beaver Lake, Arkansas, shall be treated as costs incurred for a dam safety project, subject to cost-sharing requirements of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986.
Authorizes materials necessary to promote the Corps safety program, for distribution to Corps employees, and to recognize outstanding safety performance by such employees. Authorizes appropriations.
Directs making use of private sector resources in carrying out surveying and mapping activities in the Corps' Civil Works Program, ensuring that procurement with funds appropriated to carry out this Act are conducted in compliance with the Buy American Act.
Directs a study on the need for changes in Federal law and policy with respect to dredged material disposal areas for the construction and maintenance of harbors and inland harbors by the Secretary.
Authorizes assistance to non-Federal interests for carrying out specified projects for the beneficial reuse of waste water, including several specified places in California.
Authorizes design and construction assistance to the Santa Clara Valley Water District and to the city of San Jose, California to demonstrate and field test for innovative public use processes that advance the technology of waste water reuse and treatment and promote use of treated waste water for critical water supply purposes and protection of fish and wildlife in the San Francisco Bay.
Authorizes assistance to non-Federal interests to carry out water-related environmental infrastructure and resource protection and development projects relating to wastewater treatment and for other purposes in Washington D.C., Maryland, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and along the U.S.-Mexican border.
Authorizes design and construction assistance in Arkansas and New York.
Provides for the termination of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors; the Board was originally created in 1902 by President Theodore Roosevelt to determine the feasibility of developing riverine projects.Timeline: Development of US Inland Waterways System from Coosa-Alabama River Improvement Association, Inc
Authorizes a program to share the cost of managing recreation facilities and natural resources at water resource development projects.
Requires debarment of persons convicted of intentionally affixing a label bearing a "Made in America" inscription to any product sold in or shipped to the United States that is not made in the United States and is used in a civil works project from contracting with the Federal Government for a period of from three to five years.
Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions Extends the jurisdiction of the Mississippi River Commission.
Directs a prevention monitoring program for zebra mussels throughout the New York City water supply system. Amends the Nonindigenous Aquatic Nuisance Prevention and Control Act of 1990 to direct the Coast Guard to issue regulations to prevent the introduction and spread of aquatic nuisance species in the Great Lakes through ballast water carried on vessels that, after operating on the waters beyond the exclusive economic zone, enter a U.S. port on the Hudson River north of the George Washington Bridge.
Authorizes a cooperative agreement with the Earth Conservancy to develop, and carry out along the Susquehanna River between Wilkes-Barre and Sunbury, Pennsylvania, a wetlands demonstration project.
Directs a cooperative agreement with non-Federal interests to develop and carry out along the Juniata River and its tributaries, Pennsylvania, a watershed reclamation and protection and wetlands creation and restoration project.
Authorizes boat ramps in Georgia and trailhead facilities in West Virginia.
Authorizes design and construction projects to address water quality problems Louisiana, New York, Maine, and Rhode Island.
Directs studies of Baltimore Harbor, Maryland, for the purpose of developing analytical procedures and criteria for contaminated dredged material in order to distinguish those materials that should be placed in containment sites from those that could be used in beneficial projects or placed in open waters without being chemically altered, and of determining the feasibility and necessity of decontaminating dredged materials and of dewatering and recycling such materials for use as marketable products.
Requires a study of the economic benefits of Federal and significant non-Federal shore protection activities in the Mid-Atlantic region from New York to Virginia.
Authorizes a memorandum of understanding between the Army and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to study problems associated with flooding in Mississippi.