§ 3956. General provisions

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1990

   Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act

   Pub. L. 101–646 title III § 307 · 104 Stat. 4761

   Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 3956

   (Pub. L. 101–646, title III, § 307, Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 4787.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (Pub. L. 101–646, title III, § 307, Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 4787.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   SEC. 307. GENERAL PROVISIONS. (a) Additional Authority for the Corps of Engineers.— The Secretary is authorized to carry out projects for the protection, restoration, or enhancement of aquatic and associated ecosystems, including projects for the protection, restoration, or creation of wetlands and coastal ecosystems. In carrying out such projects, the Irrigation. Navigation Flood control. Secretary shall give such projects equal consideration with projects relating to irrigation, navigation, or flood control. (b) Study.— The Secretary is hereby authorized and directed to study the feasibility of modifying the operation of existing navigation and flood control projects to allow for an increase in the share of the Mississippi River flows and sediment sent down the Atchafalaya River for purposes of land building and wetlands nourishment.

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