Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 36 — Water Resources Development
§ 2341c. Criteria for funding environmental infrastructure projects
Statutory text
In general
Not later than 180 days after , the Secretary shall develop specific criteria for the evaluation and ranking of individual environmental assistance projects authorized by Congress (including projects authorized pursuant to environmental assistance programs) for the Secretary to carry out.
Minimum criteria
For the purposes of carrying out this section, the Secretary shall evaluate, at a minimum—
the nature and extent of the positive and negative local economic impacts of the project, including—
the benefits of the project to the local economy;
the extent to which the project will enhance local development;
the number of jobs that will be directly created by the project; and
the ability of the non-Federal interest to pay the applicable non-Federal share of the cost of the project;
the demographics of the location in which the project is to be carried out, including whether the project serves—
a rural community; or
an economically disadvantaged community, including an economically disadvantaged minority community;
the amount of appropriations a project has received;
the funding capability of the Corps of Engineers with respect to the project;
whether the project could be carried out under other Federal authorities at an equivalent cost to the non-Federal interest; and
any other criteria that the Secretary considers to be appropriate.
Inclusion in guidance
The Secretary shall include the criteria developed under subsection (a) in the annual Civil Works Direct Program Development Policy Guidance of the Secretary.
Report to Congress
For fiscal year 2022, and biennially thereafter, in conjunction with the President’s annual budget submission to Congress under section 1105(a) of title 31, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Environment and Public Works and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives a report that identifies the Secretary’s ranking of individual environmental assistance projects authorized by Congress for the Secretary to carry out, in accordance with the criteria developed under this section.
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.
Aircraft Certification, Safety, and Accountability Act
Pub. L. 116–260 div. AA title I § 137 · 134 Stat. 1182
Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 2341c
(Pub. L. 116–260, div. AA, title I, § 137, Dec. 27, 2020, 134 Stat. 2650.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 116–260, div. AA, title I, § 137, Dec. 27, 2020, 134 Stat. 2650.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 137. DEFINITIONS. In this title: (1) Administration; faa.— The terms “Administration” and “FAA” mean the Federal Aviation Administration. (2) Administrator.— The term “Administrator” means the Administrator of the FAA. (3) Congressional committees of jurisdiction.— The term “congressional committees of jurisdiction” means the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate. (4) ICAO.— The term “ICAO” means the International Civil Aviation Organization. (5) Organization designation authorization.— The term “organization designation authorization” has the same meaning given such term in section 44736(c) of title 49, United States Code. (6) Transport airplane.— The term “transport airplane” means a transport category airplane designed for operation by an air carrier or foreign air carrier type-certificated with a passenger seating capacity of 30 or more or an all-cargo or combi derivative of such an airplane. (7) Type certificate.— The term “type certificate”— (A) means a type certificate issued pursuant to section 44704(a) of title 49, United States Code, or an amendment to such certificate; and (B) does not include a supplemental type certificate issued under section 44704(b) of such section.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was enacted as part of the Water Resources Development Act of 2020, and not as part of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 which comprises this chapter.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
“Secretary” Defined
Secretary means the Secretary of the Army, see section 2 of div. AA of Pub. L. 116–260, set out as a note under section 2201 of this title.
Definitions
For definition of “economically disadvantaged community” as used in this section, see section 160 of div. AA of Pub. L. 116–260, set out as a note under section 2201 of this title.
Credits
(Pub. L. 116–260, div. AA, title I, § 137, , 134 Stat. 2650.)