EP 1165-2-1
30 Jul 99
B-165. 19 October 1984, Public Law 98-498--Marine Sanctuaries
Amendments of 1984. Provides amendments to Title III, National Marine
Sanctuaries, of the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act
of 1972. Includes in Title II, Marine Safety, the Maritime Safety Act
of 1984 which specifies vessel inspection and reporting requirements.
B-166. 19 October 1984, Public Law 98-501--Public Works Improvement
Act of 1984 (Title I) and Federal Capital Investment Program
Information Act of 1984 (Title II). Established a National Council on
Public Works Impovement to prepare three annual reports on the state
of the nation's infrastructure, including publically-owned water
resources projects, and requires the President's budget separately
identify and summarize the capital investment expenditures of the
U.S., including expenditures on water resources projects.
B-167. 23 December 1985, Public Law 99-198--Food Security Act of
1985. Title XII, Subtitles B and C, provides that persons who produce
an agricultural commodity on highly erodible lands or newly converted
wetlands shall be declared ineligible for certain benefits provided by
the U.S. Department of Agriculture, i.e., commodity price support or
production adjustment payments, farm storage facility loans, disaster
payments, payments for storage of Commodity Credit Corporation grain,
Federal crop insurance, and farm loans administered by the Farmers
Home Administration. ("Swampbuster Act")
B-168. 27 August 1986, Public Law 99-402--Federal Lands Cleanup Act
of 1985. Provides for a program of cleanup and maintenance of Federal
lands and designates the first Saturday after Labor Day of each year
as "Federal Lands Cleanup Day." Requires each Federal land management
agency, including the Corps, to organize, coordinate, and participate
with citizen volunteers and state and local agencies in cleanup and
maintenance of Federal public lands, recreation areas, and waterways
within the jurisdiction of such agency.
B-169. 17 October 1986, Public Law 99-499--The Emergency Planning and
Community Right to Know Act of 1986.
B-170. 20 October 1986, Public Law 99-502--Federal Technology
Transfer Act of 1986. This Act authorizes joint efforts with industry
through Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRDAs) and
Licensing Agreements (LAs). A Corps laboratory commander is
authorized to enter into CRDAs with interested parties for performing
collaborative research and development leading to commercially-viable
products or systems, and to enter into LAs for Government-owned
inventions or technology that could be commercially exploitable.
B-171. 17 November 1986, Public Law 99-662--Water Resources
Development Act of 1986. Project Cost Sharing. Section 101
establishes new requirements for non-Federal interests sharing of
costs for Harbor construction and maintenance. Section 103
establishes new cost sharing requirements for Flood Control and Other
Purposes. (See Chapter 6 of this EP) (Amended by Sections 201 and
202, Public Law 104-303)
Credit for Non-Federal Flood Control Works. Section 104 provides that
the non-Federal costs for certain compatible flood control works,
accomplished by non-Federal interests prior to Congressional
authorization of a Federal flood contol project, may be credited
against the non-Federal share of costs for the Federal project when it
becomes authorized.
Study Cost Sharing. Section 105 establishes a requirement that, for
Corps feasibility studies, appropriate non-Federal interests
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