PUBLIC LAW 99-450—OCT. 8, 1986
100 STAT. 1131
(1) the means to restore and maintain the Floodway specified in section 5 of this Act, including, but not limited to, specific instances where land transfers or relocations, or other changes in land management, might best effect the purposes of this Act; (2) the necessity for additional Floodway management legisla- State and local governments. tion at local, tribal. State, and Federal levels; Indians. (3) the development of specific design criteria for the creation of the Floodway boundaries; (4) the review of mapping procedures for Floodway boundaries; (5) whether compensation should be recommended in specific cases of economic hardship resulting from impacts of the 1983 flood on property outside the Floodway which could not reasonably have been foreseen; and (6) the potential application of the Floodway on Indian lands Indians. and recommended legislation or regulations that might be needed to achieve the purposes of the Floodway taking into consideration the special Federal status of Indian lands. (c) The task force shall exist for at least one year after the date of enactment of this Act, or until such time as the Secretary has filed with the Committees the maps described in subsection 5(b)(2). The Reports. task force shall file its report with the Secretary and the Committees within nine months after the date of enactment of this Act. COLORADO RIVER FLOODWAY
SEC. 5. (a) There is established the Colorado River Floodway as identified and generally depicted on maps that are to be submitted by the Secretary. (b)(l) Within eighteen months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary, in consultation with the seven Colorado River Basin States, represented by persons designated by the Governors of those States, the Colorado River Floodway Task Force, and any other interested parties shall: (i) complete a study of the tributary floodflows downstream of Davis Dam; (ii) define the specific boundaries of the Colorado River Floodway so that the Floodway can accommodate either a onein-one hundred year river flow consisting of controlled releases and tributary inflow, or a flow of forty thousand cubic feet per second (cfs), whichever is greater, from below Davis Dam to the Southerly International Boundary between the United States of America and the Republic of Mexico. (2) As soon as practicable after the determination of the Floodway boundary pursuant to this subsection, the Secretary shall prepare and file with the Committees maps depicting the Colorado River Floodway, and each such map shall be considered a standard map to be adhered to by all agencies and shall have the same force and effect as if included in this Act, except that correction of clerical and typographical errors in each such map may be made. Each such map shall be on file and available for public inspection in the Office of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior, and in other appropriate offices of the Department. (3) The Secretary shall provide copies of the Colorado River Floodway maps to (A) the chief executive officer of each State, county, municipality, water district, Indian tribe, or equivalent jurisdiction in which the Floodway is located, (B) each appropriate
43 USC I600c.
Davis Dam.
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