PUBLIC LAW 104-303 —OCT. 12, 1996 110 STAT. 3763 SEC. 515. GREAT LAKES REMEDIAL ACTION PLANS AND SEDIMENT REMEDIATION. Section 401 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 1268 note; 104 Stat. 4644) is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 401. GREAT LAKES REMEDIAL ACTION PLANS AND SEDIMENT REMEDIATION. "(a) GREAT LAKES REMEDIAL ACTION PLANS. — "(1) IN GENERAL. —The Secretary may provide technical, planning, and engineering assistance to State and local governments and nongovernmental entities designated by a State or local government in the development and implementation of remedial action plans for Areas of Concern in the Great Lakes identified under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement of 1978. "(2) NoN-FEDERAL SHARE.— Non-Federal interests shall contribute, in cash or by providing in-kind contributions, 50 percent of costs of activities for which assistance is provided under paragraph (1). " (b) SEDIMENT REMEDIATION PROJECTS.— "(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, in consultation with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (acting through the Great Lakes National Program Office), may conduct pilot- and full-scale projects of promising technologies to remediate contaminated sediments in freshwater coastal regions in the Great Lakes basin. The Secretary shall conduct not fewer than 3 full-scale projects under this subsection. "(2) SITE SELECTION FOR PROJECTS.— In selecting the sites state listing. for the technology projects, the Secretary shall give priority consideration to Saginaw Bay, Michigan, Sheboygan Harbor, Wisconsin, Grand Calumet River, Indiana, Ashtabula River, Ohio, Buffalo River, New York, and Duluth-Superior Harbor, Minnesota and Wisconsin. " (3) DEADLINE FOR IDENTIFICATIONS.—The Secretary shall— "(A) not later than 18 months after the date of the enactment of this paragraph, identify the sites and technologies for projects under this subsection; and "(B) not later than 3 years after that date, complete each such full-scale project. "(4) NON-FEDERAL SHARE.— Non-Federal interests shall contribute 50 percent of costs of projects under this subsection. Such costs may be paid in cash or by providing in-kind contributions. "(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary to carry out this section $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1998 through 2000.". SEC. 516. SEDIMENT MANAGEMENT. 33 USC 2326b. (a) IN GENERAL.— The Secretary may enter into cooperation agreements with non-Federal interests with respect to navigation projects, or other appropriate non-Federal entities, for the development of long-term management strategies for controlling sediments at such projects. (b) CONTENTS OF STRATEGIES.—Each strategy developed under subsection (a) shall—
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