iti^^.^ PUBLIC LAW 105-62—OCT. 13, 1997 111 STAT. 1325 cost, so that the City of Sardis, Mississippi, may proceed with its development of the valuable resources of Sardis Lake in Mississippi, consistent with lemguage provided in House Report 104-679, accompanying the Fiscal Year 1997 Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act (Public Law 104-206): Provided further. That within available funds, the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, is directed to conduct^ at 100 percent Federal cost, the necessary Environmental Assessment and Impact Studies for the initial components of Sardis Lake development as provided in the Sardis Lake Recreation and Tourism Master Plan, Phase II. OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, GENERAL For expenses necessary for the preservation, operation, maintenance, and care of existing river and harbor, flood control, and related works, including such sums as may be necessary for the maintenance of harbor channels provided by a State, municipgJity or other public agency, outside of harbor lines, and serving essential needs of general commerce and navigation; surveys and charting of northern and northwestern lakes and connecting waters; clearing and straightening chsmnels; and removal of obstructions to navigation, $1,740,025,000, to remain available until expended, of which such sums as become available in the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund, pursuant to Public Law 99-662, may be derived from that Fund, and of which such sums as become available from the special account established by the Land and Water Conservation Act of 1965, as amended (16 U.S.C. 4601), may be derived from that Fund for construction, operation, and maintenance of outdoor recreation facilities, and of which funds £u*e provided for the following projects in the amounts specified: Anclote River, Florida, $1,500,000; Beverly Shores, Indiana, $1,700,000; Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, $16,500,000; Flint River, Michigan, $875,000- and Raystown Lake, Pennsylvania, $4,690,000: Provided, TTiat the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, is directed to use funds appropriated in Public Law 104-206 to reimburse the local sponsor of the Fort Myers Beach, Florida, project for the maintensmce dredging performed by the local sponsor to open the authorized channel to navigation in fiscal year 1996: Provided further. That no funds, whether appropriated, contributed, or otherwise provided, shall be available to the United States Army Corps of Engineers for the purpose of acquiring land in Jasper County, South Carolina, in connection with the Savannah Harbor navigation project: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, is authorized and directed to dredge a navigationed channel in the Chena River at Fairbanks, Alaska, from its confluence with the Tanana River upstream to the University Road Bridge that will allow the safe {>assage during normal water levels of vessels up to 350 feet in ength, 60 feet in width, and drafting up to 3 feet: Provided further. That using $6,000,000 of funds appropriated herein, the Secretary of the Army is directed to extend the navigation channel on the Allegheny River, Pennsylvania, project to provide passenger boat access to the Kittanning, Pennsylvania, Riverfront Park: Provided iurther. That the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, is directed to use $2,500,000 of the funds provided
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