90 STAT. 2926 Corpus Christi Bay, Tex., project modification. 82 Stat. 731.
Ante, p. 2917. Waiver.
Louisiana, highway construction.
Wister Lake, Okla., project modification.
PUBLIC LAW 94-587—OCT. 22, 1976 SEC. 124. (a) The Corpus Christi ship canal project for navigation in Corpus Christi Bay, Texas, authorized by the Rivers and Harbor Act of 1968 (P.L. 90-483) is hereby modified to provide that the nonFederal interests shall contribute 25 per centum of the costs of areas required for initial and subsequent disposal of spoil, and of necessary retaining dikes, bulkheads, and embankments therefor. Credit shall be allowed in connection with the above project in an amount equal to the reasonable expenditures made by non-Federal interests in the acquisition of spoil areas and construction of necessary retaining dikes, bulkheads, and embankments prior to the effective date of the Water Resources Development Act of 1976. (b) The requirements for appropriate non-Federal interests to contribute 25 per centum of the construction costs as set forth in subsection (a) shall be waived by the Secretary of the Army upon a finding by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency that for the area to which such construction applies, the State of Texas, interstate agency, municipality, and other appropriate political subdivisions of the State and industrial concerns are participating in and in compliance with an approved plan for the general geographical area of the dredging activity for construction, modification, expansion, or rehabilitation of waste treatment facilities and the Administrator has found that applicable water quality standards are not being violated. SEC. 125. For the purposes of section 9 of the Act of March 3, 1899 (30 Stat. 1151; 33 U.S.C. 401), the consent of Congress is hereby given to the State of Louisiana to construct such structures across any navigable water of the United States as may be necessary for the construction of the following highways: (1) Ivanhoe-Jeanerette, State project numbered 431-01-01 and 431-01-02 in Iberia and Saint Mary Parishes, Louisiana; (2) Larose-Lafitte Highway, State Route La 3134 in Jefferson and Lafourche Parishes, Louisiana, starting at Estelle in Jefferson Parish and proceeding southwesterly to Larose in Lafourche Parish; and (3) United States 90 Relocated (La 3052), in Saint Mary, Assumption, Terrebonne, and Lafourche Parishes, Louisiana, starting at United States 90 west of Raceland and proceeding westerly to a connnection with United States 90 at or near Morgan City, Louisiana. SEC. 126. The Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, is authorized to undertake the phase I design memorandum stage of advanced engineering and design of a project for flood prevention and development of incidental recreation, preservation of the natural floodways, and protection of the watershed's soil resources, at an estimated cost of $370,000, substantially in accordance with the Floodwater Management Plan, North Branch of the Chicago River Watershed, Cook and Lake Counties, Illinois, dated October 1974, and also substantially in accordance with the watershed implementation program dated February 1974. SEC. 127. The project for Wister Lake, Arkansas River Basin, Oklahoma, authorized by section 4 of the Act of June 28, 1938, entitled "An Act authorizing the construction of certain public works on rivers and harbors for flood control, and for other purposes" (52 Stat. 1218) is hereby modified to authorize and direct the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to recover and preserve impor • tant data from significant archeological sites located on project lands which will be adversely affected as a result of a change in seasonal pool operations. The costs of such work shall not exceed $250,000. SEC. 128. (a) The Secretary of the Army is authorized and directed to convey by quitclaim deed to C. B. Porter Scott and Dorothy Boren
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