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PUBLIC LAW 95-502—OCT. 21, 1978 (g) To carry out the provisions of this section, there are authorized to be appropriated to the Commission, through the United States Water Eesources Council, $12,000,000. The Commission is authorized to transfer funds to such Federal, State, or local government agencies as it deems necessary to carry out the studies and analysis authorized by this section. (h) For purposes of this section, the Upper Mississippi Kiver System consists of those river reaches containing commercial navigation channels on the Mississippi River main stem north of Cairo, Illinois, the Minnesota River, Minnesota; Black River, Wisconsin; Saint Croix River, Minnesota and Wisconsin; Illinois River and Waterway, Illinois; and Kaskaskia River, Illinois. (i) No replacement, construction, or rehabilitation that expands the navigation capacity of locks, dams, and channels shall be undertaken by the Secretary of the Army to increase the navigation capacity of the Upper Mississippi River System, until the master plan prepared pursuant to this section has been approved by the Congress except as provided in section 102 and except for necessary operating and maintenance activities. (j) The lock and dam authorized pursuant to section 102 shall be designed and constructed to provide for possible future expansion. All other construction activities initiated by the Secretary of the Army on the Upper Mississippi River north of Cairo, Illinois, and on the Illinois River north of Grafton, Illinois, shall be initiated only in accordance with the guidelines set forth in the master plan. SEC. 102. (a) The Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, is authorized to replace locks and dam 26, Mississippi River, Alton, Illinois, and Missouri, by constructing a new dam and a single, one-hundred-and-ten-foot by one-thousand-two-hundred-foot lock at a location approximately two miles downstream from the existing dam, substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in his report on such project dated July 31, 1976, at an estimated cost of $421,000,000. (b) The Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, is authorized to replace, at Federal expense as a part of project costs authorized in subsection (a) terrestrial wildlife habitat inundated as a result of the construction of the project on an acre-for-acre basis in the respective States of Missouri and Illinois and to manage such lands as are thus acquired by the Secretary for wildlife protection purposes. The Secretary is further authorized to provide projectrelated recreation development on or in the vicinity of Ellis Island, Missouri, that requires no separable project lands and includes facilities such as roads, parking lots, walks, picnic areas, a boat launching ramp, and a beach, at an estimated cost of $4,000,000 to be cost shared with the State of Missouri and administered in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Water Project Recreation Act and undertaken independently of the navigation feature of the project. (c) The project depth of the channel above Cairo, Illinois, on the Mississippi River shall not exceed 9 feet, and neither the Secretary of the Army nor any other Federal official shall study the feasibility of deepening the navigation channels in the Minnesota River, Minnesota; Black River, Wisconsin; Saint Croix River, Minnesota and Wisconsin; the Mississippi River north of Cairo, Illinois; the Kaskaskia River, Illinois; and the Illinois River and Waterway, Illinois, unless specifically authorized by an Act of Congress enacted after the date of enactment of this Act.
92 STAT. 1695 Appropriation authorization.
16 USC 460/-12 "ote.
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