PUBLIC LAW 98-181—NOV. 30, 1983 97 STAT. 1293 experimental program for the delivery of water to the Everglades National Park from such project for the purpose of determining an improved schedule for such delivery. The Secretary of the Army is further authorized to acquire such interest in lands currently in agriculture production which are adversely affected by smy modification of schedule for water delivery to Everglades National Park under the preceding paragraph. The Secretary shall acquire any interest in land at the fair market value of such interest based on conditions existing after the construction of the project described in the preceding paragraph of this section and before any modification of such delivery schedule. The Secre- tary is also authorized to construct necessary flood protection meas- ures for protection of homes in the area affected by any modification of such delivery schedule, at an estimated cost of $10,000,000. SEC. 1303. The Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, is directed to utilize available construction general appropriations to complete bank protection works at Wheeling Island, West Virginia, in the Hannibal Lock and Dam pool, at an estimated cost of $135,000 and to complete the local flood protection project at Russell, Kentucky, at an estimated cost of $600,000. SEC. 1304. The Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, is directed to utilize available general investigation funds to initiate a study of alternatives to the Mentone Dam of the Santa Ana Mainstem project in California and the flood control study of the Illinois River between Henry and Naples, Illinois. SEC. 1305. Funds available or hereafter made available for the Red River Waterway Project shall be used to provide for construction of a high level replacement bridge for the Louisiana and Arkansas Railway Company near Alexandria, Louisiana, pursuant to an agreement between the Chief of Engineers and the Railway Com pany and upon terms and conditions acceptable to the Chief or Engineers in the interest of navigation and the expeditious prosecu tion of the Project. Federal costs of the bridge replacement, includ ing design and construction, shall be limited to $24,270,000 (July 1, 1983 price levels), with an adjustment to this amount, if any, as may be justified by reason of a fluctuation in the cost of construction as indicated by the Engineer News Record's applicable construction indices, plus the cost of necessary real estate interests to be acquired by the Corps of Engineers, which interests may be conveyed to the Railway Company. SEC. 1306. Section 116(a) of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1970 (Public Law 91-611) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "Those areas of the river between Howard Street and Cald- well Avenue in Niles, Illinois, that have accumulated silt and side bank sloughing should be excavated to the normal align- ment and depth, and the bank rebuilt where sloughing has occurred at an estimated cost of $100,000.". Water projects, W. Va. and Ky. Water project studies, Calif, and 111. Red River Waterway Project. 84 Stat. 1822.
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