33 U.S.C. § 400 — Continuing authority programs
submitted 12 years ago by Pub. L. 113-121 to r/title-33-NAVIGATION-AND-NAVIGABLE-WATERS · 285 words · no verdicts yet
This law defines 'continuing authority programs' as a list of specific Army Corps project authorities. The Secretary must publish, each year, how funding gets prioritized and a status report on every active project. Congress's committees receive copies of these reports.
(1) Definition of continuing authority program project
This section defines "continuing authority program" as any one of eleven specific legal authorities listed by section number, covering programs like those in section 701s, section 426i, section 2330, and several others of this title, plus one from the River and Harbor Act of 1962.
(2) Prioritization
Within one year of June 10, 2014, the Secretary must publish, in the Federal Register and on a public website, the criteria used to decide which continuing authority program projects get funding priority each year.
(3) Annual report
Within one year of June 10, 2014, and every year after that, the Secretary must publish a status report on each continuing authority program. This report must at least name and briefly describe every active project, estimate the cost to finish each one, and state how much funding is available for each program that year.
(4) Congressional notification
Whenever the Secretary publishes this information under (2) or (3), the Secretary must also send a copy to the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
In this section, the term “continuing authority program” means 1 of the following authorities:
Section 701s of this title.
Section 426i of this title.
Section 2330 of this title.
Section 2309a of this title.
Section 577 of this title.
Section 426g of this title.
Section 701r of this title.
Section 103 of the River and Harbor Act of 1962 (Public Law 87–874; 76 Stat. 1178).
Section 2326(e) of this title.
Section 701b–8a of this title.
Section 610(a) of this title.
Not later than 1 year after June 10, 2014, the Secretary shall publish in the Federal Register and on a publicly available website, the criteria the Secretary uses for prioritizing annual funding for continuing authority program projects.
Not later than 1 year after June 10, 2014, and each year thereafter, the Secretary shall publish in the Federal Register and on a publicly available website, a report on the status of each continuing authority program, which, at a minimum, shall include—
the name and a short description of each active continuing authority program project;
the cost estimate to complete each active project; and
the funding available in that fiscal year for each continuing authority program.
On publication in the Federal Register under paragraphs (2) and (3), the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives a copy of all information published under those paragraphs.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 113–121, title I, § 1030(a), June 10, 2014, 128 Stat. 1231.)
- 2014Enacted · Pub. L. 113-121 · 128 Stat. 1231
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