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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 2774 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend section 5 of the Flood Control Act of 1941 to impose a deadline |
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| 6 | 6 | | for initiating the repair or restoration of project under such section, |
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| 7 | 7 | | and for other purposes. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 9 | 9 | | APRIL9, 2025 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Mr. H |
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| 11 | 11 | | ARDERof California (for himself and Mr. HIGGINSof Louisiana) intro- |
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| 12 | 12 | | duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Trans- |
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| 13 | 13 | | portation and Infrastructure |
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| 14 | 14 | | A BILL |
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| 15 | 15 | | To amend section 5 of the Flood Control Act of 1941 to |
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| 16 | 16 | | impose a deadline for initiating the repair or restoration |
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| 17 | 17 | | of project under such section, and for other purposes. |
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| 18 | 18 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 19 | 19 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 20 | 20 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 21 | 21 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Safeguarding Our Lev-4 |
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| 22 | 22 | | ees Act’’. 5 |
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| 23 | 23 | | SEC. 2. EMERGENCY RESPONSE TO NATURAL DISASTERS. 6 |
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| 24 | 24 | | Section 5 of the Flood Control Act of 1941 (33 7 |
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| 25 | 25 | | U.S.C. 701n(a)) is amended— 8 |
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| 27 | 27 | | mprince on LAP1J3WLY3PROD with $$_JOB 2 |
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| 28 | 28 | | •HR 2774 IH |
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| 29 | 29 | | (1) in subsection (a) by adding at the end the 1 |
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| 30 | 30 | | following: 2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | ‘‘(6) D |
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| 32 | 32 | | EADLINE.—Not later than 180 days 3 |
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| 33 | 33 | | after receiving from a non-Federal sponsor of a 4 |
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| 34 | 34 | | project a request to repair or rehabilitate a flood 5 |
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| 35 | 35 | | control work described in paragraph (1), the Sec-6 |
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| 36 | 36 | | retary shall initiate the repair or restoration of such 7 |
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| 37 | 37 | | flood control work.’’; and 8 |
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| 38 | 38 | | (2) in subsection (d)(2) by inserting ‘‘25 per-9 |
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| 39 | 39 | | cent of’’ before ‘‘the difference’’. 10 |
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