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‘‘(3) the authority to approve any partnership agreement that complies with the policies and guidelines issued by the Secretary; and ‘‘(4) the authority to sign any partnership agreement for any water resources project unless, within 30 days of the date of authorization of the project, the Secretary notifies the district engineer in which the project will be carried out that the Secretary wishes to retain the prerogative to sign the partnership agreement for that project. ‘‘(f) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this subsection, and every year thereafter, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a report detailing the following: ‘‘(1) The number of partnership agreements signed by district engineers and the number of partnership agreements signed by the Secretary. ‘‘(2) For any partnership agreement signed by the Secretary, an explanation of why delegation to the district engineer was not appropriate. ‘‘(g) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY.—Not later than 120 days after the date of enactment of this subsection, the Chief of Engineers shall— ‘‘(1) ensure that each district engineer has made available to the public, including on the Internet, all partnership agreements entered into under this section within the preceding 10 years and all partnership agreements for water resources projects currently being carried out in that district; and ‘‘(2) make each partnership agreement entered into after such date of enactment available to the public, including on the Internet, not later than 7 days after the date on which such agreement is entered into.’’. (d) LOCAL COOPERATION.—Section 912(b) of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 (101 Stat. 4190) is amended— (1) in paragraph (2)— (A) by striking ‘‘shall’’ the first place it appears and inserting ‘‘may’’; and (B) by striking the last sentence; and (2) in paragraph (4)— (A) by inserting after ‘‘injunction, for’’ the following: ‘‘payment of damages or, for’’; (B) by striking ‘‘to collect a civil penalty imposed under this section,’’; and (C) by striking ‘‘any civil penalty imposed under this section,’’ and inserting ‘‘any damages,’’. (e) APPLICABILITY.—The amendments made by subsections (a), (b), and (d) only apply to partnership agreements entered into after the date of enactment of this Act; except that, at the request of a non-Federal interest for a project, the district engineer for the district in which the project is located may amend a project partnership agreement entered into on or before such date and under which construction on the project has not been initiated as of such date of enactment for the purpose of incorporating such amendments. (f) AGREEMENTS AND REFERENCES.— (1) IN GENERAL.—A goal of agreements entered into under section 221 of the Flood Control Act of 1970 (42 U.S.C. 1962d– 5b) shall be to further partnership and cooperation, and the agreements shall be referred to as ‘‘partnership agreements’’.

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