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 PUBLIC LAW 93-251-MAR. 7, 1974

Compensation.

5 USC 5332 note. 5 USC 5703. Technical assistance. Reports to congressional committees.

Appropriation.

T e c h n i c a l and engineering assistance. 42 USC 1962d-5 note.

Libby Dam, Mont., project modification.

P r e s q u e Isle Peninsula, Pa., project e x t e n s i o n.

Report to Congress. Appropriation. Atchafalaya River, L a., project modification.

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(D) make periodic reviews of the progress of the program pursuant to this section; (E) recommend means by which the knowledge obtained from the project may be made readily available to the public; and (F) perform such functions as the Chief of Engineers may designate. (3) Members of the Panel shall, while serving on business of the Panel, be entitled to receive compensation at rates fixed by the Chief of Engineers, but not in excess of the maximum rate of pay for grade GS-18, as provided in the General Schedule under section 5332 of title 5 of the United States Code, including traveltime and while away from their homes or regular places of business, they may be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 73b-2) for persons in Government service employed intermittently. (4) The Panel is authorized, without regard to the civil service laws, to engage such technical and other assistance as may be required to carry out its functions. (e) The Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, shall prepare and submit annually a program progress report, including therein contributions of the Shoreline Erosion Advisory Panel, to the Committees on Public Works of the Senate and House of Representatives. The fifth and final report shall be submitted sixty days after the fifth fiscal year of funding and shall include a comprehensive evaluation of the national shoreline erosion control development and demonstration program. (f) There is authorized to be appropriated for the first fiscal year following enactment of this section, and the succeeding four fiscal years, a total of not to exceed $8,000,000 to carry out the provisions of this section. SEC. 55. The Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, is authorized to provide technical and engineering assistance to non-Federal public interests in developing structural and nonstructural methods of preventing damages attributable to shore and streambank erosion. SEC. 56. The project for Libby Dam (Lake Koocanusa), Montana, authorized by the Flood Control Act approved May 17, 1950 (64 Stat. 170), is hereby modified to provide that the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, is authorized to compensate the drainage districts and owners of leveed and unleveed tracts, in Kootenai Flats, Boundary County, Idaho, for modification to facilities including gravity drains, structures, pumps, and additional pumping operational costs made necessary by, and crop and other damages resulting from, the duration of higher flows during drawdown operations at Libby Dam, except that the total of all such compensation shall not exceed $1,500,000. SEC. 57. The authorization for the beach erosion control project for Presque Isle Peninsula, Erie, Pennsylvania, as provided in section 101 of the River and Harbor Act of 1960 (74 Stat. 480) is reinstated and extended under the terms existing immediately prior to the termination of such authorization, for a period of five years from the date of enactment of this Act, or if the review study of such project being carried out by the Secretary of the Army is not completed prior to the end of such period, until such study is completed and a report thereon submitted to the Congress. There is authorized to be appropriated not to exceed $3,500,000 to carry out this section. SEC. 58. (a) The project for navigation in the Atchafalaya River and Bayous Chene, Boeus, and Black, Louisiana, authorized by the River and Harbor Act of 1968 (82 Stat. 731) is hereby modified to

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