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PUBLIC LAW 93-251-lVIAR. 7, 1974

(b) Prior to initiation of measures authorized by this section, such non-Federal interests as the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, may require shall agree to such conditions of cooperation as the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, determines appropriate, except that such conditions shall be similar to those required for similar project purposes in other Federal waste resources projects. SEC. 67. The project for navigation at Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, authorized under provisions of section 201 of the Flood Control Act of October 27, 1965 (Public Law 89-298), is hereby modified to authorize and direct the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to perform such emergency dredging operations as the Chief of Engineers determines necessary to maintain channel depths sufficient to permit free and safe movement of vessels until such time as the authorized project is constructed. SEC. 68. (a) The Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, is authorized to undertake the phase 1 design memorandum stage of advanced engineering and design of the project involving the Willacy-Hidalgo Floodwater Bypass, the Laguna Madre Floodwater Channel, and the North Floodway Channel in the T./Ower Kio Grande Basin, in Willacy, Hidalgo, and Cameron Counties, Texas, substantially in accordance with the recommendations for phase I contained in the comprehensive study and plan of development. Lower E,io Grande Basin, Texas, dated July 1969, prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture in cooperation with the Texas Water Development Board, the Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board, and the Texas Water Eights Commission, at an estimated Federal cost of $600,000. (b) The Secretary of the Army, in cooperation with the Secretary of Agriculture, shall seek reasonable assurances that an adequate land treatment program satisfactory to the Secretary of Agriculture will be installed to provide necessary protection to the watershed lands and planned structural measures; that non-Federal entities will acquire all land rights needed in connection with the construction of the works of improvement authorized by this section; and that such entities will operate and maintain any upstream structural works of improvement on non-Federal lands. (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation, the draft environmental impact statement prepared on such works of improvement by the Soil Conservation Service pursuant to section 102 (2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act shall constitute the draft environmental impact statement on such works as authorized by this section, and such draft statement shall be circulated to Federal agencies and other appropriate parties at such time as the Secretary of the Army directs. SEC. 69. The project for beach erosion control and hurricane (tidal flooding) protection in Dade County, Florida, authorized by section 203 of the Flood Control Act of August 13, 1968 (Public Law'90-483), is hereby modified to provide for initial construction by non-Federal interests, and for subsequent future nourishment by Federal or nonFederal interests, of the 0.85-mile project segment immediately south of Baker's Haulover Inlet, and for reimbursement of the applicable Federal share of those project costs as originally authorized. Federal reimbursement shall be contingent upon approval by the Chief of Engineers, prior to commencement of the work, of the detailed plans and specifications for accomplishing the work as being in accordance with the authorized project.

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Lower Rio Grande B a s i n, Tex.

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