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 90 STAT. 2942

Red River Waterway, La., Tex., Ark., Okla. project modification.

Appropriation authorization. Big Blue Lake, Kans., project modification.

Appropriation authorization.

PUBLIC LAW 94-587—OCT. 22, 1976

hold and save the United States free from damages resulting from construction of the bridges and their approaches, (b) provide without cost to the United States all lands, easements, and rights-of-way necessary for the construction of the bridges and their approaches, and (c) maintain and operate the bridges and their approaches after construction is completed". SEC. 187. The project for navigation and bank stabilization in the Red River Waterway, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, authorized by the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1968 (82 Stat. 731) is hereby modified to provide that the non-Federal interests shall contribute 25 per centum of the construction costs of retaining dikes, bulkheads, and embankments required for initial and subsequent disposal of dredged material, and the Federal cost shall be 75 per centum (currently estimated at $3,700,000). The requirements for appropriate non-Federal interests to furnish an agreement to contribute 25 per centum of the construction cost set forth above shall be waived by the Secretary of the Army upon a finding by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency that for the area to which such construction applies, the State or States involved, interstate agency, municipality, other appropriate political subdivisions of the State, and industrial concerns are participating in and in compliance with an approved plan for the general geographical area of the dredging activity for construction, modification, expansion, or rehabilitation of waste treatment facilities and the Administrator has found that applicable water quality standards are not being violated. SEC. 188. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, at the request of the city of Williston, North Dakota, is authorized and directed to take such action as may be necessary to relocate certain water intakes, located on a pier of the Lewis and Clark Bridge on the Missouri River, threatened by siltation. There is authorized to be appropriated not to exceed $1,000,000 to carry out the provisions of this section. SEC. 189. (a) The project for Tuttle Creek Lake, Big Blue Lake, Kansas, authorized as a unit of the comprehensive plan for flood control and other purposes, Missouri River Basin, by the Flood Control Act approved June 28, 1938, as modified, is hereby further modified to authorize and direct the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to (1) provide a residential access road near Waterville, Kansas, from a point of intersection with F A S Route 431, located approximately 0.2 miles south of the northeast corner of section 16, township 4 south, range 6 east, and extending in an east southeasterly direction to a point of intersection with the existing township road located near the center of section 14, township 4 south, range 6 east, and (2) to replace the existing Whiteside Bridge, located one mile northwest of Blue Rapids, Kansas, so as to obtain an elevation of 1128.0 mean sea level. (b) There is authorized to be appropriated not to exceed $630,000 to carry out the purposes of this section. SEC. 190. (a) The Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, is authorized to undertake the phase I design memorandum stage of advanced engineering and design on the Days Creek unit of the project for flood control and other purposes on the Red River below Denison Dam, Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana, substantially in accordance with the report of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors at an estimated cost of $300,000. This shall take effect upon submittal to the Secretary of the Army by the Chief of

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