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33 U.S.C. § 2283b — Economic, hydraulic, and hydrologic modeling
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**(a) Model development** The Secretary, in collaboration with other Federal and State agencies, National Laboratories, and nonprofit research institutions (including institutions of higher education and centers and laboratories focused on economics or water resources), shall develop, update, and maintain economic, hydraulic, and hydrologic models, including models for compound flooding, for use in the planning, design formulation, modification, and operation of water resources development projects and water resources planning.
**(b) Coordination and use of models and data** In carrying out subsection (a), to the extent practicable, the Secretary shall—
(1) work with the non-Federal interest for a water resources development project to identify existing relevant economic, hydraulic, and hydrologic models and data;
(2) utilize, where appropriate, economic, hydraulic, and hydrologic models and data provided to the Secretary by the agencies, laboratories, and institutions described in subsection (a); and
(3) upon written request by a non-Federal interest for a project, provide to the non-Federal interest draft or working economic, hydraulic, and hydrologic models, and any data generated by such models with respect to the project, not later than 30 days after receiving such request; and
(4) in accordance with [section 2342 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title33-section2342&num=0&edition=prelim), make final economic, hydraulic, and hydrologic models, and any data generated by such models, available to the public, as quickly as practicable, but not later than 30 days after receiving a written request for such models or data.
**(c) Limitation** Nothing in this section may be construed to compel or authorize the disclosure of d
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**(a) Model development** The Secretary, in collaboration with other Federal and State agencies, National Laboratories, and nonprofit research institutions (including institutions of higher education and centers and laboratories focused on economics or water resources), shall develop, update, and maintain economic, hydraulic, and hydrologic models, including models for compound flooding, for use in the planning, design formulation, modification, and operation of water resources development projects and water resources planning.
**(b) Coordination and use of models and data** In carrying out subsection (a), to the extent practicable, the Secretary shall—
(1) work with the non-Federal interest for a water resources development project to identify existing relevant economic, hydraulic, and hydrologic models and data;
(2) utilize, where appropriate, economic, hydraulic, and hydrologic models and data provided to the Secretary by the agencies, laboratories, and institutions described in subsection (a); and
(3) upon written request by a non-Federal interest for a project, provide to the non-Federal interest draft or working economic, hydraulic, and hydrologic models, and any data generated by such models with respect to the project, not later than 30 days after receiving such request; and
(4) in accordance with [section 2342 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title33-section2342&num=0&edition=prelim), make final economic, hydraulic, and hydrologic models, and any data generated by such models, available to the public, as quickly as practicable, but not later than 30 days after receiving a written request for such models or data.
**(c) Limitation** Nothing in this section may be construed to compel or authorize the disclosure of data or other information determined by the Secretary to be confidential information, privileged information, law enforcement information, national security information, infrastructure security information, personal information, or information the disclosure of which is otherwise prohibited by law.
**(d) Model outputs** To the extent practicable and appropriate, the Secretary shall incorporate data generated by models developed under this section into the formulation of feasibility studies for, and the operation of, water resources development projects.
**(e) Funding** The Secretary is authorized, to the extent and in the amounts provided in advance in appropriations Acts, to transfer to other Federal and State agencies, National Laboratories, and nonprofit research institutions, including institutions of higher education, such funds as may be necessary to carry out subsection (a) from amounts available to the Secretary.
**(f) In-kind contribution credit** A partnership agreement entered into under [section 1962d–5b of title 42](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section1962d–5b&num=0&edition=prelim) may provide, at the request of the non-Federal interest for the applicable project, that the Secretary credit toward the non-Federal share of the cost of the project the value of economic, hydraulic, and hydrologic models required for the project that are developed by the non-Federal interest in accordance with any policies and guidelines applicable to the relevant partnership agreement pursuant to such section.
**(g) Review** The Secretary shall review economic, hydraulic, and hydrologic models developed under this section in the same manner as any such models developed under any other authority of the Secretary.
**(h) Definitions** In this section:
(1) **Compound flooding** — The term “compound flooding” means a flooding event in which two or more flood drivers, such as coastal storm surge-driven flooding and inland rainfall-driven flooding, occur simultaneously or in close succession and the potential adverse effects of the combined flood drivers may be greater than that of the individual flood driver components.
(2) **Economic** — The term “economic”, as used in reference to models, means relating to the evaluation of benefits and cost attributable to a project for an economic justification under [section 1962–2 of title 42](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section1962–2&num=0&edition=prelim).
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**(a) Prioritization of hurricane and storm damage risk reduction efforts**
(1) **Priority** — For authorized projects and ongoing feasibility studies with a primary purpose of hurricane and storm damage risk reduction, the Secretary shall give funding priority to projects and ongoing studies that—
(A) address an imminent threat to life and property;
(B) prevent storm surge from inundating populated areas;
(C) restore or prevent the loss of coastal wetlands that help reduce the impact of storm surge;
(D) protect emergency hurricane evacuation routes or shelters;
(E) prevent adverse impacts to publicly owned or funded infrastructure and assets;
(F) minimize disaster relief costs to the Federal Government; and
(G) address hurricane and storm damage risk reduction in an area for which the President declared a major disaster in accordance with [section 5170 of title 42](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section5170&num=0&edition=prelim).
(2) **Expedited consideration of currently authorized projects** — Not later than 180 days after December 16, 2016, the Secretary shall—
(A) submit to the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives a list of all—
(i) ongoing hurricane and storm damage reduction feasibility studies that have signed feasibility cost-share agreements and have received Federal funds since 2009; and
(ii) authorized hurricane and storm damage reduction projects;
(B) identify those projects on the list required under subparagraph (A) that meet the criteria described in paragraph (1); and
(C) provide a plan for expeditiously completing the projects identified under subparagraph (B), subject
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In any case in which a project under the jurisdiction of the Secretary is budgeted under a different business line than the business line under which the project was originally authorized, the Secretary shall ensure that the project is carried out in accordance with any requirements that apply to the business line under which the project was originally authorized.
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**(a) Congressional findings and declarations** The Congress finds and declares that—
(1) the Great Lakes are a most important natural resource to the eight Great Lakes States and two Canadian provinces, providing water supply for domestic and industrial use, clean energy through hydropower production, an efficient transportation mode for moving products into and out of the Great Lakes region, and recreational uses for millions of United States and Canadian citizens;
(2) the Great Lakes need to be carefully managed and protected to meet current and future needs within the Great Lakes basin and Canadian provinces;
(3) any new diversions of Great Lakes water for use outside of the Great Lakes basin will have significant economic and environmental impacts, adversely affecting the use of this resource by the Great Lakes States and Canadian provinces; and
(4) four of the Great Lakes are international waters and are defined as boundary waters in the Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909 between the United States and Canada, and as such any new diversion of Great Lakes water in the United States would affect the relations of the Government of the United States with the Government of Canada.
**(b) Congressional declaration of purpose and policy** It is therefore declared to be the purpose and policy of the Congress in this section—
(1) to take immediate action to protect the limited quantity of water available from the Great Lakes system for use by the Great Lakes States and in accordance with the Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909;
(2) to encourage the Great Lakes States, in consultation with the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec, to develop and implement a mechanism that provides a common conservation standard embodying the principles of water conservation and resource improvement
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The Council is authorized to delegate to any member or employee of the Council its administrative functions under [section 1962a–4 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section1962a-4&num=0&edition=prelim) and the detailed administration of the grant program under subchapter III.
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TITLE 33—NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
§ 2283b
(2) Projects included
The status report shall include the status of—
(A) all projects that are under construction
as of the date of the report;
(B) all projects for which the President re-
quests funding for the next fiscal year; and
(C) all projects that have undergone or com-
pleted construction, but have not completed
the mitigation required under section 2283 of
this title.
(3) Information included
In reporting the status of all projects included
in the report, the Secretary shall—
(A) use a uniform methodology for deter-
mining the status of all projects included in
the report;
(B) use a methodology that describes both a
qualitative and quantitative status for all
projects in the report; and
(C) provide specific dates for participation in
the
consultations
required
under
section
2283(d)(4)(B) of this title.
(4) Availability of information
The Secretary shall make information con-
tained in the status report available to the pub-
lic, including on the Internet.
(Pub. L. 110–114, title II, § 2036(b), Nov. 8, 2007, 121
Stat. 1094; Pub. L. 113–121, title I, § 1041, June 10,
2014, 128 Stat. 1243.)
Editorial Notes
CODIFICATION
Section was enacted as part of the Water Resources
Development Act of 2007, and not as part of the Water
Resources Development Act of 1986 which comprises
this chapter.
AMENDMENTS
2014—Pars. (3), (4). Pub. L. 113–121 added par. (3) and
redesignated former par. (3) as (4).
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
‘‘SECRETARY’’ DEFINED
Secretary means the Secretary of the Army, see sec-
tion 2 of Pub. L. 110–114, set out as a note under section
2201 of this title.
§ 2283b. Clarification of mitigation authority
(a) In general
The Secretary may carry out m
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