33 U.S.C. § 1268a — Great Lakes restoration activities report

Page 390 TITLE 33—NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS § 1268a Force functions of the member, any person who is part of the member’s department, agency, or office and who is either an officer of the United States ap- pointed by the President or a full-time employee serving in a position with pay equal to or greater than the minimum rate payable for GS–15 of the Gen- eral Schedule. The Task Force shall report to the President through the Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality. (ii) The Task Force shall establish a ‘‘Great Lakes Regional Working Group’’ (Working Group) composed of the appropriate regional administrator or director with programmatic responsibility for the Great Lakes system for each agency represented on the Task Force including: the Great Lakes National Pro- gram Office of the Environmental Protection Agency; the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, and United States Geological Survey within the Department of the Interior; the Natural Resources Conservation Service and the Forest Serv- ice of the Department of Agriculture; the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the De- partment of Commerce; the Department of Housing and Urban Development; the Department of Trans- portation; the Coast Guard within the Department of Homeland Security; and the Army Corps of Engineers within the Department of the Army. The Working Group will coordinate and make recommendations on how to implement the policies, strategies, projects, and priorities of the Task Force. (c) Management Principles for Regional Collabora- tion of National Significance. To further the policy de- scribed in section 1, the Task Force shall recognize and apply key principles and foster conditions to ensure successful collaboration. To that end, the Environ- mental Protection Agency will coordinate the develop- ment of a set of principles of successful collaboration. SEC. 4. Great Lakes National Program Office. The Great Lakes National Program Office of the Environmental Protection Agency shall assist the Task Force and the Working Group in the performance of their functions. The Great Lakes National Program Manager shall serve as chair of the Working Group. SEC. 5. Preservation of Authority. Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budget, administrative, regu- latory, and legislative proposals. Nothing in this order shall be construed to affect the statutory authority or obligations of any Federal agency or any bi-national agreement with Canada. SEC. 6. Judicial Review. This order is intended only to improve the internal management of the Federal Gov- ernment and is not intended to, and does not, create any right, benefit, or trust responsibility, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by a party against the United States, its departments, agen- cies, instrumentalities or entities, its officers or em- ployees, or any other person. GEORGE W. BUSH. § 1268a. Great Lakes restoration activities report (a) For purposes of this section the following definitions apply: (1) The terms ‘‘Great Lakes’’ and ‘‘Great Lakes State’’ have the same meanings as such terms have in section 1962d–22 of title 42. (2) The term ‘‘Great Lakes restoration ac- tivities’’ means any Federal or State activity primarily or entirely within the Great Lakes watershed that seeks to improve the overall health of the Great Lakes ecosystem. (b) Hereafter, not later than 45 days after sub- mission of the budget of the President to Con- gress, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in coordination with the Governor of each Great Lakes State and the Great Lakes Interagency Task Force, shall submit to the ap- propriate authorizing and appropriating com- mittees of the Senate and the House of Rep- resentatives a financial report, certified by the Secretary of each agency that has budget au- thority for Great Lakes restoration activities, containing— (1) an interagency budget crosscut report that— (A) displays the budget proposed, including any planned interagency or intra-agency transfer, for each of the Federal agencies that carries out Great Lakes restoration ac- tivities in the upcoming fiscal year, sepa- rately reporting the amount of funding to be provided under existing laws pertaining to the Great Lakes ecosystem; and (B) identifies all expenditures in each of the 5 prior fiscal years by the Federal Gov- ernment and State governments for Great Lakes restoration activities; (2) a detailed accounting of all funds re- ceived and obligated by all Federal agencies and, to the extent available, State agencies using Federal funds, for Great Lakes restora- tion activities during the current and previous fiscal years; (3) a budget for the proposed projects (in- cluding a description of the project, authoriza- tion level, and project status) to be carried out in the upcoming fiscal year with the Federal portion of funds for activities; and (4) a listing of all projects to be undertaken in the upcoming fiscal year with the Federal portion of funds for activities. (Pub. L. 113–76, div. E, title VII, § 738, Jan. 17, 2014, 128 Stat. 238.) Editorial Notes CODIFICATION Section was enacted as part of the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2014, and also as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014, and not as part of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act which comprises this chapter. § 1269. Long Island Sound (a) Office of Management Conference of the Long Island Sound Study The Administrator shall continue the Manage- ment Conference of the Long Island Sound Study (hereinafter referred to as the ‘‘Con- ference’’) as established pursuant to section 1330 of this title, and shall establish an office (here- inafter referred to as the ‘‘Office’’) to be located on or near Long Island Sound. (b) Administration and staffing of Office The Office shall be headed by a Director, who shall be detailed by the Administrator, fol- lowing consultation with the Administrators of EPA regions I and II, from among the employees of the Agency who are in civil service. The Ad- ministrator shall delegate to the Director such authority and detail such additional staff as may be necessary to carry out the duties of the Director under this section. (c) Duties of Office The Office shall assist the conference study in carrying out its goals. Specifically, the Office shall—