PUBLIC LAW 109–234—JUNE 15, 2006
120 STAT. 455
modify the 17th Street, Orleans Avenue, and London Avenue drainage canals and install pumps and closure structures at or near the lakefront; $250,000,000 shall be used for storm-proofing interior pump stations to ensure the operability of the stations during hurricanes, storms, and high water events; $170,000,000 shall be used for armoring critical elements of the New Orleans hurricane and storm damage reduction system; $350,000,000 shall be used to improve protection at the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal; $215,000,000 shall be used to replace or modify certain non-Federal levees in Plaquemines Parish to incorporate the levees into the existing New Orleans to Venice hurricane protection project; $1,584,000,000 shall be used for reinforcing or replacing flood walls, as necessary, in the existing Lake Pontchartrain and Vicinity project and the existing West Bank and Vicinity project to improve the performance of the systems; $30,024,000 for repairs, replacements, modifications and improvements of non-Federal levees and associated protection measures in Terrebonne Parish at full Federal expense: Provided further, That $16,000,000 is provided for the restoration of funds for hurricane-damaged projects in the State of Pennsylvania: Provided further, That any project using funds appropriated under this heading shall be initiated only after nonFederal interests have entered into binding agreements with the Secretary requiring the non-Federal interests to pay 100 percent of the operation, maintenance, repair, replacement, and rehabilitation costs of the project and to hold and save the United States free from damages due to the construction or operation and maintenance of the project, except for damages due to the fault or negligence of the United States or its contractors: Provided further, That the amount provided under this heading is designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 402 of H. Con. Res. 95 (109th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2006. Of the funds provided under this heading in chapter 3 of division B of Public Law 109–148, $15,000,000 are rescinded.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BUREAU
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WATER AND RELATED RESOURCES
For an additional amount for ‘‘Water and Related Resources’’, $9,000,000, to remain available until expended for Drought Emergency Assistance: Provided, That the amount provided under this heading is designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 402 of H. Con. Res. 95 (109th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2006. GENERAL PROVISION—THIS CHAPTER SEC. 2301. USE OF UNEXPENDED FUNDS. (a) IN GENERAL.— Notwithstanding any other provision of law, amounts made available to the State of Oklahoma or agencies or authorities therein (referred to in this section as the ‘‘State’’) before the date of enactment of this Act for general remediation activities being conducted in the vicinity of the Tar Creek Superfund Site in northeastern Oklahoma and in Ottawa County, Oklahoma, that remain unexpended as of the date of enactment of this Act are authorized
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