40 Appropriation.
R u s s i a n River, Calif., project modification. 80 Stat. 1428.
Kehoe L a k e, Ky., s t u d y.
Salisbury, Md.
42 USC 4321 note.
Broadway L a k e, S. C, demonstration project.
PUBLIC LAW 93-251-MAR. 7, 1974
[88 STAT.
(b) There is authorized to be appropriated not to exceed $375,000 for the roadwork authorized by this section and not to exceed $600,000 to construct the bank protection works. SEC. 95. The project for Russian River, Dry Creek, California, as authorized in section 203 of the Flood Control Act of 1962 (76 Stat. 1173), as modified, is further modified to authorize and direct the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to compensate for fish losses on the Russian River which may be attributed to the operation of the Coyote Dam component of the project through measures such as possible expansion of the capacity of the fish hatchery at the Warm Springs Dam component of the project. SEC. 96. The Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, is authorized and directed to investigate and study the feasibility of acquiring, as a part of the project for Kehoe Lake, Kentucky, authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1966, an area consisting of approximately 4,000 acres for maintenance in its natural state and for the purpose of environmental investigations. SEC. 97. (a) If the Secretary of the Army acting through the Chief of Engineers, finds that the proposed project in Salisbury, Maryland, to be undertaken at the locations to be declared nonnavigable under this section is in the public interest, on the basis of engineering studies to determine the location and structural stability of any bulkheading and filling and permanent pile-supported structures, in order to preserve and maintain the remaining navigable waterway and on the basis of environmental studies conducted pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, then those portions of the South Prong of the Wicomico River in Wicomico County, State of Maryland, bounded and described as follows, are declared to be not a navigable water of the United States within the meaning of the laws of the United States, and the consent of Congress is hereby given, consistent with subsection (b) of this section, to the filling in of a part thereof or the erection of permanent pile-supported structures thereon: That portion of the South Prong of the Wicomico River in Salisbury, Maryland, bounded on the east by the west side of United States Route 13; on the west by the west side of the Mill Street Bridge; on the south by a line five feet landward from the present water's edge at high tide extending the entire length of the South Pi-ong from the east boundary at United States Route 13 to the west boundary at the Mill Street Bridge; and on the north by a line five feet landward from the present water's edge at high tide extending the entire length of the South Prong from the east boundary at United States Route 13 to the west boundary at the Mill Street Bridge. (b) This declaration shall apply only to the portions of the areas described in subsection (a) which are bulkheaded and filled or occupied by permanent pile-supported structures. Plans for bulkheading and filling and permanent pile-supported structures shall be approved by the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers. Such bulkheaded and filled areas or areas occupied by permanent pilesupported structures shall not reduce the existing width of the Wicomico River to less than sixty feet and a minimum depth of five feet shall be maintained within such sixty-foot width of the Wicomico River. Local interests shall reimburse the Federal Government for engineering and all other costs incurred under this section. SEC. 98. The Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, is authorized and directed to undertake a demonstration project for the removal of silt and aquatic growth from Broadway Lake, Anderson County. South Carolina, at an estimated cost of $400,000. The Secretary shall report to the Administrator of the
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