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The Water Resources Development Act of 1992 (WRDA 1992), , was enacted by Congress of the United States on October 31, 1992.〔(Law 102-580 at THOMAS (Library of Congress) )〕 Most of the provisions of WRDA 1992 are administered by the United States Army Corps of Engineers. ==Title I: Water Resources Projects== Authorizes public works projects in the following locations for improvements to navigation, flood control, ecosystem restoration, and beach erosion control and hurricane protection: Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nevada, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, Texas, and Virginia. Modifies projects at the following locations with respect to wildlife mitigation, flood control, beach erosion control and hurricane protection, navigation, and other improvements:, Alabama, Mississippi, California, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Rhode Island, Texas, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 to authorize a contract with the St. Johns River Water Management District and the Southwest Florida Water Management District for the continued operation and maintenance of portions of the Cross Florida barge canal project. Authorizes * visitor centers at Melvin Price Lock and Dam, Alton, Illinois, Mt. Morris Dam, New York, Northeastern New Jersey Regional Flood Operations-Response, Engineering, and Visitor Center, and at the John Hammerschmidt Lake, Arkansas River, Arkansas * the Lower Mississippi River Museum and Riverfront Interpretive Site, Vicksburg, Mississippi. Directs consultation with the Smithsonian Institution in the planning and design of the museum and site and with the Department of the Interior and the National Park Service in the planning, design, and implementation of interpretive programs. Authorizes studies and small navigation projects in Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Virginia, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Texas, and St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. Directs a Sonoma Baylands wetland demonstration project in the San Francisco Bay-Delta estuary, California. Sets forth funding limitations, constraints, transfers, obligations on various projects. Directs construction of a research and quarantine facility in Florida, to be used in connection with efforts to control Melaleuca and other exotic plant species that threaten native ecosystems in Florida. Authorizes navigation access to, and berthing areas at, all currently operating public and private commercial dock facilities associated with or having access to the Federal navigation project on the Columbia, Snake, and Clearwater Rivers. Directs a study for a streambank and shoreline protection project for Anaheim, California. Directs design, land acquisition, and construction of the Montgomery Point Lock and Dam on the White River, Arkansas. Authorizes a study for the purpose of determining whether there is contaminated ground water flowing downstream from and through existing Federal facilities at Whittier Narrows Dam, Los Angeles County, California. Directs completion of general, feasibility, navigation, and other studies, design memorandum, economic reevaluations, in the following states: California, Florida, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Virginia, Texas, and West Virginia. Directs a comprehensive assessment of adverse impacts to such watershed from Federal facilities, review current plans for reducing such adverse impacts, and carry out a feasibility study to identify and recommend measures for implementation to eliminate such adverse impacts. Continues the authorization for projects and studies (for flood control and other purposes) in Iowa, Louisiana, Missouri, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Texas. Deauthorizes navigation projects at the following locations: (1) Boothbay Harbor, Maine; (2) Boston Inner Harbor Channel, Massachusetts; (3) Newburyport, Massachusetts; (4) Greilickville, Michigan; (5) South Haven Harbor, Michigan; and (6) Sag Harbor, New York. Deauthorizes a portion of the Canaveral Harbor project, Florida. Provides gratuitous political, by-name designation for the following structures: * Lock and dam 3, Arkansas River, Arkansas, as the "Joe Hardin Lock and Dam" * The Greers Ferry Lake Visitors Center, Arkansas, as the "William Carl Garner Visitors Center" * The reservoir created by the James W. Trimble Lock and Dam on the Arkansas River, Arkansas, as the "John Paul Hammerschmidt Lake" * Lock 5 on the Red River Waterway, Louisiana, as the "Joe D. Waggonner, Jr. Lock" * The area for which environmental and other stream bank restoration measures are authorized relating to the project for flood control, Passaic River Mainstem, New Jersey and New York, as the "Joseph G. Minish Passaic River Waterfront Park and Historic Area" * The project for flood control, Buena Vista, Virginia, as the "James R. Olin Flood Control Project" * The Gallipolis Locks and Dam, Ohio River, Ohio and West Virginia, as the "Robert C. Byrd Locks and Dam" * The Mill Creek Reservoir, Washington, as the "Virgil B. Bennington Lake" 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Water Resources Development Act of 1992」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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