Lake Erie Water Quality Protection Act

Lake Erie Water Quality Protection Act

This bill requires the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to prioritize implementation of dredged material management plans for federally authorized harbors in Ohio. Plans must limit open-lake disposal of dredged material and maximize its beneficial use.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4684 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4684

To provide for the implementation of dredged material management plans 
    at certain federally authorized harbors, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 28, 2022

Mr. Portman (for himself and Mr. Brown) introduced the following bill; 
 which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and 
                              Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide for the implementation of dredged material management plans 
    at certain federally authorized harbors, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Lake Erie Water Quality Protection 
Act''.

SEC. 2. DREDGED MATERIAL MANAGEMENT PLANS.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of the Army (referred to in this 
section as the ``Secretary'') shall prioritize implementation of 
section 125(c) of the Water Resources Development Act of 2020 (33 
U.S.C. 2326h) at federally authorized harbors in the State of Ohio.
    (b) Requirements.--Each dredged material management plan prepared 
by the Secretary under section 125(c) of the Water Resources 
Development Act of 2020 (33 U.S.C. 2326h) for a federally authorized 
harbor in the State of Ohio shall--
            (1) include, in the baseline conditions, a prohibition on 
        use of funding for open-lake disposal of dredged material 
        consistent with section 105 of the Energy and Water Development 
        and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2022 (Public Law 117-
        103; 136 Stat. 217); and
            (2) maximize beneficial use of dredged material under the 
        base plan and under section 204(d) of the Water Resources 
        Development Act of 1992 (33 U.S.C. 2326(d)).
    (c) Savings Provision.--This section does not--
            (1) impose a prohibition on use of funding for open-lake 
        disposal of dredged material; or
            (2) require the development or implementation of a dredged 
        material management plan in accordance with subsection (b) if 
        use of funding for open-lake disposal is not otherwise 
        prohibited by law.
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