Authorizes public works projects in specified locations for improvements to navigation, flood control, storm damage reduction, and the construction of recreation features.
Modifies various public works projects previously authorized under prior water resources development Acts.
Directs the studies for the completion of flood control projects in Arkansas, Indiana, Texas, and West Virginia.
Requires biennial reports beginning in 1992 concerning water resources project modifications for improving the quality of the environment in the public interest.
Directs environmental protection as one of the primary missions of the United States Army Corps of Engineers in planning, designing, constructing, operating, and maintaining water resources projects.
Authorizes a program to evaluate and demonstrate the use of constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment, as well as methods by which such projects contribute to meeting the objectives of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act.
Directs a study of the operations of reservoir projects under Army jurisdiction and report the results to the Congress.
Directs, in planning any water resources project, consideration of its impact on existing and future recreational and commercial uses.
Authorizes Corps of Engineers' research and development laboratories to provide assistance to corporations, partnerships, limited partnerships, consortia, public and private foundations, universities, and nonprofit organizations operating within the United States or its territories or possessions under specified conditions, including that providing such assistance is in the public interest and within the mission of the Corps.
Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1974 to authorize the Secretary, in order to recover 50 percent of the cost of providing assistance to States for the development, utilization, and conservation of water and related resources of drainage basins, to establish and collect appropriate fees from States and other non-Federal public bodies to whom such assistance is provided.
Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 (WRDA 1986) to deauthorize the Cross Florida Barge Canal project located between the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean.
Authorizes grants to New York for research, studies, surveys, and activities in connection with the development of a management plan for the Lake.
Requires the Army, the Bureau of Reclamation, and Bonneville Power Administration to issue a joint report on the regulation of Dworshak Dam, Idaho.
Expresses the sense of the Congress that priority consideration will be given to the authorization of water resources development projects which are recommended by the Chief of Engineers.
Authorizes the EPA to undertake a demonstration project to eliminate contamination of the waters near Woodlawn Beach, Hamburg, New York, from nonpoint sources of pollution resulting from surface runoff and septic system contamination entering Rush and Blasdell Creeks.