S. 4367 — Thomas R. Carper Water Resources Development Act of 2024

This section allows the Corps to conduct specified feasibility studies, including studies for 162 new projects, 40 project modifications, and 5 projects under the Corps continuing authority program.

This section directs the Corps to expedite the completion of five previously authorized feasibility studies, with specified modifications.

This section requires the Corps to expedite the completion of a feasibility study or general reevaluation report for 36 projects; a Chief’s Report or Director’s Report for 9 projects;39 projects and activities;5 projects under the CAP program;3 tribal partnership projects;2 watershed assessments;the prospectus for the U.S. moorings facility in Portland, Oregon; andthe disposition study for the Lower St. Anthony Falls Lock and Dam in Minnesota.

This section directs the Corps to expedite the review and coordination of four feasibility studies that are carried out by nonfederal sponsors.

This section directs the Corps to submit a report on each of the following topics: access for individuals with disabilities to Corps recreational areas;instances of high turbidity in a reservoir in the Willamette Valley, Oregon, resulting from a drawdown in the reservoir;a nonclassified report on security at Soo Locks in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, and the effects of a failure of the Soo Locks;efforts to promote, rehabilitate, and enhance the growth of seagrasses in Florida stormwater treatment areas;shoreline use permits at the Table Rock Lake project in Missouri and Arkansas;the Corps’s policies relating to using property buyouts as part of coastal storm risk management projects;fuel efficiency of each vessel within the Corps’s fleet;the operational status of Corps’s boat ramps;bridges owned, operated, and maintained by the Corps;whether Congress has provided the Corps the authority it needs to acquire interests in real estate that are less than fee simple title;efforts to prevent and mitigate flood damages associated with ice jams; andthe Corps’s authorities to construct water resources development projects abroad.

This section directs the Corps to annually report on certain operations and maintenance costs associated with harbors and inland harbors and the distribution of funds from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund.

This section states that the costs of completing a general reevaluation report for the project for navigation, Craig Harbor, Alaska, must be paid for by the federal government.

This section directs the Corps to study whether a project in the Colorado River Basin in Arizona should include water supply as a project purpose upon the request of the nonfederal interest or Arizona. If the Corps determines that water supply should be included, the Corps must recommend modifications to the project’s purpose.

This section directs the Corps to expedite the completion of a study for the reallocation of water supply storage for the Beaver Water District in Beaver Lake, Arkansas.

This section directs the Corps to expedite completion of the Oceanside, California, shoreline study and produce a recommended plan. If the plan is technically feasible and environmentally acceptable, the Corps may proceed directly to preconstruction planning, engineering, and design of the mitigation and beach restoration work.

This section directs the Corps to study the restoration of aquatic ecosystems in the Delaware Inland Bays watershed and allows the Corps to conduct feasibility studies recommended in the study.

This section directs the Corps to carry out a general reevaluation report for the project for the Delaware Bay Coastline, Roosevelt Inlet, and Lewes Beach, Delaware.

This section directs the Corps to develop an encroachment resolution plan related to a portion of the project for flood control, recreation, and fish and wildlife management at J. Strom Thurmond Lake in Georgia and South Carolina. The Corps may not take action to compel removal of an encroachment covered by the plan without approval from Congress.

This section directs the Corps to operate, maintain, and repair all features of the West Bank and Vicinity, New Orleans, Louisiana Hurricane Protection Project along the Algiers Canal Levees, Louisiana, at federal expense.

This section directs the Corps to evaluate and report on constructing a connection between the Upper Barataria Basin Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction project in Louisiana and the Morganza to the Gulf of Mexico project in Louisiana.

This section directs the Corps to carry out a disposition study for the deauthorization and potential removal of the Poor Farm Pond Dam in Worcester, Massachusetts.

This section directs the Corps to (1) study the effects of hot spot erosion on authorized coastal storm risk management projects in New Jersey, and (2) make recommendations for mitigating the effects.

This section authorizes the Corps, in carrying out certain studies of the New Jersey coastline, to include recommendations for ecosystem restoration.

This section directs the Corps to report on any real property associated with the Corps project at Lake Oahe in North Dakota that is not needed to carry out the project and may be transferred to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to support recreation opportunities for the tribe.

This section expresses the sense of Congress that the Allegheny River in Pennsylvania is an important waterway and that the lockage levels of service along the river should be preserved until after the completion of the feasibility study authorized by section 1201 of this act.

This section directs the Corps to (1) expedite the completion of the Buffalo Bayou Tributaries and Resiliency Study, Texas; and (2) submit a report with recommendations for projects by December 31, 2025.

The Corps must identify and report opportunities for potential exchange of land or flowage easements associated with the general plan for flood control for the Lake O’ the Pines project in Texas.

This section directs the Corps, to the maximum extent practicable, to expedite the completion of the required documentation for the Matagorda Ship Channel Improvement Project, Port Lavaca, Texas.

This section directs the Corps, to the maximum extent practicable, to expedite the review of a request from the City of Waco, Texas, that the Corp repair and restore the embankment adjacent to Waco Lake, Texas.

This section allows the Corps to carry out comprehensive studies for riverine and coastal flooding of coastal areas in Washington.

This section requires the nonfederal share of the costs of certain projects for economically disadvantaged communities in the Kanawha River Basin in West Virginia to be 10% of the total project costs.

This section directs the Corps to evaluate and recommend local and systemic measures to improve flood resiliency and reduce flood risk in the floodplain of the Upper Mississippi River System.

This section directs the Corps to brief Congress on the outcomes of consultations on endangered species regarding the operation of the Missouri River Mainstem Reservoir System, the operation and maintenance of the Bank Stabilization and Navigation Project, the operation of the Kansas River Reservoir System, and the implementation of the Missouri River Recovery Management Plan.

This section allows the Corps to conduct a comprehensive study on water supply and drought resilience for regions overlying the Ogallala Aquifer.

This section directs the Corps to seek to enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences to prepare a report containing (1) the results of a study on the Corps’ management and operations of the dams and reservoirs in the Upper Rio Grande Basin, and (2) recommendations for future management and operation strategies to optimize current project purposes and enhance resiliency.

This section directs the Corps, at the request of a nonfederal interest, to complete a feasibility study on comprehensive flood damage reduction in the Upper Susquehanna River Basin, New York.

This section specifies that the Corps is authorized to conduct a feasibility study for the Walla Walla River project on the Nursery Reach of the river in Oregon as well as the Mill Creek Levee and Walla Walla River Basin in Washington.

This section directs the Corps to expedite the review of a request from the relevant federal Power Marketing Administration to recoup certain modification costs for dam safety at Garrison Dam in North Dakota and Oahe Dam in South Dakota.

This section directs the Corps to share data and coordinate with relevant federal, state, and local agencies to obtain an accurate count of Cape Sable seaside sparrows in Florida. The Corps must provide a count during each year and, to the maximum extent practicable, during the 5-year period preceding each such year.

This section directs the Corps to assess and report to Congress on the Corps’s efforts to monitor, control, and eradicate invasive species at water resources development projects.

This section directs the Corps to provide a list to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) of ongoing water resources development projects that are over budget by at least $50 million or behind schedule by at least five years.

This section directs the Corps’s Engineer Research and Development Center to identify and report on potential measures that the Corps may implement to reduce the release of microplastics into the environment.

This section directs the Corps to carry out a post-disaster watershed assessment for (1) areas of Maui, Hawaii, impacted by August 2023 wildfires; and (2) areas near Belen, New Mexico, impacted by April 2022 wildfires.

This section directs the Corps to study and report on appropriate procedures for determining the value of real estate and cost-share contributions for projects under the Tribal Partnership Program.

This section directs the Corps to report on certain levee safety guidelines.

This section directs the Corps to develop and publish a guide on the use of public-private partnerships for water resources development projects.

This section directs the Corps to study and report on its authorities and programs that facilitate the use of alternative delivery methods for water resources development projects. (Alternative delivery methods are those other than the traditional design-bid-build method, including progressive design-build, public-private partnerships, and construction manager at risk.)

This section increases the authorization of appropriations for the Corps’s activities in support of interagency and international efforts to address problems of national significance to the United States.

This section directs the GAO to conduct studies regarding the accuracy of project cost estimates developed by the Corps for its completed and ongoing water resources development projects;components (e.g., indemnification clauses) of the Corps’s Project Partnership Agreements for such projects;a review of the Corps's Section 408 Program, which allows certain entities to modify existing Corps civil works projects (e.g., dams or levees);opportunities for the Corps to modernize the civil works program;the use of easements in certain water resources development projects;Corps efforts to improve the environmental review processes for project studies;types of dredged material disposal sites, particularly aquatic confined placement structures in the Lower Columbia River;the distribution of funding from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund;the Corps’s environmental justice initiatives;funding for certain donor ports subject to harbor maintenance fees;the Corps’s disaster preparedness and response activities;unauthorized homeless encampments on water resources development projects;data sharing efforts concerning sea-level rise and flooding;nature-based features that are incorporated into authorized water resources development projects;the use of ecosystem restoration for flood control or flood risk management projects;procedures to address the discovery of tribal historic or cultural resources at water resources development projects;the Corps’s role in support of Federal Emergency Management Agency missions; andthe impact of material contaminated by a hazardous substance on the Corps civil works program.TITLE III—DEAUTHORIZATIONS AND MODIFICATIONS

This section establishes a process for the Corps to deauthorize certain water resources development projects, or elements of a project, not yet initiated or funded.

This section deauthorizes projects or portions of projects concerning a study for the project for ecosystem restoration in East San Pedro Bay, California;a portion of the project for flood risk management in the Los Angeles County Drainage Area;a portion of the project for navigation in Bridgeport Harbor, Connecticut;the 25-foot-deep channel portion of the project for navigation in Thames River, Connecticut;a portion of the project for navigation in Jacksonville Harbor, Florida;a portion of the project for the Four River Basins, Florida;a portion of the project for navigation in Saint Petersburg Harbor, Florida;a portion of the project for navigation on the North Branch channel, Chicago River, Illinois;the project for flood control at the Cherryfield Dam on Narraguagus River in Maine;Dam Site 7 and Dam Site 12 in the Papillion Creek Basin, Nebraska;a project for flood risk management in Truckee Meadows, Nevada;a portion of the project for navigation on the Newtown Creek federal navigation channel in New York;the Talbott’s Nursery portion of the project for flood control in Souris River Basin, North Dakota;a portion of the project for navigation on Monroe Bay and Creek, Virginia; anda portion of the project for navigation in Seattle Harbor in Washington.The Corps must report to Congress on the impacts of deauthorizing portions of the project for flood protection on the Lower San Joaquin River and tributaries in California.

This section reauthorizes several Corps programs, including extending through FY2030 the Invasive Species in Alpine Lakes Pilot Program, a levee safety initiative, a nonfederal project implementation pilot program, and the Asian Carp Prevention and Control Pilot Program.

This section authorizes 193 new and modifies 64 existing environmental infrastructure projects of the Corps.

This section authorizes the Corps to increase the federal cost share to up to 90% for certain environmental infrastructure projects that benefit economically disadvantaged communities.

This section requires or authorizes certain conveyances of real property from the Corps. Specifically, the Corps may convey (1) to the City of Los Angeles, California, without consideration, approximately 11.25 acres of land in Sherman Oaks, California; and (2) to the County of San Luis Obispo, California, without consideration, the Salinas Dam and Reservoir. The Corps must convey (1) to Indiana, by quitclaim deed, approximately 11.85 acres of land and road easements associated with Dillard Road located in Patoka Township, Crawford County, Indiana; and (2) to the Port of Skamania County, Washington, upon receipt of fair market value, approximately 1.6 acres of specified land.

This section increases the federal cost share of the Selma Flood Risk Management and Bank Stabilization project in Alabama to 100%.

This section modifies the coastal erosion project in Barrow, Alaska, to specify certain floodplain management plan requirements.

This section extends Corps responsibility for the long-term maintenance and repair of the Lowell Creek tunnel in Seward, Alaska, until November 8, 2032.

This section directs the Corps to investigate flood and related problems along the San Francisco Bay shoreline in Contra Costa County, California.

This section modifies the Santa Ana River Mainstem Project for flood control in California to require the Corps to treat construction of the Santiago Creek Channel as a separable element of the project. Thus, the Santiago Creek Channel may be constructed, operated, and maintained as a self-contained unit. The channel is the portion of the project that consists of Santiago Creek downstream of the I-5 Interstate Highway to the confluence with the Santa Ana River. The Corps may not construct the Santiago Creek Channel unless such construction minimizes the impacts to existing trees in, or adjacent to, the channel. In addition, the Corps must report on the status of the implementation of the Santa Ana River Mainstem Project.

This section directs the Corps to terminate a specific water supply contract at the Colebrook River Reservoir in Connecticut, upon the request of the Metropolitan District of Hartford in Connecticut.

This section increases the authorization of appropriations for the Faulkner Island, Connecticut, shoreline protection project.

This section makes the federal cost share for carrying out the comprehensive plan to restore the northern estuaries in Florida 90% of the total project costs.

This section modifies requirements for the New Savannah Bluff Lock and Dam project in Georgia and South Carolina, including to require the lock and dam to maintain a stable pool with a specified daily average elevation,require the construction of a fish passage structure that mitigates impacts to fish habitat without removing the dam, andplace a ceiling on the construction costs to be paid by the Georgia Ports Authority.

This section modifies the Great Lakes and Mississippi River Interbasin project for ecosystem restoration in Will County, Illinois. After completion of construction of the project, the federal share of operation and maintenance costs of the project must be 90% for 10 years.

This section directs the Corps to complete a study relating to certain modifications to the Larose to Golden Meadow project in Louisiana.

This section modifies the project in Louisiana for hurricane and storm damage reduction from Morganza to the Gulf of Mexico. Specifically, the section directs the Corps to credit the nonfederal interest for certain work carried out by the nonfederal interest for interim flood protection after March 31, 1989, if certain conditions are met.

This section directs the Corps to review any feasibility study to modify the project for navigation of Port Fourchon Belle Pass Channel in Louisiana undertaken by the nonfederal interest by specified deadlines.

This section directs the Corps to take all possible measures to reduce the footprint of easements on the Upper St. Anthony Falls Lock and Dam in Minneapolis, Minnesota, including by examining the use of crane barges on the Mississippi River.

This section increases the authorization of appropriations for the Missouri River Levee System Unit L-385 Project in Riverside, Missouri.

This section establishes requirements for the reallocation of water storage space at Stockton Lake, Missouri. Specifically, the Corps must implement the reallocation of storage and enter into a water storage agreement with the Southwest Missouri Joint Municipal Water Utility Commission as described in the final Stockton Lake Water Supply Storage Reallocation Feasibility Study with Integrated Environment Assessment and Director’s Memorandum dated September 23, 2024, subject to specified modifications. This section also sets forth requirements to offset losses of federal hydropower at the Stockton Lake project.

This section directs the Corps to permit the ongoing presence of certain structures, such as homes with septic systems, at the Table Rock Lake project (located in Missouri and Arkansas) until they are abandoned or fail.

This section modifies cost sharing for the project for flood risk management, Mamaroneck-Sheldrake Rivers in New York. Specifically, it sets the nonfederal share of the costs of features benefiting an economically disadvantaged community at 10% of the total project costs.

This section modifies the authorities of the Corps related to the cutter suction dredge for the Columbia River Channel in Oregon and Washington. Specifically, the section authorizes the Corps to include, as part of the full operating costs of the dredge provided by the nonfederal interest for the project, any costs of replacing the dredge that the Corps and the nonfederal interest agree are necessary.

This section prohibits the Corps from completing its review of the operation and maintenance of the projects for flood control, navigation, and other purposes in Willamette River Basin, Oregon, until the Corps analyzes an alternative that ceases hydropower operations at the projects.

This section directs the Corps, upon the request of the Port of Houston Authority, to (1) review the land owned and easements held by the United States for the federal project for navigation on the Houston Ship Channel in Texas; and (2) convey, release, or exchange certain land provided that the transfer does not interfere with any federal navigation project that has been constructed or is authorized to be constructed.

This section sets the Corps cost share to 90% for a recommended corrective action for the navigation project on the Matagorda Ship Channel in Port Lavaca, Texas.

This section modifies the project for flood control on the San Antonio channel improvement in Texas, to require the Corps to carry out the project substantially in accordance with Alternative 7, as identified in the final General Re-evaluation Report and Environmental Assessment for the project, dated January 2014.

This section lowers the nonfederal interest's cost share to 10% of the total costs of critical restoration projects benefiting an economically disadvantaged community in the Lake Champlain Watershed in Vermont and New York.

This section sets the federal cost share to 100% for the operation and maintenance costs for the project for beach erosion control on Ediz Hook in Port Angeles, Washington. However, the nonfederal interest must be responsible for 50% of the excess cost of the operation and maintenance of such project over the cost which the Corps determines would be incurred if the harbor had a depth of 55 feet.

This section allows the Corps to establish a program to provide environmental assistance to nonfederal interests in Chelan County, Island County, King County, Kittitas County, Pierce County, San Juan County, Snohomish County, Skagit County, and Whatcom County, Washington. The Corps may provide design and construction assistance for water-related environmental infrastructure and resource protection and development projects in those counties. In order to receive assistance, the projects must be publicly owned.

This section expands the Corps program to carry out projects for storm damage prevention and reduction, coastal erosion, and ice and glacial damage in Alaska to include riverine erosion.

This section modifies a Corps program that provides environmental assistance to nonfederal interests in the Chattahoochee River Basin in Georgia, Alabama, and Florida, including to extend a deadline for project plans.

This section increases the authorization of appropriations for the Chesapeake Bay Oyster Recovery Program.

This section provides for the collective planning and implementation of coastal storm risk management and hurricane and storm risk reduction projects in Delaware, including by designating specified projects as the Delaware Coastal System Program.

This section sets the nonfederal cost share to 10% of the costs of the Delaware Inland Bays and Delaware Bay Coast’s Coastal Storm Risk Management study or project construction based on the study.

This section expands the Corps’s water resources development study of the Pacific Region to include Hawaii and coastal storm risk management.

This section reauthorizes through FY2029 critical restoration projects in the Illinois River Basin.

This section establishes a program to provide environmental assistance to nonfederal interests in Kentucky and West Virginia.

This section establishes criteria for land acquired to satisfy the total number of acres required for mitigating fish and wildlife losses through the Missouri River Bank Stabilization and Navigation Project in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska.

This section authorizes the Corps to repair or restore certain emergency shore restoration projects or public beaches damaged by a Nor'easter. The program expires after 10 years.

This section modifies requirements for the study of flood and storm damage reduction for the New York and New Jersey Harbor and Tributaries project. The Corps, upon the request of the nonfederal interest for the project, must expand the scope of the study to include an investigation of, and recommendations relating to, projects and activities to maximize the net public benefits from the reduction of certain comprehensive flood risks.

The Corps must establish a program to provide environmental assistance to nonfederal interests in southeastern North Carolina.

This section allows the Corps to establish a pilot program that reimburses nonfederal interests for the design and construction costs of treatment works for abandoned mine drainage in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.

This section expands the study for the Western Lake Erie Basin in Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan to include studying the development of measures to improve hurricane and storm damage risk reduction.

This section modifies the Corps’s program to provide environmental assistance to nonfederal interests in Ohio and North Dakota, including to set the nonfederal share of the costs of a project that benefits an economically disadvantaged community to be 10% of the total project costs.

This section allows the Corps to establish a program to provide environmental assistance to nonfederal interests in Oregon. Under the program, the Corps may provide design and construction assistance for publicly owned water-related environmental infrastructure and resource protection and development projects.

This section allows the Corps to establish a program to provide environmental assistance to nonfederal interests Pennsylvania. Under the program, the Corps may provide design and construction assistance for publicly owned water-related environmental infrastructure and resource protection and development projects.

This section specifies that the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority and Fairfax County Water Authority are customers of the Washington Aqueduct.

This section sets the federal cost share for the feasibility study of the water supply project in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, District of Columbia, to be 90% of the total project costs.

This section modifies the Corps’s program to provide environmental assistance to nonfederal interests in northern West Virginia, including to set the federal share of the costs of a project that benefits an economically disadvantaged community to be 90% of the total project costs.

This section modifies the Corps’s program to provide environmental assistance to nonfederal interests in southern West Virginia, including to set the federal share of the costs of a project that benefits an economically disadvantaged community to be 90% of the total project costs.

This section increases the authorization of appropriations for the Upper Mississippi River Restoration Program.

This section directs the federal government to pay for all of the predesign planning costs for Acequias rehabilitation and restoration.

This section reauthorizes through FY2029 and expands projects for underserved community harbors. The section authorizes the Corps to conduct ecosystem restoration activities for such harbors. The Corps may also carry out the projects in certain (1) harbors where passenger or freight service is provided to island communities dependent on that service; or (2) marinas or berthing areas that are located adjacent to, or are accessible by, a federal navigation project.

This section continues a Corps program to carry out appropriate planning, design, and construction measures for wildfire prevention and restoration in the Middle Rio Grande Bosque in New Mexico.

This section expands repayment terms for certain flood control projects to provide for the refund of excess credits.

This section requires the Corps to notify specified congressional committees if it receives a request from a nonfederal interest to renegotiate the terms and conditions of an eligible deferred payment regarding certain flood control projects.

This section modifies water supply contracts for Copan Lake in Oklahoma and Milford Lake and Perry Lake in Kansas regarding costs for water supply storage space.

This section decreases from 50% to 35% the nonfederal share of the cost of constructing, operating, and maintaining watercraft inspection and decontamination stations.

This section establishes requirements for the status of any replacement vessel for the federal hopper dredge McFarland.

This section expands the Corps’s program that removes silt, aquatic growth, and other materials from lakes to include (1) East Lake Tohopekaliga in Florida; (2) Dillon Lake in Ohio; (3) Hillcrest Pond in Pennsylvania; and (4) Falcon Lake and Lake Casa Blanca in Texas.

This section expands the list of navigation channels that the Corps must evaluate to determine if the Corps should become responsible for their maintenance. Specifically, the Corps must make such a determination for (1) West Dundalk Branch Channel and Dundalk-Seagirt Connecting Channel in Baltimore Harbor Anchorages and Channels, Maryland; (2) Crown Bay Marina Channel in the U.S. Virgin Islands; (3) Pidgeon Industrial Area Harbor in Memphis, Tennessee; (4) McGriff Pass Channel in Florida; and (5) Oak Harbor Channel and Breakwater in Washington.

This section directs the Corps to continue to maintain, at federal expense, the pile dike system constructed by the Corps for navigation along the Lower Columbia River and Willamette River in the Pacific Northwest.

This section directs the Corps to (1) coordinate with the relevant stakeholders and communities in Alabama and Mississippi to address the dredging needs of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway in those states, and (2) ensure continued navigation at the locks and dams owned and operated by the Corps located along the waterway.

This section reauthorizes through FY2030 and modifies requirements for projects carried out by the Corps to rehabilitate certain high hazard dams.

This section extends the program for soil moisture and snowpack monitoring in the Upper Missouri River Basin through FY2029.

This section extends through 2027 the waiver of a nonfederal interest’s payment of its share of damages relating to claims from the construction of water resources development projects.

This section directs the Corps to provide technical assistance and cost estimation assistance upon request to the relevant federal entity in order to address impacts to navigation along the Tennessee River at the Wilson Lock and Dam in Alabama.

This section expresses the sense of Congress that the Corps should coordinate with relevant stakeholders in Alabama to address the dredging and dredging material placement needs associated with the navigation project in the Theodore Ship Channel located in Mobile Harbor, Alabama.

This section expresses the sense of Congress that shallow draft dredging in the Chesapeake Bay is critical for tourism, recreation, and the fishing industry and that additional dredging is needed. It also urges the Corps to address the dredging needs at small harbors and channels in the Chesapeake Bay.

This section expresses the sense of Congress that the Corps should make certain data and decisions related to operations of civil works projects within the Missouri River Basin publicly available. TITLE IV—WATER RESOURCES INFRASTRUCTURE

This section authorizes 21 projects for water resources development and conservation, including projects related to navigation, hurricane and storm damage risk reduction, flood risk management, and ecosystem restoration.

This section authorizes the Corps to provide financial assistance to Florida for the design and construction of the North Feeder Stormwater Treatment Area in the Western Everglades Restoration Plan.

This section authorizes the Corps to carry out the Lake Okeechobee Storage Reservoir (Component A) of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan Project.

This section authorizes the Corps to design and construct three facilities using amounts available in a specified revolving fund. The facilities are located in Galveston and Corpus Christi in Texas and in the Longview Lake Project near Lee’s Summit, Missouri. DIVISION B—OTHER MATTERS TITLE I—FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE HIGHWAY FUNDING ACT OF 2024 Fiscally Responsible Highway Funding Act of 2024

This section provides for the redistribution of contract authority from the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) program to states. Specifically, the Department of Transportation (DOT) must redistribute $1,800,000,000 of unobligated balances under the TIFIA program to states. By way of background, the TIFIA program provides credit to finance surface transportation projects of national and regional significance. The contract authority must remain available until the end of FY2028 and is in addition to any other federal-aid highway funds given to states. The contract authority is subject to the obligation limitation for federal-aid highway and highway safety construction programs.

This section directs DOT to redistribute a portion of FY2025 TIFIA contract authority to states on April 1, 2025. DOT must first determine the amount of contract authority made available for credit assistance under the TIFIA program for FY2025 that is estimated to remain unobligated, and then distribute 75% of that amount to states. The contract authority must remain available until the end of FY2028 and is in addition to any other federal-aid highway funds given to states. The contract authority is subject to the obligation limitation for federal-aid highway and highway safety construction programs.

This section directs DOT to redistribute a portion of FY2026 TIFIA contract authority to states on April 1, 2026. After determining the amount of contract authority made available for credit assistance under the TIFIA program for FY2026 that is estimated to remain unobligated, DOT must distribute 75% of that amount to states. The contract authority must remain available until the end of FY2029 and is in addition to any other federal-aid highway funds given to states. The contract authority is subject to the obligation limitation for federal-aid highway and highway safety construction programs. TITLE II—ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF 2024 Economic Development Reauthorization Act of 2024 Subtitle A—Public Works and Economic Development

This section extends through 2026 and modifies the Public Buildings Reform Board (PBRB) established by the Federal Assets Sale and Transfer Act of 2016 (FASTA).

This section directs the General Services Administration (GSA) and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to establish standard methodologies and identify technologies available for measuring occupancy in public buildings and federally leased space. Agencies must work with the GSA to identify, deploy, and use those technologies to measure occupancy of their spaces. Agencies must also annually report on the occupancy and the actual utilization rates of spaces they occupy and certain other related data. Each year the OMB must ensure that building utilization in each public building and federally leased space is not less than 60% on average. If the building utilization is below that threshold, then the GSA must notify the relevant agency and specified congressional committees. The GSA must also take steps to reduce the agency’s space, such as consolidating the tenant agency with another agency or selling or disposing of excess capacity space, under certain circumstances. However, the GSA may provide exceptions to building utilization requirements if an agency demonstrates that non-standard office space is required to meet its mission. Within a year of this act’s enactment, the OMB must submit to specified congressional committees a plan to consolidate department and agency headquarters buildings in the National Capital Region that will result in building utilizations of 60% or greater. Within a year of the plan’s submission, the GSA and OMB must begin implementing the plan. This section establishes related reporting requirements, including a requirement for agencies to submit to their office of inspector general (OIG) a report of any of its spaces that have a utilization rate below 20% during the reporting period that are not vacant office buildings. Upon receipt of such a report, the OIG must conduct an investigation to determine whether there is any evidence of fraud, waste, abuse, or mismanagement associated with the low utilization rate.

This section directs the GAO to review and report on the impact of crime on in-person work rates in federal buildings and commuting modes of transportation to federal buildings and the effect of low office utilization rates on safety around federal buildings.

This section requires GSA to notify specified congressional committees if a federal building construction project’s scope or size increases or decreases by more than 5% and prohibits changes of more than 10% unless an amended prospectus is approved. The section also requires GSA to provide additional information when proposing projects for congressional approval. It also directs GSA to collect and report on data from certain federal agencies on safety incidents at federal public buildings. The section requires GAO to report on the use of special use spaces (e.g., conference centers or fitness centers) in federal buildings to determine levels of utilization, opportunities for sharing, and other efficiencies. GSA must share with tenant federal agencies pursuing new or replacement office space information on other agencies in the area for purposes of determining opportunities for space sharing. GSA must notify Congress of any project milestones that are accomplished for congressionally approved projects.

This section directs GAO to review and report on the administration and management of all Public Buildings Service (PBS) real estate programs and activities as well as activities related to the building operations account of the Federal Buildings Fund.

This section directs GSA to sell the building known as the Webster School in Washington, DC. Net proceeds must be deposited into the Federal Buildings Fund.

This section directs GSA, on behalf of the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Prisons, to sell certain federal property located in Missouri that is connected with the U.S. Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. The property may not be sold to a foreign entity.

This section directs GAO to report to specified congressional committees on whether buildings owned and leased by GSA comply with the Architectural Barriers Act.

This section directs GSA to modify the process by which the agency revises the P100 facilities standards, which are design standards and performance criteria for GSA-owned buildings. The section requires the process to include a public comment period and publication of the revisions in the Federal Register and on the GSA website. The GSA must also report on the modified process to specified congressional committees.

This section establishes an expiration date for certain congressional committee resolutions that authorize projects proposed by GSA. Unless a lease is awarded or a construction, alteration, repair, design, or acquisition project is initiated no later than five years after the resolution approves the project, the resolution’s approval expires.

This section directs GSA to offer to convey the Huntsville Courthouse and Post Office in Huntsville, Alabama, to the City of Huntsville for fair market value.

This section directs GSA to sell the Wilbur J. Cohen building in Washington, DC. Net proceeds must be deposited into the Federal Buildings Fund. The property may not be sold to a foreign entity.

This section designates a federal courthouse annex in London, Kentucky, as the Eugene E. Siler, Jr. United States Courthouse Annex.

This section designates a federal building in San Francisco, California, as the Senator Dianne Feinstein Federal Building.

This section redesignates the Richard H. Poff Federal Building in Roanoke, Virginia, as the Reuben E. Lawson Federal Building.

This section designates a courthouse in Clarksburg, West Virginia, as the Irene M. Keeley United States Courthouse.

This section designates a federal building in North Platte, Nebraska, as the Virginia Smith Federal Building.

This section designates a federal building and courthouse in Rome, Georgia, as the Harold L. Murphy Federal Building and United States Courthouse.

This section designates a federal courthouse in Los Angeles, California, as the Felicitas and Gonzalo Mendez United States Courthouse.

This section designates the Department of Energy's Integrated Engineering Research Center in Batavia, Illinois, as the Helen Edwards Engineering Research Center.