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Safeguarding Our Levees Act

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Introduced:
Apr 9, 2025
Policy Area:
Water Resources Development

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Apr 9, 2025
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.

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Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Type: Committee | Source: House committee actions | Code: H11000
Apr 9, 2025
Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Type: IntroReferral | Source: House floor actions | Code: H11100
Apr 9, 2025
Introduced in House
Type: IntroReferral | Source: Library of Congress | Code: Intro-H
Apr 9, 2025
Introduced in House
Type: IntroReferral | Source: Library of Congress | Code: 1000
Apr 9, 2025

Subjects (1)

Water Resources Development (Policy Area)

Cosponsors (1)

Text Versions (1)

Introduced in House

Apr 9, 2025

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Length: 1,720 characters Version: Introduced in House Version Date: Apr 9, 2025 Last Updated: Nov 14, 2025 6:20 AM
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2774 Introduced in House

(IH) ]

<DOC>

119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 2774

To amend
section 5 of the Flood Control Act of 1941 to impose a deadline for initiating the repair or restoration of project under such section, and for other purposes.
deadline for initiating the repair or restoration of project under such
section, and for other purposes.

_______________________________________________________________________

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

April 9, 2025

Mr. Harder of California (for himself and Mr. Higgins of Louisiana)
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on
Transportation and Infrastructure

_______________________________________________________________________

A BILL

To amend
section 5 of the Flood Control Act of 1941 to impose a deadline for initiating the repair or restoration of project under such section, and for other purposes.
deadline for initiating the repair or restoration of project under such
section, 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.

This Act may be cited as the ``Safeguarding Our Levees Act''.
SEC. 2.
Section 5 of the Flood Control Act of 1941 (33 U.

(a) ) is
amended--

(1) in subsection

(a) by adding at the end the following:
``

(6) Deadline.--Not later than 180 days after receiving
from a non-Federal sponsor of a project a request to repair or
rehabilitate a flood control work described in paragraph

(1) ,
the Secretary shall initiate the repair or restoration of such
flood control work.''; and

(2) in subsection
(d) (2) by inserting ``25 percent of''
before ``the difference''.
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