Pub. L. 93-251, tit. I, sec. 12

Sec. 12. (a) As soon as practicable after the date of enactment of this section and at least once each year thereafter, the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, shall review and submit to Congress a list of those authorized projects for works of 88 Stat. 17improvement of rivers and harbors and other waterways for navigation, beach erosion, flood control, and other purposes which have been authorized for a period of at least eight years without any Congressional appropriations within the last eight years and which he determines, after appropriate review, should no longer be authorized. Each project so listed shall be accompanied by the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers together with his reasons for such recommendation. Prior to the submission of such list to the Congress, the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, shall obtain the views of interested Federal departments, agencies, and instrumentalities, and of the Governor of each State wherein such project would be located, which views shall be furnished within sixty days after being requested by the Secretary and which shall accompany the list submitted to Congress. Prior to the submission of such list to Congress the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, shall notify each Senator hr whose State, and each Member of the House of Representatives in whose district, a project (including any part thereof) on such list would be located. (b) Such list shall be delivered to both Houses on the same day and to each House while it is in session. A project on such list shall not be authorized at the end of the first period of one hundred and eighty calendar days of continuous session of Congress after the date such list is delivered to it unless between the date of delivery and the end of such one hundred and eighty-day period, either the Committee on Public Works of the House of Representatives or the Committee on Public Works of the Senate adopts a resolution stating that such project shall continue to be an authorized project. For the purposes of this section continuity of session is broken only by an adjournment of Congress sine die, and the days on which either House is not in session because of an adjournment of more than three days to a day certain are excluded in the computation of the one hundred and eighty-day period. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any project contained in a list of projects submitted to the Congress within one hundred and eighty days preceding the date of adjournment sine die of any session of Congress. (c) Nothing in this section shall be construed so as to preclude the Secretary from withdrawing any project or projects from such list at any time prior to the final day of the period provided for in subsection (b). (d) This section shall not be applicable to any project which has been included in a resolution adopted pursuant to subsection (b). (e) The Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, shall, on request by resolution of the Committee on Public Works of the Senate or the Committee on Public Works of the House of Representatives, review authorized projects for inclusion in the list of projects provided for in subsection (a) of tills section. If any project so reviewed is not included in any of the first three lists submitted to the Congress after the date of the resolution directing the review of the project, a report on the review together with the reasons for not recommending deauthorization, shall be submitted to the Committees on Public Works of the Senate and House of Representatives not later than the date of the third list submitted to Congress after the date of such resolution.