Pub. L. 95-502, tit. I, sec. 102

Sec. 102. (a) The Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, is authorized to replace locks and dam 26, Mississippi River, Alton, Illinois, and Missouri, by constructing a new dam and a single, one-hundred-and-ten-foot by one-thousand-two-hundred-foot lock at a location approximately two miles downstream from the existing dam, substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in his report on such project dated July 31, 1976, at an estimated cost of $421,000,000. (b) The Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, is authorized to replace, at Federal expense as a part of project costs authorized in subsection (a) terrestrial wildlife habitat inundated as a result of the construction of the project on an acre-for-acre basis in the respective States of Missouri and Illinois and to manage such lands as are thus acquired by the Secretary for wildlife protection purposes. The Secretary is further authorized to provide project-related recreation development on or in the vicinity of Ellis Island, Missouri, that requires no separable project lands and includes facilities such as roads, parking lots, walks, picnic areas, a boat launching ramp, and a beach, at an estimated cost of $4,000,000 to be cost shared with the State of Missouri and administered in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Water Project Recreation Act and undertaken independently of the navigation feature of the project. (c)The project depth of the channel above Cairo, Illinois, on the Mississippi River shall not exceed 9 feet, and neither the Secretary of the Army nor any other Federal official shall study the feasibility of deepening the navigation channels in the Minnesota River, Minnesota; Black River, Wisconsin; Saint Croix River, Minnesota and Wisconsin; the Mississippi River north of Cairo, Illinois; the Kaskaskia River, Illinois; and the Illinois River and Waterway, Illinois, unless specifically authorized by an Act of Congress enacted after the date of enactment of this Act.