§2307 Control of ice

Summary

The Secretary must run a research program to control river ice and help communities break up ice that could cause floods or severe bank erosion. The Secretary must give technical help to local governments and buy ice-control and ice-breaking equipment to loan to them, and provide operating help when needed. Congress allowed $5,000,000 per year for each of fiscal years 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, and 1992 for these activities. The Secretary must also carry out specific projects: a demonstration to reduce ice flooding at Hardwick, Vermont (planning must consider recreational, scenic, and environmental values and include local groups), with up to $900,000 authorized for fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1986; an experimental screen program on the Salmon River near Salmon, Idaho, to trap frazil ice, with a report to Congress within one year of November 17, 1986 on feasibility and any environmental or social effects (or a local plan if the experiment is not acceptable), and $1,000,000 authorized for fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1986; and an ice-control project on the Kankakee River near Wilmington, Illinois, with a report to Congress within one year after November 17, 1986 and yearly after that, and $3,000,000 authorized for fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1986. Cost sharing rules in section 2213 apply, and the Secretary must report to Congress on these activities by March 1, 1989.