§2282f Review of Resiliency Assessments

Summary

The Secretary must, within 180 days after December 27, 2020, review and, when needed, update the Corps of Engineers’ planning guidance and rules for checking how sea level rise and inland flooding affect future water projects. The review must use the best available peer‑reviewed science, be done with the Engineer Research and Development Center and other federal and state agencies and relevant groups, and use data from those agencies when possible. When a non‑Federal group asks for a feasibility study for flood risk reduction, hurricane or storm damage reduction, or ecosystem restoration, the Secretary must check whether sea level rise or inland flooding causes or makes the problem worse. The study should, whenever possible, record the likely effects and benefits related to sea level rise or inland flooding over the 50‑year period after the project is completed.