WIIN Act

Sponsor: John Cornyn (R-TX)

Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act or the WIIN Act TITLE I--WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT Water Resources Development Act of 2016 Subtitle A--General Provisions (Sec. 1101) This bill requires the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to enter cooperative agreements with youth service and conservation corps organizations for services on Corps projects. (Sec. 1102) The Corps of Engineers must use its existing channel depths and dimensions authority under the Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act of 1915 to carry out navigation safety activities at harbor or inland harbor projects eligible for Corps operation and maintenance under the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 (WRDA 1986), including at entrances, bends, sidings, and turning places necessary for the free movement of boats. (Sec. 1103) The bill makes permanent a requirement under WRDA 1986 that the Corps of Engineers use at least 10% (currently, exactly 10%) of the difference between the funds made available for a fiscal year to pay operations and maintenance costs of harbors and inland harbors and the funds that were available for such costs for FY2012 as priority funding for emerging harbor projects that transit less than 1 million tons of cargo annually.

Water Resources Development Topic assigned by the Congressional Research Service. CRS gives each bill one topic, based on the bill as introduced. This one carries 103 subject terms, so it spans well beyond that single label.