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<br />~ Page 1 <br />,_ :;J <br />./( <br /> <br />fJD~003 . <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Section-by-8ection Analysis <br /> <br />Section 1. The Short Title. <br /> <br />Section 2. Congressional Findings and Purposes. Congress <br />finds that maintenance of the Colorado River Floodway is <br />essential to accomplish the multiple purposes of the dams and <br />other control structures on the Colorado River. Congress finds <br />that certain federal programs which subsidize or permit <br />development within the Floodway threaten human life, health, <br />property, and natural resources. Congress finds further that <br />coordinated Federal, State and local action is necessary to limit <br />floodway development. <br />The purposes of the Act are to: "establish the Colorado <br />Ri ver Floodway... to provide benefi ts to river users..... and .to <br />"establish a Task Force to advise the Secretary of the Interior <br />and the Congress on establishment of the Floodway and on managing <br />existing and future development wi thin the Floodway..... <br /> <br />Section 3. Definitions. The definition of the term <br />"financial assistance" is virtually identical to the definition <br />contained in the Coastal Barrier Resources Act, P.L. 97-348. <br /> <br />Section 4. Colorado River Floodway Task Force. This <br />section establishes a Colorado River Floodway Task Force and <br />specifies its membership and functions. The Task Force is to <br />consider and make recommendations to the Secretary of the <br />Interior and to the Congress concerning "the means to restore and <br />maintain the Floodway..... including any necessary additional <br />legislation; "the necessity for additional Floodway management <br />legislation. . . "; "design criteria for the creation of the <br />floodway boundaries.....; ..the review of mapping procedures"; the <br />possibility of "compensation...in specific cases of economic <br />hardship resulting from impacts of the 1983 flood on property <br />outside the Floodway which could not reasonably have been <br />foreseen"; and, "The potential applicati on of the Floodway on <br />Indian lands and recommended legislation or regulations <br />needed.. .". The Task Force manbership will contain <br />representatives of a wide variety of local, State and Federal <br />interests. The Committee anticipates that federal agencies will <br />actively participate in Task Force activit~es, so that local and <br />State views will receive a full hearing. <br /> <br />Section 5. Colorado River Floodway. This section <br />requires the Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the <br />seven Colorado River Basin States, the Colorado River Floodway <br />Task Force, and other interested parties, to <br />1) complete a study of the tributary floodflows <br />downstream of Davis Dam; and <br />2) define the specific boundaries of the Colorado <br />River Floodway so that the Floodway can <br />accommodate either a one-in-one hundred year <br />