Water Projects Meeting, June 11, 1985

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Water Projects Meeting, June 11, 1985

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1985-06-11

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1985-06-11

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99th (1985-1987)

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See all items with this valueFederal aid to water resources development

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Water Resources Development

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Dole, Robert J., 1923-2021

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Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

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Robert J. Dole Republican Leadership Collection, 1985-1996

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TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1985 - 5:00 p.m. S-230
re: Water Projects

(checked) Dole
(checked) Abdnor
(checked) Domenici
(checked) Hatfield
(checked) Stafford
(checked) Simpson


(page 2)
Subject: Water Projects
Date: June 11, 1985
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Location: S-230

Republican Leadership
Senator
Position
Invited
Yes
No
Armstrong
Policy-Chairman



Chafee
Conference-Chairman



Cochran
Conference-Secretary



Dole
Majority Leader
(checked)
(checked)

Heinz
Senatorial Comm.-Chairman



Simpson
Asst. Majority Leader



Thurmond
President Pro Tempore




Committee Chairmen
Senator
Committee
Invited
Yes
No
Abdnor
Joint Economic
(checked)
(checked)

Andrews
Select -- Indian Affairs



Danforth
Commerce



Domenici
Budget
(checked)
(checked)

Durenburger
Intelligence



Garn
Banking



Goldwater
Armed Services



Hatch
Labor



Hatfield
Appropriations
(checked) wcb


Heinz
Special -- Aging



Helms
Agriculture



Lugar
Foreign Relations



Mathias
Rules & Administration



McClure
Energy



Murkowski
Veterans Affairs



Packwood
Finance



Roth
Governmental Affairs



Rudman
Select -- Ethics



Stafford
Environment
(checked)
(checked)

Thurmond
Judiciary



Weicker
Small Business




Republicans
Boschwitz
Cohen
D'Amato
Denton
East
Evans
Gorton
Gramm
Grassley
Hawkins
Hecht
Humphrey
Kassebaum
Kasten
Laxalt
Mattingly
McConnell
Nickles
Pressler
Quayle
Specter
Stevens
Symms
Trible
Wallop
Warner
Wilson

Democrats
Baucus
Bentsen
Biden
Bingaman
Boren
Bradley
Bumpers
Burdick
Byrd
Chiles
Cranston
DeConcini
Dixon
Dodd
Eagleton
Exon
Ford
Glenn
Gore
Harkin
Hart
Heflin
Hollings
Inouye
Johnston
Kennedy
Kerry
Lautenberg
Leahy
Levin
Long
Matsunaga
Melcher
Metzenbaum
Mitchell
Moynihan
Nunn
Pell
Proxmire
Pryor
Riegle
Rockefeller
Sarbanes
Sasser
Simon
Stennis
Zorinsky

Administration:
Dave Stockman?


(page 3)
BOB DOLE
KANSAS

United States Senate
OFFICE OF THE MAJORITY LEADER
WASHINGTON, DC 20510
June 7, 1985

MEMORANDUM
TO: SENATOR DOLE
FROM: SHEILA BURKE (initialed)
SUBJECT: WATER PROJECTS
Senator Domenici has asked that you convene a meeting on Monday afternoon to review the possible agreement on water projects. He would like Senators Hatfield, Stafford, and Abdnor included.
Shall we set up a meeting?
Yes (blank)
No (blank)
SB/jg


(page 4)
SENATE DRAFT
I. Proposals Acceptable to the Administration
o User fees for harbor maintenance
- 0.04 percent ad valorem tax on imports and exports to recover 30-to-40 percent of Corps of Engineers harbor operations and maintenance expenditures. Money to be deposited in a dedicated O & M Trust Fund. Will raise an estimated $130 million in FY 1986 and $435 million over 1986-88.
o Non-navigation cost sharing
-- 25% - 35% non-federal cost sharing for flood control
-- 50% cost sharing on new project feasibility studies
-- Other cost sharing provision in Abdnor bill which should be included:
- Hydro electric - 100%
- M & I water supply - 100%
- Irrigators (corps only) - 35%
- Recreation - 50%
- Beach erosion control - 35% - 50%
- Fish and Wildlife mitigation - allocated to other project purposes
o State matching grants for dam safety ($15 million a year), but specify not an entitlement for federal renovation.
o Deletion of M & I loan program
II. Proposals Unacceptable to Administration
o Water conservation grant program
o N.Y. barge canal
o Harbor construction cost sharing:


(page 5)
NON FEDERAL COST SHARE

Senate Draft

Administration

Depth
Upfront
Amortized
Upfront
Amortized
0-20
0%
0%
40%
30%*
20-45
0
30
40
30*
Deeper than 45
Option 1
100%**

Unacceptable

Option 2
25
25
60
40*
* Treasury interest plus 1/8 percent recalculated every 5 years on comparable federal portfolio yield rates
** With 90 percent federal loan guarantee available for non-federal share

o Inland navigation
Senate Draft
Administration
o no change in current law
o 100 percent new construction from Trust Fund
o Double fuel tax in 5 years

III. Projects Unacceptable to Administration
o Animas LaPlata
o Atchafalaya Basin
o Red River Chloride
o Lock and Dams 26 (2nd lock and mitigation)
o Oliver lock and dam
o Mobile Harbor
o Lower Mississippi to Baton Rouge
o Richmond Filtration
o Various Recreation harbor and projects, e.g.
- Liberty State
- Port Ontario Harbor
- Dode County
- Geneva-on-the-Lake
- Fort Toulouse
- Mound State Mon.
IV. Fencing language - (See attached)


(page 6)
FENCING LANGUAGE
Provided, that none of the funds herein appropriated may be obligated to undertake such projects until:
a) local sponsors agree to pay 50 percentum of the annual construction and planning costs concurrently with Federal obligation; or
b) authorizing legislation establishing new cost sharing and financing rules for the various classes of projects is enacted into law.
Provided further, funds appropriated herein will lapse 12 months after the date of enactment of this provision if the conditions established in paragraphs (a) or (b) above have not been met.

TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1985 - 5:00 p.m. S-230
re: Water Projects

(checked) Dole
(checked) Abdnor
(checked) Domenici
(checked) Hatfield
(checked) Stafford
(checked) Simpson


(page 2)
Subject: Water Projects
Date: June 11, 1985
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Location: S-230

Republican Leadership
Senator
Position
Invited
Yes
No
Armstrong
Policy-Chairman



Chafee
Conference-Chairman



Cochran
Conference-Secretary



Dole
Majority Leader
(checked)
(checked)

Heinz
Senatorial Comm.-Chairman



Simpson
Asst. Majority Leader



Thurmond
President Pro Tempore




Committee Chairmen
Senator
Committee
Invited
Yes
No
Abdnor
Joint Economic
(checked)
(checked)

Andrews
Select -- Indian Affairs



Danforth
Commerce



Domenici
Budget
(checked)
(checked)

Durenburger
Intelligence



Garn
Banking



Goldwater
Armed Services



Hatch
Labor



Hatfield
Appropriations
(checked) wcb


Heinz
Special -- Aging



Helms
Agriculture



Lugar
Foreign Relations



Mathias
Rules & Administration



McClure
Energy



Murkowski
Veterans Affairs



Packwood
Finance



Roth
Governmental Affairs



Rudman
Select -- Ethics



Stafford
Environment
(checked)
(checked)

Thurmond
Judiciary



Weicker
Small Business




Republicans
Boschwitz
Cohen
D'Amato
Denton
East
Evans
Gorton
Gramm
Grassley
Hawkins
Hecht
Humphrey
Kassebaum
Kasten
Laxalt
Mattingly
McConnell
Nickles
Pressler
Quayle
Specter
Stevens
Symms
Trible
Wallop
Warner
Wilson

Democrats
Baucus
Bentsen
Biden
Bingaman
Boren
Bradley
Bumpers
Burdick
Byrd
Chiles
Cranston
DeConcini
Dixon
Dodd
Eagleton
Exon
Ford
Glenn
Gore
Harkin
Hart
Heflin
Hollings
Inouye
Johnston
Kennedy
Kerry
Lautenberg
Leahy
Levin
Long
Matsunaga
Melcher
Metzenbaum
Mitchell
Moynihan
Nunn
Pell
Proxmire
Pryor
Riegle
Rockefeller
Sarbanes
Sasser
Simon
Stennis
Zorinsky

Administration:
Dave Stockman?


(page 3)
BOB DOLE
KANSAS

United States Senate
OFFICE OF THE MAJORITY LEADER
WASHINGTON, DC 20510
June 7, 1985

MEMORANDUM
TO: SENATOR DOLE
FROM: SHEILA BURKE (initialed)
SUBJECT: WATER PROJECTS
Senator Domenici has asked that you convene a meeting on Monday afternoon to review the possible agreement on water projects. He would like Senators Hatfield, Stafford, and Abdnor included.
Shall we set up a meeting?
Yes (blank)
No (blank)
SB/jg


(page 4)
SENATE DRAFT
I. Proposals Acceptable to the Administration
o User fees for harbor maintenance
- 0.04 percent ad valorem tax on imports and exports to recover 30-to-40 percent of Corps of Engineers harbor operations and maintenance expenditures. Money to be deposited in a dedicated O & M Trust Fund. Will raise an estimated $130 million in FY 1986 and $435 million over 1986-88.
o Non-navigation cost sharing
-- 25% - 35% non-federal cost sharing for flood control
-- 50% cost sharing on new project feasibility studies
-- Other cost sharing provision in Abdnor bill which should be included:
- Hydro electric - 100%
- M & I water supply - 100%
- Irrigators (corps only) - 35%
- Recreation - 50%
- Beach erosion control - 35% - 50%
- Fish and Wildlife mitigation - allocated to other project purposes
o State matching grants for dam safety ($15 million a year), but specify not an entitlement for federal renovation.
o Deletion of M & I loan program
II. Proposals Unacceptable to Administration
o Water conservation grant program
o N.Y. barge canal
o Harbor construction cost sharing:


(page 5)
NON FEDERAL COST SHARE

Senate Draft

Administration

Depth
Upfront
Amortized
Upfront
Amortized
0-20
0%
0%
40%
30%*
20-45
0
30
40
30*
Deeper than 45
Option 1
100%**

Unacceptable

Option 2
25
25
60
40*
* Treasury interest plus 1/8 percent recalculated every 5 years on comparable federal portfolio yield rates
** With 90 percent federal loan guarantee available for non-federal share

o Inland navigation
Senate Draft
Administration
o no change in current law
o 100 percent new construction from Trust Fund
o Double fuel tax in 5 years

III. Projects Unacceptable to Administration
o Animas LaPlata
o Atchafalaya Basin
o Red River Chloride
o Lock and Dams 26 (2nd lock and mitigation)
o Oliver lock and dam
o Mobile Harbor
o Lower Mississippi to Baton Rouge
o Richmond Filtration
o Various Recreation harbor and projects, e.g.
- Liberty State
- Port Ontario Harbor
- Dode County
- Geneva-on-the-Lake
- Fort Toulouse
- Mound State Mon.
IV. Fencing language - (See attached)


(page 6)
FENCING LANGUAGE
Provided, that none of the funds herein appropriated may be obligated to undertake such projects until:
a) local sponsors agree to pay 50 percentum of the annual construction and planning costs concurrently with Federal obligation; or
b) authorizing legislation establishing new cost sharing and financing rules for the various classes of projects is enacted into law.
Provided further, funds appropriated herein will lapse 12 months after the date of enactment of this provision if the conditions established in paragraphs (a) or (b) above have not been met.

TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1985 - 5:00 p.m. S-230
re: Water Projects

(checked) Dole
(checked) Abdnor
(checked) Domenici
(checked) Hatfield
(checked) Stafford
(checked) Simpson


(page 2)
Subject: Water Projects
Date: June 11, 1985
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Location: S-230

Republican Leadership
Senator
Position
Invited
Yes
No
Armstrong
Policy-Chairman



Chafee
Conference-Chairman



Cochran
Conference-Secretary



Dole
Majority Leader
(checked)
(checked)

Heinz
Senatorial Comm.-Chairman



Simpson
Asst. Majority Leader



Thurmond
President Pro Tempore




Committee Chairmen
Senator
Committee
Invited
Yes
No
Abdnor
Joint Economic
(checked)
(checked)

Andrews
Select -- Indian Affairs



Danforth
Commerce



Domenici
Budget
(checked)
(checked)

Durenburger
Intelligence



Garn
Banking



Goldwater
Armed Services



Hatch
Labor



Hatfield
Appropriations
(checked) wcb


Heinz
Special -- Aging



Helms
Agriculture



Lugar
Foreign Relations



Mathias
Rules & Administration



McClure
Energy



Murkowski
Veterans Affairs



Packwood
Finance



Roth
Governmental Affairs



Rudman
Select -- Ethics



Stafford
Environment
(checked)
(checked)

Thurmond
Judiciary



Weicker
Small Business




Republicans
Boschwitz
Cohen
D'Amato
Denton
East
Evans
Gorton
Gramm
Grassley
Hawkins
Hecht
Humphrey
Kassebaum
Kasten
Laxalt
Mattingly
McConnell
Nickles
Pressler
Quayle
Specter
Stevens
Symms
Trible
Wallop
Warner
Wilson

Democrats
Baucus
Bentsen
Biden
Bingaman
Boren
Bradley
Bumpers
Burdick
Byrd
Chiles
Cranston
DeConcini
Dixon
Dodd
Eagleton
Exon
Ford
Glenn
Gore
Harkin
Hart
Heflin
Hollings
Inouye
Johnston
Kennedy
Kerry
Lautenberg
Leahy
Levin
Long
Matsunaga
Melcher
Metzenbaum
Mitchell
Moynihan
Nunn
Pell
Proxmire
Pryor
Riegle
Rockefeller
Sarbanes
Sasser
Simon
Stennis
Zorinsky

Administration:
Dave Stockman?


(page 3)
BOB DOLE
KANSAS

United States Senate
OFFICE OF THE MAJORITY LEADER
WASHINGTON, DC 20510
June 7, 1985

MEMORANDUM
TO: SENATOR DOLE
FROM: SHEILA BURKE (initialed)
SUBJECT: WATER PROJECTS
Senator Domenici has asked that you convene a meeting on Monday afternoon to review the possible agreement on water projects. He would like Senators Hatfield, Stafford, and Abdnor included.
Shall we set up a meeting?
Yes (blank)
No (blank)
SB/jg


(page 4)
SENATE DRAFT
I. Proposals Acceptable to the Administration
o User fees for harbor maintenance
- 0.04 percent ad valorem tax on imports and exports to recover 30-to-40 percent of Corps of Engineers harbor operations and maintenance expenditures. Money to be deposited in a dedicated O & M Trust Fund. Will raise an estimated $130 million in FY 1986 and $435 million over 1986-88.
o Non-navigation cost sharing
-- 25% - 35% non-federal cost sharing for flood control
-- 50% cost sharing on new project feasibility studies
-- Other cost sharing provision in Abdnor bill which should be included:
- Hydro electric - 100%
- M & I water supply - 100%
- Irrigators (corps only) - 35%
- Recreation - 50%
- Beach erosion control - 35% - 50%
- Fish and Wildlife mitigation - allocated to other project purposes
o State matching grants for dam safety ($15 million a year), but specify not an entitlement for federal renovation.
o Deletion of M & I loan program
II. Proposals Unacceptable to Administration
o Water conservation grant program
o N.Y. barge canal
o Harbor construction cost sharing:


(page 5)
NON FEDERAL COST SHARE

Senate Draft

Administration

Depth
Upfront
Amortized
Upfront
Amortized
0-20
0%
0%
40%
30%*
20-45
0
30
40
30*
Deeper than 45
Option 1
100%**

Unacceptable

Option 2
25
25
60
40*
* Treasury interest plus 1/8 percent recalculated every 5 years on comparable federal portfolio yield rates
** With 90 percent federal loan guarantee available for non-federal share

o Inland navigation
Senate Draft
Administration
o no change in current law
o 100 percent new construction from Trust Fund
o Double fuel tax in 5 years

III. Projects Unacceptable to Administration
o Animas LaPlata
o Atchafalaya Basin
o Red River Chloride
o Lock and Dams 26 (2nd lock and mitigation)
o Oliver lock and dam
o Mobile Harbor
o Lower Mississippi to Baton Rouge
o Richmond Filtration
o Various Recreation harbor and projects, e.g.
- Liberty State
- Port Ontario Harbor
- Dode County
- Geneva-on-the-Lake
- Fort Toulouse
- Mound State Mon.
IV. Fencing language - (See attached)


(page 6)
FENCING LANGUAGE
Provided, that none of the funds herein appropriated may be obligated to undertake such projects until:
a) local sponsors agree to pay 50 percentum of the annual construction and planning costs concurrently with Federal obligation; or
b) authorizing legislation establishing new cost sharing and financing rules for the various classes of projects is enacted into law.
Provided further, funds appropriated herein will lapse 12 months after the date of enactment of this provision if the conditions established in paragraphs (a) or (b) above have not been met.

TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1985 - 5:00 p.m. S-230
re: Water Projects

(checked) Dole
(checked) Abdnor
(checked) Domenici
(checked) Hatfield
(checked) Stafford
(checked) Simpson


(page 2)
Subject: Water Projects
Date: June 11, 1985
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Location: S-230

Republican Leadership
Senator
Position
Invited
Yes
No
Armstrong
Policy-Chairman



Chafee
Conference-Chairman



Cochran
Conference-Secretary



Dole
Majority Leader
(checked)
(checked)

Heinz
Senatorial Comm.-Chairman



Simpson
Asst. Majority Leader



Thurmond
President Pro Tempore




Committee Chairmen
Senator
Committee
Invited
Yes
No
Abdnor
Joint Economic
(checked)
(checked)

Andrews
Select -- Indian Affairs



Danforth
Commerce



Domenici
Budget
(checked)
(checked)

Durenburger
Intelligence



Garn
Banking



Goldwater
Armed Services



Hatch
Labor



Hatfield
Appropriations
(checked) wcb


Heinz
Special -- Aging



Helms
Agriculture



Lugar
Foreign Relations



Mathias
Rules & Administration



McClure
Energy



Murkowski
Veterans Affairs



Packwood
Finance



Roth
Governmental Affairs



Rudman
Select -- Ethics



Stafford
Environment
(checked)
(checked)

Thurmond
Judiciary



Weicker
Small Business




Republicans
Boschwitz
Cohen
D'Amato
Denton
East
Evans
Gorton
Gramm
Grassley
Hawkins
Hecht
Humphrey
Kassebaum
Kasten
Laxalt
Mattingly
McConnell
Nickles
Pressler
Quayle
Specter
Stevens
Symms
Trible
Wallop
Warner
Wilson

Democrats
Baucus
Bentsen
Biden
Bingaman
Boren
Bradley
Bumpers
Burdick
Byrd
Chiles
Cranston
DeConcini
Dixon
Dodd
Eagleton
Exon
Ford
Glenn
Gore
Harkin
Hart
Heflin
Hollings
Inouye
Johnston
Kennedy
Kerry
Lautenberg
Leahy
Levin
Long
Matsunaga
Melcher
Metzenbaum
Mitchell
Moynihan
Nunn
Pell
Proxmire
Pryor
Riegle
Rockefeller
Sarbanes
Sasser
Simon
Stennis
Zorinsky

Administration:
Dave Stockman?


(page 3)
BOB DOLE
KANSAS

United States Senate
OFFICE OF THE MAJORITY LEADER
WASHINGTON, DC 20510
June 7, 1985

MEMORANDUM
TO: SENATOR DOLE
FROM: SHEILA BURKE (initialed)
SUBJECT: WATER PROJECTS
Senator Domenici has asked that you convene a meeting on Monday afternoon to review the possible agreement on water projects. He would like Senators Hatfield, Stafford, and Abdnor included.
Shall we set up a meeting?
Yes (blank)
No (blank)
SB/jg


(page 4)
SENATE DRAFT
I. Proposals Acceptable to the Administration
o User fees for harbor maintenance
- 0.04 percent ad valorem tax on imports and exports to recover 30-to-40 percent of Corps of Engineers harbor operations and maintenance expenditures. Money to be deposited in a dedicated O & M Trust Fund. Will raise an estimated $130 million in FY 1986 and $435 million over 1986-88.
o Non-navigation cost sharing
-- 25% - 35% non-federal cost sharing for flood control
-- 50% cost sharing on new project feasibility studies
-- Other cost sharing provision in Abdnor bill which should be included:
- Hydro electric - 100%
- M & I water supply - 100%
- Irrigators (corps only) - 35%
- Recreation - 50%
- Beach erosion control - 35% - 50%
- Fish and Wildlife mitigation - allocated to other project purposes
o State matching grants for dam safety ($15 million a year), but specify not an entitlement for federal renovation.
o Deletion of M & I loan program
II. Proposals Unacceptable to Administration
o Water conservation grant program
o N.Y. barge canal
o Harbor construction cost sharing:


(page 5)
NON FEDERAL COST SHARE

Senate Draft

Administration

Depth
Upfront
Amortized
Upfront
Amortized
0-20
0%
0%
40%
30%*
20-45
0
30
40
30*
Deeper than 45
Option 1
100%**

Unacceptable

Option 2
25
25
60
40*
* Treasury interest plus 1/8 percent recalculated every 5 years on comparable federal portfolio yield rates
** With 90 percent federal loan guarantee available for non-federal share

o Inland navigation
Senate Draft
Administration
o no change in current law
o 100 percent new construction from Trust Fund
o Double fuel tax in 5 years

III. Projects Unacceptable to Administration
o Animas LaPlata
o Atchafalaya Basin
o Red River Chloride
o Lock and Dams 26 (2nd lock and mitigation)
o Oliver lock and dam
o Mobile Harbor
o Lower Mississippi to Baton Rouge
o Richmond Filtration
o Various Recreation harbor and projects, e.g.
- Liberty State
- Port Ontario Harbor
- Dode County
- Geneva-on-the-Lake
- Fort Toulouse
- Mound State Mon.
IV. Fencing language - (See attached)


(page 6)
FENCING LANGUAGE
Provided, that none of the funds herein appropriated may be obligated to undertake such projects until:
a) local sponsors agree to pay 50 percentum of the annual construction and planning costs concurrently with Federal obligation; or
b) authorizing legislation establishing new cost sharing and financing rules for the various classes of projects is enacted into law.
Provided further, funds appropriated herein will lapse 12 months after the date of enactment of this provision if the conditions established in paragraphs (a) or (b) above have not been met.

TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1985 - 5:00 p.m. S-230
re: Water Projects

(checked) Dole
(checked) Abdnor
(checked) Domenici
(checked) Hatfield
(checked) Stafford
(checked) Simpson


(page 2)
Subject: Water Projects
Date: June 11, 1985
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Location: S-230

Republican Leadership
Senator
Position
Invited
Yes
No
Armstrong
Policy-Chairman



Chafee
Conference-Chairman



Cochran
Conference-Secretary



Dole
Majority Leader
(checked)
(checked)

Heinz
Senatorial Comm.-Chairman



Simpson
Asst. Majority Leader



Thurmond
President Pro Tempore




Committee Chairmen
Senator
Committee
Invited
Yes
No
Abdnor
Joint Economic
(checked)
(checked)

Andrews
Select -- Indian Affairs



Danforth
Commerce



Domenici
Budget
(checked)
(checked)

Durenburger
Intelligence



Garn
Banking



Goldwater
Armed Services



Hatch
Labor



Hatfield
Appropriations
(checked) wcb


Heinz
Special -- Aging



Helms
Agriculture



Lugar
Foreign Relations



Mathias
Rules & Administration



McClure
Energy



Murkowski
Veterans Affairs



Packwood
Finance



Roth
Governmental Affairs



Rudman
Select -- Ethics



Stafford
Environment
(checked)
(checked)

Thurmond
Judiciary



Weicker
Small Business




Republicans
Boschwitz
Cohen
D'Amato
Denton
East
Evans
Gorton
Gramm
Grassley
Hawkins
Hecht
Humphrey
Kassebaum
Kasten
Laxalt
Mattingly
McConnell
Nickles
Pressler
Quayle
Specter
Stevens
Symms
Trible
Wallop
Warner
Wilson

Democrats
Baucus
Bentsen
Biden
Bingaman
Boren
Bradley
Bumpers
Burdick
Byrd
Chiles
Cranston
DeConcini
Dixon
Dodd
Eagleton
Exon
Ford
Glenn
Gore
Harkin
Hart
Heflin
Hollings
Inouye
Johnston
Kennedy
Kerry
Lautenberg
Leahy
Levin
Long
Matsunaga
Melcher
Metzenbaum
Mitchell
Moynihan
Nunn
Pell
Proxmire
Pryor
Riegle
Rockefeller
Sarbanes
Sasser
Simon
Stennis
Zorinsky

Administration:
Dave Stockman?


(page 3)
BOB DOLE
KANSAS

United States Senate
OFFICE OF THE MAJORITY LEADER
WASHINGTON, DC 20510
June 7, 1985

MEMORANDUM
TO: SENATOR DOLE
FROM: SHEILA BURKE (initialed)
SUBJECT: WATER PROJECTS
Senator Domenici has asked that you convene a meeting on Monday afternoon to review the possible agreement on water projects. He would like Senators Hatfield, Stafford, and Abdnor included.
Shall we set up a meeting?
Yes (blank)
No (blank)
SB/jg


(page 4)
SENATE DRAFT
I. Proposals Acceptable to the Administration
o User fees for harbor maintenance
- 0.04 percent ad valorem tax on imports and exports to recover 30-to-40 percent of Corps of Engineers harbor operations and maintenance expenditures. Money to be deposited in a dedicated O & M Trust Fund. Will raise an estimated $130 million in FY 1986 and $435 million over 1986-88.
o Non-navigation cost sharing
-- 25% - 35% non-federal cost sharing for flood control
-- 50% cost sharing on new project feasibility studies
-- Other cost sharing provision in Abdnor bill which should be included:
- Hydro electric - 100%
- M & I water supply - 100%
- Irrigators (corps only) - 35%
- Recreation - 50%
- Beach erosion control - 35% - 50%
- Fish and Wildlife mitigation - allocated to other project purposes
o State matching grants for dam safety ($15 million a year), but specify not an entitlement for federal renovation.
o Deletion of M & I loan program
II. Proposals Unacceptable to Administration
o Water conservation grant program
o N.Y. barge canal
o Harbor construction cost sharing:


(page 5)
NON FEDERAL COST SHARE

Senate Draft

Administration

Depth
Upfront
Amortized
Upfront
Amortized
0-20
0%
0%
40%
30%*
20-45
0
30
40
30*
Deeper than 45
Option 1
100%**

Unacceptable

Option 2
25
25
60
40*
* Treasury interest plus 1/8 percent recalculated every 5 years on comparable federal portfolio yield rates
** With 90 percent federal loan guarantee available for non-federal share

o Inland navigation
Senate Draft
Administration
o no change in current law
o 100 percent new construction from Trust Fund
o Double fuel tax in 5 years

III. Projects Unacceptable to Administration
o Animas LaPlata
o Atchafalaya Basin
o Red River Chloride
o Lock and Dams 26 (2nd lock and mitigation)
o Oliver lock and dam
o Mobile Harbor
o Lower Mississippi to Baton Rouge
o Richmond Filtration
o Various Recreation harbor and projects, e.g.
- Liberty State
- Port Ontario Harbor
- Dode County
- Geneva-on-the-Lake
- Fort Toulouse
- Mound State Mon.
IV. Fencing language - (See attached)


(page 6)
FENCING LANGUAGE
Provided, that none of the funds herein appropriated may be obligated to undertake such projects until:
a) local sponsors agree to pay 50 percentum of the annual construction and planning costs concurrently with Federal obligation; or
b) authorizing legislation establishing new cost sharing and financing rules for the various classes of projects is enacted into law.
Provided further, funds appropriated herein will lapse 12 months after the date of enactment of this provision if the conditions established in paragraphs (a) or (b) above have not been met.

TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1985 - 5:00 p.m. S-230
re: Water Projects

(checked) Dole
(checked) Abdnor
(checked) Domenici
(checked) Hatfield
(checked) Stafford
(checked) Simpson


(page 2)
Subject: Water Projects
Date: June 11, 1985
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Location: S-230

Republican Leadership
Senator
Position
Invited
Yes
No
Armstrong
Policy-Chairman



Chafee
Conference-Chairman



Cochran
Conference-Secretary



Dole
Majority Leader
(checked)
(checked)

Heinz
Senatorial Comm.-Chairman



Simpson
Asst. Majority Leader



Thurmond
President Pro Tempore




Committee Chairmen
Senator
Committee
Invited
Yes
No
Abdnor
Joint Economic
(checked)
(checked)

Andrews
Select -- Indian Affairs



Danforth
Commerce



Domenici
Budget
(checked)
(checked)

Durenburger
Intelligence



Garn
Banking



Goldwater
Armed Services



Hatch
Labor



Hatfield
Appropriations
(checked) wcb


Heinz
Special -- Aging



Helms
Agriculture



Lugar
Foreign Relations



Mathias
Rules & Administration



McClure
Energy



Murkowski
Veterans Affairs



Packwood
Finance



Roth
Governmental Affairs



Rudman
Select -- Ethics



Stafford
Environment
(checked)
(checked)

Thurmond
Judiciary



Weicker
Small Business




Republicans
Boschwitz
Cohen
D'Amato
Denton
East
Evans
Gorton
Gramm
Grassley
Hawkins
Hecht
Humphrey
Kassebaum
Kasten
Laxalt
Mattingly
McConnell
Nickles
Pressler
Quayle
Specter
Stevens
Symms
Trible
Wallop
Warner
Wilson

Democrats
Baucus
Bentsen
Biden
Bingaman
Boren
Bradley
Bumpers
Burdick
Byrd
Chiles
Cranston
DeConcini
Dixon
Dodd
Eagleton
Exon
Ford
Glenn
Gore
Harkin
Hart
Heflin
Hollings
Inouye
Johnston
Kennedy
Kerry
Lautenberg
Leahy
Levin
Long
Matsunaga
Melcher
Metzenbaum
Mitchell
Moynihan
Nunn
Pell
Proxmire
Pryor
Riegle
Rockefeller
Sarbanes
Sasser
Simon
Stennis
Zorinsky

Administration:
Dave Stockman?


(page 3)
BOB DOLE
KANSAS

United States Senate
OFFICE OF THE MAJORITY LEADER
WASHINGTON, DC 20510
June 7, 1985

MEMORANDUM
TO: SENATOR DOLE
FROM: SHEILA BURKE (initialed)
SUBJECT: WATER PROJECTS
Senator Domenici has asked that you convene a meeting on Monday afternoon to review the possible agreement on water projects. He would like Senators Hatfield, Stafford, and Abdnor included.
Shall we set up a meeting?
Yes (blank)
No (blank)
SB/jg


(page 4)
SENATE DRAFT
I. Proposals Acceptable to the Administration
o User fees for harbor maintenance
- 0.04 percent ad valorem tax on imports and exports to recover 30-to-40 percent of Corps of Engineers harbor operations and maintenance expenditures. Money to be deposited in a dedicated O & M Trust Fund. Will raise an estimated $130 million in FY 1986 and $435 million over 1986-88.
o Non-navigation cost sharing
-- 25% - 35% non-federal cost sharing for flood control
-- 50% cost sharing on new project feasibility studies
-- Other cost sharing provision in Abdnor bill which should be included:
- Hydro electric - 100%
- M & I water supply - 100%
- Irrigators (corps only) - 35%
- Recreation - 50%
- Beach erosion control - 35% - 50%
- Fish and Wildlife mitigation - allocated to other project purposes
o State matching grants for dam safety ($15 million a year), but specify not an entitlement for federal renovation.
o Deletion of M & I loan program
II. Proposals Unacceptable to Administration
o Water conservation grant program
o N.Y. barge canal
o Harbor construction cost sharing:


(page 5)
NON FEDERAL COST SHARE

Senate Draft

Administration

Depth
Upfront
Amortized
Upfront
Amortized
0-20
0%
0%
40%
30%*
20-45
0
30
40
30*
Deeper than 45
Option 1
100%**

Unacceptable

Option 2
25
25
60
40*
* Treasury interest plus 1/8 percent recalculated every 5 years on comparable federal portfolio yield rates
** With 90 percent federal loan guarantee available for non-federal share

o Inland navigation
Senate Draft
Administration
o no change in current law
o 100 percent new construction from Trust Fund
o Double fuel tax in 5 years

III. Projects Unacceptable to Administration
o Animas LaPlata
o Atchafalaya Basin
o Red River Chloride
o Lock and Dams 26 (2nd lock and mitigation)
o Oliver lock and dam
o Mobile Harbor
o Lower Mississippi to Baton Rouge
o Richmond Filtration
o Various Recreation harbor and projects, e.g.
- Liberty State
- Port Ontario Harbor
- Dode County
- Geneva-on-the-Lake
- Fort Toulouse
- Mound State Mon.
IV. Fencing language - (See attached)


(page 6)
FENCING LANGUAGE
Provided, that none of the funds herein appropriated may be obligated to undertake such projects until:
a) local sponsors agree to pay 50 percentum of the annual construction and planning costs concurrently with Federal obligation; or
b) authorizing legislation establishing new cost sharing and financing rules for the various classes of projects is enacted into law.
Provided further, funds appropriated herein will lapse 12 months after the date of enactment of this provision if the conditions established in paragraphs (a) or (b) above have not been met.

TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1985 - 5:00 p.m. S-230
re: Water Projects

(checked) Dole
(checked) Abdnor
(checked) Domenici
(checked) Hatfield
(checked) Stafford
(checked) Simpson


(page 2)
Subject: Water Projects
Date: June 11, 1985
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Location: S-230

Republican Leadership
Senator
Position
Invited
Yes
No
Armstrong
Policy-Chairman



Chafee
Conference-Chairman



Cochran
Conference-Secretary



Dole
Majority Leader
(checked)
(checked)

Heinz
Senatorial Comm.-Chairman



Simpson
Asst. Majority Leader



Thurmond
President Pro Tempore




Committee Chairmen
Senator
Committee
Invited
Yes
No
Abdnor
Joint Economic
(checked)
(checked)

Andrews
Select -- Indian Affairs



Danforth
Commerce



Domenici
Budget
(checked)
(checked)

Durenburger
Intelligence



Garn
Banking



Goldwater
Armed Services



Hatch
Labor



Hatfield
Appropriations
(checked) wcb


Heinz
Special -- Aging



Helms
Agriculture



Lugar
Foreign Relations



Mathias
Rules & Administration



McClure
Energy



Murkowski
Veterans Affairs



Packwood
Finance



Roth
Governmental Affairs



Rudman
Select -- Ethics



Stafford
Environment
(checked)
(checked)

Thurmond
Judiciary



Weicker
Small Business




Republicans
Boschwitz
Cohen
D'Amato
Denton
East
Evans
Gorton
Gramm
Grassley
Hawkins
Hecht
Humphrey
Kassebaum
Kasten
Laxalt
Mattingly
McConnell
Nickles
Pressler
Quayle
Specter
Stevens
Symms
Trible
Wallop
Warner
Wilson

Democrats
Baucus
Bentsen
Biden
Bingaman
Boren
Bradley
Bumpers
Burdick
Byrd
Chiles
Cranston
DeConcini
Dixon
Dodd
Eagleton
Exon
Ford
Glenn
Gore
Harkin
Hart
Heflin
Hollings
Inouye
Johnston
Kennedy
Kerry
Lautenberg
Leahy
Levin
Long
Matsunaga
Melcher
Metzenbaum
Mitchell
Moynihan
Nunn
Pell
Proxmire
Pryor
Riegle
Rockefeller
Sarbanes
Sasser
Simon
Stennis
Zorinsky

Administration:
Dave Stockman?


(page 3)
BOB DOLE
KANSAS

United States Senate
OFFICE OF THE MAJORITY LEADER
WASHINGTON, DC 20510
June 7, 1985

MEMORANDUM
TO: SENATOR DOLE
FROM: SHEILA BURKE (initialed)
SUBJECT: WATER PROJECTS
Senator Domenici has asked that you convene a meeting on Monday afternoon to review the possible agreement on water projects. He would like Senators Hatfield, Stafford, and Abdnor included.
Shall we set up a meeting?
Yes (blank)
No (blank)
SB/jg


(page 4)
SENATE DRAFT
I. Proposals Acceptable to the Administration
o User fees for harbor maintenance
- 0.04 percent ad valorem tax on imports and exports to recover 30-to-40 percent of Corps of Engineers harbor operations and maintenance expenditures. Money to be deposited in a dedicated O & M Trust Fund. Will raise an estimated $130 million in FY 1986 and $435 million over 1986-88.
o Non-navigation cost sharing
-- 25% - 35% non-federal cost sharing for flood control
-- 50% cost sharing on new project feasibility studies
-- Other cost sharing provision in Abdnor bill which should be included:
- Hydro electric - 100%
- M & I water supply - 100%
- Irrigators (corps only) - 35%
- Recreation - 50%
- Beach erosion control - 35% - 50%
- Fish and Wildlife mitigation - allocated to other project purposes
o State matching grants for dam safety ($15 million a year), but specify not an entitlement for federal renovation.
o Deletion of M & I loan program
II. Proposals Unacceptable to Administration
o Water conservation grant program
o N.Y. barge canal
o Harbor construction cost sharing:


(page 5)
NON FEDERAL COST SHARE

Senate Draft

Administration

Depth
Upfront
Amortized
Upfront
Amortized
0-20
0%
0%
40%
30%*
20-45
0
30
40
30*
Deeper than 45
Option 1
100%**

Unacceptable

Option 2
25
25
60
40*
* Treasury interest plus 1/8 percent recalculated every 5 years on comparable federal portfolio yield rates
** With 90 percent federal loan guarantee available for non-federal share

o Inland navigation
Senate Draft
Administration
o no change in current law
o 100 percent new construction from Trust Fund
o Double fuel tax in 5 years

III. Projects Unacceptable to Administration
o Animas LaPlata
o Atchafalaya Basin
o Red River Chloride
o Lock and Dams 26 (2nd lock and mitigation)
o Oliver lock and dam
o Mobile Harbor
o Lower Mississippi to Baton Rouge
o Richmond Filtration
o Various Recreation harbor and projects, e.g.
- Liberty State
- Port Ontario Harbor
- Dode County
- Geneva-on-the-Lake
- Fort Toulouse
- Mound State Mon.
IV. Fencing language - (See attached)


(page 6)
FENCING LANGUAGE
Provided, that none of the funds herein appropriated may be obligated to undertake such projects until:
a) local sponsors agree to pay 50 percentum of the annual construction and planning costs concurrently with Federal obligation; or
b) authorizing legislation establishing new cost sharing and financing rules for the various classes of projects is enacted into law.
Provided further, funds appropriated herein will lapse 12 months after the date of enactment of this provision if the conditions established in paragraphs (a) or (b) above have not been met.