Disaster Prevention and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1996

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Title I: Transfer of Auburn Dam and Reservoir Project

Title II: Sacramento and American Rivers Flood Control

Project

Title III: Auburn Dam Water Conservation Project

Disaster Prevention and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1996 - Title I: Transfer of Auburn Dam and Reservoir Project - Transfers from the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of the Army (Secretary) jurisdiction over the Auburn Dam and Reservoir Project. Provides a Project description and specifies the applicability of Federal reclamation and water resource project laws. Reduces by 50 percent the amount authorized to be appropriated for the Project.

Title II: Sacramento and American Rivers Flood Control Project - Directs the Secretary to construct expeditiously the project for flood control and recreation on the Sacramento and American Rivers, California, substantially in accordance with a prior report of the Army Chief of Engineers and at a specified total estimated cost.

Requires such Project to include the construction of a pumping plant, access roads, and appurtenant facilities with which to fulfill U.S. obligations to the Placer County Water Agency. Authorizes appropriations.

Provides for possible future expansion and increased power generation at such plant. Directs the Secretary to cooperate with California to establish an independent consulting board to review plans for, and provide technical confirmation of, such Project. Authorizes appropriations.

Provides for Project: (1) cost-sharing responsibilities; (2) feasibility and environmental studies; (3) soil and fish and wildlife mitigation measures; and (4) authority for certain levee and other flood control improvements.

Requires the Secretaries to complete a comprehensive risk assessment of Folsom Dam and its ancillary facilities and to take appropriate actions with respect to its performance when operated in conjunction with the project authorized under this title. Authorizes the Secretary to undertake additional actions to extend flood protection in specified areas along the Sacramento and American Rivers.

(Sec. 202) Directs the Secretary to construct specified features of the North Area Local Project of the American River Watershed Investigation, subject to entering into appropriate local cost-sharing agreements with non-Federal sponsors. Authorizes appropriations.

(Sec. 203) Directs the Secretary to carry out a flood control project in Cirby, Linda, and Dry Creeks in Placer and Sacramento Counties, California.

Title III: Auburn Dam Water Conservation Project - Authorizes the Secretaries to enter into agreements with California for the transfer to the United States of specified rights-of-way, water rights, and facilities constituting and adjacent to the Auburn Dam portion of the Central Valley Project and the project authorized under title II of this Act. Recognizes the existence of substantial national interest in the earliest development of a multipurpose Auburn Dam to provide flood protection, water conservation, recreation, and instream requirements for American River flows and other beneficial uses.