A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Army to delegate to the States certain functions with respect to the location and plans for structures, excavations, dredging, or fills in or on certain navigable and other waters of the United States.

Directs the Secretary of the Army to delegate to the States those functions of the Chief Engineers with respect to the location and plans for structures, excavations, or fills in or on navigable waters of the United States where there is no regular waterborn interstate transportation of commercial goods. Provides that such delgation may occur only after the State enacts a law creating a permit program essentially duplicative of Federal procedures.