# § 3303b. Reports
**(a)** **State of levees**
**(1)** **In general** Not later than 1 year after December 16, 2016, and biennially thereafter, the Secretary in coordination with the committee, shall submit to Congress and make publicly available a report describing the state of levees in the United States and the effectiveness of the levee safety initiative, including—
**(A)** progress achieved in implementing the levee safety initiative;
**(B)** State, regional, and tribal participation in the levee safety initiative;
**(C)** recommendations to improve coordination of levee safety, floodplain management, and environmental protection concerns, including—
**(i)** identifying and evaluating opportunities to coordinate public safety, floodplain management, and environmental protection activities relating to levees; and
**(ii)** evaluating opportunities to coordinate environmental permitting processes for operation and maintenance activities at existing levee projects in compliance with all applicable laws; and
**(D)** any recommendations for legislation and other congressional actions necessary to ensure national levee safety.
**(2)** **Inclusion** Each report under paragraph (1) shall include a report of the committee that describes the independent recommendations of the committee for the implementation of the levee safety initiative.
**(b)** **National dam and levee safety program** June 10, 2014
Not later than 3 years after , to the maximum extent practicable, the Secretary and the Administrator, in coordination with the committee, shall submit to Congress and make publicly available a report that includes recommendations regarding the advisability and feasibility of, and potential approaches for, establishing a joint national dam and levee safety program.
**(c)** **Alignment of Federal programs relating to levees** Not later than 2 years after December 16, 2016, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to Congress a report on opportunities for alignment of Federal programs to provide incentives to State, regional, tribal, and local governments and individuals and entities—
**(1)** to promote shared responsibility for levee safety;
**(2)** to encourage the development of strong State, regional, and tribal levee safety programs;
**(3)** to better align the levee safety initiative with other Federal flood risk management programs; and
**(4)** to promote increased levee safety through other Federal programs providing assistance to State, regional, tribal, and local governments.
**(d)** **Liability for certain levee engineering projects** Not later than 1 year after December 16, 2016, the Secretary shall submit to Congress and make publicly available a report that includes recommendations that identify and address any legal liability associated with levee engineering projects that prevent—
**(1)** levee owners from obtaining needed levee engineering services; or
**(2)** development and implementation of a State, regional, or tribal levee safety program.
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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 110–114, title IX, § 9006, as added Pub. L. 113–121, title III, § 3016(e)(2), June 10, 2014, 128 Stat. 1299; amended Pub. L. 114–322, title I, § 1130(d), Dec. 16, 2016, 130 Stat. 1652.)
## Editorial Notes
### Prior Provisions
A prior was renumbered section 9008, and is classified to .
### Amendments
2016—Subsec. (a)(1). , substituted “1 year after ” for “1 year after ” in introductory provisions.
Subsec. (a)(1)(B). , substituted “State, regional, and tribal” for “State and tribal”.
Subsec. (c). , in introductory provisions, substituted “2 years after ” for “2 years after ” and “State, regional, tribal, and local” for “State, tribal, and local”.
Subsec. (c)(2). , substituted “State, regional, and tribal” for “State and tribal”.
Subsec. (c)(4). , substituted “State, regional, tribal, and local” for “State and local”.
Subsec. (d). , substituted “1 year after ” for “1 year after ” in introductory provisions.
Subsec. (d)(2). , substituted “State, regional, or tribal” for “State or tribal”.
## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
### “Secretary” Defined
Secretary means the Secretary of the Army, see , set out as a note under .