A bill to require the Corps of Engineers to revise the Missouri River Mainstem Reservoir System Master Water Control Manual to ensure greater storage capacity to prevent serious downstream flooding.

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

S.1795 through Congress

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SenateNov 3, 2011IntroducedOfficial record

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Related House bill: H.R.2942 To direct the Chief of the Army Corps of Engineers to revise the Missouri River Mainstem Reservoir System Master Water Control Manual to ensure greater storage capacity to prevent serious downstream flooding.

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Version 00 · Introduced in Senate · Nov 3, 2011

Directs the Chief of Engineers to revise the Missouri River Mainstem Reservoir System Master Water Control Manual to ensure that the System's flood control storage allocation has been: (1) recalculated so that the flood control storage allocation is based on the vacated space required to control the largest flood experienced in the System and the associated serious downstream flooding; and (2) adjusted, prior to each runoff season, such that the space allocated for flood control purposes in the exclusive flood control zone and the annual flood control and multiple use regulation zone is increased by a quantity necessary to ensure that the storage capacity of the zones is adequate to avoid contributing to serious downstream flooding.

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People & committees

Who introduced it

Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA] · R–IA

Committees

Environment and Public Works Committee

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Sen. Johanns, Mike [R-NE]

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Nov 3, 2011
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Nov 3, 2011
Introduced in Senate

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HR 2942 · To direct the Chief of the Army Corps of Engineers to revise the Missouri River Mainstem Reservoir System Master Water Control Manual to ensure greater storage capacity to prevent serious downstream flooding.

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Official record: https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/senate-bill/1795

Text version to examine: Introduced in Senate · 2011-11-03.

Official full text: https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/s1795/BILLS-112s1795is.htm

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Discuss S.1795, 112th Congress: A bill to require the Corps of Engineers to revise the Missouri River Mainstem Reservoir System Master Water Control Manual to ensure greater storage capacity to prevent serious downstream flooding.

Official record: https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/senate-bill/1795

Text version to examine: Introduced in Senate · 2011-11-03.

Official full text: https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/s1795/BILLS-112s1795is.htm

Imported record last updated by the source: 2026-09-08T18:16:44Z. Verify current status and distinguish any later version from the version above.

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Discuss S.1795, 112th Congress: A bill to require the Corps of Engineers to revise the Missouri River Mainstem Reservoir System Master Water Control Manual to ensure greater storage capacity to prevent serious downstream flooding.

Official record: https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/senate-bill/1795

Text version to examine: Introduced in Senate · 2011-11-03.

Official full text: https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/s1795/BILLS-112s1795is.htm

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Discuss S.1795, 112th Congress: A bill to require the Corps of Engineers to revise the Missouri River Mainstem Reservoir System Master Water Control Manual to ensure greater storage capacity to prevent serious downstream flooding.

Official record: https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/senate-bill/1795

Text version to examine: Introduced in Senate · 2011-11-03.

Official full text: https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/s1795/BILLS-112s1795is.htm

Imported record last updated by the source: 2026-09-08T18:16:44Z. Verify current status and distinguish any later version from the version above.

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Examine S.1795 through a civil-liberties and limited-government lens. Consider individual rights, privacy, voluntary choice, accountability, and government power. Explain tradeoffs, possible safeguards, and the strongest counterarguments without assuming the proposal is beneficial or harmful.