Prohibit the Army Corps of Engineers from using eminent domain to acquire land for the Missouri River BSNP Fish and Wildlife Mitigation Project.

Congressman Graves also included language in the Water Resources Development Act of 2024 that prohibits the United States Army Corps of Engineers from acquiring any lands or interest in lands using eminent domain under the Missouri River BSNP Fish and Wildlife Mitigation Project.

The release says Graves included WRDA language to bar the Army Corps from using eminent domain for the Missouri River BSNP Fish and Wildlife Mitigation Project.

Graves Works to Protect Missouri Farmers from Federal Land Grabs | Congressman Sam Graves | Representing the 6th District of Missouri
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Public Law 113-121 was enacted June 10, 2014 as H.R. 3080. The table of contents lists Sec. 4003, Missouri River.

The 2014 WRRDA became law during Graves's later federal service and included a Missouri River section, making it the strongest official enacted vehicle found for this issue area.

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Public Law 113-121, Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014
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The Secretary shall include in the first budget... and biennially thereafter, a report that describes activities... including an inventory of land owned or acquired by the Secretary.

The enacted law required recurring reporting and land-inventory disclosure for the Missouri River Bank Stabilization and Navigation Project fish and wildlife mitigation work, but it did not itself prohibit eminent-domain acquisition.

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Public Law 113-121, Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014
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No matching text found for "eminent domain"; no matching text found for "willing seller" in Public Law 113-121.

The enacted 2014 water-resources law addressed the Missouri River mitigation project through reporting, but the absence of eminent-domain or willing-seller language weighs against full delivery of the specific promise to prohibit condemnation.

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Public Law 113-121, Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014
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Representative Sam Graves, Republican, House Missouri District 6, 107th-119th Congresses, 2001-Present.

This establishes Graves had federal office during the relevant 2011-2014 Missouri River mitigation controversy and remained in later federal service when WRRDA 2014 was enacted.

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Sam Graves | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
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