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Subject to consultation with the non-Federal sponsor and retaining sufficient amounts for the Corps of Engineers to carry out any of its responsibilities relating to the project and using appropriations made available to the project prior to the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Army shall make advance payments to the non-Federal sponsors for their use in completing construction of any project for flood risk management identified in implementation guidance for the Civil Works Public-Private Partnership Pilot Program issued by the Director of Civil Works on January 8, 2019 and that is under construction on the date of enactment of this Act and for which a prior executed Project Partnership Agreement, as amended, specifically identifies Federal Work, Non-Federal Work, and a Federal Participation Amount in excess of $700,000,000: Provided, That amounts described in the matter preceding this proviso shall be credited by the Secretary toward the Federal Participation Amount: Provided further, That prior to making any payments authorized in the matter preceding the first proviso, the Secretary and the non-Federal sponsors shall amend the Project Partnership Agreement executed for the project in order to implement any such payments and credits.