; and (2) to delegate approval for project partnership agreements to the District Engineer, if practicable. 1035. Sense of Congress relating to encouraging resilient techniques and habitat connectivity in ecosystem restoration It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary should ensure that infrastructure of the Secretary can endure extreme weather, mitigate flooding and other negative impacts on communities, and provide a significant return on investment by— (1) encouraging the use of resilient structural or nonstructural construction techniques