1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Soo Locks Modernization Act . 2. Saulte Sainte Marie, Michigan (a) Findings Congress finds that— (1) the Soo Locks are a critical link in the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence Seaway system; (2) each year, an average of 7,900 vessels carry 80,000,000 tons of iron ore, coal, stone, grain, and other materials through the Soo Locks; (3) the Corps of Engineers reports that an unscheduled outage at the Soo Locks would cripple both navigational and industrial production in the Great Lakes region; (4) a report by the Department of Homeland Security concluded that a 6-month shutdown of the Soo Locks would result in— (A) 75 percent of all integrated steel production in the United States ceasing within 2 to 6 weeks; (B) in North America, the shutdown of 100 percent of production of appliances, automobiles, construction equipment, farm equipment, mining equipment, and railcars; and (C) the unemployment of almost 11,000,000 people; (5) there have been no comprehensive improvements to the Soo Locks facility in nearly 50 years; (6) modernizing the Soo Locks is of critical importance to the economy and security of the Great Lakes region and the United States; and (7) the Corps of Engineers believes the planning guidance required under the document of the Water Resources Council entitled Economic and Environmental Principles and Guidelines for Water and Related Land Resources Implementation Studies and dated March 10, 1983, and updated by the Principles, Requirements, and Guidelines for Federal Investments in Water Resources (78 Fed. Reg. 18562 (March 27, 2013)