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Code · BILL · 114th Congress · H.R. 2983 (Introduced in House) — To provide drought assistance and improved water supply reliability to the State of California, other western States,... · Sec. 331

Sec. 331. Definitions

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For the purposes of this subtitle: The term agricultural water contract means any contract or arrangement, including water service contracts, repayment contracts, water rights settlement contracts, exchange contracts, or other form of agreement, through which agricultural users receive water and deliveries through a facility owned, operated, or constructed in whole or in part by the Bureau of Reclamation, including contracts under the Reclamation Act of 1902 (ch.1093; 32 Stat. 388) as amended and supplemented.
The term drought emergency means a period when a state of drought emergency declared by the Governor of the State is in effect. The term federally developed water supplies means water supplies derived from a project developed by the Secretary pursuant to Federal law. The term Secretary means the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation. The term water-intense permanent crop means any crop considered by the Secretary, after consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture, to be unsustainable for an area given its expected level of rainfall in the absence of the federally developed water supply.
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