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Code · BILL · 115th Congress · H.R. 23 (Engrossed in House) — To provide drought relief in the State of California, and for other purposes. · Sec. 107

Sec. 107. Additional authorities

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Section 3408(c) of the Central Valley Project Improvement Act (106 Stat. 4728) is amended to read as follows: The Secretary is authorized to enter into contracts pursuant to Federal reclamation law and this title with any Federal agency, California water user or water agency, State agency, or private organization for the exchange, impoundment, storage, carriage, and delivery of nonproject water for domestic, municipal, industrial, fish and wildlife, and any other beneficial purpose.
Nothing in this subsection shall be deemed to supersede the provisions of section 103 of Public Law 99–546 (100 Stat. 3051). The Secretary shall use the authority granted by this subsection in connection with requests to exchange, impound, store, carry, or deliver nonproject water using Central Valley Project facilities for any beneficial purpose. The Secretary shall develop rates not to exceed the amount required to recover the reasonable costs incurred by the Secretary in connection with a beneficial purpose under this subsection.
Such rates shall be charged to a party using Central Valley Project facilities for such purpose. Such costs shall not include any donation or other payment to the Restoration Fund. This subsection shall be construed and implemented to facilitate and encourage the use of Central Valley Project facilities to exchange, impound, store, carry, or deliver nonproject water for any beneficial purpose. . Section 3408(f) of the Central Valley Project Improvement Act (106 Stat. 4729) is amended— by striking Interior and Insular Affairs and the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and inserting Natural Resources ; in the second sentence, by inserting before the period at the end the following: , including progress on the plan required by subsection
(j); and by adding at the end the following: The filing and adequacy of such report shall be personally certified to the committees referenced above by the Regional Director of the Mid-Pacific Region of the Bureau of Reclamation. . Section 3408(j) of the Central Valley Project Improvement Act (106 Stat. 4730) is amended as follows: By redesignating paragraphs
(1)through
(7)as subparagraphs
(A)through (G), respectively. By striking In order to minimize adverse effects, if any, upon and inserting
(1). In general.— In order to minimize adverse effects upon By striking needs, the Secretary, and all that follows through submit to the Congress, a and inserting needs, the Secretary, on a priority basis and not later than September 30, 2018, shall submit to Congress a . By striking increase, and all that follows through options: and inserting increase, as soon as possible but not later than September 30, 2017 (except for the construction of new facilities which shall not be limited by that deadline), the water of the Central Valley Project by the amount dedicated and managed for fish and wildlife purposes under this title and otherwise required to meet the purposes of the Central Valley Project including satisfying contractual obligations. The plan required by this subsection shall include recommendations on appropriate cost-sharing arrangements and authorizing legislation or other measures needed to implement the intent, purposes, and provisions of this subsection and a description of how the Secretary intends to use the following options— . In subparagraph (A), by inserting and construction of new water storage facilities before the semicolon. In subparagraph (F), by striking and at the end. In subparagraph (G), by striking the period and all that follows through the end of the subsection and inserting ; and . By inserting after subparagraph
(G)the following: Water banking and recharge. . By adding at the end the following: The Secretary shall implement the plan required by paragraph
(1)commencing on October 1, 2017. In order to carry out this subsection, the Secretary shall coordinate with the State of California in implementing measures for the long-term resolution of problems in the San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Estuary. Notwithstanding any other provision of Federal reclamation law, if by September 30, 2018, the plan required by paragraph
(1)fails to increase the annual delivery capability of the Central Valley Project by 800,000 acre-feet, implementation of any non-mandatory action under section 3406(b)(2) shall be suspended until the plan achieves an increase in the annual delivery capability of the Central Valley Project by 800,000 acre-feet. . Section 3408(h) of the Central Valley Project Improvement Act (106 Stat. 4729) is amended— in paragraph (1), by striking paragraph (h)(2) and inserting paragraph
(2); and in paragraph (2), by striking paragraph (h)(i) and inserting paragraph
(1). The Secretary, acting through the Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation, may partner or enter into an agreement on the water storage projects identified in section 103(d)(1) of the Water Supply Reliability, and Environmental Improvement Act ( Public Law 108–361 ) (and Acts supplemental and amendatory to the Act) with local joint powers authorities formed pursuant to State law by irrigation districts and other local water districts and local governments within the applicable hydrologic region, to advance these projects. No additional Federal funds are authorized for the activities authorized in sections 103(d)(1)(A)(i), 103(d)(1)(A)(ii), and 103(d)(1)(A)(iii) of Public Law 108–361 . However, each water storage project under sections 103(d)(1)(A)(i), 103(d)(1)(A)(ii), and 103(d)(1)(A)(iii) of Public Law 108–361 is authorized for construction if non-Federal funds are used for financing and constructing the project.
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  • 106 Stat. 4728
  • Pub. L. 99-546
  • 100 Stat. 3051
  • 106 Stat. 4729
  • 106 Stat. 4730
  • Pub. L. 108-361
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