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<meta><dc:title>115 HR 4689 ENR: To authorize early repayment of obligations to the Bureau of Reclamation within the Northport Irrigation District in the State of Nebraska.</dc:title>
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<preface><dc:type>H. R.</dc:type><docNumber>4689</docNumber>

<congress style="-uslm-lc:I665502" value="115">One Hundred Fifteenth Congress of the United States of America</congress><session style="-uslm-lc:I665503" value="2">A T T  H  E S  E  C  O  N  D S  E  S  S  I  O  N</session>
<enrolledDateline style="-uslm-lc:I665504">Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday, the third day of January, two thousand and eighteen</enrolledDateline>
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<docTitle class="centered fontsize18" style="-uslm-lc:I665505">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="centered fontsize8" style="-uslm-lc:I665511">To authorize early repayment of obligations to the Bureau of Reclamation within the Northport Irrigation District in the State of Nebraska.<?GPOvSpace 08?></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa­tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</enactingFormula>
<section id="d6734e62" identifier="/us/bill/115/hr/4689/s1" style="-uslm-lc:I650146"><num value="1">SECTION 1. </num><heading>EARLY REPAYMENT OF CONSTRUCTION COSTS.</heading><subsection class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d6734e66" identifier="/us/bill/115/hr/4689/s1/a" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>Notwithstanding section 213 of the Reclamation Reform Act of 1982 (<ref href="/us/usc/t43/s390mm">43 U.S.C. 390mm</ref>), any landowner within the Northport Irrigation District in the State of Nebraska (referred to in this section as the “District”) may repay, at any time, the construction costs of project facilities allocated to the landowner’s land within the District.</content></subsection><subsection class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d6734e78" identifier="/us/bill/115/hr/4689/s1/b" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Applicability of Full-Cost Pricing Limitations</inline>.—</heading><content>On discharge, in full, of the obligation for repayment of all construction costs described in subsection (a) that are allocated to all land the landowner owns in the District in question, the parcels of land shall not be subject to the ownership and full-cost pricing limitations under Federal reclamation law (the Act of June 17, 1902, <ref href="/us/stat/32/388/ch1093">32 Stat. 388, chapter 1093</ref>), and Acts supplemental to and amendatory of that Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t43/s371/etseq">43 U.S.C. 371 et seq.</ref>), including the Reclamation Reform Act of 1982 (<ref href="/us/usc/t13/s390aa/etseq">13 U.S.C. 390aa et seq.</ref>).</content></subsection><subsection class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d6734e96" identifier="/us/bill/115/hr/4689/s1/c" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Certification</inline>.—</heading><content>On request of a landowner that has repaid, in full, the construction costs described in subsection (a), the Secretary of the Interior shall provide to the landowner a certificate described in section 213(b)(1) of the Reclamation Reform Act of 1982 (<ref href="/us/usc/t43/s390mm/b/1">43 U.S.C. 390mm(b)(1)</ref>).</content></subsection><subsection class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d6734e108" identifier="/us/bill/115/hr/4689/s1/d" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="d">(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Effect</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Nothing in this section—</chapeau><paragraph class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d6734e116" identifier="/us/bill/115/hr/4689/s1/d/1" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><content>modifies any contractual rights under, or amends or reopens, the reclamation contract between the District and the United States; or</content></paragraph><paragraph class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d6734e120" identifier="/us/bill/115/hr/4689/s1/d/2" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><content>modifies any rights, obligations, or relationships between the District and landowners in the District under Nebraska State law.</content></paragraph></subsection></section>
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<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Speaker of the House of Representatives.</role></signature>
<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Vice President of the United States and  President of the Senate.</role></signature>
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