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<meta><dc:title>118 HR 4385 ENR: To extend authorization of the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1991.</dc:title>
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<preface><dc:type>H. R.</dc:type><docNumber>4385</docNumber>

<congress style="-uslm-lc:I665502" value="118">One Hundred Eighteenth 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 twenty-four</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 extend authorization of the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1991.<?GPOvSpace 08?></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><i>  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa­tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</i></enactingFormula>
<section id="d1350e62" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/4385/s1" style="-uslm-lc:I650146"><num class="bold" value="1">SECTION 1. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  This Act may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="act">Drought Preparedness Act</shortTitle>”.</content></section>
<section id="d1350e72" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/4385/s2" style="-uslm-lc:I650141"><num class="fontsize12" value="2">SEC. 2. </num><heading>EXTENSION OF AUTHORIZATION.</heading><subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="yfa70d04f-be6b-11ef-bd5f-1b3d73d54f0f" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/4385/s2/a" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="a">(a) </num><heading class="fontsize10 smallCaps">Drought Program<inline class="noSmallCaps">.—</inline></heading><content>Section 104(c) of the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1991 (<ref href="/us/usc/t43/s2214/c">43 U.S.C. 2214(c)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>2022</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>2028</quotedText>”.</content></subsection><subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="yfa70d050-be6b-11ef-bd5f-1b3d73d54f0f" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/4385/s2/b" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="b">(b) </num><heading class="fontsize10 smallCaps">Authorization of Appropriations<inline class="noSmallCaps">.—</inline></heading><content>Section 301 of the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1991 (<ref href="/us/usc/t43/s2241">43 U.S.C. 2241</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>2022</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>2028</quotedText>”.</content></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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