[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4615 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4615

  To make applicable the provisions of the Act commonly known as the 
    ``Warren Act'' to the Central Utah Project, Utah, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 21, 1994

Mr. Orton (for himself and Ms. Shepherd) introduced the following bill; 
        which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To make applicable the provisions of the Act commonly known as the 
    ``Warren Act'' to the Central Utah Project, Utah, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. APPLICATION OF THE WARREN ACT.

    (a) Authority.--The Secretary of the Interior may--
            (1) enter into contracts with private entities pursuant to 
        the Act of February 21, 1911 (commonly known as the ``Warren 
        Act'') (36 Stat. 925 et seq., chapter 141; 43 U.S.C. 523), for 
        the impounding, storage, and carriage of nonproject water for 
        domestic, municipal, fish and wildlife, industrial, and other 
        beneficial purposes, using any facilities associated with the 
        Central Utah Project, Utah; and
            (2) enter into agreements, under terms and conditions 
        authorized for contracts under such Act, with appropriate 
        officials of other Federal agencies, municipalities, public 
        water districts and agencies, and States for impounding, 
        storage, and carriage of nonproject water for purposes 
        described in paragraph (1) using facilities referred to in such 
        paragraph.
    (b) Nonproject Water Defined.--In subsection (a), the term 
``nonproject water'' means water that is not from a Federal Reclamation 
project.

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