[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4976 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4976

  To amend the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act to authorize 
 additional measures to carry out the control of salinity upstream of 
                Imperial Dam in a cost-effective manner.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 17, 1994

   Mr. Hansen (for himself, Mr. Skeen, Mr. Bilbray, and Mr. Pastor) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act to authorize 
 additional measures to carry out the control of salinity upstream of 
                Imperial Dam in a cost-effective manner.

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

SECTION 1. AMENDMENTS TO THE COLORADO RIVER BASIN SALINITY CONTROL ACT.

    The Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act (43 U.S.C. 1571 et 
seq.) is amended--
            (1) in section 202(a)--
                    (A) in the first sentence--
                            (i) by striking ``the following salinity 
                        control units'' and inserting ``the following 
                        salinity control units and salinity control 
                        program''; and
                            (ii) by striking the period and inserting a 
                        colon; and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following new 
                paragraph:
            ``(6) A basinwide salinity control program that the 
        Secretary, acting through the Bureau of Reclamation, shall 
        implement. The Secretary may carry out the purposes of this 
        paragraph directly, or may make grants, commitments for grants, 
        or advances of funds to non-Federal entities under such terms 
        and conditions as the Secretary may require. Such program shall 
        consist of cost-effective measures and associated works to 
        reduce salinity from saline springs, leaking wells, irrigation 
        sources, industrial sources, erosion of public and private 
        land, or other sources that the Secretary considers 
        appropriate. Such program shall provide for the mitigation of 
        incidental fish and wildlife values that are lost as a result 
        of the measures. The Secretary shall submit planning reports 
        concerning the program established under this paragraph to the 
        appropriate committees of Congress. The Secretary may not 
        expend funds for any implementation measure under the program 
        established under this paragraph before the expiration of a 30-
        day period beginning on the date on which the Secretary submits 
        such report''; and
            (2) in section 205(a)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``authorized by 
                section 202(a)(4) and (5)'' and inserting ``authorized 
                by paragraphs (4) through (6) of section 202(a)''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (4)(i), by striking ``section 
                202(a)(4) and (5)'' each place it appears and inserting 
                ``paragraphs (4) through (6) of section 202''; and
            (3) in section 208, by adding at the end the following new 
        subsection:
    ``(c) In addition to the amounts authorized to be appropriated 
under subsection (b), there are authorized to be appropriated 
$75,000,000 for purposes of subsection (a) of section 202, including 
constructing the works described in paragraph (6) of section 202(a) and 
carrying out the measures described in such section.''.
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