[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5053 Received in Senate (RDS)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5053


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

            October 5 (legislative day, September 12), 1994

                                Received

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                                 AN ACT


 
To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to extend for one year Water 
    Bank Act agreements that are due to expire on December 31, 1994.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Water Bank Extension Act of 1994''.

SEC. 2. SPECIAL AUTHORITY TO EXTEND WATER BANK ACT AGREEMENTS.

    (a) Subject to subsection (b), any agreement entered into under the 
Water Bank Act (16 U.S.C. 1301 et seq.) and due to expire on December 
31, 1994, may be extended for one year under section 6 of the Water 
Bank Act (16 U.S.C. 1305).
    (b) The authority to extend Water Bank Act agreements under this 
Act may only be exercised to the extent that the amount available for 
obligation under the Wetlands Reserve Program (16 U.S.C. 1637 et seq.), 
and the amount used for the extention of Water Bank Act agreements 
under subsection (a), does not exceed $93,200,000 as provided for the 
Wetlands Reserve Program under the Agricultural, Rural Development, 
Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
1995.

            Passed the House of Representatives October 4, 1994.

            Attest:

                                           DONNALD K. ANDERSON,

                                                                 Clerk.