[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2319 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2319

  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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                July 26 (legislative day, July 20), 1994

 Mr. Bennett (for himself, Mr. Campbell and Mr. Hatch) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                      Energy and 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 SANITARY CONTROL ACT.

    The Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act (43 U.S.C. 1571 et 
seq.) is amended--
            (1) in section 202--
                    (A) in subsection (a)--
                            (i) in the first sentence--
                                    (I) by striking ``the following 
                                sanitary control units'' and inserting 
                                ``the following sanitary control units 
                                and salinity control program''; and
                                    (II) by striking the period and 
                                inserting a colon; and
                            (ii) 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, and 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 a planning report 
        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 60-
        day period beginning on the date on which the Secretary submits 
        such report.''; and
                    (B) in subsection (b)(2), by striking ``entities 
                shall be required'' and inserting ``entities may be 
                required'';
            (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 ``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 such sums 
as may be necessary for constructing the works described in section 
202(a)(6) and carrying out the measures described in such section.''.
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