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        S.523

                       One Hundred Fourth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE FIRST SESSION

         Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,
  the fourth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-five


                                 An Act


 
  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, 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. 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 and associated works. 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 30-day period beginning on the date on which the Secretary 
    submits such report.'';
        (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 ``sections 202(a)(4) 
        and (5)'' each place it appears and inserting ``paragraphs (4) 
        through (6) of section 202'';
        (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 subsection 202(a), including constructing the works 
described in paragraph 202(a)(6) and carrying out the measures 
described in such paragraph. Notwithstanding subsection (b), the 
Secretary may implement the program under paragraph 202(a)(6) only to 
the extent and in such amounts as are provided in advance in 
appropriations Acts.''; and
        (4) in subsection 202(b)(4) delete ``units authorized to be 
    constructed pursuant to paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (4), and (5)'' 
    and insert in lieu thereof ``units authorized to be constructed or 
    the program pursuant to paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), and 
    (6)''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.