[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
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[H.R. 3077 Referred in Senate (RFS)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3077




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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            November 9, 1999

                                Received

                           November 19, 1999

    Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural 
                               Resources

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                                 AN ACT


 
 To amend the Act that authorized construction of the San Luis Unit of 
 the Central Valley Project, California, to facilitate water transfers 
                     in the Central Valley Project.

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

SECTION 1. ELIMINATION OF RESTRICTIONS ON USE OF SAN LUIS UNIT 
              FACILITIES FOR WATER TRANSFERS IN THE CENTRAL VALLEY 
              PROJECT.

    (a) Elimination of Statutory Restrictions.--Public Law 86-488 (74 
Stat. 156) is amended--
            (1) in section 2 by striking ``and the use of the 
        additional capacity for water service shall be limited to 
        service outside of the Federal San Luis unit service area''; 
        and
            (2) in section 3 by adding ``and'' after the semicolon at 
        the end of paragraph (h), by striking the semicolon at the end 
        of paragraph (i) and inserting a period, and by striking 
        paragraph (j).
    (b) Requirements for Delivery Inside Federal Service Area.--Such 
Act is further amended--
            (1) in section 2 by inserting ``(subject to section 9)'' 
        after ``a perpetual right to the use of such additional 
        capacity''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``Sec. 9. The State of California may not, under section 2, use 
additional capacity to deliver water inside the Federal San Luis unit 
service area unless--
            ``(1) such delivery is managed so as to ensure that--
                    ``(A) agricultural drainage discharges arising from 
                use of the delivered water--
                            ``(i) comply with any waste discharge 
                        requirements issued for such discharges; or
                            ``(ii) if there are no such waste discharge 
                        requirements, do not cause water quality 
                        conditions in the San Joaquin River and the 
                        Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and San Francisco 
                        Bay to be degraded or otherwise adversely 
                        affected; and
                    ``(B) use of the delivered water for irrigation 
                does not frustrate or interfere with efforts by the 
                United States and the State of California to manage 
                agricultural subsurface drainage discharges from the 
                San Luis unit; and
            ``(2) such delivery is consistent with those provisions of 
        operating agreements between the Secretary and the Department 
        of Water Resources of the State of California that are 
        consistent with this Act.''.
    (c) Amendment of Existing Agreements.--The Secretary of the 
Interior--
            (1) shall seek to amend each agreement entered into by the 
        United States and the State of California under section 2 of 
        Public Law 86-488 before the date of the enactment of this Act, 
        as necessary to delete from such agreement restrictions on use 
        of additional capacity for water service for land in the 
        Federal San Luis unit service area that are not consistent with 
        the amendments made by this Act; and
            (2) pending such amendment, shall not enforce any such 
        restriction.

            Passed the House of Representatives November 8, 1999.

            Attest:

                                                 JEFF TRANDAHL,

                                                                 Clerk.