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[H.R. 3077 Reported in House (RH)]






                                                 Union Calendar No. 254
106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3077

                          [Report No. 106-435]

 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.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 14, 1999

Mr. Dooley of California (for himself, Mr. Radanovich, Mr. Condit, and 
 Mr. Thomas) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                         Committee on Resources

                            November 2, 1999

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]

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                                 A BILL


 
 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,

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

<DELETED>    (a) Elimination of Statutory Restrictions.--Public Law 86-
488 (74 Stat. 156) is amended--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (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</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (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).</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (b) Amendment of Existing Agreements.--The Secretary of 
the Interior--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) shall seek to amend each agreement entered 
        into by the United States and the State of California under 
        section 2 of Public Law 88-488 before the date of the enactment 
        of this Act, as necessary to delete from such agreement any 
        restriction on water service for lands in the Federal San Luis 
        unit service area; and</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) pending such amendment, shall not enforce any 
        such restriction.</DELETED>

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 88-488 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.




                                                 Union Calendar No. 254

106th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                               H. R. 3077

                          [Report No. 106-435]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

 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.

_______________________________________________________________________

                            November 2, 1999

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed