[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2091 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

  2d Session
                                S. 2091

 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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 24, 2000

Mrs. Feinstein 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 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.--
            (1) Use of additional capacity.--Section 2 of Public Law 
        86-488 (74 Stat. 157) is amended in the last sentence 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''.
            (2) Area of service.--Section 3 of Public Law 86-488 (74 
        Stat. 158) is amended--
                    (A) in paragraph (h), by adding ``and'' at the end;
                    (B) in paragraph (i), by striking the semicolon at 
                the end and inserting a period; and
                    (C) by striking paragraph (j).
    (b) Requirements for Delivery Inside Federal Service Area.--
            (1) In general.--Section 2 of Public Law 86-488 (74 Stat. 
        157) is amended in the last sentence by inserting ``(subject to 
        section 9)'' after ``a perpetual right to the use of such 
        additional capacity''.
            (2) Use of additional capacity.--Public Law 86-488 (74 
        Stat. 156) is amended by adding at the end the following:

``SEC. 9. USE OF ADDITIONAL CAPACITY.

    ``Under section 2, the State of California may not use additional 
capacity for the delivery of water inside the Federal San Luis unit 
service area unless--
            ``(1) the 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) the delivery is consistent with the 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 Agreements.--The Secretary of the Interior--
            (1) shall offer to amend each agreement entered into by the 
        United States and the State of California under section 2 of 
        Public Law 86-488 (74 Stat. 157) before the date of enactment 
        of this Act, as necessary to delete from the agreement each 
        restriction on use of additional capacity for water service for 
        land in the Federal San Luis unit service area that is not 
        consistent with the amendments made by this Act; and
            (2) pending an amendment of an agreement under paragraph 
        (1), shall not enforce any such restriction in the agreement.
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