[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1937 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

  1st Session
                                H. R. 1937


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 12, 2001

  Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs

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                                 AN ACT


 
    To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to engage in certain 
    feasibility studies of water resource projects in the State of 
                              Washington.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Pacific Northwest Feasibility 
Studies Act of 2001''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF FEASIBILITY STUDIES.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of the Interior may engage in the 
following feasibility studies:
            (1) The Tulalip Tribes Water Quality Feasibility Study, to 
        identify ways to meet future domestic and commercial water 
        distribution needs of the Tulalip Indian Reservation on the 
        Eastern Shore of Puget Sound, Washington.
            (2) The Lower Elwha Klallam Rural Water Supply Feasibility 
        Study, to identify additional rural water supply sources for 
        the Lower Elwha Indian Reservation on the Olympic Peninsula, 
        Washington.
            (3) The Makah Community Water Source Project Feasibility 
        Study, to identify ways to meet the current and future domestic 
        and commercial water supply and distribution needs of the Makah 
        Indian Tribe on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington.
    (b) Public Availability of Results.--The Secretary of the Interior 
shall make available to the public, upon request, the results of each 
feasibility study authorized under subsection (a), and shall promptly 
publish in the Federal Register a notice of the availability of those 
results.

            Passed the House of Representatives September 10, 2001.

            Attest:

                                                 JEFF TRANDAHL,

                                                                 Clerk.