[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2990 Introduced in House (IH)]
107th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 2990
To amend the Lower Rio Grande Valley Water Resources Conservation and
Improvement Act of 2000 to authorize additional projects under that
Act, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
October 2, 2001
Mr. Hinojosa (for himself, Mr. Bonilla, Mr. Gonzalez, Mr. Ortiz, Mr.
Reyes, and Mr. Rodriguez) introduced the following bill; which was
referred to the Committee on Resouces
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A BILL
To amend the Lower Rio Grande Valley Water Resources Conservation and
Improvement Act of 2000 to authorize additional projects under that
Act, 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. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Lower Rio Grande Valley Water
Resources Conservation and Improvement Act of 2001''.
SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF ADDITIONAL PROJECTS UNDER THE LOWER RIO GRANDE
VALLEY WATER RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND IMPROVEMENT ACT
OF 2000.
Section 4(a) of the Lower Rio Grande Valley Water Resources
Conservation and Improvement Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-576; 114 Stat.
3067) is amended by adding at the end the following:
``(5) In the United Irrigation District of Hidalgo County,
Texas, a pipeline and pumping system as identified in the
Sigler, Winston, Greenwood, Associates, Incorporated, study
dated January 2001.
``(6) In the Cameron County, Texas, Irrigation District No.
2, proposed improvements to Canal C, as identified in the
February 8, 2001, engineering report by Martin, Brown, and
Perez.
``(7) In the Cameron County, Texas, Irrigation District No.
2, a proposed Canal C and Canal 13 Inner Connect, as identified
in the February 12, 2001, engineering report by Martin, Brown,
and Perez.
``(8) In Delta Lake Irrigation District of Hidalgo and
Willacy Counties, Texas, proposed water conservation projects,
as identified by the AW Blair Engineering report of February
13, 2001.
``(9) In the Hidalgo and Cameron County, Texas, Irrigation
District No. 9, a proposed project to salvage spill water using
automatic control of canal gates as identified in the AW Blair
Engineering report dated February 14, 2001.
``(10) In the Brownsville Irrigation District of Cameron
County, Texas, a proposed main canal replacement as outlined in
the Holdar-Garcia & Associates engineering report dated
February 14, 2001.
``(11) In the Hidalgo County, Texas, Irrigation District
No. 16, a proposed off-district pump station project as
identified by the Melden & Hunt, Incorporated, engineering
report dated February 14, 2001.
``(12) In the Hidalgo County, Texas, Irrigation District
No. 1, a proposed canal replacement of the North Branch East
Main, as outlined in the Melden & Hunt, Incorporated,
engineering analysis dated February, 2001.
``(13) In the Donna (Texas) Irrigation District, a proposed
improvement project as identified by the Melden & Hunt,
Incorporated, engineering analysis dated February 13, 2001.
``(14) In the Hudspeth County, Texas, Conservation and
Reclamation District No. 1, the Alamo Arroyo Pumping Plant
water quality project as identified by the engineering report
and drawings by Gebhard-Sarma and Associates dated July 1996
and the construction of a 1,000 acre-foot off-channel
regulating reservoir for the capture and conservation of
irrigation water, as identified in the engineering report by AW
Blair Engineering dated March of 2001.
``(15) In the El Paso County, Texas, Water Improvement
District No. 1, the Riverside Canal Improvement Project Phase I
Reach A, a canal lining and water conservation project as
identified by the engineering report and drawings by AW Blair
Engineering dated November 1999.
``(16) In the Maverick County, Texas, Water Improvement and
Control District No. 1, the concrete lining project of 12 miles
of the Maverick Main Canal, identified in the engineering
report by AW Blair Engineering dated March 2001.
``(17) In the Hidalgo County, Texas, Irrigation District
No. 6, rehabilitation of 10.2 miles of concrete lining in the
main canal between Lift Stations Nos. 2 and 3 as identified in
the engineering report by AW Blair Engineering dated March 2001.
``(18) In the Hidalgo County, Texas, Irrigation District
No. 2, Wisconsin Canal Improvements as identified in the
Sigler, Winston, Greenwood & Associates, Incorporated,
engineering report dated February 2001.
``(19) In the Hidalgo County, Texas, Irrigation District
No. 2, Lateral `A' Canal Improvements as identified in the
Sigler, Winston, Greenwood & Associates, Incorporated,
engineering report dated July 25, 2001.''.
SEC. 3. AMENDMENTS TO THE LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY WATER RESOURCES
CONSERVATION AND IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 2000.
The Lower Rio Grande Valley Water Resources Conservation and
Improvement Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-576; 114 Stat. 3065 et seq.) is
further amended as follows:
(1) Section 3(a) is amended in the first sentence by
striking ``The Secretary'' and all that follows through ``in
cooperation'' and inserting ``The Secretary, acting through the
Bureau of Reclamation, shall undertake a program under
cooperative agreements''.
(2) Section 3(b) is amended to read as follows:
``(b) Project Review.--Project proposals shall be reviewed and
evaluated under the guidelines set forth in the document published by
the Bureau of Reclamation entitled `Guidelines for Preparing and
Reviewing Proposals for Water Conservation and Improvement Projects
Under P.L. 106-576', dated June 2000.''.
(3) Section 3(d) is amended by inserting before the period
at the end the following: ``, including operation, maintenance,
repair, and replacement''.
(4) Section 3(e) is amended by striking ``the criteria
established pursuant to this section'' and inserting ``the
guidelines referred to in subsection (b)''.
(5) Subsection (f) of section 3 is amended by striking ``to
prepare'' and all that follows through the end of the
subsection and inserting ``to have the Secretary prepare the
reports required under this section. The Federal share of the
cost of such preparation by the Secretary shall not exceed 50
percent of the total cost of such preparation.''.
(6) Section 3(g) is amended by striking ``$2,000,000'' and
inserting ``$8,000,000''.
(7) Section 4(b) is amended--
(A) in the first sentence by striking ``costs of
any construction'' and inserting ``total project cost
of any project''; and
(B) in the last sentence by inserting ``the
actual'' before ``funds''.
(8) Section 4(c) is amended by striking ``$10,000,000'' and
inserting ``$47,000,000 (2001 dollars)''.
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