[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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