[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1577 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
107th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 1577
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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
October 25, 2001
Mrs. Hutchison 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 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. ADDITIONAL PROJECT AUTHORIZATIONS.
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
study conducted by Sigler, Winston, Greenwood, and Associates,
Inc., dated January 2001.
``(6) In the Cameron County, Texas, Irrigation District No.
2, proposed improvements to Canal C, as identified in the
engineering report completed by Martin, Brown, and Perez, dated
February 8, 2001.
``(7) In the Cameron County, Texas, Irrigation District No.
2, a proposed Canal C and Canal 13 Inner Connect, as identified
in the engineering report completed by Martin, Brown, and
Perez, dated February 12, 2001.
``(8) In Delta Lake Irrigation District of Hidalgo and
Willacy Counties, Texas, proposed water conservation projects,
as identified in the engineering report completed by AW Blair
Engineering, dated 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
engineering report completed by AW Blair Engineering, dated
February 14, 2001.
``(10) In the Brownsville Irrigation District of Cameron
County, Texas, a proposed main canal replacement, as identified
in the engineering report completed by Holdar-Garcia &
Associates, dated February 14, 2001.
``(11) In the Hidalgo County, Texas, Irrigation District
No. 16, a proposed off-district pump station project, as
identified in the engineering report completed by Melden &
Hunt, Inc., 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 identified in the engineering analysis completed by
Melden & Hunt, Inc., dated February 2001.
``(13) In the Donna (Texas) Irrigation District, a proposed
improvement project, as identified in the engineering analysis
completed by Melden & Hunt, Inc., dated February 13, 2001.
``(14) In the Hudspeth County, Texas, Conservation and
Reclamation District No. 1--
``(A) the Alamo Arroyo Pumping Plant water quality
project, as identified in the engineering report and
drawings completed by Gebliard-Sarma and Associates,
dated July 1996; and
``(B) 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 completed by AW Blair Engineering,
dated March 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 in the engineering report and drawings completed 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, as identified in the engineering
report completed 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 completed by AW Blair Engineering, dated
March 2001.
``(18) In the Hidalgo County, Texas, Irrigation District
No. 2, Wisconsin Canal Improvements, as identified in the
engineering report completed by Sigler, Winston, Greenwood and
Associates, Inc., dated February 2001.
``(19) In the Hidalgo County Irrigation District No. 2,
Lateral `A' Canal Improvements, as identified in the
engineering report completed by Sigler, Winston, Greenwood and
Associates, Inc., dated July 25, 2001.''.
SEC. 3. ADDITIONAL AMENDMENTS.
(a) Lower Rio Grande Water Conservation and Improvement Program.--
Section 3 of the Lower Rio Grande Valley Water Resources Conservation
and Improvement Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-576; 114 Stat. 3065) is
amended--
(1) in the first sentence of subsection (a), by striking
``The Secretary'' and all that follows through ``in
cooperation'' and inserting ``The Secretary, acting through the
Commissioner of Reclamation, shall carry out a program under
cooperative agreements'';
(2) by striking subsection (b) and inserting the following:
``(b) Review and Evaluation.--The Secretary shall review and
evaluate project proposals in accordance with the guidelines described
in the document published by the Bureau of Reclamation entitled
`Guidelines for Preparing and Reviewing Proposals for Water
Conservation and Improvement Projects Under Public Law 106-576', dated
June 2000.'';
(3) in subsection (d), by inserting before the period at
the end the following: ``, including operation, maintenance,
repair, and replacement'';
(4) in subsection (e), by striking ``the criteria
established pursuant to this section'' and inserting ``the
guidelines referred to in subsection (b)'';
(5) by striking subsection (f) and inserting the following:
``(f) Report Preparation; Reimbursement.--
``(1) In general.--Subject to paragraph (2), project
sponsors may choose to enter into 1 or more contracts with the
Secretary under which the Secretary shall prepare the reports
required under this section.
``(2) Federal share.--The Federal share of the cost of
report preparation by the Secretary described in paragraph (1)
shall not exceed 50 percent of the total cost of that
preparation.''; and
(6) in subsection (g), by striking ``$2,000,000'' and
inserting ``$8,000,000''.
(b) Lower Rio Grande Construction Authorization.--Section 4 of the
Lower Rio Grande Valley Water Resources Conservation and Improvement
Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-576; 114 Stat. 3067) is amended--
(1) in subsection (b)--
(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 striking ``spent'' and
inserting ``expended''; and
(2) in subsection (c), by striking ``$10,000,000'' and
inserting ``$47,000,000, as adjusted to reflect the change,
relative to September 30, 2001, in the Consumer Price Index for
all urban consumers published by the Department of Labor''.
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