[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2786 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2786

   To provide a cost-sharing requirement for the construction of the 
           Arkansas Valley Conduit in the State of Colorado.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 24, 2002

  Mr. Allard 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 provide a cost-sharing requirement for the construction of the 
           Arkansas Valley Conduit in the State of Colorado.

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

SECTION 1. COST-SHARING REQUIREMENT FOR THE ARKANSAS VALLEY CONDUIT IN 
              THE STATE OF COLORADO.

    (a) In General.--Section 7 of Public Law 87-590 (76 Stat. 393) is 
amended--
            (1) by striking ``Sec. 7.'' and inserting the following: 
        ``sec. 7. authorization of appropriations.'';
            (2) in the first sentence, by striking ``There is hereby 
        authorized'' and inserting the following:
    ``(a) Construction.--There is authorized'';
            (3) in the second sentence, by striking ``There are also'' 
        and inserting the following:
    ``(b) Operations and Maintenance.--There are''; and
            (4) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(c) Arkansas Valley Conduit.--
            ``(1) In general.--There are authorized to be appropriated 
        such sums as are necessary to pay the Federal share of the 
        costs of constructing the Arkansas Valley Conduit in accordance 
        with subsection (a) of the first section.
            ``(2) Non-federal share.--
                    ``(A) In general.--The non-Federal share of the 
                total costs of construction (including design and 
                engineering costs) of the Arkansas Valley Conduit shall 
                be not more than 25 percent.
                    ``(B) Form.--Up to 100 percent of the non-Federal 
                share may--
                            ``(i) be in the form of in-kind 
                        contributions; or
                            ``(ii) consist of amounts made available 
                        under any other Federal law.''.
    (b) Applicability.--The amendments made by subsection (a) apply to 
any costs of constructing the Arkansas Valley Conduit incurred during 
fiscal year 2002 or any subsequent fiscal year.
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