[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3618 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3618

     To authorize early repayment of obligations to the Bureau of 
  Reclamation within Rogue River Valley Irrigation District or within 
                      Medford Irrigation District.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 29, 2005

Mr. Walden of Oregon introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                     to the Committee on Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
     To authorize early repayment of obligations to the Bureau of 
  Reclamation within Rogue River Valley Irrigation District or within 
                      Medford Irrigation District.

    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 ``Southern Oregon Bureau of 
Reclamation Repayment Act of 2005''.

SEC. 2. EARLY REPAYMENT.

    Notwithstanding the provisions of section 213 of the Reclamation 
Reform Act of 1982 (43 U.S.C. 390mm), any landholder in Oregon within 
Rogue River Valley Irrigation District or within Medford Irrigation 
District may repay, at any time, the construction costs of the project 
facilities allocated to a landholding within the district in question. 
Upon discharge of the obligation for repayment of the construction 
costs allocated to that landholding in the district in question, such 
lands shall not be subject to the ownership and full-cost pricing 
limitations of the Act of June 17, 1902 (43 U.S.C. 371 et seq.), and 
Acts supplemental to and amendatory of that Act, including the 
Reclamation Reform Act of 1982 (43 U.S.C. 390aa et seq.).

SEC. 3. CERTIFICATION.

    Upon the request of a landholder who has repaid the construction 
costs of the project facilities allocated to that landholder within the 
district, the Secretary of the Interior shall provide the certification 
provided for in subsection (b)(1) of section 213 of the Reclamation 
Reform Act of 1982 (43 U.S.C. 390 mm(b)(1)).
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