[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3967 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3967

 To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to reallocate costs of the 
 Pactola Dam and Reservoir, South Dakota, to reflect increased demands 
       for municipal, industrial, and fish and wildlife purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 3, 2005

 Ms. Herseth introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                         Committee on Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to reallocate costs of the 
 Pactola Dam and Reservoir, South Dakota, to reflect increased demands 
       for municipal, industrial, and fish and wildlife 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 ``Pactola Reservoir Reallocation 
Authorization Act of 2005''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds that--
            (1) it is appropriate to reallocate the costs of the 
        Pactola Dam and Reservoir, South Dakota, to reflect increased 
        demands for municipal, industrial, and fish and wildlife 
        purposes; and
            (2) section 302 of the Department of Energy Organization 
        Act (42 U.S.C. 7152) prohibits such a reallocation of costs 
        without congressional approval.

SEC. 3. REALLOCATION OF COSTS OF PACTOLA DAM AND RESERVOIR, SOUTH 
              DAKOTA.

    The Secretary of the Interior may, as provided in the contract of 
August 2001 entered into between Rapid City, South Dakota, and the 
Rapid Valley Conservancy District, reallocate, in a manner consistent 
with Federal reclamation law (the Act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 388, 
chapter 1093), and Acts supplemental to and amendatory of that Act (43 
U.S.C. 371 et seq.)), the construction costs of Pactola Dam and 
Reservoir, Rapid Valley Unit, Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, South 
Dakota, from irrigation purposes to municipal, industrial, and fish and 
wildlife purposes.
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