[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1576 Introduced in Senate (IS)]








109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1576

     To authorize early repayment of obligations to the Bureau of 
Reclamation within the Rogue River Valley Irrigation District or within 
        the Medford Irrigation District, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 29, 2005

 Mr. Smith (for himself and Mr. Wyden) 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 authorize early repayment of obligations to the Bureau of 
Reclamation within the Rogue River Valley Irrigation District or within 
        the Medford Irrigation District, 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. 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 
the Rogue River Valley Irrigation District or within the 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. 309aa et seq.).

SEC. 2. 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. 390mm(b)(1)).
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