[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2498 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2498

    To provide for a study regarding development of a comprehensive 
   integrated regional water management plan that would address four 
general areas of regional water planning in both the San Joaquin River 
 Hydrologic Region and the Tulare Lake Hydrologic Region, inclusive of 
   Kern, Tulare, Kings, Fresno, Madera, Merced, Stanislaus, and San 
  Joaquin Counties, California, and to provide that such plan be the 
 guide by which those counties use as a mechanism to address and solve 
      long-term water needs in a sustainable and equitable manner.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 24, 2007

Mr. Costa (for himself, Mr. Nunes, Mr. Cardoza, Mr. Radanovich, and Mr. 
   McCarthy of California) introduced the following bill; which was 
             referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
    To provide for a study regarding development of a comprehensive 
   integrated regional water management plan that would address four 
general areas of regional water planning in both the San Joaquin River 
 Hydrologic Region and the Tulare Lake Hydrologic Region, inclusive of 
   Kern, Tulare, Kings, Fresno, Madera, Merced, Stanislaus, and San 
  Joaquin Counties, California, and to provide that such plan be the 
 guide by which those counties use as a mechanism to address and solve 
      long-term water needs in a sustainable and equitable manner.

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

SECTION 1. STUDY TO DEVELOP WATER PLAN; REPORT.

    (a) Plan.--
            (1) Grant.--Not later than 120 days after the date of the 
        enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior, acting 
        through the Bureau of Reclamation, shall award a grant to the 
        California Water Institute, located at California State 
        University, Fresno, California, to conduct a study coordinating 
        and integrating sub-regional interated regional water 
        management plans into a unified Integrated Regional Water 
        Management Plan for the subject 8 counties in the hydrologic 
        basins that would address issues related to--
                    (A) water quality;
                    (B) water supply (both surface, groundwater banking 
                and brackish water desalination);
                    (C) water conveyance;
                    (D) water reliability;
                    (E) flood control;
                    (F) water resource-related environmental 
                enhancement; and
                    (G) population growth.
            (2) Study area.--The study area referred to in paragraph 
        (1) is the proposed study area of the San Joaquin River 
        Hydrologic Region and Tulare Lake Hydrologic Region, as defined 
        by California Department of Water Resources Bulletin 160-05, 
        Volume 3, Chapters 7 and 8, including Kern, Tulare, Kings, 
        Fresno, Madera, Merced, Stanislaus, and San Joaquin counties in 
        California.
    (b) Use of Plan.--The Integrated Regional Water Management Plan 
developed for the 2 hydrologic basins under subsection (a) shall serve 
as a guide for the 8 counties in the study area described in subsection 
(a)(2) to use as a mechanism to address and solve long-term water needs 
in a sustainable and equitable manner.
    (c) Report.--The Secretary shall ensure that a report containing 
the results of the Integrated Regional Water Management Plan for the 2 
hydrologic regions is submitted to the Committee on Natural Resources 
of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources of the Senate not later than 24 months after the grant is 
awarded under subsection (a)(1).
    (d) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated to the Secretary of the Interior $1,000,000 to carry out 
this section.
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