[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2535 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

  2d Session
                                H. R. 2535


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

           September 22 (legislative day, September 17), 2008

                                Received

            October 2 (legislative day, September 17), 2008

    Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural 
                               Resources

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                                 AN ACT


 
   To direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study on the 
feasibility and suitability of constructing a storage reservoir, outlet 
    works, and a delivery system for the Tule River Indian Tribe of 
     California to provide a water supply for domestic, municipal, 
     industrial, and agricultural purposes, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Tule River Tribe Water Development 
Act''.

SEC. 2. STUDY.

    (a) Authorization.--Not later than 2 years after funds are 
appropriated for this section or the signing of a reserved water rights 
settlement agreement by the Tule River Tribe and other settling water 
users, whichever is later, the Secretary of the Interior, acting 
through the Bureau of Reclamation, shall complete a feasibility study 
to evaluate alternatives (including alternatives for a phase I 
reservoir storage of an amount of water not to exceed 5,000 acre feet) 
for a domestic, commercial, municipal, industrial, and irrigation water 
supply for the Tule River Tribe of the Tule River Reservation.
    (b) Report.--Upon completion of the study conducted under 
subsection (a), the Secretary of the Interior shall transmit the study 
to the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives 
and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and the Committee on 
Indian Affairs of the Senate.
    (c) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated to the Secretary of the Interior $3,000,000 to carry out 
this section.

SEC. 3. CONDITIONS FOR FUTURE PROJECTS.

    No project conducted in relation to the feasibility study conducted 
under section 2 shall provide water supplies for the proposed Tribal 
casino to be located in proximity to California Highway 190 near Lake 
Success, or any other Tribal casino, except--
            (1) the casino in its current form and dimensions operated 
        by the Tribe on the Tule River Reservation; and
            (2) any lodging, dining, entertainment, meeting space, 
        parking, or other similar facilities which may be constructed 
        in the future in support of current on-Reservation gaming 
        activities, or in support of any future expansion of on-
        Reservation gaming activities.

            Passed the House of Representatives September 17, 2008.

            Attest:

                                            LORRAINE C. MILLER,

                                                                 Clerk.