[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 839 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 839

To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to study the feasibility of 
   enlarging the Arthur V. Watkins Dam Weber Basin Project, Utah, to 
  provide additional water for the Weber Basin Project to fulfill the 
            purposes for which that project was authorized.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 6, 2007

Mr. Bishop of Utah introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                   the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to study the feasibility of 
   enlarging the Arthur V. Watkins Dam Weber Basin Project, Utah, to 
  provide additional water for the Weber Basin Project to fulfill the 
            purposes for which that project was authorized.

    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 ``Arthur V. Watkins Dam Enlargement 
Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) Arthur V. Watkins Dam is a feature of the Weber Basin 
        Project, which was authorized by law on August 29, 1949.
            (2) Increasing the height of Arthur V. Watkins Dam and 
        construction of pertinent facilities may provide additional 
        storage capacity for the development of additional water supply 
        for the Weber Basin Project for uses of municipal and 
        industrial water supply, flood control, fish and wildlife, and 
        recreation.

SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF FEASIBILITY STUDY.

    The Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of 
Reclamation, is authorized to conduct a feasibility study on raising 
the height of Arthur V. Watkins Dam for the development of additional 
storage to meet water supply needs within the Weber Basin Project area 
and the Wasatch Front. The feasibility study shall include such 
environmental evaluation as required under the National Environmental 
Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and a cost allocation as 
required under the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (43 U.S.C. 485 et 
seq.).

SEC. 4. COST SHARES.

    (a) Federal Share.--The Federal share of the costs of the study 
authorized in section 3 shall not exceed 50 percent of the total cost 
of the study.
    (b) In-Kind Contributions.--The Secretary shall accept, as 
appropriate, in-kind contributions of goods or services from the Weber 
Basin Water Conservancy District. Such goods and services accepted 
under this section shall be counted as part of the non-Federal cost 
share for the study.

SEC. 5. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary $1,000,000 
for the Federal cost share of the study authorized in section 3.

SEC. 6. SUNSET.

    The authority of the Secretary to carry out any provisions of this 
Act shall terminate 10 years after the date of the enactment of this 
Act.
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