[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 232 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 232

   To make permanent the authorization for watershed restoration and 
                        enhancement agreements.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 9, 2007

   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 make permanent the authorization for watershed restoration and 
                        enhancement agreements.

    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 ``Watershed Restoration and 
Enhancement Agreements Act of 2007''.

SEC. 2. WATERSHED RESTORATION AND ENHANCEMENT AGREEMENTS.

    Section 323 of the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 1999 (16 U.S.C. 1011 note; Public Law 105-277), is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``each of fiscal years 
        2006 through 2011'' and inserting ``fiscal year 2006 and each 
        fiscal year thereafter'';
            (2) by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (e); and
            (3) by inserting after subsection (c) the following:
    ``(d) Applicable Law.--Chapter 63 of title 31, United States Code, 
shall not apply to--
            ``(1) a watershed restoration and enhancement agreement 
        entered into under this section; or
            ``(2) an agreement entered into under the first section of 
        Public Law 94-148 (16 U.S.C. 565a-1).''.
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