[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3123 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3123

 To direct the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of 
 Reclamation, to remedy problems caused by a collapsed drainage tunnel 
            in Leadville, Colorado, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 8, 2009

 Mr. Lamborn introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of 
 Reclamation, to remedy problems caused by a collapsed drainage tunnel 
            in Leadville, Colorado, 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. LEADVILLE MINE DRAINAGE TUNNEL REMEDIATION.

    (a) Short Title.--This section may be cited as the ``Leadville Mine 
Drainage Tunnel Remediation Act of 2009''.
    (b) Tunnel Remediation.--The Reclamation Projects Authorization and 
Adjustment Act of 1992 (Public Law 102-575) is amended as follows:
            (1) By striking section 705.
            (2) In section 708(a)--
                    (A) by striking ``(a)'' and inserting ``(a)(1)'';
                    (B) by striking ``The Secretary shall have'' and 
                inserting ``Except as provided by paragraph (2), the 
                Secretary shall have''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(2) The Secretary shall participate in the implementation of the 
operable unit 6 remedy for the California Gulch Superfund Site, as such 
remedy is defined in the Environmental Protection Agency's 2003 Record 
of Decision for such operable unit, by--
            ``(A) treating water behind any blockage or bulkhead in the 
        Leadville Mine Drainage Tunnel, including surface water 
        diverted into the  Tunnel workings as part of the remedy; and
            ``(B) managing and maintaining the mine pool behind such 
        blockage or bulkhead at a level that precludes surface runoff 
        and releases and minimizes the potential for tunnel failure due 
        to excessive water pressure in the tunnel.''.
            (3) In section 708(f), by striking ``and 708'' and 
        inserting ``, 708, and 709''.
            (4) By adding at the end of title VII the following:

``SEC. 709. TUNNEL MAINTENANCE.

    ``The Secretary shall take such steps to repair or maintain the 
structural integrity of the Leadville Mine Drainage Tunnel (LMDT) as 
may be necessary in order to prevent tunnel failure and to preclude 
uncontrolled release of water from any portion of the tunnel.''.
            (5) In the table of sections contained in section 2--
                    (A) by striking the item relating to section 705; 
                and
                    (B) by inserting after the item relating to section 
                708 the following new item:

``Sec. 709. Tunnel maintenance.''.
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