1.Short
title; table of contents
(a)This Act may be cited
as the Western Economic Security Today
Act
or the WEST
Act
.
(b)The table of contents of this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of
contents.
TITLE I—Putting the Gulf of Mexico back to work
Sec. 101. Short title.
Sec. 102. Definitions.
Subtitle A—Outer Continental Shelf land
Sec. 111. Drilling permits.
Subtitle B—Judicial review of agency actions relating to outer
Continental Shelf activities in Gulf of Mexico
Sec. 122. Exclusive venue for certain civil actions relating to
covered energy projects in Gulf of Mexico.
Sec. 123. Time limitation on filing.
Sec. 124. Expedition in hearing and determining
action.
Sec. 125. Standard of review.
Sec. 126. Limitation on prospective relief.
Sec. 127. Limitation on attorneys’ fees.
TITLE II—Restarting American offshore leasing now
Sec. 201. Short title.
Sec. 202. Definitions.
Sec. 203. Requirement to conduct proposed oil and gas Lease
Sale 216 in Central Gulf of Mexico.
Sec. 204. Requirement to conduct proposed oil and gas Lease
Sale 220 on Outer Continental Shelf offshore Virginia.
Sec. 205. Requirement to conduct proposed oil and gas Lease
Sale 222 in Central Gulf of Mexico.
TITLE III—Reversing President Obama’s offshore
moratorium
Sec. 301. Short title.
Sec. 302. Outer Continental Shelf leasing program.
Sec. 303. Domestic oil and natural gas production
goal.
TITLE IV—Jobs and energy permitting
Sec. 401. Short title.
Sec. 402. Air quality measurement.
Sec. 403. OCS source.
Sec. 404. Permits.
TITLE V—Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley water
reliability
Sec. 501. Short title.
Subtitle A—Central Valley Project water
reliability
Sec. 511. Amendment to purposes.
Sec. 512. Amendment to definition.
Sec. 513. Contracts.
Sec. 514. Water transfers, improved water management, and
conservation.
Sec. 515. Fish, wildlife, and habitat restoration.
Sec. 516. Restoration Fund.
Sec. 517. Additional authorities.
Sec. 518. Bay-Delta Accord.
Sec. 519. Natural and artificially spawned species.
Sec. 520. Authorized service area.
Sec. 521. Regulatory streamlining.
Subtitle B—San Joaquin River restoration
Sec. 531. Repeal of the San Joaquin River
settlement.
Sec. 532. Purpose.
Sec. 533. Definitions.
Sec. 534. Implementation of restoration.
Sec. 535. Disposal of property; title to
facilities.
Sec. 536. Compliance with applicable law.
Sec. 537. Compliance with Central Valley Project Improvement
Act.
Sec. 538. No private right of action.
Sec. 539. Implementation.
Sec. 540. Repayment contracts and acceleration of repayment of
construction costs.
Sec. 541. Repeal.
Sec. 542. Water supply mitigation.
Sec. 543. Additional authorities.
Subtitle C—Repayment contracts and acceleration of repayment
of construction costs
Sec. 551. Repayment contracts and acceleration of repayment of
construction costs.
Subtitle D—Bay-Delta Watershed water rights preservation and
protection
Sec. 561. Water rights and area-of-origin
protections.
Sec. 562. Sacramento River settlement contracts.
Sec. 563. Sacramento River Watershed water service
contractors.
Sec. 564. No redirected adverse impacts.
Subtitle E—Miscellaneous
Sec. 571. Precedent.
TITLE VI—Reducing regulatory burdens
Sec. 601. Short title.
Sec. 602. Use of authorized pesticides.
Sec. 603. Discharges of pesticides.
TITLE VII—Farm dust regulation prevention
Sec. 701. Short title.
Sec. 702. Temporary prohibition against revising any national
ambient air quality standard applicable to coarse particulate
matter.
Sec. 703. Nuisance dust.
Sec. 704. Sense of Congress.
Sec. 705. Impacts of EPA regulatory activity on employment and
economic activity in agriculture community.
TITLE VIII—Energy tax prevention
Sec. 801. Short title.
Sec. 802. No regulation of emissions of greenhouse
gases.
Sec. 803. Preserving one national standard for
automobiles.
<enum>I</enum><header>Putting the Gulf
of Mexico back to work</header>
<section id="H96514ECD8BF549C4B8BDF4EEC7697CA0" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>101.</enum><header>Short
title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This title may be cited
as the <quote><short-title>Putting the Gulf of Mexico Back
to Work Act</short-title></quote>.</text>
</section><section id="idCFF2562FCF004953BB831FF361449DDB" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>102.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this title:</text>
<paragraph id="H9F5F34E8EF8E44A691013E99BB35EEC3"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Covered civil
action</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>covered
civil action</term> means a civil action containing a claim under
<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/5/702">section
702</external-xref> of title 5, United States Code, regarding agency action (as
defined for the purposes of that section) affecting a covered energy project in
the Gulf of Mexico.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HF1EB4B1B1A4C4A5D9A1F460543C23908"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Covered energy
project</header>
<subparagraph id="id4FEDCE431C4D4CD28C4CD8EB641F6809"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term
<term>covered energy project</term> means the leasing of Federal land of the
outer Continental Shelf for the exploration, development, production,
processing, or transmission of oil, natural gas, wind, or any other source of
energy in the Gulf of Mexico, and any action under a lease.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id54AD955A226E4B01A1B470025B99A0A8"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Exclusion</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>covered energy
project</term> does not include any dispute between the parties to a lease
regarding the obligations under the lease, including any alleged breach of the
lease.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id98B88D67D7F14A16BE709D7D6B142678"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Secretary</header><text>The
term <term>Secretary</term> means the Secretary of the Interior.</text>
</paragraph></section><subtitle id="H472C74EE49544C3995C04BD736889A34"><enum>A</enum><header>Outer Continental
Shelf land</header>
<section id="HCA77F314760042A38AA9DCE7D2CD6296"><enum>111.</enum><header>Drilling
permits</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 11 of the
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/1340">43 U.S.C. 1340</external-xref>) is
amended by striking subsection (d) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H6CF8E42D4D1945FCB4B7B615F62ED666" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H961C52AD81A04489937C3961DC99E858"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Drilling
permits</header>
<paragraph id="HDA7A26BF28774494AC8C35E29208F78F"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Secretary shall by regulation require that any lessee
operating under an approved exploration plan—</text>
<subparagraph id="H0A5515320A204C5DA03DEB7C9F082A8C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>obtain a permit
before drilling any well in accordance with the plan; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H8C9DE1FEEFF8464BB90ECA6D0BE93243"><enum>(B)</enum><text>obtain a new
permit before drilling any well of a design that is significantly different
than the design for which the existing permit was issued.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H8A304A3D63D84352B5BF283C23242C54"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Safety review
required</header><text>The Secretary shall not issue a permit under paragraph
(1) without ensuring that the proposed drilling operations meet all—</text>
<subparagraph id="H1E57AF194D2E46D7B41C1908C43E8D50"><enum>(A)</enum><text>critical safety
system requirements, including blowout prevention; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H666356C26BFD4D3DA486D5E8E26C81D4"><enum>(B)</enum><text>oil spill response
and containment requirements.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H87B80D0239C541038C77E871C255715A"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Timeline</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="H0585E759F998486786A06E607E75E4E3"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall
determine whether to issue a permit under paragraph (1) not later than 30 days
after the date on which the Secretary receives the application for a
permit.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="id4B46FE7BF8D14BD8B4629051A46C5587"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Extension of
time</header>
<clause commented="no" id="id55394CD9A5D541F0922003C3F4E29D07"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary may
extend the period in which to consider an application for a permit for up to 2
periods of 15 days each if the Secretary has given written notice of the delay
to the applicant.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="id556462F5E89D4996816E31BE6E97EC26"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Notice</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The notice described in clause (i)
shall—</text>
<subclause commented="no" id="id500AD2E8A7F14791A74D0EE019C30FCC"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">be in the form of a letter from the
Secretary or a designee of the Secretary; and</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" id="id43DDBFF874C845B7A8238BB5E7CDEFD3"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">include—</text>
<item commented="no" id="idF678D6E06BCF4EDABC37B387CAC81ADF"><enum>(aa)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the name and title of each individual
processing the application;</text>
</item><item commented="no" id="id56A13F0A44D2442AB35F1B5022F3DC3B"><enum>(bb)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the reason for the delay; and</text>
</item><item commented="no" id="idB9E2CB58AADA4C3585347A8E2CF7876F"><enum>(cc)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the date on which the Secretary expects to
make a final decision on the application.</text>
</item></subclause></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HC1C7AE62E4CC46B3AEADEA22C2A37BDF"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Denial of
application</header><text>If the Secretary denies the application, the
Secretary shall provide the applicant—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="HDAB1F410393F42ADB2EF8030C0338727"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a written
statement that provides clear and comprehensive reasons why the application was
not accepted and detailed information concerning any deficiency; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="HFFDE0FCA8C8B4CD2AE13BB66DF52460F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>an opportunity to
remedy any deficiencies.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H8953A6BEDB2B4F2D8D507CBD2947FD9E"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Failure to make
decision within 60 days</header><text>If the Secretary does not make a decision
on the application by the date that is 60 days from the date on which the
Secretary receives the application, the application shall be considered
approved.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section></subtitle><subtitle id="HC75657C819B5488AAF3B2169C3F9AD87"><enum>B</enum><header>Judicial review of
agency actions relating to outer Continental Shelf activities in Gulf of
Mexico</header>
<section id="HBC8956BB08D1449C95CAA5A723D5B2AB"><enum>122.</enum><header>Exclusive venue
for certain civil actions relating to covered energy projects in Gulf of
Mexico</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">A covered civil action
shall be brought only in a judicial district in the Fifth Circuit unless there
is no district in that circuit in which the action may be brought.</text>
</section><section id="H4219D6CFB9C94AACBFF965F8E4C6FB31"><enum>123.</enum><header>Time limitation
on filing</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">A covered civil
action is barred unless the action is filed not later than the date that is 60
days after the date of the final Federal agency action.</text>
</section><section id="H52B38BA86D1F46DEB16D76985E70780B"><enum>124.</enum><header>Expedition in
hearing and determining action</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">A court shall endeavor to hear and determine
any covered civil action as expeditiously as practicable.</text>
</section><section id="H481D8EC036984B4BB960CF486A225714"><enum>125.</enum><header>Standard of
review</header>
<subsection id="id94A3243809F94281A99AE8FC2F609E85"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In any judicial
review of a covered civil action, administrative findings and conclusions
relating to the challenged Federal action or decision shall be presumed to be
correct.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="idFD23F0C04FB94A15A2F089334B238C25"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Standard</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The presumption described in subsection (a)
may be rebutted only by a preponderance of the evidence contained in the
administrative record.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="HFD48883899304B199DCA3F418028D55E"><enum>126.</enum><header>Limitation on
prospective relief</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In a
covered civil action, a court shall not grant or approve any prospective relief
unless the court finds that the relief is narrowly drawn, extends no further
than necessary to correct the violation of a legal requirement, and is the
least intrusive means necessary to correct that violation.</text>
</section><section id="H4A4A38CA75A04B3F98C713B42365D0FE"><enum>127.</enum><header>Limitation on
attorneys’ fees</header>
<subsection id="idE9BAE8FFCF28405493941C51E14B00DC"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Sections 504 of title
5 and 2412 of title 28, United States Code, do not apply to a covered civil
action.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="id9E48E5CDC1C94720BA94BA222168CB2A"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Payment from
Federal Government</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No party
to a covered civil action shall receive from the Federal Government payment for
attorneys’ fees, expenses, and other court costs.</text>
</subsection></section></subtitle><enum>II</enum><header>Restarting
American offshore leasing now</header>
<section id="HDFE2A8ADBE554D69A33E068482D4D18C" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>201.</enum><header>Short
title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This title may be cited
as the <quote><short-title>Restarting American Offshore
Leasing Now Act</short-title></quote>.</text>
</section><section id="H418D13B28E8B401FA08DA9D6489A28FC"><enum>202.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this title:</text>
<paragraph id="HCED02DDDDD4F48FB9ABDDBE70FEE55CA"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Environmental
impact statement for the 2007–2012 5-Year OCS plan</header><text>The term
<term>environmental impact statement for the 2007–2012 5-Year OCS plan</term>
means the final environmental impact statement prepared by the Secretary
entitled <quote>Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program:
2007–2012</quote>, and dated April 2007.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HAB25217E27E94CA7AE783B9221FE3D11"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Multisale
environmental impact statement</header><text>The term <term>multisale
environmental impact statement</term> means the environmental impact statement
prepared by the Secretary relating to proposed Western Gulf of Mexico OCS Oil
and Gas Lease Sales 204, 207, 210, 215, and 218, and proposed Central Gulf of
Mexico OCS Oil and Gas Lease Sales 205, 206, 208, 213, 216, and 222, and dated
September 2008.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id25F51F2FF3EC4B36A4E7D6C17C2B5752"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Secretary</header><text>The
term <term>Secretary</term> means the Secretary of the Interior.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="HB0CCC380AFFF4632827384D564FBB2D7"><enum>203.</enum><header>Requirement to
conduct proposed oil and gas Lease Sale 216 in Central Gulf of Mexico</header>
<subsection id="H908FA2156AFF4C728CACA030A668AD80"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>As soon as practicable, but not later than 60 days after
the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall conduct offshore oil and
gas Lease Sale 216 under section 8 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (33
U.S.C. 1337).</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H29AB060A9A1645B8BA047E75FFCB1E8B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Environmental
review</header><text>For the purposes of the lease sale described in subsection
(a), the environmental impact statement for the 2007–2012 5-Year OCS plan and
the multisale environmental impact statement shall be considered to satisfy the
requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321
et seq.).</text>
</subsection></section><section id="HE84137440349444DB0EB5D4187B39AAA"><enum>204.</enum><header>Requirement to
conduct proposed oil and gas Lease Sale 220 on Outer Continental Shelf offshore
Virginia</header>
<subsection id="HC2022C3F95294C2BA2920EAB0CEBCD00"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>As soon as practicable, but not later than 1 year after
the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall conduct offshore oil and
gas Lease Sale 220 under section 8 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (33
U.S.C. 1337).</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H9C92C36C10B44C8E9568E7F47BC2BD0A"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Environmental
review</header><text>For the purposes of the lease sale described in subsection
(a), the environmental impact statement for the 2007–2012 5-Year OCS plan and
the multisale environmental impact statement shall be considered to satisfy the
requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321
et seq.).</text>
</subsection></section><section id="HD4EE1434C09B4440ACC5E6D35893E35A"><enum>205.</enum><header>Requirement to
conduct proposed oil and gas Lease Sale 222 in Central Gulf of Mexico</header>
<subsection id="H826486E38EBB44C28B5A353F0497ABD1"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>As soon as practicable, but not later than 60 days after
the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall conduct offshore oil and
gas Lease Sale 222 under section 8 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (33
U.S.C. 1337).</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H6C00802CD15D4B838DED0FBA52BB66EE"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Environmental
review</header><text>For the purposes of the lease sale described in subsection
(a), the environmental impact statement for the 2007–2012 5-Year OCS plan and
the multisale environmental impact statement shall be considered to satisfy the
requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321
et seq.).</text>
</subsection></section><enum>III</enum><header>Reversing
President Obama’s offshore moratorium</header>
<section id="HFA583B3400DB440AADD01EC7BA9027F1" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>301.</enum><header>Short
title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This title may be cited
as the <quote><short-title>Reversing President Obama’s
Offshore Moratorium Act</short-title></quote>.</text>
</section><section id="H6D9FF2563DD4486C989A2A14F5012364"><enum>302.</enum><header>Outer
Continental Shelf leasing program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 18(a) of the Outer Continental Shelf
Lands Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/1344">43 U.S.C.
1344(a)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H08BDAC1467824DA5A622DCBEC6735EA4" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="H69642D7F421540AAB2FC74A169438FF6"><enum>(5)</enum><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H6279B294C6CA4C51902D31A05246DBCE"><enum>(A)</enum><text>In each oil and gas
leasing program under this section, the Secretary shall make available for
leasing and conduct lease sales that include—</text>
<clause id="HAA4AA408E9F14CC4B45BB33C0330BE16" indent="up1"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">at least 50 percent of the available
unleased acreage within each outer Continental Shelf planning area considered
to have the largest undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and gas resources
(on a total btu basis) based upon the most recent national geological
assessment of the outer Continental Shelf, with an emphasis on offering the
most geologically prospective parts of the planning area; and</text>
</clause><clause id="H33D39B072036482DB7CEB11EC7C70CC4" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any State subdivision of an outer
Continental Shelf planning area that the Governor of the State that represents
that subdivision requests be made available for leasing.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H315C45D003C0427E803EB8E9B8268E67" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In
this paragraph, the term <quote>available unleased acreage</quote> means that
portion of the outer Continental Shelf that is not under lease at the time of a
proposed lease sale, and that has not otherwise been made unavailable for
leasing by law.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB86BBADC4AA4494EB7D4BAC0D9E8ECB8"><enum>(6)</enum><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HD37346B0F4B449BFA634EF2428215134"><enum>(A)</enum><text>For the 2012–2017 5-year
oil and gas leasing program, the Secretary shall make available for leasing any
outer Continental Shelf planning areas that are estimated to contain more
than—</text>
<clause id="H08DAD6AB022C4704859595540B1BF109" indent="up1"><enum>(i)</enum><text>2,500,000,000 barrels of oil;
or</text>
</clause><clause id="HD8C20D3B93E94AFABA9A9B0170D4A445" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>7,500,000,000,000 cubic feet of
natural gas.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H702069A642D0420D8BCD40936FFC2740" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>To determine the planning areas
described in subparagraph (A), the Secretary shall use the document entitled
<quote>Minerals Management Service Assessment of Undiscovered Technically
Recoverable Oil and Gas Resources of the Nation’s Outer Continental Shelf,
2006</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section id="H0ADD0647B6EF487594845C81D0D456C0"><enum>303.</enum><header>Domestic oil
and natural gas production goal</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 18 of the Outer Continental Shelf
Lands Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/1344">43 U.S.C.
1344</external-xref>) is amended by striking subsection (b) and inserting the
following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H34B5BAA5B7B24A03AFCE41D240F90513" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H8C024EB9734B4BB5AB4622ADA482B277"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Domestic oil and
natural gas production goal</header><text>–</text>
<paragraph id="H0EEB1514D17F41B6AE724E44A3C00F83"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>In developing a 5-year oil and gas leasing program,
subject to paragraph (2), the Secretary shall determine a domestic strategic
production goal for the development of oil and natural gas as a result of that
program, which goal shall be—</text>
<subparagraph id="HF2556DB3D586423D9C73B98BBAFE195B"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the best estimate
of the practicable increase in domestic production of oil and natural gas from
the outer Continental Shelf;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H63CD78CB22DC4FBB80E9BAA5A8722F8B"><enum>(B)</enum><text>focused on meeting
domestic demand for oil and natural gas and reducing the dependence of the
United States on foreign energy; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H08D02D33679241D18EFC32DF334FCE4A"><enum>(C)</enum><text>focused on the
production increases achieved by the leasing program at the end of the 15-year
period beginning on the effective date of the program.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HE08A2A0C634D45EFA3A34A42A5ADF8F6"><enum>(2)</enum><header>2012–2017
program goal</header><text>For purposes of the 2012–2017 5-year oil and gas
leasing program, the production goal referred to in paragraph (1) shall be an
increase by 2027 of not less than—</text>
<subparagraph id="H76C9CCD4D61D4213B19B8AD9AE2BBEB8"><enum>(A)</enum><text>3,000,000 barrels
in the quantity of oil produced per day; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4A691BD3B1444260B473D6A80964C48A"><enum>(B)</enum><text>10,000,000,000
cubic feet in the quantity of natural gas produced per day.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HAC829EE8003348919FD2DD5B12E32851"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Reporting</header><text>Beginning
at the end of the 5-year period for which the program applies and annually
thereafter, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Natural Resources of
the House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
of the Senate a report on the progress of the program in meeting the production
goal that includes an identification of projections for production and any
problems with leasing, permitting, or production that will prevent meeting the
goal.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><enum>IV</enum><header>Jobs and energy
permitting</header>
<section id="H4B61B50A4E184DD482394C978C147A45" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>401.</enum><header>Short
title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This title may be cited
as the <quote><short-title>Jobs and Energy Permitting Act
of 2012</short-title></quote>.</text>
</section><section id="H0465210DA037405DADE37D70B2E891D1"><enum>402.</enum><header>Air quality
measurement</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 328(a)(1)
of the Clean Air Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/7627">42 U.S.C. 7627(a)(1)</external-xref>) is amended in
the second sentence by inserting before the period at the end the following:
<quote>, except that any air quality impact of any OCS source shall be measured
or modeled, as appropriate, and determined solely with respect to the impacts
in the corresponding onshore area</quote>.</text>
</section><section id="H1C00DE4BCA0343E79E69554C92EB037B"><enum>403.</enum><header>OCS
source</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 328(a)(4)(C) of
the Clean Air Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/7627">42 U.S.C. 7627(a)(4)(C)</external-xref>) is amended
in the second sentence of the matter following clause (iii) by striking
<quote>shall be considered direct emissions from the OCS source</quote> and
inserting <quote>shall be considered direct emissions from the OCS source but
shall not be subject to any emission control requirement applicable to the
source under subpart 1 of part C of title I of this Act. For platform or drill
ship exploration, an OCS source is established at the point in time when
drilling commences at a location and ceases to exist when drilling activity
ends at the location or is temporarily interrupted because the platform or
drill ship relocates for weather or other reasons</quote>.</text>
</section><section id="H86D47B5BC5A747F09E57266D59360A7B"><enum>404.</enum><header>Permits</header>
<subsection id="HD70659423F7A47979B29771BDDF50987"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Permits</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 328 of the Clean Air Act
(<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/7627">42 U.S.C.
7627</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4B12A500C7594B9080CB7E552A0C2796" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H0E13F57D47AE4DFF9F5A67649CFCB863"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Permit
application</header><text>In the case of a completed application for a permit
under this Act for platform or drill ship exploration for an OCS source—</text>
<paragraph id="HBBF5B784955A482CA8641E70C40FD229"><enum>(1)</enum><text>final agency
action (including any reconsideration of the issuance or denial of such a
permit) shall be taken not later than 180 days after the date on which the
completed application is filed;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H1F25BB59A8754E3681F3F440D52F0A1D"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Environmental Appeals Board of the
Environmental Protection Agency shall have no authority to consider any matter
regarding the consideration, issuance, or denial of the permit;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H66879D11F1E94A84B0CC46D2EF92F465"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">no administrative stay of the effectiveness
of the permit may extend beyond the date that is 180 days after the date on
which the completed application is filed;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H55B7392B381A487599528C87CADAA366"><enum>(4)</enum><text>that final agency
action shall be considered to be nationally applicable under section 307(b);
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HCE222A7533BE491B8C1A63DA98EDB1FF"><enum>(5)</enum><text>judicial review of
that final agency action shall be available only in accordance with section
307(b) without additional administrative review or
adjudication.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="HAED3F715D0AE42B2894A40506A4B6D85"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming
amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 328(a)(4)
of the Clean Air Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/7627">42 U.S.C. 7627(a)(4)</external-xref>) is amended by
striking <quote>For purposes of subsections (a) and (b) of this
section—</quote> and inserting <quote>For purposes of subsections (a), (b), and
(d):</quote>.</text>
</subsection></section><enum>V</enum><header>Sacramento-San
Joaquin Valley water reliability</header>
<section id="H332188E68C284A07B497E60CA2D50141" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>501.</enum><header>Short
title<editorial></editorial></header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This title may be cited as the
<quote><short-title>Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley Water
Reliability Act</short-title></quote>.</text>
</section><subtitle id="HC9B37E62AF43478E80757535F536BD5D"><enum>A</enum><header>Central Valley
Project water reliability</header>
<section id="H1957333CA2334C3C965FBD7A1D9061A1"><enum>511.</enum><header>Amendment to
purposes</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 3402 of the
Central Valley Project Improvement Act (Public Law 102–575; 106 Stat. 4706) is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HBC2DF7B088F144A0ADEA3BC4534651A4"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (f),
by striking the period at the end; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H077C46B3848D4F5D89CD119DDEDA7E9A"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H611CF8202F564CC6B1077AB22D8C6CF7" style="OLC">
<subsection id="HFDD76EA1B8E84DCFB4857C2BB040F1DC"><enum>(g)</enum><text>to ensure that
water dedicated to fish and wildlife purposes by this title is replaced and
provided to Central Valley Project water contractors not later than December
31, 2016, at the lowest cost reasonably achievable; and</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HFA310D0CD8754A859E996EF823E8D578"><enum>(h)</enum><text>to facilitate and
expedite water transfers in accordance with this
title.</text>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section id="HB663AA85875842258D81C8D046E5EFBB"><enum>512.</enum><header>Amendment to
definition</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 3403 of the
Central Valley Project Improvement Act (Public Law 102–575; 106 Stat. 4707) is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HF895864AA575416BB26EF2999124AF85"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking
subsection (a) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H5FCC56E767684B51BD42AB85980A1E4A" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H2A2A2D5F42B2473FA2F443B505E69DFC"><enum>(a)</enum><text>the term
<term>anadromous fish</term> means those native stocks of salmon (including
steelhead) and sturgeon that—</text>
<paragraph id="idA8317E96E60A4A1A854B2E9D727A94A7"><enum>(1)</enum><text>as of October 30,
1992, were present in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers and the tributaries
of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idAF5BD366A0B14ED882F91CF6F11C0DA6"><enum>(2)</enum><text>ascend those
rivers and tributaries to reproduce after maturing in San Francisco Bay or the
Pacific Ocean;</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>;
</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H9026095D4BE640D5973439D9736FA5BB"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subsections (i) through
(m) as subsections (j) through (n), respectively; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HBDB92350EE6745D0A564217E4EDCC76A"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by inserting after
subsection (h) the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H47D414FDDB7E4D448ACA5312C1C9A5A8" style="OLC">
<subsection id="HA4980E69F52446C9ADD9DA94E5E87BC8"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the term <term>reasonable flows</term>
means water flows capable of being maintained taking into account competing
consumptive uses of water and economic, environmental, and social
factors.</text>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section id="H09C5C80DBC7E44E5A20F48C664E98534"><enum>513.</enum><header>Contracts</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 3404 of the Central Valley Project
Improvement Act (Public Law 102–575; 106 Stat. 4708) is amended to read as
follows:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4847876EAF824309A5A4B7D1AB5EFFE1" style="OLC">
<section id="id4EC3B12B902146D5A6B58DC162B1FBE2"><enum>3404.</enum><header>Contracts</header>
<subsection id="H9CDBC7CB6E1241BCAB4D39368296115A"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Renewal of
existing long-Term contracts</header><text>On request of the contractor, the
Secretary shall renew any existing long-term repayment or water service
contract that provides for the delivery of water from the Central Valley
Project for a period of 40 years.</text>
</subsection><subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H502325A397E045CB8BFB0B7F10751A12"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Administration
of contracts</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as
expressly provided by this title, any existing long-term repayment or water
service contract for the delivery of water from the Central Valley Project
shall be administered pursuant to the Act of July 2, 1956 (chapter 492; 70
Stat. 483).</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HA9F66CAC22AF49E9A3E0CE86D408D399"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Delivery
charge</header><text>Beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, a contract
entered into or renewed pursuant to this section shall include a provision that
requires the Secretary to charge any other party to the contract only for water
actually delivered by the
Secretary.</text>
</subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section id="H383115BB09C94D74B0B73EDA921BB82C"><enum>514.</enum><header>Water
transfers, improved water management, and conservation</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 3405 of the Central Valley Project
Improvement Act (Public Law 102–575; 106 Stat. 4709) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H75FEBA44C6D24E25A08716C9386A9ECC"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection
(a)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H82C4AA4BFC294D539B2E83A3A5034A61"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the second
sentence, by striking <quote>Except as provided herein</quote> and inserting
<quote>The Secretary shall take all actions necessary to facilitate and
expedite transfers of Central Valley Project water in accordance with this
title or any other provision of Federal reclamation law and the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.). Except as provided
in this subsection,</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H1346A91A66E149D2B793C5CBDC05A45B"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph
(1)(A), by striking <quote>to combination</quote> and inserting <quote>or
combination</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HAAC5EFA7543F47F6AF5F61CBB44DC4F5"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph (2),
by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H918EDF27D6D842B3B6A4CFD98B269592" style="OLC">
<subparagraph id="H160294E95B824BD39F240BCABF1D278B"><enum>(E)</enum><header>Written transfer
proposals</header>
<clause id="id4953AA294E184C97879DDB068AED1915"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The contracting district from which the water is
supplied, the agency, or the Secretary, as applicable, shall determine whether
a written transfer proposal is complete not later than 45 days after the date
on which the proposal is submitted.</text>
</clause><clause id="idA615598B30C44304967C490FB3514BA9"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Determination</header><text>If
the contracting district, the agency, or the Secretary determines that the
proposal described in clause (i) is incomplete, the contracting district,
agency, or Secretary shall state, in writing and with specificity, the
conditions under which the proposal would be considered complete.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H26C7E1DC60284B5F9BA0592842FF33AA"><enum>(F)</enum><header>No mitigation
requirements</header>
<clause id="id8E7A131C4B8141D1B7DD65AD2C67BE56"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Except as provided in this section, the Secretary shall
not impose mitigation or other requirements on a proposed transfer.</text>
</clause><clause id="id5C8E6991B6B24C1A97D85FA7E2A60CBC"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Applicability</header><text>This
section shall have no effect on the authority of the contracting district from
which the water is supplied or the agency under State law to approve or
condition a proposed transfer.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H435E0C7531864327995720E6475A36A1"><enum>(D)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H952B28E4734D4041ACFC0B9BAF5F694E" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="H9AA38EAAC9CE4D37856D142DEE764D70"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Applicability</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of
Federal reclamation law—</text>
<subparagraph id="H473E216A63A94829A524EB79C91F73C6"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the authority to
transfer, exchange, bank, or make recharging arrangements using Central Valley
Project water that could have been carried out before October 30, 1992, is
valid, and those transfers, exchanges, or arrangements shall not be subject to,
limited, or conditioned by this title; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4A758E94A2BC46C0B024F5BD3D9BDAC1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>this title does
not supersede or revoke the authority to transfer, exchange, bank, or recharge
Central Valley Project water in effect before October 30,
1992.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H7615C27B4CC94FEEB5254262903106A3"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection
(b)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H5C28BBE153824538AD3CED4A425632A0"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the heading, by
striking <quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">METERING</header-in-text></quote> and inserting
<quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">MEASUREMENT</header-in-text></quote>;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD77AA6E4D8394068B91B0A82C3D07C18"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in the first
sentence, by striking <quote>All Central Valley</quote> and inserting the
following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id68454D47CC27449D8DDD7EB2EB23E085" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="idA1B9C4BBCE794FFBB05FCCA3EAB8A99B"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>All Central
Valley</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idCF35C484085E4A1C9F9ABBD6F8AB69B7"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in the second
sentence, by striking <quote>The contracting district</quote> and inserting the
following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBC4F3CBA12BF4598B981DA8A87AD9071" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="idE4FE939F05414AC59FC09DB690996823"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Annual
report</header><text>The contracting
district</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idFCCECC3CB846495AA8E7D0A553C789BC"><enum>(D)</enum><text>by inserting
after paragraph (1) (as designated by subparagraph (B)) the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4CBF189EE15C48CBB710204BF05796E3" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="id1C60C771B8A54F40A785BA75ABFB2700"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Measurement
requirements</header><text>The contracting district or agency, not including
contracting districts serving multiple agencies with separate governing boards,
shall ensure that all contractor-owned water delivery systems within the
boundaries of the contracting district or agency measure surface water at the
facilities of the contracting district or agency up to the point at which the
surface water is commingled with other water
supplies.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H99482A6BBEA04DEFA42A7A680CEC0BA5"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by striking
subsection (d);</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HDD149CE03E7B4B4DA0D9CAD19A35992F"><enum>(4)</enum><text>by redesignating
subsections (e) and (f) as subsections (d) and (e), respectively; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H81B54C9B34EB40AEAB11CC21CB553A9F"><enum>(5)</enum><text>by striking
subsection (e) (as redesignated by paragraph (4)) and inserting the
following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4D65257DDD484BB3A99076C457CEE6DD" style="OLC">
<subsection id="idA2E1E64401604CF485B9A64968EF94BC"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Increased
revenues</header><text>All revenues received by the Secretary that exceed the
cost-of-service rates applicable to the delivery of water transferred from
irrigation use to municipal and industrial use under subsection (a) shall be
covered to the Restoration
Fund.</text>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section id="H0BAA863AB19347198A87D3617042DC44"><enum>515.</enum><header>Fish, wildlife,
and habitat restoration</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 3406 of the Central Valley Project
Improvement Act (Public Law 102–575; 106 Stat. 4714) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H44BD347438DF4CB3906A5C4F30D8FDBA"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection
(b)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HA045E101C8014629ADD249F71AC455B4"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking
paragraph (1)(B) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id99A2392B12B24D63A6412099FE2F1C22" style="OLC">
<subparagraph id="id7540C4D0871E4C128E10FA6A97937128"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Administration</header>
<clause id="id6C7C2AF6016E48FD91758B53E0D8E5B8"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>As needed to carry out the goals of the Central Valley
Project, the Secretary may modify Central Valley Project operations to provide
reasonable flows of suitable quality, quantity, and timing to protect all life
stages of anadromous fish.</text>
</clause><clause id="id03804D2E3E85460D8D1C1D405F190E24"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Requirements</header><text>The
flows under clause (i) shall be provided from the quantity of water dedicated
to fish, wildlife, and habitat restoration purposes under paragraph (2) from
the water supplies acquired pursuant to paragraph (3) and from other sources
which do not conflict with fulfillment of the remaining contractual obligations
of the Secretary to provide Central Valley Project water for other authorized
purposes.</text>
</clause><clause id="id2F4E66EA715345DEBDAD18C03785A975"><enum>(iii)</enum><header>Determination
of needs</header><text>The Secretary shall determine the instream reasonable
flow needs for all Central Valley Project controlled streams and rivers based
on recommendations of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the
National Marine Fisheries Service after consultation with the United States
Geological Survey.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H78B95E472C474955BEFD599446C24AF8"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph
(2)—</text>
<clause id="H9FD37CC631FC4FC1A64475A1FF8E567E"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in
the matter preceding subparagraph (A)—</text>
<subclause id="id9F6BDE9AD6314FCBA4017E34BB58F24F"><enum>(I)</enum><text>in the first
sentence, by striking <quote>primary purpose</quote> and inserting
<quote>purposes</quote>;</text>
</subclause><subclause id="HB05649E7D2CD4CABA82C6EAC57F48BA0"><enum>(II)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>but not limited to additional obligations under the Federal Endangered
Species Act</quote> and inserting <quote>additional obligations under the
<act-name parsable-cite="ESA">Endangered Species Act of 1973</act-name> (16
U.S.C. 1531 et seq.)</quote>; and</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H819DDC993DEC49FEA24A91D4AB1D63A3"><enum>(III)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following: <quote>All Central Valley Project water used for the
purposes specified in this paragraph shall be credited to the quantity of
Central Valley Project yield dedicated and managed under this paragraph by
determining how the dedication and management of that water would affect the
delivery capability of the Central Valley Project yield. To the maximum extent
practicable and in accordance with section 3411, Central Valley Project water
dedicated and managed pursuant to this paragraph shall be reused to fulfill the
remaining contractual obligations of the Secretary to provide Central Valley
Project water for agricultural or municipal and industrial purposes.</quote>;
and</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="HCE329EA7573646598611B3FAB170F0C8"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by
striking subparagraph (C) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H8D5E8B79D9AA4118910C4FA721D871FD" style="OLC">
<subparagraph id="H88D6B58E1064411DBDC223D0B8537385"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Mandatory
reduction</header><text>If on March 15 of a given year, the quantity of Central
Valley Project water forecasted to be made available to water service or
repayment contractors in the Delta Division of the Central Valley Project is
less than 75 percent of the total quantity of water to be made available under
those contracts, the quantity of Central Valley Project yield dedicated and
managed for that year under this paragraph shall be reduced by 25
percent.</text>
</subparagraph><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H76403DE4E98849BF948C0D4F65B55007"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H98C08C607BB04B40B0B3BA3D37D1BA0B" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H33459D95A09A4A02B5B4CF5003A7F560"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Satisfaction of
purposes</header><text>In carrying out this section, the Secretary shall be
considered to have met the mitigation, protection, restoration, and enhancement
purposes of this
title.</text>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section id="H2371FFDA47B94AE2A952A5C05CD095BC"><enum>516.</enum><header>Restoration
Fund</header>
<subsection id="HF28138F04C284C2F9C0D78BE91FE6135"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 3407(a) of
the Central Valley Project Improvement Act (Public Law 102–575; 106 Stat. 4726)
is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H40DFBBBF33674FCDBF9917B6B5FC5ED6"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>There is hereby</quote> and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id42CF18E780D64EF9B902B3C71C19B551" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="idE90EDABB52AB41EE93CD0A661C3C52DD"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Establishment</header>
<subparagraph id="id833C784E48FA49AABAE31F53688BD02A"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>There
is</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HCF8DA59FC8244B89A0D0476649715EEF"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph
(1)(A) (as designated by paragraph (1)), by striking <quote>Not less than 67
percent</quote> and all that follows through <quote>Monies</quote> and
inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7E7CA93E1AE14E2BA5B9F785A7AA6156" style="OLC">
<subparagraph id="id505124AA8143484395CABC35AAAD04F1"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Use of donated
amounts</header><text>Amounts</text>
</subparagraph><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H10F1092F1B2F40F6A2019383D6B8AD55"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4E23CF4CA4EB411499A6233B030D84BB" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="id0F862E15809C4C8BA47EB586CA464264"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Restrictions</header><text>The
Secretary may not directly or indirectly require a donation or other payment
(including environmental restoration or mitigation fees not otherwise provided
by law) to the Restoration Fund—</text>
<subparagraph id="idF741F2539BE6494E8C83254C32223AD5"><enum>(A)</enum><text>as a condition
of—</text>
<clause id="idF686453030264FF0859643298178C3CC"><enum>(i)</enum><text>providing for the
storage or conveyance of non-Central Valley Project water pursuant to Federal
reclamation laws; or</text>
</clause><clause id="id65634E974EAA4BF4A764298991BD2E31"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the delivery of
water pursuant to section 215 of the Reclamation Reform Act of 1982
(<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/97/293">Public Law
97–293</external-xref>; 96 Stat. 1270); or</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id66A7ACFE55C44F7CA38F9B1A46D2EFCC"><enum>(B)</enum><text>for any water
that is delivered with the sole intent of groundwater
recharge.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H556F4179C672440285BC64424DC61A61"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Certain
payments</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 3407(c)(1)
of the Central Valley Project Improvement Act (Public Law 102–575; 106 Stat.
4726) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H3CE4F7618E164929AD3ED614866B8A03"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>mitigation and restoration payments, in addition to charges provided for
or</quote> and inserting <quote>payments, in addition to charges</quote>;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HA3AB354B96934F3481B267A72CD5ACC5"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>of fish, wildlife</quote> and all that follows through the period and
inserting <quote>of carrying out this title.</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H277B8B8DBA8C4FAAB632F0500F2BF9F5"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Adjustment and
assessment of mitigation and restoration payments</header><text>Section 3407(d)
of the Central Valley Project Improvement Act (Public Law 102–575; 106 Stat.
4727) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="id1EF6A8272EE5455B9BD7DD4DBF3FE66B"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph
(2)(A)—</text>
<subparagraph id="id4790BCD02F1847D29F1A910F95AC1F7A"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>, and $12 per acre-foot (October 1992 price levels) for municipal and
industrial water sold and delivered by the Central Valley Project</quote> and
inserting <quote>$12 per acre-foot (October 1992 price levels) for municipal
and industrial water sold and delivered by the Central Valley Project, and
after October 1, 2013, $4 per megawatt-hour for Central Valley Project power
sold to power contractors (October 2013 price levels)</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="HB6B4AC35A5404EC286A24177140C75C6"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote> but not later than
December 31, 2020,</quote> after <quote>That upon the completion of the fish,
wildlife, and habitat mitigation and restoration actions mandated under section
3406 of this title,</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id1A301705BA274BCD8C8C2A07D60C44BD"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB6F9FA8153A14598994EEAA56895F6BE" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H58BB2EA07C9446F1B3028F9CE6617C3D"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Report on
expenditure of funds</header>
<paragraph id="id863AC880A06B486CAB1429507D0F03F1"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>For each fiscal year, the Secretary, in consultation with
the Advisory Board, shall submit to Congress a plan for the expenditure of all
of the funds deposited in the Restoration Fund during the preceding fiscal
year.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idCA0C4E08736649EC8A074BFF2AABB9AD"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Contents</header><text>The
plan shall include an analysis of the cost-effectiveness of each
expenditure.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H487CCEBCBBA643EDB1D79EFE97C90C63"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Advisory
Board</header>
<paragraph id="H6110113FA4C7485C85859C26F4291774"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Establishment</header><text>There
is established the Restoration Fund Advisory Board (referred to in this section
as the <quote>Advisory Board</quote>), which shall be composed of 12 members
appointed by the Secretary.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idF9D0B8040111409E91A856EF4E6D2901"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Membership</header>
<subparagraph id="id755A37BE007448849472FCAF28C95967"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Secretary shall appoint members to the Advisory Board
that represent the various Central Valley Project stakeholders, of whom—</text>
<clause id="idDD6A233239FB49A8A24DE39E9A040252"><enum>(i)</enum><text>4
members shall be agricultural users of the Central Valley Project;</text>
</clause><clause id="id1DDEA5DEAC13452A8CAF9CD16F05DB34"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>3 members shall
be municipal and industrial users of the Central Valley Project;</text>
</clause><clause id="idDF4EC76517C147EDA94487B09DF37DE4"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>3 members shall
be power contractors of the Central Valley Project; and</text>
</clause><clause id="id1E72BD10A38349F98DF0CF8BED14626C"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>2 members shall
be appointed at the discretion of the Secretary.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id3804EB8139D34791AE36D4E7B9D009D7"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Observers</header><text>The
Secretary and the Secretary of Commerce may each designate a representative to
act as an observer of the Advisory Board.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id2FD7C3DEEE0849A8ABA902FF612E965D"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Chairman</header><text>The
Secretary shall appoint 1 of the members described in subparagraph (A) to serve
as Chairman of the Advisory Board.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id26FC8B1C49294A7F8D4AC6C0549F6C73"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Terms</header><text>The
term of each member of the Advisory Board shall be for a period of 4
years.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HB3CC18843E334E1893EA61883CAE73E6"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Duties</header><text>The
duties of the Advisory Board are—</text>
<subparagraph id="HE001E25806DE45DFAB57310927E47C09"><enum>(A)</enum><text>to meet not less
frequently than semiannually to develop and make recommendations to the
Secretary regarding priorities and spending levels on projects and programs
carried out under this title;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4A814A9C61E043778D194CA88026EC9C"><enum>(B)</enum><text>to ensure that any
advice given or recommendation made by the Advisory Board reflects the
independent judgment of the Advisory Board;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H2CD362C4F9E042609A63A0B114E0D523"><enum>(C)</enum><text>not later than
December 31, 2013, and annually thereafter, to submit to the Secretary and
Congress the recommendations under subparagraph (A); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H8E80BE74AE0848698AB2C132A26CB3D9"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">not later than December 31, 2013, and
biennially thereafter, to submit to Congress a report that details the progress
made in achieving the actions required under section 3406.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H9EAF88D8D91E44F5A351ACCCF0CD73ED"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Administration</header><text>With
the consent of the appropriate agency head, the Advisory Board may use the
facilities and services of any Federal
agency.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H98C4B2773BFA42C7A1BB15A75496C983"><enum>517.</enum><header>Additional
authorities</header>
<subsection id="H96E3850740B9428A8823D034DE6FF9DE"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Authority for
certain activities</header><text>Section 3408 of the Central Valley Project
Improvement Act (Public Law 102–575; 106 Stat. 4728) is amended by striking
subsection (c) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="HD347B4B3703A477AA36F76D29C6E7DD8" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H3EB2AA6BA6BB4EA2B13FCF1115CE6A53"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Contracts for
additional storage and delivery of water</header>
<paragraph id="H3BC02245353643CFBB42FA40188D5CB2"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Secretary may enter into contracts under the
reclamation laws and this title with any Federal agency, California water user
or water agency, State agency, or private organization for the exchange,
impoundment, storage, carriage, and delivery of nonproject water for domestic,
municipal, industrial, fish and wildlife, and any other beneficial
purpose.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HA527614685AD46FA89745BE1C774A420"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Limitation</header><text>Nothing
in this subsection supersedes section 2(d) of the Act of August 26, 1937
(chapter 832; 50 Stat. 850; 100 Stat. 3051).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HA5F2BBDDFF584F529EFA422FF96BCB2E"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Authority for
certain activities</header><text>The Secretary shall use the authority granted
by this subsection in connection with requests to exchange, impound, store,
carry, or deliver nonproject water using Central Valley Project facilities for
any beneficial purpose.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H7A15D4B77C4C49838ED06AE0A5FD1A41"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Rates</header>
<subparagraph id="id6CCF7E3177FD422DB7F733C8D7CF673C"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall
develop rates not to exceed the amount required to recover the reasonable costs
incurred by the Secretary in connection with a beneficial purpose under this
subsection.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id33E63032AC204167AC859A2883B35B4B"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Administration</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The rates shall be charged to a party using
Central Valley Project facilities for a beneficial purpose, but the costs
described in subparagraph (A) shall not include any donation or other payment
to the Restoration Fund.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H83A599501F9F4AD0BCEB9EA2411033C2"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Construction</header><text>This
subsection shall be construed and implemented to facilitate and encourage the
use of Central Valley Project facilities to exchange, impound, store, carry, or
deliver nonproject water for any beneficial
purpose.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="HB8C004A87C3747B490A26DE856C73CA8"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Reporting
requirements</header><text>Section 3408(f) of the Central Valley Project
Improvement Act (Public Law 102–575; 106 Stat. 4729) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H023F8B75B40F401AAE9D5AB204F0C05A"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the first
sentence, by striking <quote>Interior and Insular Affairs and the Committee on
Merchant Marine and Fisheries</quote> and inserting <quote>Natural
Resources</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HA276B5C86D704D13989E5853ACB72665"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in the second
sentence, by inserting <quote>, including progress on the plan under subsection
(j)</quote> before the period at the end; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HDC68CAF4862447E38857A4FBB06290E2"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following: <quote>The filing and adequacy of the report shall be
personally certified to the Committees by the Regional Director of the
Mid-Pacific Region of the Bureau of Reclamation.</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H46907F33DABA4C208303FBD23953778F"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Project yield
increase</header><text>Section 3408(j) of the Central Valley Project
Improvement Act (Public Law 102–575; 106 Stat. 4730) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HBB09657760244D52B7D49D0511885FAB"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by redesignating
paragraphs (1) through (7) as subparagraphs (A) through (G), respectively, and
indenting appropriately;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H6F9E6B027BEB45CBA9799261FE6F0FA2"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>In order to minimize
adverse effects, if any, upon</quote> and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8BE0842588874E55AEF6B544B869EE1E" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="idB906E15598B44DE2AC180C1E919B93E8"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>In order to minimize adverse effects
upon</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H7B7413FCC6FD49258B5EF41F54C0668D"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the second sentence, by striking
<quote>The plan</quote> and all that follows through <quote>options:</quote>
and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE6A04DC9229945888216F8E0E18F4AE2" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="id408B01293CB04E9EB4C457B4A4954C67"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Contents</header><text>The
plan shall include recommendations on appropriate cost-sharing arrangements and
authorizing legislation or other measures needed to implement the intent,
purposes, and provisions of this subsection, as well as a description of how
the Secretary intends to
use—</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id28F0CDC75AE249BDAF0C62861FAAA13F"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1) (as designated by
paragraph (2))—</text>
<subparagraph id="id2C57465BA9A4420BABD3B0A618A86855"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>needs, the Secretary,
shall</quote> and all that follows through <quote>to the Congress,</quote> and
inserting <quote>needs, the Secretary, on a priority basis and not later than
September 30, 2013, shall submit to Congress</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4C0F1CEC798A4DD0BA72E724C3650DA6"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>increase,</quote> and all that follows through <quote>under this
title</quote> and inserting <quote>increase, as soon as practicable, but not
later than September 30, 2016 (except that the construction of new facilities
shall not be limited by that deadline), the water of the Central Valley Project
by the quantity dedicated and managed for fish and wildlife purposes under this
title and otherwise required to meet the purposes of the Central Valley
Project, including satisfying contractual obligations</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H2A419425978B416EB6E62E00B49AB60A"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (2)(A) (as designated by
paragraph (1)), by inserting <quote>and construction of new water storage
facilities</quote> before the semicolon;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H70A5A4ABE04E467C8B96DD758C92F4BD"><enum>(6)</enum><text>in paragraph
(2)(F) (as designated by paragraph (1)), by striking <quote>and</quote> at the
end;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H049E702B0A6C4E1382C26B65757BBDC8"><enum>(7)</enum><text>in paragraph
(2)(G) (as designated by paragraph (1)), by striking the period and all that
follows through the end of the subsection and inserting <quote>; and</quote>;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H57F8A95CA8CF4EAD8A793599BB04F5A0"><enum>(8)</enum><text>by adding after
paragraph (2)(G) the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H22253B3B5C6A4BE08BDE4022148C3A95" style="OLC">
<subparagraph id="idA4A7A1D963C54C32B2AA0BAB254D7795"><enum>(H)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">water banking and recharge.</text>
</subparagraph><paragraph id="H45EB324DE62E458AACBBB0600E7DC90D"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Implementation
of plan</header>
<subparagraph id="idC9E43CD3186045FB886ACCC035507CD7"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Secretary shall implement the plan under paragraph
(1) beginning on October 1, 2013.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id337403C294304468901793BC0A6CA914"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Coordination</header><text>In
carrying out this subsection, the Secretary shall coordinate with the State of
California in implementing measures for the long-term resolution of problems in
the San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Estuary.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HD94626135AC24BB5A00BB249CE3A067F"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Failure of
plan</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any
other provision of the reclamation laws, if by September 30, 2016, the plan
under paragraph (1) fails to increase the annual delivery capability of the
Central Valley Project by 800,000 acre-feet, implementation of any nonmandatory
action under section 3406(b)(2) shall be suspended until the date on which the
plan achieves an increase in the annual delivery capability of the Central
Valley Project of 800,000
acre-feet.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H9FA08C8854154D45B6A3BD207A18B1A5"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Technical
corrections</header><text>Section 3408(h) of the Central Valley Project
Improvement Act (Public Law 102–575; 106 Stat. 4729) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HC6660CF0A7164033825C1A41C5664597"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (1),
by striking <quote>paragraph (h)(2)</quote> and inserting <quote>paragraph
(2)</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H305ECED116284CA9A2209AC06143EBB3"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (2),
by striking <quote>paragraph (h)(i)</quote> and inserting <quote>paragraph
(1)</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H349EEFB6ABA145FBA572B37C55AC204D"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Water storage
project construction</header>
<paragraph id="id59ACEFD909B64F3D9BDEAC7CF8C2680D"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of the
Interior, acting through the Commissioner of Reclamation, may partner or enter
into an agreement relating to the water storage projects described in section
103(d)(1) of the Water Supply, Reliability, and Environmental Improvement Act
(Public Law 108–361; 118 Stat. 1684) with local joint powers authorities formed
under State law by irrigation districts and other local governments or water
districts within the applicable hydrological region to advance those water
storage projects.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id8A0DE341B3DB4F469ED10C78F8EAEA29"><enum>(2)</enum><header>No additional
Federal amounts</header>
<subparagraph id="id4072D0F5BCFD4BBB82EFB4E9567330A6"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to
subparagraph (B), no additional Federal amounts are authorized to be
appropriated to carry out the activities described in clauses (i) through (iii)
of sections 103(d)(1)(A) of the Water Supply, Reliability, and Environmental
Improvement Act (Public Law 108–361; 118 Stat. 1684)
<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/108/361"> Public Law
108–361</external-xref>.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idA66F7EE531F84B7BB4A3D815F47B2A60"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Exception</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Additional Federal amounts may be
appropriated for construction of a project described in subparagraph (A) if
non-Federal amounts are used to finance and construct the project.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H3267B799AF964D8A9464D416A529F70E"><enum>518.</enum><header>Bay-Delta
Accord</header>
<subsection id="H3B9BA44C8FA6406384D9C5D623C12299"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Congressional
direction regarding Central Valley Project and California State Water Project
operations</header>
<paragraph id="idFEC68763B2744A85B59177B9D4E5394B"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Central Valley
Project and the California State Water Project shall be operated strictly in
accordance with the water quality standards and operational constraints
described in the <quote>Principles for Agreement on the Bay-Delta Standards
Between the State of California and the Federal Government</quote> dated
December 15, 1994.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id66D7B53D7B03499489FA065EFB5F46B1"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Applicability
of other law</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Endangered
Species Act of 1973 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/1531">16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.</external-xref>) and other
applicable law shall not apply to operations described in paragraph (1).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idA97DB65962094AF193CC578B7182E48D"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Implementation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Implementation of the <quote>Principles for
Agreement on the Bay-Delta Standards Between the State of California and the
Federal Government</quote> dated December 15, 1994, shall be in strict
compliance with the water rights priority system and statutory protections for
areas of origin.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H03A3E24C04FD4E9E86E56A59F670DA65"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Application of
laws to others</header>
<paragraph id="id1FF5D8FA569A457F8A5764AC0BC1B46C"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">As a condition of the
receipt of Federal amounts for the Central Valley Project and the California
State Water Project, the State of California (including any agency or board of
the State of California), on any water right obtained pursuant to State law,
including a pre-1914 appropriative right, shall not—</text>
<subparagraph id="id3218151521494F06BBC231D1009FDF19"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">impose any condition that restricts the
exercise of that water right that is affected by operations of the Central
Valley Project or California State Water Project; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id49009ED33A654F4297391DDF83AD8EAE"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">restrict under the Public Trust Doctrine
any public trust value imposed in order to conserve, enhance, recover, or
otherwise protect any species.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idC90BA4102DBB4C4D9C8274C9ADD08DE4"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Federal
agencies</header><text>The prohibition under paragraph (1)(A) shall apply to
Federal agencies.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H3F82DAED0A2245B9B3F3FB5A245E5046"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Costs</header><text>No
cost associated with the implementation of this section shall be imposed
directly or indirectly on any Central Valley Project contractor, or any other
person or entity, unless those costs are incurred on a voluntary basis.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H540E6A764667444E8ECE699406DEC938"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Native species
protection</header><text>This section preempts any law of the State California
law restricting the quantity or size of a nonnative fish that is taken or
harvested that preys on 1 or more native fish species that occupy the
Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers and the tributaries of those rivers or the
Sacramento-San Joaquin Rivers Delta.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="H037C0FF1B3364E5CAE9C7E41B48AA4FA"><enum>519.</enum><header>Natural and
artificially spawned species</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">After the date of enactment of this Act, and
regardless of the date of listing, the Secretaries of the Interior and Commerce
shall not distinguish between natural-spawned and hatchery-spawned (or
otherwise artificially propagated strains of a species) in making any
determination under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/1531">16 U.S.C. 1531 et
seq.</external-xref>) that relates to an anadromous fish species present in the
Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers or the tributaries of those rivers and that
ascends those rivers and tributaries to reproduce after maturing in San
Francisco Bay or the Pacific Ocean.</text>
</section><section id="H51FEE32793C34798B0BAE6EF3BE9AF3F"><enum>520.</enum><header>Authorized
service area</header>
<subsection id="id2B8F8213BDBD4CC788812376C622BABD"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of the
Interior, acting through the Commissioner of Reclamation, shall include in the
service area of the Central Valley Project authorized under the Central Valley
Project Improvement Act (Public Law 102–575; 106 Stat. 4706) the area within
the boundaries of the Kettleman City Community Services District, California,
as those boundaries are defined as of the date of enactment of this Act.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="idAED40B9AFB40452BB23223C4179028D1"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Long-Term
contract</header>
<paragraph id="id4CFEC385470942E2B468446F697919CC"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding the
Central Valley Project Improvement Act (Public Law 102–575; 106 Stat. 4706) and
subject to paragraph (2), the Secretary, in accordance with the reclamation
laws, shall enter into a long-term contract with the Kettleman City Community
Services District or the delivery of not more than 900 acre-feet of Central
Valley Project water for municipal and industrial use.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idC09DF8FA76724ED9BC7211FCE2CBC9F6"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Reduction in
contract</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary may
temporarily reduce deliveries of the quantity of water made available under
paragraph (1) by not more than 25 percent of the total whenever reductions due
to hydrologic circumstances are imposed on agricultural deliveries of Central
Valley Project water.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id529BDED12B27457599E8BABCC30E27C8"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Additional
cost</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If any additional
infrastructure or related costs are needed to implement this section, those
costs shall be the responsibility of the non-Federal entity.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="HC17BA0A7DABD4D7C82035FD303E30282"><enum>521.</enum><header>Regulatory
streamlining</header>
<subsection id="HFE00539382DF48CD8505077695AA4BD7"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In
this section:</text>
<paragraph id="H9B5EFF68651B4F369BE414065633F881"><enum>(1)</enum><header>CVP</header><text>The
term <term>CVP</term> means the Central Valley Project.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H512577CF48AD4FE8B7FDB2D4426BD268"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Project</header><text>The
term <term>project</term>—</text>
<subparagraph id="HA9AC5397BC744CA48DC30870C270FAB8"><enum>(A)</enum><text>means an activity
that—</text>
<clause id="H31D5089AD49A4717BA523B59AD784772"><enum>(i)</enum><text>is
undertaken by a public agency, funded by a public agency, or requires the
issuance of a permit by a public agency;</text>
</clause><clause id="H170BC799DAC0482FBBBC1A775304EF35"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>has
a potential to result in a physical change to the environment; and</text>
</clause><clause id="H4158DE1E5061419B9F701B6EDCCEB674"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>may be subject
to several discretionary approvals by governmental agencies;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD7F1D7FE2CD14A34AFDAFE133903D31F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>may include
construction activities, clearing or grading of land, improvements to existing
structures, and activities or equipment involving the issuance of a permit;
or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H287EEB8462144C9ABC52883D7588C883"><enum>(C)</enum><text>has the meaning
given the term defined in section 21065 of the California Public Resource
Code.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id28CFBFF2BFA64AEC8213E68940C4390A"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Applicability
of certain laws</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The filing of
a notice of determination or a notice of exemption for any project, including
the issuance of a permit under State law, for any project of the CVP or the
delivery of water from the CVP in accordance with the California Environmental
Quality Act shall be considered to meet the requirements for that project or
permit under section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Protection Act of
1969 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4332">42 U.S.C.
4332(2)(C)</external-xref>).</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HC827B31CB8C34B4D9AFC15578F8A3797"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Continuation of
project</header><text>The Bureau of Reclamation shall not be required to cease
or modify any major Federal action or other activity for any project of the CVP
or the delivery of water from the CVP pending completion of judicial review of
any determination made under the National Environmental Protection Act of 1969
(<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4332">42 U.S.C. 4321 et
seq.</external-xref>).</text>
</subsection></section></subtitle><subtitle id="H7402258BA34E42B8B0013375F767DB5C"><enum>B</enum><header>San Joaquin River
restoration</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id60701D9FB5144DA59F3804EDFDF619A1" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>531.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Repeal of the San Joaquin River
settlement</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">As of the date of
enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall cease any action to implement the
Stipulation of Settlement, Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. Rodgers,
No. Civ. S–88–1658 LKK/GGH (E.D. Cal. Sept. 13, 2006).</text>
</section><section id="HADA7E4E041AC4A37A1D5700A70B52ED4"><enum>532.</enum><header>Purpose</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 10002 of the San Joaquin River
Restoration Settlement Act (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/111/11">Public Law 111–11; 123 Stat.
1349</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>implementation of the
Settlement</quote> and inserting <quote>restoration of the San Joaquin
River</quote>.</text>
</section><section id="HCBBD9E4DC46D4A3AAFFE05C27E702454"><enum>533.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 10003 of the San Joaquin River
Restoration Settlement Act (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/111/11">Public Law 111–11; 123 Stat.
1349</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H5EEC8838A5654E0CBD0E6BD41E0ECD61"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by redesignating
paragraphs (2) and (3) as paragraphs (3) and (4), respectively;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id93C59D3AA40D4BA4B79238650A099FE2"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking
paragraph (1) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3A55BD75516149FFA25E377A0EC9623F" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="H1597C96F9A03464B84A1CFACC4C4B7B7"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Critical water
year</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>critical
water year</term> means a year in which the total unimpaired runoff at Friant
Dam is less than 400,000 acre-feet, as forecasted as of March 1 of that water
year by the California Department of Water Resources.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idBC71759F535841C08C5F050EE8FFEAD6"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Restoration
Flows</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term
<term>Restoration Flows</term> means the additional water released or bypassed
from Friant Dam to ensure that the target flow entering Mendota Pool, located
approximately 62 river miles downstream from Friant Dam, does not fall below a
speed of 50 cubic feet per second.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H4680F5CA69094334BCD0EC2A0C772408"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by striking
paragraph (4) (as redesignated by paragraph (1)) and inserting the
following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H53E0C72EAA4E4414AEFFE72D9DD19C46" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="H196E47460E95436FBFC1734C5D3056F0"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Water
year</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>water
year</term> means the period beginning March 1 of a given year and ending on
the last day of February of the following calendar
year.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section id="H1678DB48E2614D99982DAD7E331BB828"><enum>534.</enum><header>Implementation
of restoration</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 10004
of the San Joaquin River Restoration Settlement Act (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/111/11">Public Law 111–11; 123 Stat.
1350</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H9C2A437D2FE44C62AC4F04DAB79B28AA"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection
(a)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H18260362B78C4C2688DEF70997BB6FE7"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>hereby authorized and directed</quote> and all that follows through
<quote>in the Settlement:</quote> and inserting <quote>may carry out the
following:</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H873DC97A863F45F7AECDFA9B82C5BD21"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking
paragraphs (1), (2), (4), and (5);</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HDAD5E278BAFD49499C06497AB5877AB6"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by redesignating
paragraph (3) as paragraph (1);</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HF339CDD6111343EEAC540049B0833570"><enum>(D)</enum><text>in paragraph (1)
(as redesignated by subparagraph (C)), by striking <quote>paragraph 13 of the
Settlement</quote> and inserting <quote>this part</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H1F423653A6E7426786F505F63C6EB010"><enum>(E)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following :</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H17692736419C4A468712A7E355C910D5" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="HC842F314BEA04A39AB1EEC8C62C6404B"><enum>(2)</enum><text>In each water
year, beginning in the water year commencing on March 1, 2013, the
Secretary—</text>
<subparagraph id="HC6AA9F3D257B43FE965414901BE84323"><enum>(A)</enum><text>shall modify
Friant Dam operations to release the Restoration Flows for that water year,
unless the year is a critical water year;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HEE9F73ABDE44490D93420E977A274413"><enum>(B)</enum><text>shall ensure
that—</text>
<clause id="id1DC5C499F06241C295911FC8989F6DF3"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the release of
Restoration Flows are maintained at the level prescribed by this part;
and</text>
</clause><clause id="id1F5F3E5191FE48BA93B487896EB9928D"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>Restoration
Flows do not reach downstream of Mendota Pool;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HABCE4D766CEC4D1F86AE79168511EFE6"><enum>(C)</enum><text>shall release the
Restoration Flows in a manner that improves the fishery in the San Joaquin
River below Friant Dam and upstream of Gravelly Ford, Nevada, as in existence
on the date of the enactment of the <short-title>Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys Water Reliability
Act</short-title>, including the associated riparian habitat; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H6720B4AC1DFE44AAB70A2450B58C9505"><enum>(D)</enum><text>may, without
limiting the actions required under subparagraphs (A) and (C) and subject to
paragraph (3) and subsection (l), use the Restoration Flows to enhance or
restore a warm water fishery downstream of Gravelly Ford, Nevada, including to
Mendota Pool, if the Secretary determines that the action is reasonable,
prudent, and feasible.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H32B9B32878EC4860BEFF33108B2F9959"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Not later than 1
year after the date of enactment of the <short-title>Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys Water Reliability
Act</short-title>, the Secretary shall develop and implement, in cooperation
with the State of California, a reasonable plan—</text>
<subparagraph id="idD1300BDF4F56423C8704ADA4D57ADE38"><enum>(A)</enum><text>to fully
recirculate, recapture, reuse, exchange, or transfer all Restoration Flows;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id8E682EA32E3D42648D961EACB2A7ED8C"><enum>(B)</enum><text>to provide the
recirculated, recaptured, reused, exchanged, or transferred flows to those
contractors within the Friant Division, Hidden Unit, and Buchanan Unit of the
Central Valley Project that relinquished the Restoration Flows that were
recirculated, recaptured, reused, exchanged, or transferred.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idEA4D045EFE144662952E5FB4E696DDF1"><enum>(4)</enum><text>The plan
described in paragraph (3) shall—</text>
<subparagraph id="id75056AD8ADE34DF480B19BA6BFA80887"><enum>(A)</enum><text>address any
impact on groundwater resources within the service area of the Friant Division,
Hidden Unit, and Buchanan Unit of the Central Valley Project and mitigation may
include groundwater banking and recharge projects;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idCA9CC92BFBD74E448A3EFC04561BB8EB"><enum>(B)</enum><text>not impact the
water supply or water rights of any entity outside the Friant Division, Hidden
Unit, and Buchanan Unit of the Central Valley Project; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idAE1A1519D1284399A5DCE907ED161C75"><enum>(C)</enum><text>be subject to
applicable provisions of California water law and the use by the Secretary of
the Interior of Central Valley Project facilities to make Project water (other
than water released from Friant Dam under this part) and water acquired through
transfers available to existing south of Delta Central Valley Project
contractors.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H689C158F302F4FA89656CC79F788DF51"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection
(b)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HA3E0F4CB016345FE8D057FF699C63355"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1), by striking <quote>the
Settlement</quote> and inserting <quote>this part</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD32EE924326D4C6B9EE7CC2B1E6DB03C"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (2),
by striking <quote>the Settlement</quote> and inserting <quote>this
part</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H1CB2DA67ED5947E3B61B7C2C78C57C8A"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (c), by striking <quote>the
Settlement</quote> and inserting <quote>this part</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HBDC92F41C4AB497B9845A855441FA16D"><enum>(4)</enum><text>by striking
subsection (d) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H45982F5E14EE4528B09EA3CA0F463DF2" style="OLC">
<subsection id="HAB817D3B4BA441B98B7652BAB49D9F49"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Mitigation of
impacts</header>
<paragraph id="id826B99F2E8224C38AC331F295CECFDDF"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Not later than October 1, 2013 and subject to paragraph
(2), the Secretary shall identify—</text>
<subparagraph id="H870FA13439C141DEB3E84853560D7CC7"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the impacts
associated with the release of Restoration Flows prescribed in this part;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H8EA102C408354D9E94C9656F01F63B49"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the measures to be
implemented to mitigate impacts on adjacent and downstream water users,
landowners, and agencies as a result of Restoration Flows.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H2454F4CDEA894C8CB9AF180190229EB8"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Mitigation
measures</header><text>Before implementing a decision or agreement to
construct, improve, operate, or maintain a facility that the Secretary
determines is necessary to implement this part, the Secretary shall implement
all mitigation measures identified in paragraph (1)(B) before the date on which
Restoration Flows are
commenced.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HEECEEC0BD56A4CA78382503820FC563D"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (e), by striking <quote>the
Settlement</quote> and inserting <quote>this part</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HFC1D9F12B57B41699F63ECAEB12B226E"><enum>(6)</enum><text>in subsection (f),
by striking <quote>the Settlement and section 10011</quote> and inserting
<quote>this part</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H38A975EC251E4F56B4A367D8EAD87FE5"><enum>(7)</enum><text>in subsection
(g)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HE3E8F10B15464D689763EDE7EB2C474A"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>the Settlement and</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H0A7E12AF53AC43F893C2CCF778BB7ECD"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>or exchange contract</quote> and inserting <quote>exchange contract,
water rights settlement, or holding contract</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HA1442B552C50463180F0E6EE78B4090E"><enum>(8)</enum><text>in subsection
(h)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H98AFB0BE17AB48AD91815E4133E52ED2"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking
<quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">Interim</header-in-text></quote> in the header;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H24AB923E022540CABFE8CCB78A0C2802"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph
(1)—</text>
<clause id="idEBA1CC89C0774CDFB55C15101AE5D738"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in
the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>Interim Flows under
the Settlement</quote> and inserting <quote>Restoration Flows under this
part</quote>;</text>
</clause><clause id="HC8093E6B92904A639FD992D59849C3E2"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in
subparagraph (C)—</text>
<subclause id="HEB0BB11EC8A647F0BE846587608390D2"><enum>(I)</enum><text>in clause (i), by
striking <quote>Interim</quote> and inserting <quote>Restoration</quote>;
and</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H3A305E8100174E4F923D7C3B3E615CDA"><enum>(II)</enum><text>in clause (ii),
by inserting <quote>and</quote> after the semicolon;</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="H67BA7BC9A6F24E60B4935A98778FD61C"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>in
subparagraph (D), by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end; and</text>
</clause><clause id="H1B4BC6DC067942EDB209E0A0A340AB13"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>by
striking subparagraph (E);</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HCD47030028E842ECA8B465491E61E44A"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by striking
paragraph (2) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0DE6CC3C082145E48157E11AD98205F1" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="id84B12ADD3EE546F98A0F61FE2333A9E4"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Conditions for
release</header><text>The Secretary may release Restoration Flows to the extent
that the flows would not exceed existing downstream channel
capacities.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H7CB3D296BC5E44848B9345BBD6720DBA"><enum>(D)</enum><text>in paragraph (3),
by striking <quote>Interim</quote> and inserting <quote>Restoration</quote>;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4BD3391BB1C44B5395B07EB923164B53"><enum>(E)</enum><text>by striking
paragraph (4) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBF13CB3F0DFA45F99EB7897C90D0E217" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="H8F38237E287A497993B095D2361090E2"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Claims</header><text>Not
later than 60 days after the date of enactment of the
<short-title>Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys Water
Reliability Act</short-title>, the Secretary shall issue, by regulation, a
claims process to address claims, including groundwater seepage, flooding, or
levee instability damages caused as a result of, arising out of, or related to
implementation of this subtitle.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>;
</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H37F806FBF63142B2997E17DC1A328F75"><enum>(9)</enum><text>in subsection
(i)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HA41A258E45D24A3485BA01ACF7EB0CE5"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph
(1)—</text>
<clause id="H3204D3FDBE4D4025963C2247124167F5"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the matter preceding subparagraph (A),
by striking <quote>the Settlement and parts I and III</quote> and inserting
<quote>this part</quote>;</text>
</clause><clause id="H18C4EB2A0391427A9D0952215E8FF629"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in
subparagraph (A), by inserting <quote>and</quote> after the semicolon;</text>
</clause><clause id="H59ED715F37154DB2B1EB783B4B3A634C"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>in
subparagraph (B)—</text>
<subclause id="HE911AB60EAF343E5A7A1DFB970D51E0F"><enum>(I)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>additional amounts authorized to be appropriated, including the</quote>;
and</text>
</subclause><subclause id="HB47E9AB401834BFCA8A2F8F8D027B3A7"><enum>(II)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>; and </quote> and inserting a period; and</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="HF9096FFB2E2643E8969B19FFADCE1140"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>by
striking subparagraph (C); and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HFF2E72F0AD1045379DB7A8D21A1E885D"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking
paragraph (3); and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H290F50BB02DA436CA9D99DADB6F113D0"><enum>(10)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H15EC74523B044CFBB4A8DD6D2B632107" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H7F2710D5D8754230AAD6602F2562D6A5"><enum>(k)</enum><header>No impacts on
other interests</header>
<paragraph id="idD8EA230A547244C68248D8DEA7934293"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>No Central Valley Project or other water (other than San
Joaquin River water impounded by or bypassed from Friant Dam) shall be used to
implement subsection (a)(2) unless the use is on a voluntary basis.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id4D4DB9ECF34D40ABA67AD8F25E2E55F0"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Involuntary
costs</header><text>No cost associated with the implementation of this section
shall be imposed directly or indirectly on any Central Valley Project
contractor, or any other person or entity, outside the Friant Division, the
Hidden Unit, or the Buchanan Unit, unless the cost is incurred on a voluntary
basis.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id558E5543555E4EAC9CB4F5394541C7E2"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Reduction in
water supplies</header><text>The implementation of this part shall not directly
or indirectly reduce any water supply or water reliability on any Central
Valley Project contractor, any State Water Project contractor, or any other
person or entity, outside the Friant Division, the Hidden Unit, or the Buchanan
Unit, unless the reduction or cost is incurred on a voluntary basis.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H8784DA94CE7C404693492C72763E441E"><enum>(l)</enum><header>Priority</header><text>Each
action taken under this part shall be subordinate to the use by the Secretary
of Central Valley Project facilities to make Project water available to Project
contractors, other than water released from the Friant Dam under this
part.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H0B35078EB3494A69873A19EB4BA1B224"><enum>(m)</enum><header>Applicability</header>
<paragraph id="idE657D702509E4DB3BF54773656AACA89"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Notwithstanding section 8 of the Act of June 17, 1902 (32
Stat. 390, chapter 1093), except as provided in this part and subtitle D of the
<short-title>Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys Water
Reliability Act</short-title>, this part—</text>
<subparagraph id="id46D3DE5829BC47D39EE4A1E3D86A1847"><enum>(A)</enum><text>preempts and
supersedes any State law, regulation, or requirement that imposes more
restrictive requirements or regulations on the activities authorized under this
part; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id8D8E45646919413F9D0D65B54600D3F6"><enum>(B)</enum><text>does not alter or
modify any obligation of the Friant Division, Hidden Unit, and Buchanan Unit of
the Central Valley Project, or other water users on the San Joaquin River, or
tributaries of the San Joaquin River, under any order issued by the State Water
Resources Control Board under the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act
(California Water Code section 13000 et seq.).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idB2BE4C82F8CE4B10944780182649E5CF"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Applicability</header><text>An
order described in paragraph (1)(B) shall be consistent with any congressional
authorization for any affected Federal facility relating to the Central Valley
Project.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HBF553D269E6447E0B11F5C53158BE631"><enum>(n)</enum><header>Project
implementation</header><text>Any project to implement this part shall be phased
such that each project shall include—</text>
<paragraph id="H9D6A65A112174F6384D86ED6A14A5252"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the project
purpose and need;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HDDDCC1A78E28499785D441CBC4701ABB"><enum>(2)</enum><text>identification of
mitigation measures;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H3E0070B3E2F94D75963FF92B959324A9"><enum>(3)</enum><text>appropriate
environmental review; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H8C6B8FA133594628A0E458D56720AD3B"><enum>(4)</enum><text>prior to releasing
Restoration Flows under this part the completion of the any required mitigation
measures and the completion of the
project.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.
</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section id="H80A4777D57B741D8821ACB810595455D"><enum>535.</enum><header>Disposal of
property; title to facilities</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 10005 of the San Joaquin River
Restoration Settlement Act (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/111/11">Public Law 111–11; 123 Stat.
1353</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H5207278D2EE5494694A76B81C9CCB2DA"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a),
by striking <quote>the Settlement authorized by this part</quote> and inserting
<quote>this part</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HB162C8C32CAC404E8E031A02FC29D156"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection
(b)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HEB3274B0997147E49F435FBA7E8E5986"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph
(1)—</text>
<clause id="H21D343A62AC84E9D96E1494C97D72D89"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by
striking <quote>(1) <header-in-text level="paragraph" style="OLC">In
general.—</header-in-text>The Secretary</quote> and inserting <quote>The
Secretary</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause id="HB2362CF7AC9D46D8B6AD4929FE29630E"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by
striking <quote>the Settlement authorized by this part</quote> and inserting
<quote>this part</quote>; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H56C592A20D4F4C09A45A6A5247E8CF0E"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking
paragraph (2); and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HB809A1C5EF3B4831A525FC736B9147E1"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection
(c)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HCE519D37B1CF4E93835F714C3F41C873"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1),
by striking <quote>the Settlement</quote> and inserting <quote>this
part</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H086801D833C54EF1BB22015789E948DB"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph
(2)—</text>
<clause id="H7B4ECAE4768A4854B29FE56BC50A98C7"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by
striking <quote>through the exercise of its eminent domain authority</quote>;
and</text>
</clause><clause id="HB05C789B80674AE6B2A20FC007E39C0D"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by
striking <quote>the Settlement</quote> and inserting <quote>this part</quote>;
and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H29263A8C8C8A443698C12E18DAE08E58"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph (3),
by striking <quote>section 10009(c)</quote> and inserting <quote>section
10009</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></section><section id="H79766C561DCA494D856C4ACE07FB1640"><enum>536.</enum><header>Compliance with
applicable law</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 10006
of the San Joaquin River Restoration Settlement Act (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/111/11">Public Law 111–11; 123 Stat.
1354</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H8DDE534AC6624B70B672939252764381"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection
(a)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HA212C1DCD70D4E68B4CF7B9A427143BD"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1),
by inserting <quote>, unless otherwise provided by this part</quote> before the
period at the end; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HC84515626E664972823FB76CB8C2A92F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (2),
by striking <quote>the Settlement</quote> and inserting <quote>this
part</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HB6989A45CA5A4A8E8EBC83A29F0A8412"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (b),
by inserting <quote>, unless otherwise provided by this part</quote> before the
period at the end;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HE53F6158444B4FD394461D1D439B9697"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection
(c)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HCB206D0556C2494DBFF512D99C57D897"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (2),
by striking <quote>section 10004</quote> and inserting <quote>this
part</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H578CE5414B8B40EBB71E6BEE210216A0"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (3),
by striking <quote>the Settlement</quote> and inserting <quote>this
part</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H6CF86744CE23486CAB38914F7414A43F"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in subsection
(d)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H048FDACE301A4CE598E9EE8D00079363"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>, including, without limitation, the costs of implementing subsections
(d) and (h)(4) of section 10004,</quote> after <quote>implementing this
part</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H9970BE16C25B4018B662EAFCE222D9DC"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>for implementation of the Settlement,</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></section><section id="HD40C9646AA6A43139441AE9F0D663FE0"><enum>537.</enum><header>Compliance with
Central Valley Project Improvement Act</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 10007 of the San Joaquin River
Restoration Settlement Act (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/111/11">Public Law
111–11</external-xref>; 123 Stat. 1354) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HCE46CE8CA4274456B43E143DE675A837"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the matter
preceding paragraph (1)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H05BB6EA5AA0E46CBA59793C97921E164"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>the Settlement</quote> and inserting <quote>the enactment of this
part</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H2499CB22245C4F63A4D54427A3252985"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting:
<quote>and the obligations of the Secretary and all other parties to protect
and keep in good condition any fish that may be planted or exist below Friant
Dam, including any obligations under section 5937 of the California Fish and
Game Code and the public trust doctrine, and those of the Secretary and all
other parties under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/1531">16 U.S.C. 1531 et
seq.</external-xref>)</quote> before <quote>, provided</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H0F758907177C45B392A4CA7C0161F72A"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (1),
by striking <quote>, as provided in the Settlement</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="HC2FBFC2CFC114DA6B8B89FB47CE7DA19"><enum>538.</enum><header>No private
right of action</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section
10008(a) of the San Joaquin River Restoration Settlement Act (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/111/11">Public Law 111–11; 123 Stat.
1355</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H6888AB8DCC82460F9EDCE0367ECFE670"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>not a party to the Settlement</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H3F6B3A52315146279DB0CD0F0A85005E"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>or the Settlement</quote> and inserting <quote>unless otherwise provided
by this part, but any Central Valley Project long-term water service or
repayment contractor within the Friant Division, Hidden unit, or Buchanan unit
adversely affected by the failure of the Secretary to comply with section
10004(a)(3) may bring an action against the Secretary for injunctive relief,
damages, or both.</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="H4864919EBFEE49A4837B97EC5845617C"><enum>539.</enum><header>Implementation</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 10009 of the San Joaquin River
Restoration Settlement Act (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/111/11">Public Law 111–11; 123 Stat.
1355</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H7FB3ED35332344749B18A996A347071C"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the section
heading, by striking <quote><header-in-text level="section" style="OLC">;
settlement fund</header-in-text></quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H03CAD0679E1A48129BA59FDCCF6F9C1B"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection
(a)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HE3F8E17D5A9F4517979DE4CCDCFAB936"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph
(1)—</text>
<clause id="H3FDCD5B3A91542F4A40BF7FC3C8E719C"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>the Settlement</quote>
the first place it appears and inserting <quote>this part</quote>;</text>
</clause><clause id="H3B7A592EA60E429E8AE34A3ED070EC5D"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by
striking <quote>, estimated to total</quote> and all that follows through
<quote>subsection (b)(1),</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause id="HF6FE733009C04975AE3BC018650B4369"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>by
striking <quote>; provided however,</quote> and all that follows through
<quote>$110,000,000 of State funds</quote>;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HBD6A36BC3F9C41F88B0EDFA775AF0BB6"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph
(2)—</text>
<clause id="H3AEF0ABECCDD44A691D6038BEDEFFFA0"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in
subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>(A)
<header-in-text level="subparagraph" style="OLC">In
general.—</header-in-text>The Secretary</quote> and inserting <quote>The
Secretary</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause id="H1558D1C6F5EF4ABB95C01DB2501DDA5F"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by
striking subparagraph (B); and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H2A6636FF32254166BCB597B4EDEB1B24"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph
(3)—</text>
<clause id="H7886F700BD6D49AD88EA21C3B391A9B2"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by
striking <quote>Except as provided in the Settlement, to</quote> and inserting
<quote>To</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause id="H0F0E617D17874D8A9ECFBE3530D6EBE0"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by
striking <quote>this Settlement</quote> and inserting <quote>this
part</quote>;</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H896D2929EB0A42E8AF6B7E1FE1C4ED27"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection
(b)(1)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HDBB8A11DFEA84B6D9EC4EF85C3F7CDDA"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>In addition</quote> and all that follows through <quote>however, that
the</quote> and inserting <quote>The</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HC38D45FBAA3C469FA566953439C28E05"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>such additional appropriations only in amounts equal to</quote>;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H685DCEDEC0394413BF55CB97F78B8A60"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>or the
Settlement</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H759DBD6888DE4336BD5C910AD5851CC3"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in subsection
(c)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HFB41B91EA2F24BD5BD4C1C35DCEA28EB"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph
(1)—</text>
<clause id="H2D17B0B5BCAF4AD38973183CA7EFD1AD"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in
the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>the
Settlement</quote> and inserting <quote>this part</quote>;</text>
</clause><clause id="HD424E935F78A4D2DAA458F2EE0935059"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in
subparagraph (C), by striking <quote>from the sale of water pursuant to the
Settlement, or</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause id="HC34B5B2132584DA0A95F8EB54F87D67F"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>in
subparagraph (D), by striking <quote>the Settlement</quote> and inserting
<quote>this part</quote>; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H3254792B704E4C26A5313169B5D8C73F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (2),
by striking <quote>the Settlement and</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HC3A7B690596348DB8649AD431056A4FC"><enum>(5)</enum><text>by striking
subsections (d) through (f).</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="H58C9911571C7495780C2BB5A8FB3A729"><enum>540.</enum><header>Repayment
contracts and acceleration of repayment of construction costs</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 10010 of the San Joaquin River
Restoration Settlement Act (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/111/11">Public Law 111–11; 123 Stat.
1358</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HEE61A311D462420D9914689EDECF1C1A"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraphs
(3)(D) and (4)(C) of subsection (a), by striking <quote>the Settlement
and</quote> each place it appears;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H07B7F55F2C114830B2E426FA47DAC1BB"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (c),
by striking paragraph (3);</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HE34407F60F0E435C8C9F4555EF5D3F13"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection
(d)(1), by striking <quote>the Settlement</quote> each place it appears and
inserting <quote>this part</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H32998534D0ED4FE09E1D16B554BDF5C4"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in subsection
(e)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H72FCFA98BAB54A8A8E0A5E8C8485119A"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph
(1)—</text>
<clause id="HD532EF3C7FFE4F9E952F403AAE787EFE"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by
striking <quote>Interim Flows or Restoration Flows, pursuant to paragraphs 13
or 15 of the Settlement</quote> and inserting <quote>Restoration Flows,
pursuant to this part</quote>;</text>
</clause><clause id="H777C963E4DCC42C39C35269DB3B307C8"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by
striking <quote>Interim Flows or</quote> before <quote>Restoration
Flows</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause id="H8819A654FE0743A9A38D95EEF342DCBD"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>by
striking <quote>the Interim Flows or Restoration Flows or is intended to
otherwise facilitate the Water Management Goal, as described in the
Settlement</quote> and inserting <quote>Restoration Flows</quote>; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H2744A5AE1E404CE59E97082851C3AAA4"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (2)—</text>
<clause id="H1BAF994120214F38A123C29516B180AB"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by
striking <quote>except as provided in paragraph 16(b) of the
Settlement</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause id="HFE08434853694C71B4FE9763CC9E1F1B"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by
striking <quote>the Interim Flows or Restoration Flows or to facilitate the
Water Management Goal</quote> and inserting <quote>Restoration
Flows</quote>.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph></section><section commented="no" id="HB8454CAE0C254920ACF7B966C3C3E56C"><enum>541.</enum><header>Repeal</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 10011 of the San Joaquin River
Restoration Settlement Act (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/111/11">Public Law 111–11; 123 Stat.
1362</external-xref>) is repealed.</text>
</section><section id="H730D19AFCC8A48FFB60196CFB15A40D2"><enum>542.</enum><header>Water supply
mitigation</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 10202(b) of
the San Joaquin River Restoration Settlement Act (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/111/11">Public Law
111–11</external-xref>; 123 Stat. 1365) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H0C43E644D6E94AA19CCDE0518E1E488F"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (1),
by striking <quote>the Interim or Restoration Flows authorized in part I of
this subtitle</quote> and inserting <quote>Restoration Flows authorized in this
part</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H622F9C9868F245999ADA67D70BC87498"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (2),
by striking <quote>the Interim or Restoration Flows authorized in part I of
this subtitle</quote> and inserting <quote>Restoration Flows authorized in this
part</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H0FA7DE52A1CD469FA3119F8A126E16AA"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in paragraph
(3)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H08F7457AA4F347C8995E2DB0836BFEDF"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subparagraph
(A), by striking <quote>meet the Restoration Goal as described in part I of
this subtitle</quote> and inserting <quote>recover Restoration Flows as
described in this part</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HC495E9DBECB84AC4A229CA2A00DE74FD"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subparagraph
(C)—</text>
<clause id="H9B20CFB5D6EF4E929B11FFFA9ED255BA"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by
striking <quote>the Interim or Restoration Flows authorized in part I of this
subtitle</quote> and inserting <quote>Restoration Flows authorized in this
part</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause id="HF6E16D9D1D8D49CE8D2FF0D4ED7F8C66"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by
striking <quote>, and for ensuring appropriate adjustment in the recovered
water account pursuant to section 10004(a)(5)</quote>.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph></section><section id="H716691E7BDBE4ADCA38C64E7F8EC9988"><enum>543.</enum><header>Additional
authorities</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 10203 of
the San Joaquin River Restoration Settlement Act (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/111/11">Public Law
111–11</external-xref>; 123 Stat. 1367) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H4DB27FA2E12C4F658B8F858F42B490DA"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection
(b)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H4751794F35ED409D9E12EB18CC8149C4"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>section 10004(a)(4)</quote> and inserting <quote>section
10004(a)(3)</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H6DB30FC5C66045C1B42BC80B91E36350"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>, provided</quote> and all that follows through <quote>section
10009(f)(2)</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H578CFB80FDA346528F3E558BAFE23A4A"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking
subsection (c).</text>
</paragraph></section></subtitle><subtitle id="H139DE1DC0CC74AEC949D333475C08345"><enum>C</enum><header>Repayment
contracts and acceleration of repayment of construction costs</header>
<section id="HD6A0EC77A99D4855AC0F313CC8C889BA"><enum>551.</enum><header>Repayment
contracts and acceleration of repayment of construction costs</header>
<subsection id="H17EDEF480FC5409BA724554B2FD614C6"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Conversion of
contracts</header>
<paragraph id="H32DB125105664630B55B1D708A6F2062"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Certain
contracts</header>
<subparagraph id="id54E2BEA530F241E2AABF27D195183DE5"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Not later than 1 year after the date enactment of this
Act, the Secretary of the Interior, on the request of a contractor, shall
convert all existing long-term Central Valley Project contracts entered into
under section 9(e) of the Act of August 4, 1939 (53 Stat. 1196, chapter 418),
to a contract under section 9(d) of that Act (53 Stat. 1195), under mutually
agreeable terms and conditions.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H943D93C309DD495DA91B8A0343CDBA40"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Restrictions</header><text>A
contract converted under subparagraph (A) shall—</text>
<clause id="H056C36C170CB47D29939B787379D88CF"><enum>(i)</enum><text>require the
repayment, either in lump sum or by accelerated prepayment, of the remaining
amount of construction costs identified in the most current version of the
Central Valley Project Schedule of Irrigation Capital Allocations by
Contractor, as adjusted to reflect payments not reflected in that schedule and
properly assignable for ultimate return by the contractor, not later than
January 31, 2013 (or if made in approximately equal annual installments, not
later than January 31, 2016), which amount shall be discounted by the Treasury
rate (defined as the 20-year Constant Maturity Treasury rate published by the
Department of the Treasury as of October 1, 2012);</text>
</clause><clause id="H9C7F8BA7609B4CC5AEB2A44D7F54341F"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>require that,
notwithstanding subsection (c)(2), construction costs or other capitalized
costs incurred after the effective date of the converted contract or not
reflected in the schedule described in clause (i) and properly assignable to
that contractor, shall be repaid—</text>
<subclause id="id65010D4E69134B5396C48F70BAFC8E56"><enum>(I)</enum><text>in not more than
5 years after the date on which the contractor is notified of the allocation if
that amount is a result of a collective annual allocation of capital costs to
the contractors exercising contract conversions under this subsection of less
than $5,000,000; or</text>
</subclause><subclause id="idA82E9F9AB5C144CEB4CDF9B1461D74E3"><enum>(II)</enum><text>if the
allocation of capital costs described in subclause (I) equal $5,000,000 or
more, as provided by applicable reclamation law, subject to the condition that
the reference to the amount of $5,000,000 shall not be a precedent in any other
context; and</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="HD6AD75D60C3F410F8A1273861E8D12C5"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>provide that
power revenues will not be available to aid in the repayment of construction
costs allocated to irrigation under the contract.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idB9F4A45B8F1443A2A9059E49F1F94C63"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Estimate</header><text>Not
later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of
the Interior shall provide to each contractor an estimate of the remaining
amount of construction costs under subparagraph (B)(i) as of January 31, 2013,
as adjusted.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HF8BD58BBB17D403999D5F4647C204408"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Other
contracts</header>
<subparagraph id="id3A4F7535AD1B4110AE8A7C5A1D7A2D29"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this
Act, on the request of a contractor, the Secretary may convert any Central
Valley Project long-term contract entered into under section 9(c)(2) of the Act
of August 4, 1939 (chapter 418; 53 Stat. 1194) to a contract under section
9(c)(1) of that Act, under mutually agreeable terms and conditions.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD7DE90AFD53146C0A444B51539C52A46"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Restrictions</header><text>A
contract converted under subparagraph (A) shall—</text>
<clause id="H14011211263D4E06958A02C7CBFDF3FF"><enum>(i)</enum><text>require the
repayment in lump sum of the remaining amount of construction costs identified
in the most current version of the Central Valley Project Schedule of Municipal
and Industrial Water Rates, as adjusted to reflect payments not reflected in
that schedule and properly assignable for ultimate return by the contractor,
not later than January 31, 2016; and</text>
</clause><clause id="H01CACE76F56145639268C0C948B5062B"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>require that,
notwithstanding subsection (c)(2), construction costs or other capitalized
costs incurred after the effective date of the contract or not reflected in the
Schedule described in clause (i), and properly assignable to that contractor,
shall be repaid—</text>
<subclause id="idA5587FEFA8694534A8679CBC30402375"><enum>(I)</enum><text>in not more than
5 years after the date on which the contractor is notified of the allocation if
the amount is a result of a collective annual allocation of capital costs to
the contractors exercising contract conversions under this subsection of less
than $5,000,000; or</text>
</subclause><subclause id="id2006B48FEFB848E689F01571F7D06B41"><enum>(II)</enum><text>if the
allocation of capital costs described in subclause (I) equal $5,000,000 or
more, as provided by applicable reclamation law, subject to the condition that
the reference to the amount of $5,000,000 shall not be a precedent in any other
context.</text>
</subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id947A7A06BF044322957D023493B0FECA"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Estimate</header><text>Not
later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of
the Interior shall provide to each contractor an estimate of the remaining
amount of construction costs under subparagraph (B)(i) as of January 31, 2016,
as adjusted.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H5B4967991C184504A8FB4E64F81240A3"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Final
adjustment</header>
<paragraph id="idBB4AF8A89B15405A9B1F971E7FDACFFF"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The amounts paid pursuant to subsection (a) shall be
subject to adjustment following a final cost allocation by the Secretary of the
Interior on completion of the construction of the Central Valley
Project.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id78C22C3646CA4088A2E618CD72EEEE97"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Repayment
obligation</header>
<subparagraph id="id06A707ABFD72466B85A80DC90BB88CF5"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>If the final cost allocation indicates that the costs
properly assignable to the contractor are greater than the amount that has been
paid by the contractor, the contractor shall pay the remaining allocated
costs.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id3E4485E750C346448A183001FDB55A76"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Terms</header><text>The
term of an additional repayment contract described in subparagraph (A) shall
be—</text>
<clause id="idE288F2CE1BC24829B3A1F6270AB7AEBD"><enum>(i)</enum><text>for
not less than 1 year and not more than 10 years; and</text>
</clause><clause id="id0910EAB2BAD7495FAF007E2DA084795C"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>based on
mutually agreeable provisions regarding the rate of repayment of the amount
developed by the parties.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idE4078158A15A4E8CA7FD2EAC425ED0FB"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Credits</header><text>If
the final cost allocation indicates that the costs properly assignable to the
contractor are less than the amount that the contractor has paid, the Secretary
of the Interior shall credit the amount of the overpayment as an offset against
any outstanding or future obligation of the contractor.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HA8681014690D4B188DBEA8CD8AA69AD5"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Applicability of
certain provisions</header>
<paragraph id="H4CF890B79E3148EBBFED32A72E8237E0"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Notwithstanding any repayment obligation under subsection
(a)(1)(B)(ii) or subsection (b), on the compliance of a contractor with and
discharge of the obligation of repayment of the construction costs under that
subsection, the ownership and full-cost pricing limitations of any provision of
the reclamation laws shall not apply to land in that district.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HCC5C7B5EAEFE488E80B9692F1DA8B9BC"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Other
contracts</header><text>Notwithstanding any repayment obligation under
paragraph (1)(B)(ii) or (2)(B)(ii) of subsection (a) or subsection (b), on the
compliance of a contractor with and discharge of the obligation of repayment of
the construction costs under that subsection, the contractor shall continue to
pay applicable operation and maintenance costs and other charges applicable to
the repayment contracts pursuant to then-current rate-setting policy and
applicable law.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H58390A5645824638A13A5F4EEC1AF72A"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Certain
repayment obligations not altered</header><text>This section does not—</text>
<paragraph id="id24BE31CFA76F483FA96FBFCBF8B5E089"><enum>(1)</enum><text>alter the
repayment obligation of any other long-term water service or repayment
contractor receiving water from the Central Valley Project; or</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idEE01A0BF01F247328A93F66359572DC8"><enum>(2)</enum><text>shift any costs
that would otherwise have been properly assignable to a contractor absent this
section, including operations and maintenance costs, construction costs, or
other capitalized costs incurred after the date of enactment of this Act, to
other contractors.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H0EF7F8EB8A004F119C739BDBB9C25392"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Statutory
interpretation</header><text>Nothing in this subtitle affects the right of any
long-term contractor to use a particular type of financing to make the payments
required in paragraph (1)(B)(i) or (2)(B)(i) of subsection (a).</text>
</subsection></section></subtitle><subtitle id="HAA76F620575F4404B13E72FF327094B0"><enum>D</enum><header>Bay-Delta
Watershed water rights preservation and protection</header>
<section id="HA134745DBAC64BEF80CC37F785B28F54"><enum>561.</enum><header>Water rights
and area-of-origin protections</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Notwithstanding the provisions of this
title, Federal reclamation law, or the Endangered Species Act of 1973
(<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/1531">16 U.S.C. 1531 et
seq.</external-xref>)—</text>
<paragraph id="HB9610FC6B157429C875F30C1E0DE989E"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Secretary of the Interior shall, in the
operation of the Central Valley Project—</text>
<subparagraph id="idF449B2BD275741A18BC60DFDE0B161CA"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">strictly adhere to State water rights law
governing water rights priorities by honoring water rights senior to those
belonging to the Central Valley Project, regardless of the source of priority;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD086F9464E1D487AB323A5E0564127F4"><enum>(B)</enum><text>strictly adhere to
and honor water rights and other priorities that are obtained or exist pursuant
to the California Water Code, including sections 10505, 10505:5, 11128, 11460,
11463, and 12220; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H90D7E09127874E7489A8C97AE7E9A0BA"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any action that affects the diversion of
water or involves the release of water from any Central Valley Project water
storage facility taken by the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of
Commerce to conserve, enhance, recover, or otherwise protect any species listed
under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/1531">16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.</external-xref>) shall be
applied in a manner that is consistent with water right priorities established
by State law.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="H522788864C02472B87843A15A49F31F6"><enum>562.</enum><header>Sacramento
River settlement contracts</header>
<subsection id="idF0D2ADE855B84137A9D9087A046D8137"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>In carrying out the Endangered Species Act of 1973
(<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/1531">16 U.S.C. 1531 et
seq.</external-xref>) in the Bay-Delta and on the Sacramento River, the
Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Commerce shall apply any
limitations on the operation of the Central Valley Project or relating to the
formulation of any reasonable prudent alternative associated with the operation
of the Central Valley Project in a manner that strictly adheres to and applies
the water rights priorities for project water and base supply as provided in
the Sacramento River Settlement Contracts.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="id50DA183F1B9B4FC09BF41CED2CC5C38A"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Applicability</header><text>Article
3(i) of the Sacramento River Settlement Contracts shall not be used by the
Secretary of the Interior or any other Federal agency head as means to provide
shortages that are different from those provided for in Article 5(a) of the
Sacramento River Settlement Contracts.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="H08A51BD1BD5F440197848CB847B625D2"><enum>563.</enum><header>Sacramento
River Watershed water service contractors</header>
<subsection id="HCF6FC98611B4440486ED6CD7D88CE553"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Existing Central
Valley Project agricultural water service contractors within Sacramento River
Watershed</header><text>In this section, the term <term>existing Central Valley
Project agricultural water service contractors within the Sacramento River
Watershed</term> means water service contractors within the Shasta, Trinity,
and Sacramento River Divisions of the Central Valley Project that have a water
service contract in effect on the date of enactment of this Act that provides
water for irrigation.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H5FC00E1EA94942B3AA1CB2D4BAF05421"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Allocation of
water</header><text>Subject to subsection (c) and the absolute priority of the
Sacramento River Settlement Contractors to Sacramento River supplies over
Central Valley Project diversions and deliveries to other contractors, the
Secretary of the Interior shall, in the operation of the Central Valley
Project, allocate water provided for irrigation purposes to existing Central
Valley Project agricultural water service contractors within the Sacramento
River Watershed as follows:</text>
<paragraph id="H4DF2E7E5C2A84A45B41090C2C48FA07B"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Not less than 100
percent of the contract quantities in a <quote>Wet</quote> year (as that term
is defined in the Sacramento Valley Water Year Type (40–30–30) Index).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H3C4BEF69E8074DE887075E20FCECFCA7"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Not less than 100
percent of the contract quantities in an <quote>Above Normal</quote> year (as
that term is defined in the Sacramento Valley Water Year Type (40–30–30)
Index).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HC8681BD30B754AA5839325B1AD1EACE1"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Not less than 100
percent of the contract quantities in a <quote>Below Normal</quote> year (as
that term is defined in the Sacramento Valley Water Year Type (40–30–30)
Index).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H009F38B4DCB64F91B573234590E69A8A"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Not less than 75
percent of the contract quantities in a <quote>Dry</quote> year (as that term
is defined in the Sacramento Valley Water Year Type (40–30–30) Index).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H3F632EF121EF462D80ADC46EB217567B"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Not less than 50
percent of the contract quantities in a <quote>Critically Dry</quote> year (as
that term is defined in the Sacramento Valley Water Year Type (40–30–30)
Index).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HA2D22CD597E340CA8DCF4A0496E6E1D7"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Protection of
municipal and industrial supplies</header>
<paragraph id="idD176D8CB94BA48F4A5C9811C6770AE30"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Nothing in this section—</text>
<subparagraph id="idB587D87CB33740F38BFB02565CE507CB"><enum>(A)</enum><text>modifies any
provision of a water service contract that addresses municipal and industrial
water shortage policies of the Secretary of the Interior;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id34745CBBAA1E41B1857E5FDCC860E210"><enum>(B)</enum><text>affects or limits
the authority of the Secretary of the Interior—</text>
<clause id="idC1F5016D0BB842CEB4FFBA40730BCDC9"><enum>(i)</enum><text>to
adopt or modify municipal and industrial water shortage policies; or</text>
</clause><clause id="id17E5F3C6303747BDBCE7848A9201E865"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>to
implement municipal and industrial water shortage policies; or</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id9373F5D3B8964A8FBD7207C5CB256F6F"><enum>(C)</enum><text>affects
allocations to Central Valley Project municipal and industrial contractors
pursuant to the water shortage policies of the Secretary of the
Interior.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id2A052362E15440BD8EB485866B259D87"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Applicability</header><text>This
section does not constrain, govern, or affect, directly or indirectly, the
operations of the American River Division of the Central Valley Project or any
deliveries from that Division, including the units and facilities of that
Division.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H93B071E7B54F43AC89F5D29A8AD0547A"><enum>564.</enum><header>No redirected
adverse impacts</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Secretary
of the Interior shall ensure that there are no redirected adverse water supply
or fiscal impacts to the State Water Project or to individuals within the
Sacramento River or San Joaquin River watershed arising from the operation of
the Secretary of the Central Valley Project to meet legal obligations imposed
by or through any Federal or State agency, including—</text>
<paragraph id="idA69BB79659634E09A62216DCB060E3B5"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Endangered Species Act of 1973
(<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/1531">16 U.S.C. 1531 et
seq.</external-xref>);</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idDCB933C51C58416D8FF5FB57ED3DFE22"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">this title; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idA84C15065A3542FEA2703A8EFE823610"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">actions or activities implemented to meet
the twin goals of improving water supply and addressing the environmental needs
of the Bay-Delta.</text>
</paragraph></section></subtitle><subtitle id="H6410599C809F4C33BFC6F4F88F74BA2B"><enum>E</enum><header>Miscellaneous</header>
<section id="HF8EFA2974BE14260BB3DD97BC689D475"><enum>571.</enum><header>Precedent</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Congress finds that—</text>
<paragraph id="H34211F02567948F884CA6571B27CCC23"><enum>(1)</enum><text>coordinated
operations between the Central Valley Project and the State Water Project, as
consented to and requested by the State of California and the Federal
Government, require the assertion of Federal supremacy to protect existing
water rights throughout the system, a circumstance that is unique to the State
of California; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idD96EA5E05600446EBA546271D1E8701E"><enum>(2)</enum><text>this title should
not serve as precedent for similar operations in any other State.</text>
</paragraph></section></subtitle><enum>VI</enum><header>Reducing
regulatory burdens</header>
<section commented="no" id="H0ACFA1EE3E9C4E12B9B31F99374700FC" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>601.</enum><header>Short
title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This title may be cited
as the <quote><short-title>Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act
of 2012</short-title></quote>.</text>
</section><section id="HC5F1E60820F144FABE5143A294C315B0"><enum>602.</enum><header>Use of
authorized pesticides</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section
3(f) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (7 U.S.C.
136a(f)) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEB3FC76262C347D5B117909ED652E853" style="OLC">
<paragraph commented="no" id="HAADEE929A4F34D2FBA6EDD21C0E74FAD"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Use of
authorized pesticides</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except
as provided in section 402(s) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33
U.S.C. 1342(s)), the Administrator or a State may not require a permit under
that Act for a discharge from a point source into navigable waters of a
pesticide authorized for sale, distribution, or use under this Act, or the
residue of the pesticide, resulting from the application of the
pesticide.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section id="H64C452B9ABA74D418D2F8FB8183E19AC"><enum>603.</enum><header>Discharges of
pesticides</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 402 of the
Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1342) is amended by adding at
the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H320D99D65F744971B7DBFE3AE9A20723" style="OLC">
<subsection id="HC86E024F90784A89B3F354AD179A9528"><enum>(s)</enum><header>Discharges of
pesticides</header>
<paragraph id="HFC77B4BFA35C43EA81A99DC0E37625E9"><enum>(1)</enum><header>No permit
requirement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as
provided in paragraph (2), a permit shall not be required by the Administrator
or a State under this Act for a discharge from a point source into navigable
waters of a pesticide authorized for sale, distribution, or use under the
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.), or
the residue of the pesticide, resulting from the application of the
pesticide.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H8FC2A1EA386E42DCB0E68BA39E557A60"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Exceptions</header><text>Paragraph
(1) shall not apply to the following discharges of a pesticide or pesticide
residue:</text>
<subparagraph id="HE59CB086556A4E9B8B70A56A710B5872"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A discharge resulting from the application
of a pesticide in violation of a provision of the Federal Insecticide,
Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.) that is relevant to
protecting water quality, if—</text>
<clause id="H15807AF25672452BB17000D0EDBDBD82"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the discharge would not have occurred but
for the violation; or</text>
</clause><clause id="H09ABCF4F66F54068AD71240A792378D4"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the quantity of a pesticide or pesticide
residue in the discharge is greater than would have occurred without the
violation.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="HCA2066D774754695AC7D24DB9E9B9467"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Stormwater discharges subject to regulation
under subsection (p).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H11C811AF92D64AB6AAC7E74AF174837A"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The following discharges subject to
regulation under this section:</text>
<clause commented="no" id="H662EB3852DF14767B269FA6099EC340F"><enum>(i)</enum><text>Manufacturing or
industrial effluent.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="H1A72A01C86CA477B9EDFE22760BBD8C8"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>Treatment works
effluent.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="H1E113A9B5FFF4CBE9DED8C213C154BDD"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>Discharges
incidental to the normal operation of a vessel, including a discharge resulting
from ballasting operations or vessel biofouling
prevention.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><enum>VII</enum><header>Farm dust
regulation prevention</header>
<section id="H7868670122F74F6F827213C761B84972" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>701.</enum><header>Short
title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This title may be cited
as the <quote><short-title>Farm Dust Regulation Prevention
Act of 2012</short-title></quote>.</text>
</section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H695E08FD223A4C4DB326315F4BFC45AC" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>702.</enum><header>Temporary
prohibition against revising any national ambient air quality standard
applicable to coarse particulate matter</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Before the date that is 1 year after the
date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency (referred to in this title as the <term>Administrator</term>)
may not propose, finalize, implement, or enforce any regulation revising the
national primary ambient air quality standard or the national secondary ambient
air quality standard applicable to particulate matter with an aerodynamic
diameter greater than 2.5 micrometers under section 109 of the Clean Air Act
(42 U.S.C. 7409).</text>
</section><section id="H9CA27328A56148F2B7F92B94F99E29DF"><enum>703.</enum><header>Nuisance
dust</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Part A of title I of the
Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the
following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCE1B83BA61C04E6D83A07BBCFCB1DF70" style="OLC">
<section id="H647CA3C7E5404A6CA9E12231F7E6F91D"><enum>132.</enum><header>Regulation of
nuisance dust primarily by State, tribal, and local governments</header>
<subsection id="HA173892302844770B112FC485FE29D3C"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definition of
nuisance dust</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this
section:</text>
<paragraph id="idE39709DD9CAC4391977DFE9B5EA740E2"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term
<term>nuisance dust</term> means particulate matter that—</text>
<subparagraph id="HD92C4B8D9CA541F2B08D3965DC1DA426"><enum>(A)</enum><text>is generated
primarily from natural sources, unpaved roads, agricultural activities, earth
moving, or other activities typically conducted in rural areas;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H7CED16F3888640DC982F2E918721440F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>consists primarily
of soil, other natural or biological materials, or some combination of those
materials;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HAAB7D8258C75411EA8E5FFBAEDA700EB"><enum>(C)</enum><text>is not emitted
directly into the ambient air from combustion, such as exhaust from combustion
engines and emissions from stationary combustion processes; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H1298FE0F4FEE4B34A44038101F8660D1"><enum>(D)</enum><text>is not comprised
of residuals from the combustion of coal.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H18CF5D7358974CA4940B08794BEA702D"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Exclusion</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>nuisance dust</term> does
not include radioactive particulate matter produced from uranium mining or
processing.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H448B2F495AF14591A4066937645063E3"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Applicability</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as provided in subsection (c), this
Act does not apply to, and references in this Act to particulate matter are
deemed to exclude, nuisance dust.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H2B0BE5C346D2424CABF4A7013D5B4A30"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Exception</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (a) does not apply with respect
to any geographical area in which nuisance dust is not regulated under State,
tribal, or local law insofar as the Administrator, in consultation with the
Secretary of Agriculture, finds that—</text>
<paragraph id="H7581EDE790564556BCF1ED9740619F6D"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">nuisance dust (or any subcategory of
nuisance dust) causes substantial adverse public health and welfare effects at
ambient concentrations; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H49984060767B45FC95FE4E21F808EA2D"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the benefits of applying standards and
other requirements of this Act to nuisance dust (or a subcategory of nuisance
dust) outweigh the costs (including local and regional economic and employment
impacts) of applying those standards and other requirements to nuisance dust
(or a
subcategory).</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section id="H030B770BD4174AD1AE5BDB9EF9B7273A"><enum>704.</enum><header>Sense of
Congress</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">It is the sense of
Congress that the Administrator should implement an approach to excluding
so-called <quote>exceptional events</quote>, or events that are not reasonably
controllable or preventable, from determinations of whether an area is in
compliance with any national ambient air quality standard applicable to coarse
particulate matter that—</text>
<paragraph id="H1D4836BCA9EA4252B2B65B4D914644D0"><enum>(1)</enum><text>maximizes
transparency and predictability for States, Indian tribes, and local
governments; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HAC00F12569AF45AA8CE46033C5A74351"><enum>(2)</enum><text>minimizes the
regulatory and cost burdens States, Indian tribes, and local governments bear
in excluding those events.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="H8A19DF2445E54B88898BEE70494C77C8"><enum>705.</enum><header>Impacts of EPA
regulatory activity on employment and economic activity in agriculture
community</header>
<subsection id="H797B4EE447274BDA8828E7F8B2564FA7"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In
this section:</text>
<paragraph id="H685668C3282E4DE28664B28F76CE1F45"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Covered
action</header><text>The term <term>covered action</term> means any of the
following actions taken by the Administrator under the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C.
7401 et seq.) relating to agriculture and the national primary ambient air
quality standard or the national secondary ambient air quality standard for
particulate matter:</text>
<subparagraph id="H0DFDC75A1990487DA336D8A61B1F75B6"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Promulgating or
issuing a regulation, policy statement, guidance, response to a petition, or
other requirement.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HEA83372A2B33443BA12A34087003BAB4"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Implementing a new
or substantially altered program.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HA808ECE7C5C741C996FC07C749B4F5AD"><enum>(2)</enum><header>More than a de
minimis negative impact</header><text>The term <term>more than a de minimis
negative impact</term> means—</text>
<subparagraph id="H5DA123904DDC41678435DA9543296EDC"><enum>(A)</enum><text>with respect to
employment levels, a loss of more than 100 jobs relating to the agriculture
industry, as calculated by excluding consideration of any offsetting job gains
that result from the hypothetical creation of new jobs through new technologies
or government employment; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H64B2ECECCC0F487C83160BE24BEC741D"><enum>(B)</enum><text>with respect to
economic activity, a decrease in agricultural economic activity of more than
$1,000,000 over any calendar year, as calculated by excluding consideration of
any offsetting economic activity that results from the hypothetical creation of
new economic activity through new technologies or government employment.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HBFC74888533D40D6BEDC24E41EE1BDD5"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Analysis of
impacts of actions on employment and economic activity in the agriculture
community</header>
<paragraph id="HF2F3D3165E4348CD82457B022B652FCE"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Analysis</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Before taking a covered action, the
Administrator shall analyze the impact, disaggregated by State, of the covered
action on—</text>
<subparagraph id="H7F7CEC062DFC4DFEAC62637104FE8F40"><enum>(A)</enum><text>employment levels
in the agriculture industry; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HABC5F76CFA9E4938B725AF3C381B94B2"><enum>(B)</enum><text>agricultural
economic activity, including estimated job losses and decreased economic
activity relating to agriculture.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HB4001FF67D7947B5AD3EE4DB54CFCCF9"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Economic
models</header>
<subparagraph id="H60BFFAB1DB8C4CFCB9D5D1A143CA36F1"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>In carrying out paragraph (1), the Administrator shall
use the best available economic models.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H1AEA60E0404743BA84C0158324E848DE"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Annual GAO
report</header><text>Not later than December 31 of each year, the Comptroller
General of the United States shall submit to Congress a report on the economic
models used by the Administrator to carry out this subsection.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H7E9BB39B13314E02922CF618AABA97F7"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Availability of
information</header><text>With respect to any covered action, the Administrator
shall—</text>
<subparagraph id="H6F9973C4FC3247C4B6CB84744DF4851B"><enum>(A)</enum><text>post the analysis
under paragraph (1) as a link on the main page of the public Internet website
of the Environmental Protection Agency;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD5FB78272D9B4454AC335BA56501A8B7"><enum>(B)</enum><text>request the
Secretary of Agriculture to post the analysis under paragraph (1) as a link on
the main page of the public Internet website of the Department of Agriculture;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HCD7B6E5D700946E7BA19992CE2B24A01"><enum>(C)</enum><text>request that the
Governor of any State experiencing more than a de minimis negative impact post
the analysis on the main page of the public Interest website of the
State.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H86AA5FA326FD415A881C91607A677BEE"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Public
hearings</header>
<paragraph id="H6896A5524D334603932900197858C84B"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>If the Administrator concludes under subsection (a)(1)
that a covered action will have more than a de minimis negative impact on
agricultural employment levels or agricultural economic activity in a State,
the Administrator shall hold a public hearing in each such State at least 30
days before the effective date of the covered action.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H737014EA2E324403B9AF76823E38349A"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Time, location,
and selection</header><text>A public hearing required under paragraph (1) shall
be held at—</text>
<subparagraph id="id8A9709A373D54DDEA06E86F99A8A8682"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a convenient time
and location for impacted residents; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id7B6C834493FC4D0EA958C5FA51091CC4"><enum>(B)</enum><text>at such location
selected by the Administrator as shall give priority to locations in the State
that will experience the greatest number of job losses.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H1C911C9F4C1E46DF85E56F552BCCEE4E"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Notification</header><text>If
the Administrator concludes under subsection (b)(1) that a covered action will
have more than a de minimis negative impact on agricultural employment levels
or agricultural economic activity in any State, the Administrator shall give
notice of the impact to the congressional delegation, Governor, and legislature
of the State at least 45 days before the effective date of the covered
action.</text>
</subsection></section><enum>VIII</enum><header>Energy tax
prevention</header>
<section id="id62BF85D6128D48D98C5F5AB683A9D186" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>801.</enum><header>Short
title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This title may be cited
as the <quote><short-title>Energy Tax Prevention Act of
2012</short-title></quote>.</text>
</section><section id="ID0fa2f149f89446389a7f0495b920a1be"><enum>802.</enum><header>No regulation
of emissions of greenhouse gases</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Title III of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C.
7601 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id06C1A2F9D37346748FE26CB4353C3537" style="OLC">
<section id="ID14ffa4f6ab564f45b2d2dbe16ab42139"><enum>330.</enum><header>No regulation
of emissions of greenhouse gases</header>
<subsection id="IDdfab7e2f4a6646a68b4086a3133ec0c5"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definition</header><text>In
this section, the term <term>greenhouse gas</term> means any of the
following:</text>
<paragraph id="IDc05ff74aa1544920896f2c5012bb8d6e"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Water
vapor.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID5648532e20c2476a8b20dda34fa1bd66"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Carbon
dioxide.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID36593c179a9640c3a18aae4de96da519"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Methane.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDb0258488722b46d6842870433901d001"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Nitrous
oxide.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID2a86afd2ee4544dfbdf3169b7f96a3c7"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Sulfur
hexafluoride.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDddaed2cd447e4d93a41090c0ab9d1846"><enum>(6)</enum><text>Hydrofluorocarbons.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID9e44ad56c10a47f8a44aab04f4d22682"><enum>(7)</enum><text>Perfluorocarbons.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID86c3a1b8b5c94c8ebdbbf2c27e2691b2"><enum>(8)</enum><text>Any other
substance subject to, or proposed to be subject to, regulation, action, or
consideration under this Act to address climate change.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="IDa1f5e78fb8ee4cc2997acfdc736b02da"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Limitation on
agency action</header>
<paragraph id="IDbffff63cc5194d6ca4045979ac169875"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Limitation</header>
<subparagraph id="IDe081b21cf338468b80a27549f96af817"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Administrator may not, under this Act, promulgate any
regulation concerning, take action relating to, or take into consideration the
emission of a greenhouse gas to address climate change.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDe94a717f09694ddb985eb1313061141a"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Air pollutant
definition</header><text>The definition of the term <term>air pollutant</term>
in section 302(g) does not include a greenhouse gas. Notwithstanding the
previous sentence, such definition may include a greenhouse gas for purposes of
addressing concerns other than climate change.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID05d240021f2248a79b4bcdb7fb45aa0e"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Exceptions</header><text>Paragraph
(1) does not prohibit the following:</text>
<subparagraph id="ID367a9596057f4044b6b815069475f5f3"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Notwithstanding
paragraph (4)(B), implementation and enforcement of the rule entitled
<quote>Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emission Standards and Corporate
Average Fuel Economy Standards</quote> (75 Fed. Reg. 25324 (May 7, 2010) and
without further revision) and finalization, implementation, enforcement, and
revision of the proposed rule entitled <quote>Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Standards and Fuel Efficiency Standards for Medium- and Heavy-Duty Engines and
Vehicles</quote> published at 75 Fed. Reg. 74152 (November 30, 2010).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID128539d966d24dc9a24d41b45f1bfc25"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Implementation
and enforcement of section 211(o).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDeb863926d952495eb4b7535f396af0a0"><enum>(C)</enum><text>Statutorily
authorized Federal research, development, and demonstration programs addressing
climate change.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID3954648b1fab4cf69a4f666830421448"><enum>(D)</enum><text>Implementation
and enforcement of title VI to the extent such implementation or enforcement
only involves one or more class I or class II substances (as such terms are
defined in section 601).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID26ba97f1c43043778c818ddb35be6833"><enum>(E)</enum><text>Implementation
and enforcement of section 821 (42 U.S.C. 7651k note) of Public Law 101–549
(commonly referred to as the <quote>Clean Air Act Amendments of
1990</quote>).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID9a048ea87fa641cf911d239f582a9185"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Inapplicability
of provisions</header><text>Nothing listed in paragraph (2) shall cause a
greenhouse gas to be subject to part C of title I (relating to prevention of
significant deterioration of air quality) or considered an air pollutant for
purposes of title V (relating to air permits).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDaaf27840ad6b47e58827f2c96b6a01d0"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Certain prior
agency actions</header><text>The following rules, and actions (including any
supplement or revision to such rules and actions) are repealed and shall have
no legal effect:</text>
<subparagraph id="id9856FD876DCC4819BA09BA283B71AF0F"><enum>(A)</enum><text><quote>Mandatory
Reporting of Greenhouse Gases</quote>, published at 74 Fed. Reg. 56260 (October
30, 2009).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDdf4d4ef0b50443c288320b659dc88fe8"><enum>(B)</enum><text><quote>Endangerment
and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases under section 202(a) of
the Clean Air Act</quote> published at 74 Fed. Reg. 66496 (Dec. 15,
2009).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID6b28a90427d34945a72b8a4a5321ef08"><enum>(C)</enum><text><quote>Reconsideration
of the Interpretation of Regulations That Determine Pollutants Covered by Clean
Air Act Permitting Programs</quote> published at 75 Fed. Reg. 17004 (April 2,
2010) and the memorandum from Stephen L. Johnson, Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) Administrator, to EPA Regional Administrators, concerning
<quote>EPA’s Interpretation of Regulations that Determine Pollutants Covered by
Federal Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) Permit Program</quote>
(Dec. 18, 2008).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID1ad34c8bbb914d3aa7c7d221ce17db56"><enum>(D)</enum><text><quote>Prevention
of Significant Deterioration and Title V Greenhouse Gas Tailoring Rule</quote>,
published at 75 Fed. Reg. 31514 (June 3, 2010).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID9f97f6a1488b479fa593c7296e0ef205"><enum>(E)</enum><text><quote>Action To
Ensure Authority To Issue Permits Under the Prevention of Significant
Deterioration Program to Sources of Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Finding of
Substantial Inadequacy and SIP Call</quote>, published at 75 Fed. Reg. 77698
(December 13, 2010).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID9216b80f853e4c86a73cee06515b74d5"><enum>(F)</enum><text><quote>Action To
Ensure Authority To Issue Permits Under the Prevention of Significant
Deterioration Program to Sources of Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Finding of
Failure to Submit State Implementation Plan Revisions Required for Greenhouse
Gases</quote>, published at 75 Fed. Reg. 81874 (December 29, 2010).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID1d918bf661f341ebbeaf4d0ab3b0a7c0"><enum>(G)</enum><text><quote>Action To
Ensure Authority To Issue Permits Under the Prevention of Significant
Deterioration Program to Sources of Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Federal
Implementation Plan</quote>, published at 75 Fed. Reg. 82246 (December 30,
2010).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDe764acdd0627470f856482e1de2bc95c"><enum>(H)</enum><text><quote>Action To
Ensure Authority To Implement Title V Permitting Programs Under the Greenhouse
Gas Tailoring Rule</quote>, published at 75 Fed. Reg. 82254 (December 30,
2010).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID8d4c409dccd44170ab4902a8e1683cf8"><enum>(I)</enum><text><quote>Determinations
Concerning Need for Error Correction, Partial Approval and Partial Disapproval,
and Federal Implementation Plan Regarding Texas Prevention of Significant
Deterioration Program</quote>, published at 75 Fed. Reg. 82430 (December 30,
2010).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDcdf120b240df4c9ca106eb78064fcfe7"><enum>(J)</enum><text><quote>Limitation
of Approval of Prevention of Significant Deterioration Provisions Concerning
Greenhouse Gas Emitting-Sources in State Implementation Plans; Final
Rule</quote>, published at 75 Fed. Reg. 82536 (December 30, 2010).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID28039d29ff4b47d6a674222acedffdea"><enum>(K)</enum><text><quote>Determinations
Concerning Need for Error Correction, Partial Approval and Partial Disapproval,
and Federal Implementation Plan Regarding Texas Prevention of Significant
Deterioration Program; Proposed Rule</quote>, published at 75 Fed. Reg. 82365
(December 30, 2010).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID21834da449fc4bc7802159acfee4c155"><enum>(L)</enum><text>Except for action
listed in paragraph (2), any other Federal action under this Act occurring
before the date of enactment of this section that applies a stationary source
permitting requirement or an emissions standard for a greenhouse gas to address
climate change.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="IDf48b0a8e87354de59f5c975e5333367c"><enum>(5)</enum><header>State
action</header>
<subparagraph id="IDd71f08fb57a341e8b5d9cb9fcaa86c95"><enum>(A)</enum><header>No
limitation</header><text>This section does not limit or otherwise affect the
authority of a State to adopt, amend, enforce, or repeal State laws and
regulations pertaining to the emission of a greenhouse gas.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDaf17e5bbc5de4875960b3f56001cc068"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Exception</header>
<clause id="IDf7abec6340a74dcbbc638f0c759e9719"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Rule</header><text>Notwithstanding
subparagraph (A), any provision described in clause (ii)—</text>
<subclause id="ID55287a2535b043b68e7d4408fbb0d513"><enum>(I)</enum><text>is not federally
enforceable;</text>
</subclause><subclause id="ID05498fb9d87d4069af9eda69c8e5c9d4"><enum>(II)</enum><text>is not deemed to
be a part of Federal law; and</text>
</subclause><subclause id="ID7af48a61cbcd44fe85373925d9a69c13"><enum>(III)</enum><text>is deemed to be
stricken from the plan described in clause (ii)(I) or the program or permit
described in clause (ii)(II), as applicable.</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="ID339d4b72718845abb21926496cc331ad"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Provisions
defined</header><text>For purposes of clause (i), the term
<term>provision</term> means any provision that—</text>
<subclause id="ID6819cca0e56042d18432d8977fead6b3"><enum>(I)</enum><text>is contained in a
State implementation plan under section 110 and authorizes or requires a
limitation on, or imposes a permit requirement for, the emission of a
greenhouse gas to address climate change; or</text>
</subclause><subclause id="IDc5b8531832474292bffc2c5fe83bd66a"><enum>(II)</enum><text>is part of an
operating permit program under title V, or a permit issued pursuant to title V,
and authorizes or requires a limitation on the emission of a greenhouse gas to
address climate change.</text>
</subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID6124d784861242b5ade03793185215e1"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Action by
Administrator</header><text>The Administrator may not approve or make federally
enforceable any provision described in subparagraph
(B)(ii).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section id="IDe4c90a0387624432aab93754abc39b33"><enum>803.</enum><header>Preserving one
national standard for automobiles</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 209(b) of the Clean Air Act (42
U.S.C. 7543) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0E04828803224B5CAA333EAE2F0502C8" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="IDacd92a141aad4787b5ca8cff60299b01"><enum>(4)</enum><text>With respect to
standards for emissions of greenhouse gases (as defined in section 330) for
model year 2017 or any subsequent model year for new motor vehicles and new
motor vehicle engines—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDbad4fab605b447a7ac44876c63b68a7b"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the Administrator
may not waive application of subsection (a); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDea28df0b711b463e92ec824f3724c0fb"><enum>(B)</enum><text>no waiver granted
prior to the date of enactment of this paragraph may be considered to waive the
application of subsection
(a).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section>