[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2813 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2813

   To amend the Water Supply Act of 1958 to establish a mechanism to 
permit State and local interests to release to the United States future 
   water storage rights associated with Corps of Engineers reservoir 
                               projects.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 24, 2013

  Mr. Cotton introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Water Supply Act of 1958 to establish a mechanism to 
permit State and local interests to release to the United States future 
   water storage rights associated with Corps of Engineers reservoir 
                               projects.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. FUTURE WATER SUPPLY.

    Section 301 of the Water Supply Act of 1958 (43 U.S.C. 390b) is 
amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsections (c) and (d) as subsections 
        (d) and (e), respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (b) the following:
    ``(c) Release of Future Water Storage.--
            ``(1) Establishment of 10-year plans for the utilization of 
        future storage.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Beginning 180 days after the 
                date of enactment of this subsection and not later than 
                January 1, 2016, an interested State or local interest 
                may submit to the Secretary a plan for the utilization 
                of future use water storage under this Act.
                    ``(B) Contents.--A plan submitted under 
                subparagraph (A) shall include--
                            ``(i) a 10-year timetable for conversion of 
                        future use storage to present use; and
                            ``(ii) a schedule of actions that the State 
                        or local interest agrees to carry out over a 
                        10-year period, in cooperation with the Corps 
                        of Engineers, to seek new and alternative users 
                        of future water storage that is contracted to 
                        the State or local interest on the date of 
                        enactment of this subsection.
            ``(2) Release of future water storage.--For Corps of 
        Engineers projects, for the period beginning on January 1, 
        2026, and ending on December 31, 2028, a State or local 
        interest that the Secretary determines has carried out the 
        obligations of the State or local interest under an applicable 
        plan described in paragraph (1) may notify the Secretary of the 
        Army that the State or local interest seeks to release to the 
        United States any right of the State or local interest to 
        future water storage under this Act that--
                    ``(A) was allocated for future use water supply 
                prior to November 17, 1986; and
                    ``(B) as of December 31, 2025, has not been 
                allocated or used.
            ``(3) Administration.--On receipt of a notification under 
        paragraph (2) by the Secretary of the Army--
                    ``(A) the request of the applicable State or local 
                interest to release future water storage rights shall 
                be considered to be approved; and
                    ``(B) the applicable State or local interest shall 
                not be responsible for the cost of any water storage 
                rights released under this subsection.''.
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