[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 518 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 518

 To amend the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1991 
for the purposes of extending the Reclamation States Emergency Drought 
        Relief Act of 1991 through 2018, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 5, 2013

  Mr. Markey (for himself, Mrs. Napolitano, Mr. Ben Ray Lujan of New 
Mexico, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Sablan, Mr. Holt, Ms. Hanabusa, Ms. Chu, Ms. 
Slaughter, Mr. Hinojosa, and Mr. Rangel) introduced the following bill; 
        which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1991 
for the purposes of extending the Reclamation States Emergency Drought 
        Relief Act of 1991 through 2018, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. DROUGHT RELIEF.

    (a) Termination of Authority.--Section 104(c) of the Reclamation 
States Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1991 (43 U.S.C. 2214(c)) is 
amended by striking ``2012'' and inserting ``2018''.
    (b) Authorization of Appropriations.--Section 301 of the 
Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1991 (43 U.S.C. 
2241) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``90,000,000'' and inserting 
        ``$110,000,000''; and
            (2) by striking ``2012'' and inserting ``2018''.

SEC. 2. CLIMATE VARIABILITY REVIEW.

    Subsection (e) of section 203 of the Reclamation States Emergency 
Drought Relief Act of 1991 (43 U.S.C. 2223(e)) is amended as follows:
    ``(e) Review.--The contingency plans shall include provisions for 
periodic review to assure adequacy of the contingency plan to respond 
to current conditions, as well as address projected long-term climate 
variability and change, and such plans may be modified accordingly.''.
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