[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8263 Introduced in House (IH)]
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118th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 8263
To amend the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 to encourage non-Federal
hydropower development with respect to Bureau of Reclamation projects.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
May 7, 2024
Ms. Boebert introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Natural Resources
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A BILL
To amend the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 to encourage non-Federal
hydropower development with respect to Bureau of Reclamation projects.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Rural Jobs and Hydropower Expansion
Act''.
SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO RECLAMATION PROJECT ACT.
Section 9(c) of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (53 Stat. 1194)
is amended--
(1) by striking ``(1) The Secretary is authorized'' and
inserting ``The Secretary is authorized'';
(2) by striking ``small conduit hydropower using Bureau of
Reclamation facilities and pumped storage hydropower
exclusively using Bureau of Reclamation reservoirs'' and
inserting ``hydropower using all Bureau of Reclamation
facilities'';
(3) by striking ``No contract relating to municipal water
supply'' and inserting the following:
``(1) No contract relating to municipal water supply'';
(4) in paragraph (2)(A)--
(A) by striking ``applicable transferred conduit''
and inserting ``applicable transferred works
facility'';
(B) by striking ``applicable reserved conduit'' and
inserting ``applicable reserved works facility''; and
(C) by striking ``power privilege offer for a small
conduit'' and inserting ``power privilege offer for
the'';
(5) in paragraph (3), by striking ``small conduit'' and
inserting ``applicable'';
(6) in paragraph (4), by striking ``small conduit
hydropower'';
(7) in paragraph (6)--
(A) by striking ``conduit'' before ``hydropower
generation''; and
(B) by striking ``transferred conduit'' and
inserting ``transferred works facility'';
(8) in paragraph (7), by striking ``conduit'';
(9) in paragraph (8)--
(A) by inserting ``(referred to in this section as
an `authorization')'' before ``issued by the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission'';
(B) by striking ``August 9, 2013,'' and inserting
``the date of the enactment of the Rural Jobs and
Hydropower Expansion Act''; and
(C) by adding at the end ``Any authorization issued
by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission with
respect to a project shall remain in place until such
authorization becomes inactive. As allowed by the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, an authorization
may be renewed and remain active. Once the
authorization becomes inactive, project site
jurisdiction shall shift to the Bureau of Reclamation
exclusively.'';
(10) by redesignating paragraph (9) as paragraph (10);
(11) by inserting after paragraph (8) the following:
``(9) Nothing in this section shall expand or otherwise
amend the Bureau of Reclamation lease of power privilege
authorities outside the project boundary.''; and
(12) in paragraph (10), as so redesignated--
(A) by striking subparagraphs (A), (C), (D), and
(E);
(B) by redesignating subparagraph (B) as
subparagraph (A); and
(C) by adding at the end the following:
``(B) Reserved works facility.--The term `reserved
works facility' means those facilities owned by the
Bureau of Reclamation where the Bureau of Reclamation
has retained responsibility for carrying out operation
and maintenance activities.
``(C) Transferred works facility.--The term
`transferred works facility' means a project facility
where the operations and maintenance of that facility
is carried out by a non-Federal entity under the
provisions of a formal operations and maintenance
transfer contract.''.
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