[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 5000 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 5000

To prohibit the use of amounts from the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund 
   to implement a certain record of decision, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 10, 2024

    Mr. Lee introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit the use of amounts from the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund 
   to implement a certain record of decision, 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. PROHIBITION OF USE OF AMOUNTS FROM THE UPPER COLORADO RIVER 
              BASIN FUND FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES.

    (a) Prohibition.--No amounts from the Upper Colorado River Basin 
Fund established by section 5(a) of the Act of April 11, 1956 (commonly 
known as the ``Colorado River Storage Project Act'') (70 Stat. 107, 
chapter 203; 43 U.S.C. 620d(a)), shall be used to implement the record 
of decision entitled the ``Record of Decision for the Glen Canyon Dam 
Long-Term Experimental and Management Plan Final Environmental Impact 
Statement'' and dated December 2016, as supplemented by the record of 
decision entitled ``Supplement to the 2016 Glen Canyon Dam Long-Term 
Experimental and Management Plan Record of Decision'' and dated July 
2024, to address the threat of nonnative fish in the Colorado River 
below Glen Canyon Dam.
    (b) Treatment of Funds.--Any Federal funds made available for the 
purpose described in subsection (a) shall be nonreimbursable and 
nonreturnable to the United States.
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