[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 130 (Saturday, August 5, 1995)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1658]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


           ALLOW MUNICIPAL USERS TO SHARE FEDERAL FACILITIES

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                           HON. GEORGE MILLER

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, August 4, 1995
  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, water supplies for California 
cities are extremely limited. Whenever possible, cities attempt to use 
their water storage and conveyance systems in the most efficient ways 
they can.
  The city of Vallejo has tried to use its water supply facilities more 
efficiently, but has been frustrated by a limitation in Federal law 
that prohibits the city from sharing space in an existing Federal water 
delivery canal.
  The city of Vallejo simply desires to ``wheel'' some of its drinking 
water through part of the canal serving California's Solano Project, a 
water project built by the Bureau of Reclamation in the 1950's. Vallejo 
is prepared to pay any appropriate charges for the use of this 
facility.
  Allowing Vallejo to use the Solano project should be a simple matter, 
but it is not. Legislation is required to allow the city to use the 
Federal water project for carriage of municipal and industrial water.
  Congress in recent years has expanded the scope of the Warren Act to 
apply to other communities in California and Utah where there existed a 
need for more water management flexibility. The legislation I am 
introducing today will simply extend similar flexibility to the Solano 
project and to the city of Vallejo.
  I very much appreciate Mayor Tony Intintoli's bringing this situation 
to my attention. I would hope that we would be able to deal with this 
matter in the Resources Committee quickly and without controversy.


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