[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 46 (Tuesday, March 23, 1999)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E520]
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               THE SOLANO PROJECT AND THE CITY OF VALLEJO

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                           HON. GEORGE MILLER

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Tuesday, March 23, 1999

  Mr. GEORGE 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 1950s. 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 is similar to legislation I introduced in the 
105th Congress. It will simply extend similar flexibility to the Solano 
Project and to the city of Vallejo.

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