[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 68 (Tuesday, June 6, 2000)]
[Senate]
[Page S4567]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

      By Mrs. FEINSTEIN:
  S. 2672. A bill to provide for the conveyance of various reclamation 
projects to local water authorities; to the Committee on Energy and 
Natural Resources.


            THE SUGAR PINE DAM AND RESERVOIR CONVEYANCE ACT

 Mrs. FEINSTEIN. Mr. President, I am pleased to introduce this 
bill today which will provide for the transfer of the Sugar Pine Dam 
and Reservoir Project in the Central Valley Project to the Forest Hills 
Public Utility District. I continue to support the transfer of the 
Bureau of Reclamation projects to the local water districts which 
operate and benefit from them.

  This bill is important in one other way. The language in this bill 
will correct the financial inequity that affects CVP beneficiaries. 
Some of the costs of constructing Bureau of Reclamation projects have 
been allocated to other CVP contractors even though the projects have 
never been operationally integrated into the CVP. Thus, Irrigation and 
Municipal and Industrial (M&I) contractors such as Contra Costa Water 
District, East Bay MUD, Santa Clara Valley Water District, Sacramento 
MUD, City of Fresno and a number of others have incurred substantial 
costs without ever receiving any benefit.
  This bill has the bipartisan support of Congressman George Miller and 
John Doolittle in the House. And I can think of no opposition to 
assisting Forest Hills Public Utility District and other M&I 
contractors with this legislation.
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