[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 45 (Friday, April 15, 2005)]
[Senate]
[Page S3749]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

      By Mr. JOHNSON:
  S. 819. A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to 
reallocate costs of the Pactola Dam and Reservoir, South Dakota, to 
reflect increased demands for municipal, industrial, and fish and 
wildlife purposes; to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
  Mr. JOHNSON. Mr. President, I rise today to introduce legislation 
that codifies an agreement between the City of Rapid City, SD and the 
Rapid Valley Water Conservancy District for a water service contract. 
The renegotiated agreement reallocates the costs of the Pactola Dam to 
better reflect the City's growing need for municipal water supply and 
the Rapid Valley District's decreasing demand for irrigation.
  The legislation implements an agreement to improve upon the current 
municipal, industrial, irrigation, recreation, and wildlife 
requirements of Rapid City and the Rapid Valley District. It is my hope 
that this legislation can be quickly approved to facilitate the 
completion of this contract.
  I ask unanimous consent that the text of the Pactola Reservoir 
Reallocation Authorization Act be printed in the Record.
  There being no objection, the bill was ordered to be printed in the 
Record, as follows:

                                 S. 819

       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 ``Pactola Reservoir 
     Reallocation Authorization Act of 2005''.

     SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

       Congress finds that--
       (1) it is appropriate to reallocate the costs of the 
     Pactola Dam and Reservoir, South Dakota, to reflect increased 
     demands for municipal, industrial, and fish and wildlife 
     purposes; and
       (2) section 302 of the Department of Energy Organization 
     Act (42 U.S.C. 7152) prohibits such a reallocation of costs 
     without congressional approval.

     SEC. 3. REALLOCATION OF COSTS OF PACTOLA DAM AND RESERVOIR, 
                   SOUTH DAKOTA.

       The Secretary of the Interior may, as provided in the 
     contract of August 2001 entered into between Rapid City, 
     South Dakota, and the Rapid Valley Conservancy District, 
     reallocate, in a manner consistent with Federal reclamation 
     law (the Act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 388, chapter 1093), 
     and Acts supplemental to and amendatory of that Act (43 
     U.S.C. 371 et seq.)), the construction costs of Pactola Dam 
     and Reservoir, Rapid Valley Unit, Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin 
     Program, South Dakota, from irrigation purposes to municipal, 
     industrial, and fish and wildlife purposes.
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