[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 134 (Thursday, December 7, 2006)]
[Senate]
[Page S11539]
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      WATERSHED RESTORATION AND ENHANCEMENT AGREEMENTS ACT OF 2005

  The Senate proceeded to consider the bill (S. 2003) to make permanent 
the authorization for watershed restoration and enhancement agreements, 
which had been reported from the Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources, with an amendment to strike all after the enacting clause 
and insert in lieu thereof the following:

                                S. 2003

     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

       This Act may be cited as the ``Watershed Restoration and 
     Enhancement Agreements Act of 2006''.

     SEC. 2. WATERSHED RESTORATION AND ENHANCEMENT AGREEMENTS.

       Section 323 of the Department of the Interior and Related 
     Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 (16 U.S.C. 1011 note; 
     Public Law 105-277), is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``each of fiscal years 
     2006 through 2011'' and inserting ``fiscal year 2006 and each 
     fiscal year thereafter'';
       (2) by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (e); and
       (3) by inserting after subsection (c) the following:
       ``(d) Applicable Law.--Chapter 63 of title 31, United 
     States Code, shall not apply to--
       ``(1) a watershed restoration and enhancement agreement 
     entered into under this section; or
       ``(2) an agreement entered into under the first section of 
     Public Law 94-148 (16 U.S.C. 565a-1).''.

  The committee amendment in the nature of a substitute was agreed to.
  The bill (S. 2003), as amended, was ordered to be engrossed for a 
third reading, was read the third time, and passed.

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