[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 4 (Tuesday, January 9, 2007)]
[Senate]
[Pages S290-S291]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

      By Mr. CRAIG:
  S. 220. A bill to authorize early repayment of obligations to the 
Bureau of Reclamation within the A & B Irrigation District in the State 
of Idaho; to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
  Mr. CRAIG. Mr. President, I rise today to introduce the Southern 
Idaho Bureau of Reclamation Repayment Act of 2007. This Act authorizes 
prepayment by landowners of their allocated portion of the obligations 
to the Bureau of Reclamation within A&B Irrigation District and will 
allow individual landowners to prepay their obligations if they so 
desire. Additionally, the Act will allow the landowners who

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have prepaid to be exempt from the acreage limitation provisions set in 
the Reclamation Reform Act of 1982, thereby creating an appropriate 
market for the sale of those lands now owned by landowners who have 
either died or have retired.
  I look forward to working with my colleagues to move this necessary 
bill through the legislative process quickly.
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