[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 62 (Thursday, April 21, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S2397]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3848. Mr. RUBIO (for himself, Mr. Shelby, Mr. Nelson, and Mr. 
Sessions) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment 
SA 3801 proposed by Mr. Alexander (for himself and Mrs. Feinstein) to 
the bill H.R. 2028, making appropriations for energy and water 
development and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 
30, 2016, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the 
table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available in this Act, or 
     any contributed or non-Federal funds, may be used--
       (1) to study reallocation of water within the Alabama-
     Coosa-Tallapoosa or Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint river 
     basins until the Secretary of the Army has executed a 
     Partnering Agreement--
       (A) with--
       (i) in the case of the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa basin, each 
     of the States of Alabama and Georgia; and
       (ii) in the case of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint 
     basin, each of the States of Alabama, Florida, and Georgia; 
     and
       (B) that outlines the participation of each State in 
     separate water reallocation studies for each basin; or
       (2) to reallocate water within the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa 
     or Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint river basins until the 
     Secretary of the Army executes a final agreement with each 
     State through which the relevant river basin flows that 
     provides the explicit consent of each relevant State to any 
     reallocation.
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