[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 96 (Thursday, June 16, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4319-S4320]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4753. Mr. SHELBY (for himself, Mr. Sessions, Mr. Rubio, and Mr. 
Nelson) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 
4685 proposed by Mr. Shelby (for himself and Ms. Mikulski) to the bill 
H.R. 2578, making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and 
Justice, Science, 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

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       (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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