[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 197 (Thursday, December 13, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H10191]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        COMMENDING SONNY PERDUE

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, I want to thank and commend Secretary Sonny 
Perdue of the USDA for a recent decision to help northern California 
with its water situation. They are offering a $449 million loan to help 
the Sites area project, an intertie that will help the Tehama-Colusa 
Canal and the Glenn-Colusa Canal intertie to each other, and, 
therefore, be part of the infrastructure that will help the Sites 
Reservoir be successful when it is finally built.
  It is much needed for northern California's water interconnectivity, 
flexibility, and overall goals of more water storage in our State, 
especially upon the heels of the California State Water Resources 
Control Board's shift of what could be up to 700,000 more acre feet 
away from human use towards dubious environmental use.
  Mr. Speaker, we need help with water storage, water capacity. I thank 
Secretary Perdue and Secretary Zinke for their attention to northern 
California for these water needs, and thank the Trump administration 
for it as well.

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