[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 120 (Tuesday, June 30, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S4079]
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SA 2388. Mr. PERDUE (for Mr. Merkley) proposed an amendment to the
bill S. 3758, to amend the Klamath Basin Water Supply Enhancement Act
of 2000 to make certain technical corrections; as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the
following:
SECTION 1. KLAMATH BASIN WATER SUPPLY ENHANCEMENT ACT OF 2000
TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS.
Section 4(b) of the Klamath Basin Water Supply Enhancement
Act of 2000 (114 Stat. 2222; 132 Stat. 3887) is amended--
(1) in paragraph (1)--
(A) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A)--
(i) by striking ``Pursuant to the reclamation laws and
subject'' and inserting ``Subject''; and
(ii) by striking ``may'' and inserting ``is authorized
to''; and
(B) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ``, including
conservation and efficiency measures, land idling, and use of
groundwater,'' after ``administer programs'';
(2) in paragraph (3)(A), by inserting ``and'' after the
semicolon at the end;
(3) by redesignating the second paragraph (4) (relating to
the effect of the subsection) as paragraph (5); and
(4) in paragraph (5) (as so redesignated)--
(A) by striking subparagraph (B);
(B) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``; or'' and inserting
a period; and
(C) by striking ``the Secretary--'' and all that follows
through ``to develop'' in subparagraph (A) and inserting
``the Secretary to develop''.
SEC. 2. CONTINUED USE OF PICK-SLOAN MISSOURI BASIN PROGRAM
PROJECT USE POWER BY THE KINSEY IRRIGATION
COMPANY AND THE SIDNEY WATER USERS IRRIGATION
DISTRICT.
(a) Authorization.--Notwithstanding any other provision of
law and subject to subsection (b), the Secretary of the
Interior (acting through the Commissioner of Reclamation)
shall continue to treat the irrigation pumping units known as
the ``Kinsey Irrigation Company'' in Custer County, Montana
and the ``Sidney Water Users Irrigation District'' in
Richland County, Montana, or any successor to the Kinsey
Irrigation Company or Sidney Water Users Irrigation District,
as irrigation pumping units of the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin
Program for the purposes of wheeling, administration, and
payment of project use power, including the applicability of
provisions relating to the treatment of costs beyond the
ability to pay under section 9 of the Act of December 22,
1944 (commonly known as the ``Flood Control Act of 1944'')
(58 Stat. 891, chapter 665).
(b) Limitation.--The quantity of power to be provided to
the Kinsey Irrigation Company and the Sidney Water Users
Irrigation District (including any successor to the Kinsey
Irrigation Company or the Sidney Water Users Irrigation
District) under subsection (a) may not exceed the maximum
quantity of power provided to the Kinsey Irrigation Company
and the Sidney Water Users Irrigation District under the
applicable contract for electric service in effect on the
date of enactment of this Act.
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