[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 120 (Tuesday, June 30, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S4079]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  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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