[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 158 (Thursday, September 29, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5905]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 6378. Ms. LUMMIS (for herself and Mr. Kelly) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. 
Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) and intended to be proposed to the 
bill H.R. 7900, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2023 for 
military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        At the end of subtitle F of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 1064. DIVERSION DAM AND PIPELINE, MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND 
                   COLUMBIA RIVER.

       Notwithstanding section 715(a) of the Water Resources 
     Development Act of 1986 (33 U.S.C. 2265(a)), the Secretary of 
     the Army, acting through the Assistant Secretary for Civil 
     Works, and the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the 
     Commissioner of Reclamation, shall carry out a technological 
     and feasibility study on the transfer of water to the 
     Colorado River Basin from--
       (1) the Columbia River Basin; and
       (2) the Mississippi River Basin, to prevent flood damage 
     along the Mississippi River and its tributaries.
                                 ______