[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 158 (Thursday, September 29, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5905]
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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.
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