[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 178 (Tuesday, December 3, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6785-S6786]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
COLORADO RIVER SALINITY CONTROL FIX ACT
Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry be discharged from
further consideration of S. 2514 and the Senate proceed to its
immediate consideration.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title.
The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:
A bill (S. 2514) to amend the Colorado River Basin Salinity
Control Act to modify certain requirements applicable to
salinity control units, and for other purposes.
There being no objection, the committee was discharged, and the
Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
Mr. SCHUMER. I ask unanimous consent that the bill be considered read
a third time.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading and was read
the third time.
Mr. SCHUMER. I know of no further debate on the bill.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. If there is no further debate, the bill having
been read the third time, the question is, Shall the bill pass?
The bill (S. 2514) was passed, as follows:
S. 2514
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Colorado River Salinity
Control Fix Act''.
SEC. 2. SALINITY CONTROL UNITS.
Section 205 of the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control
Act (43 U.S.C. 1595) is amended--
(1) by striking the section designation and all that
follows through ``(a) The Secretary'' and inserting the
following:
``SEC. 205. SALINITY CONTROL UNITS; AUTHORITY AND FUNCTIONS
OF THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR.
``(a) Allocation of Costs.--The Secretary'';
(2) by striking paragraph (1) and inserting the following:
``(1) Nonreimbursable costs; reimbursable costs.--
``(A) Nonreimbursable costs.--
``(i) In general.--In recognition of Federal responsibility
for the Colorado River as an interstate stream and for
international comity with Mexico, Federal ownership of the
land of the Colorado River Basin from which most of the
dissolved salts originate, and the policy established in the
Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.)
and except as provided in clause (ii), the following shall be
nonreimbursable:
``(I) 75 percent of the total costs of construction and
replacement of each unit or separable feature of a unit
authorized by section 202(a)(1), including 90 percent of--
``(aa) the costs of operation and maintenance of each unit
or separable feature of a unit authorized by that section;
and
``(bb) the total costs of construction, operation, and
maintenance of the associated measures to replace incidental
fish and wildlife values foregone.
``(II) 75 percent of the total costs of construction and
replacement of each unit or separable feature of a unit
authorized by section 202(a)(2), including 100 percent of--
``(aa) the costs of operation and maintenance of each unit
or separable feature of a unit authorized by that section;
and
``(bb) the total costs of construction, operation, and
maintenance of the associated measures to replace incidental
fish and wildlife values foregone.
``(III) 75 percent of the total costs of construction,
operation, maintenance, and replacement of each unit or
separable feature of a unit authorized by section 202(a)(3),
including 75 percent of the total costs of construction,
operation, and maintenance of the associated measures to
replace incidental fish and wildlife values foregone.
``(IV) 70 percent of the total costs of construction,
operation, maintenance, and replacement of each unit or
separable feature of a unit authorized by paragraphs (4) and
(6) of section 202(a), including 70 percent of the total
costs of construction, operation, and maintenance of the
associated measures to replace incidental fish and wildlife
values foregone.
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``(V) 70 percent of the total costs of construction and
replacement of each unit or separable feature of a unit
authorized by section 202(a)(5), including 100 percent of--
``(aa) the costs of operation and maintenance of each unit
or separable feature of a unit authorized by that section;
and
``(bb) the total costs of construction, operation, and
maintenance of the associated measures to replace incidental
fish and wildlife values foregone.
``(VI) 85 percent of the total costs of implementation of
the on-farm measures authorized by section 202(c), including
85 percent of the total costs of the associated measures to
replace incidental fish and wildlife values foregone.
``(ii) Special rule for nonreimbursable costs for fiscal
years 2024 and 2025.--Notwithstanding clause (i), for each of
fiscal years 2024 and 2025, the following shall be
nonreimbursable:
``(I) 75 percent of all costs described in clause (i)(I).
``(II) 75 percent of all costs described in clause (i)(II).
``(III) 70 percent of all costs described in clause (i)(V).
``(IV) The percentages of all costs described in subclauses
(III), (IV), and (VI) of clause (i).
``(B) Reimbursable costs.--The total costs remaining after
the allocations under clauses (i) and (ii) of subparagraph
(A) shall be reimbursable as provided for in paragraphs (2),
(3), (4), and (5).'';
(3) in subsection (b), by striking the subsection
designation and all that follows through ``Costs of
construction'' in paragraph (1) and inserting the following:
``(b) Costs Payable From Lower Colorado River Basin
Development Fund.--
``(1) In general.--Costs of construction'';
(4) in subsection (c), by striking ``(c) Costs of
construction'' and inserting the following:
``(c) Costs Payable From Upper Colorado River Basin Fund.--
Costs of construction''; and
(5) in subsection (e), by striking ``(e) The Secretary is''
and inserting the following:
``(e) Upward Adjustment of Rates for Electrical Energy.--
The Secretary is''.
Mr. SCHUMER. I ask unanimous consent that the motion to reconsider be
considered made and laid upon the table.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
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