[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 22]
[House]
[Page 30429]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                AUTHORIZING CERTAIN REPAYMENT CONTRACTS

  Mr. POMBO. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on 
Resources be discharged from further consideration of the bill (H.R. 
4000) to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to revise certain 
repayment contracts with the Bostwick Irrigation District in Nebraska, 
the Kansas Bostwick Irrigation District No. 2, the Frenchman-Cambridge 
Irrigation District, and the Webster Irrigation District No. 4, all a 
part of the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, and for other purposes, 
and ask for its immediate consideration in the House.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from California?
  There was no objection.
  The Clerk read the bill, as follows:

                               H.R. 4000

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. BOSTWICK IRRIGATION DISTRICT IN NEBRASKA; 
                   REPAYMENTS EQUALIZED AND RESERVE FUNDS 
                   CONTRIBUTIONS EXTENDED.

        The Secretary of the Interior may revise the repayment 
     contract with the Bostwick Irrigation District in Nebraska 
     numbered 009D6B0121 and all amendatory contracts thereto, by 
     equalizing the annual total repayment obligation under the 
     contracts for the distribution works construction charge and 
     the water supply repayment obligation for the remaining years 
     of the contract relying upon the annual water supply 
     repayment obligation as of the date of the enactment of this 
     Act as the base for equalizing the annual total payments and 
     by extending the date for adjusting the annual deposits into 
     the distribution works reserve fund and the district water 
     supply reserve fund for an additional 10 years.

     SEC. 2. KANSAS BOSTWICK IRRIGATION DISTRICT NO. 2; REPAYMENTS 
                   EQUALIZED AND RESERVE FUNDS CONTRIBUTIONS 
                   EXTENDED.

        The Secretary of the Interior may revise the repayment 
     contract with the Kansas Bostwick Irrigation District No. 2 
     numbered 009D6B0120 and all amendatory contracts thereto, by 
     equalizing the annual total repayment obligation under the 
     contracts for the distribution works construction charge and 
     the water supply repayment obligation for the remaining years 
     of the contract relying upon the annual water supply 
     repayment obligation as of the date of the enactment of this 
     Act as the base for equalizing the annual total payments and 
     by extending the date for adjusting the annual deposits into 
     the distribution works reserve fund and the district water 
     supply reserve fund for an additional 10 years.

     SEC. 3. FRENCHMAN-CAMBRIDGE IRRIGATION DISTRICT; REPAYMENTS 
                   EQUALIZED AND RESERVE FUNDS CONTRIBUTIONS 
                   EXTENDED.

        The Secretary of the Interior may revise the repayment 
     contract with the Frenchman-Cambridge Irrigation District 
     numbered 009D6B0122 and all amendatory contracts thereto, by 
     equalizing the annual total repayment obligation under the 
     contracts for the distribution works construction charge and 
     the water supply repayment obligation for the remaining years 
     of the contract relying upon the annual water supply 
     repayment obligation as of the date of the enactment of this 
     Act as the base for equalizing the annual total payments and 
     by extending the date for adjusting the annual deposits into 
     the distribution works reserve fund and the district water 
     supply reserve fund for an additional 10 years.

     SEC. 4. WEBSTER IRRIGATION DISTRICT; REPAYMENTS EQUALIZED AND 
                   RESERVE FUNDS CONTRIBUTIONS EXTENDED.

        The Secretary of the Interior may revise the repayment 
     contract with the Webster Irrigation District numbered 
     039D6B0002 and all amendatory contracts thereto, by 
     equalizing the annual total repayment obligation under the 
     contracts for the distribution works construction charge and 
     the water supply repayment obligation for the remaining years 
     of the contract relying upon the annual water supply 
     repayment obligation as of the date of the enactment of this 
     Act as the base for equalizing the annual total payments and 
     by extending the date for adjusting the annual deposits into 
     the distribution works reserve fund and the district water 
     supply reserve fund for an additional 10 years.

  The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, was read 
the third time, and passed, and a motion to reconsider was laid on the 
table.

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