[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 4515]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            SITES RESERVOIR

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, California is suffering from its worst 
drought in at least 35 years, maybe as much as 400 years; though 
lately, the Good Lord has sought to bless us with about 5 inches of 
rain on my farm and my neighborhood, we can't let that be a cause for 
inaction. Indeed, the Good Lord helps those who help themselves.
  It is time to build. It has been time to build, for a long time, the 
type of water storage that moves California ahead and supplies farms, 
cities, and environmental needs.
  We have this opportunity in a project that has long awaited our 
authorization, the Sites Reservoir in the western part of Colusa and 
Glenn Counties, a district that I used to represent in the State 
legislature and which my colleague, John Garamendi, now represents in 
Congress.
  We will soon be introducing a piece of legislation to move forward on 
the Sites Reservoir with an authorization for the funds needed to 
complete the studies and get started.
  Some may say: Well, it will take 7 or 10 years to get this done.
  Had we started 7 or 10 years ago, we would be right near completion; 
so we need to start today, and the people will thank us 7 or 10 years 
from now when we get this done. This will be introduced, hopefully, 
soon.

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