[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 1558]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        SITES RESERVOIR PROJECT

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, as California enters what looks like its 
fourth year of a severe drought, we need to take action so that when we 
do finally get rain once again, we will be able to store it.
  Sites Reservoir is a project that has been talked about for many, 
many years in northern California that would store nearly 2 million 
acre-feet of water in its best possible configuration. So we need to 
take that action. A little bit later on in this session, we will be 
introducing legislation to authorize that.
  We also need help from the Bureau of Reclamation in putting the 
funding forward to finish the feasibility studies that are necessary to 
go from talk, from dream, to getting construction going and having the 
water reservoirs that we need for California to stave off drought in 
the future years.

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