bill_id,congress,bill_type,bill_number,title,policy_area,introduced_date,latest_action_date,latest_action_text,origin_chamber,sponsor_name,sponsor_state,sponsor_party,sponsor_bioguide_id,cosponsor_count,summary_text,update_date,url
110-s-3645,110,s,3645,Magna Water District Water Reuse and Groundwater Recharge Act of 2008,Water Resources Development,2008-09-27,2008-09-27,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.,Senate,"Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]",UT,R,H000338,0,"Magna Water District Water Reuse and Groundwater Recharge Act of 2008 - Amends the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation with the Magna Water District, Utah, to participate in the design, planning, and construction of permanent facilities needed to establish recycled water distribution and wastewater treatment and reclamation facilities that will be used to provide recycled water in that District. Limits the federal share to 25% of the project's total cost.",2020-01-29T20:30:44Z,
110-hr-7169,110,hr,7169,"To amend Public Law 106-392 to extend the authorizations for the Upper Colorado and San Juan River Basin endangered fish recovery programs, and for other purposes.",Water Resources Development,2008-09-26,2008-10-06,Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.,House,"Rep. Udall, Tom [D-NM-3]",NM,D,U000039,6,"Extends the authorizations for the Upper Colorado and San Juan River Basin endangered fish recovery programs in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.Includes within the definition of: (1) "capital projects" rehabilitation and repair of facilities; and (2) "facilities" those for protection of critical habitat and for preventing entrainment of fish in water diversions.",2019-11-15T21:29:37Z,
110-s-3617,110,s,3617,Water Infrastructure Financing Act,Water Resources Development,2008-09-26,2008-09-26,Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1092.,Senate,"Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]",CA,D,B000711,0,"(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)Water Infrastructure Financing Act - Title I: Water Pollution Infrastructure - (Sec. 101) Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to make grants to qualified nonprofit technical assistance providers to: (1) assist owners and operators of small (serving not more than 10,000 individuals) and medium (serving more than 10,000 but fewer than 100,000 individuals) treatment works on wastewater and stormwater approaches to plan, develop, and obtain financing for eligible water pollution control revolving loan funds projects; (2) provide financial assistance to such owners and operators for predevelopment costs associated with stormwater or wastewater infrastructure projects or short-term costs incurred for equipment replacement that is not part of regular operation and maintenance activities for existing stormwater or wastewater systems if the amount of assistance for any single project does not exceed $50,000; (3) provide technical assistance and training for such owners and operators to enable such treatment works and systems to protect water quality and achieve and maintain compliance with such Act; and (4) disseminate information to such owners and operators with respect to planning, design, construction, and operation of treatment works, small municipal separate storm sewer systems, and decentralized wastewater treatment systems.Requires the Administrator to ensure that technical assistance is made available in each state.Sets forth reporting requirements for nonprofits that receive grants. Authorizes appropriations for FY2009-FY2013.Requires the Administrator to assist states in establishing simplified procedures for small systems to obtain assistance.(Sec. 102) Requires funds in each state water pollution control revolving loan fund (commonly known as the Clean Water State Revolving Fund or CWSRF) to be used only by a municipality, an intermunicipal, interstate, or state agency, or a private treatment works or decentralized wastewater system that principally treats municipal wastewater or domestic sewage: (1) to provide financial assistance for construction activities to control, manage, reduce, treat, infiltrate, or reuse municipal stormwater, the primary purpose of which is the protection, preservation, or enhancement of water quality to support public purposes; (2) to implement a nonpoint source management program; (3) to develop and implement a conservation and management plan under the national estuary program; (4) to increase the security of wastewater treatment works; (5) to implement water conservation or efficiency projects or water and wastewater reuse, reclamation, and recycling projects, the primary purpose of which is the protection, preservation, or enhancement of water quality to support public purposes; (6) to implement measures to integrate water resource management planning and implementation; and (7) for capital costs associated with monitoring equipment for combined or sanitary sewer overflows.(Sec. 103) Extends the terms of CWSRF loans to the lesser of 30 (currently, 20) years or the design life of the project. Requires loans to be amortized upon expiration of the term of the loan (currently, loans must be amortized no later than 20 years after project completion). Limits the amount of CWSRF funds that may be used to administer the CWSRF to no more than 6% (currently 4%) of all grant awards.Authorizes: (1) a state to provide additional assistance, including loan forgiveness and a negative interest rate on the loan, to disadvantaged communities; and (2) the Administrator to publish information to assist states in establishing affordability criteria. Authorizes states to forgive repayment of up to 5% of loans for the percentage of a project that treats or minimizes sewage or urban stormwater discharges using: (1) decentralized or distributed stormwater controls; (2) decentralized wastewater treatment; (3) low-impact development technologies and nonstructural approaches; (4) stream buffers; (5) wetland restoration and enhancement; (6) actions to minimize the quantity of and direct connections to impervious surfaces; (7) soil and vegetation or other permeable materials; and (8) actions that increase efficient water use, water conservation, or water reuse.(Sec. 104) Requires: (1) each state to establish a priority system for providing financial assistance from the CWSRF; and (2) such systems to give greater weights to applications that include specified factors.(Sec. 105) Authorizes state governors to transfer capitalization grants between revolving loan funds for water pollution control and safe drinking water treatment.(Sec. 106) Prohibits assistance from being provided to the owner or operator of a treatment works that has been in significant noncompliance with such Act for any four quarters during the preceding eight quarters, unless the treatment works is in compliance with an enforceable administrative order to effect compliance. Sets forth an exception to such a prohibition when the Administrator and the state determine that the enforcement entity has determined that the use of assistance would enable the owner or operator to take corrective action toward resolving the violations or would assist the owner or operator in making progress toward compliance.(Sec. 107) Sets forth provisions concerning negotiations of contracts that will be carried out with funds from a capitalization grant.(Sec. 108) Authorizes each state to reserve the greater of 2% or $100,000 from its fiscal year allotment for planning purposes.(Sec. 109) Extends through FY2012 the authorization of appropriations for CWSRF. Authorizes the Administrator to reserve no more than $1,000,000 for the fiscal year to pay the costs of conducting needs surveys.(Sec. 110) Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to states for grants to a municipality or a municipal entity for planning, design, and construction of treatment works to intercept, transport, control, or treat municipal combined sewer overflows and sanitary sewer overflows. Authorizes appropriations for such grants for FY2008-FY2012. Requires the Administrator for FY2010 and thereafter to provide grants to states in accordance with a formula that allocates to each state a proportional share of the appropriations based on its need for municipal combined sewer overflow controls.Requires the Administrator, no later than December 31, 2010, to report to Congress on recommended funding levels for grants to ensure the continued expeditious implementation of municipal combined sewer overflow and sanitary sewer overflow controls nationwide.(Sec. 111) Revises provisions concerning state eligibility for capitalization grant agreements.(Sec. 112) Directs the Administrator to establish a grant program for watershed restoration through the protection or improvement of water quality. Authorizes a watershed restoration project to include a project that is in a state's intended use plan. Sets forth provisions concerning cost-sharing requirements.Authorizes appropriations for FY2008-FY2012.Title II: Safe Drinking Water Infrastructure - (Sec. 201) Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Administrator to develop, implement, and report to Congress on an implementation plan for contaminant prevention, detection, and response. Extends through FY2012 funding for such activities.(Sec. 202) Establishes a priority system for providing assistance to enable small public water systems to achieve and maintain compliance with national primary drinking water regulation.Requires the Administrator to give grants to nonprofit organizations to provide technical assistance to communities and individuals regarding the design, operation, construction, and maintenance of household wells and small shared well-systems that provide drinking water.Expands the list of projects eligible for state drinking water treatment revolving loan funds (commonly known as the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund or DWSRF) to include training and education, operation of a hotline, and other activities relating to the design and construction of household, shared, and small water well systems in rural areas. Authorizes funding for FY2009-FY2013 for such wells. Extends through FY2013 the authorization of appropriations for drinking water technical assistance for communities.(Sec. 203) Requires the Administrator to ensure that each laborer and mechanic employed by a contractor or subcontractor of a construction project financed by a grant, loan, loan guarantee, refinancing, or other form of financial assistance provided under the Safe Drinking Water Act is paid the prevailing wage.(Sec. 204) Authorizes the DWSRF to be used by a public water system for expenditures for: (1) planning, design, and associated preconstruction activities, including expenditures for siting of the facility; and (2) replacing or rehabilitating aging treatment, storage, or distribution facilities of public water systems or providing for capital projects to upgrade system security.Authorizes funds to be used by a public water system to increase security at such system, as a source of revenue (restricted solely to interest earnings of the applicable state loan fund), or as security for payment of the principal and interest on revenue or general obligation bonds issued by the state to provide matching funds if the proceeds of the sale of the bonds will be deposited in the state loan fund.(Sec. 205) Requires an intended use plan to provide that priority for the use of funds shall be given to projects that: (1) address the most serious risk to human health; (2) are necessary to ensure compliance with drinking water infrastructure requirements; and (3) assist systems most in need on a per-household basis.(Sec. 206) Expands the definition of a "disadvantaged community" to include a portion of a service area of a public water system that meets affordability criteria.(Sec. 207) Revises provisions concerning the cost of administering the DWSRF.(Sec. 208) Authorizes funding for implementation of source water protection plans. Limits such funding to no more than 15% of the amount of the capitalization grant received by a state.(Sec. 209) Extends through FY2012 funding for the DWSRF.(Sec. 210) Sets forth provisions concerning negotiations of contracts to be carried out with funds from a capitalization grant.(Sec. 211) Directs the Administrator to establish a grant program to assist community water systems in meeting the requirements of the Safe Drinking Water Act. Provides for project selection under such grant program. Authorizes appropriations for FY2008-FY2012.(Sec. 212) Requires the galvanic effects from replacing lead service lines in the District of Columbia to be addressed prior to replacement. Authorizes appropriations for such replacement in the District of Columbia for FY2008-FY2012. Authorizes a specified amount of such funds to be allocated for line replacement grants to provide assistance to low-income residents to replace the privately-owned portion of lead service lines.Title III: Miscellaneous -- (Sec. 302) Requires the Administrator to establish a grant program to research and develop the use of innovative and alternative technologies to improve water quality or drinking water supply. Authorizes the Administrator to select projects relating to such matters as innovative or alternative technologies, approaches, practices, or methods to: (1) increase the effectiveness and efficiency of water and wastewater infrastructure through the use of integrated water resource management; (2) increase the effectiveness and efficiency of public water systems, municipal separate storm sewer systems, and combined sewer systems; (3) encourage the use of innovative or alternative technologies or approaches relating to water supply or availability; (4) increase the effectiveness and efficiency of new and existing treatment works; (5) promote new water treatment technologies and management approaches; or (6) maintain a clearinghouse of technologies and management approaches developed at a research consortium or institute. Requires the Administrator to publish a report on the findings of each grant recipient with respect to the identification of any potential new technologies or management approaches developed. Requires the Administrator to establish a nationwide demonstration grant program to: (1) promote such innovations in technology and alternative approaches to water quality management or water supply; and (2) reduce costs to municipalities incurred in complying with the Clean Water Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act through such approaches and technologies. Sets forth provisions concerning the selection of municipalities for participation in such grant program.Requires the Administrator to report biannually to the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on the status and results of the grant programs.Authorizes appropriations for FY2008-FY2012.(Sec. 303) Requires the Administrator to provide capitalization grants to states for agricultural pollution control technology revolving funds. Sets forth eligibility requirements. Authorizes appropriations.(Sec. 304) Requires the Administrator to identify ways to improve the state revolving fund review process.(Sec. 305) Requires the Administrator to enter into an arrangement with the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for a study of the means by which public water systems and treatment works meet the costs associated with operations, maintenance, capital replacement, and regulatory requirements. Sets forth required elements. Requires the Administrator to submit the study to Congress, report on the results of the study, and make the results available for use by publicly owned treatment works and public water systems in determining whether new approaches may be implemented. Authorizes appropriations for FY2008-FY2009.(Sec. 306) Requires the Administrator to enter into an arrangement with NAS for a study on innovative, effective, and systematic approaches for the management of water supply, wastewater, and stormwater in urban areas and surrounding communities in the United States and other countries. Authorizes appropriations for FY2009-FY2012.(Sec. 307) Reduces amounts authorized to be appropriated under this Act by 2%.",2022-02-03T05:08:58Z,
110-s-3622,110,s,3622,Great Lakes Conservation Education Act,Water Resources Development,2008-09-26,2008-09-26,"Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9686)",Senate,"Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]",IL,D,D000563,2,"Great Lakes Conservation Education Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to: (1) award grants to educational or nonprofit nongovernmental entities to conduct activities in states adjacent to a Great Lake to increase knowledge about, raise awareness of, or provide education regarding the importance of conservation of the Great Lakes; and (2) require grant recipients to submit reports on their activities under the grant program.",2022-02-03T05:09:49Z,
110-s-3550,110,s,3550,"An original bill to designate a portion of the Rappahannock River in the Commonwealth of Virginia as the ""John W. Warner Rapids"".",Water Resources Development,2008-09-24,2008-10-14,Became Public Law No: 110-418.,Senate,"Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]",CA,D,B000711,0,"(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Designates a portion of the Rappahannock River comprised of the manmade rapids located at the site of the former Embrey Dam in Fredericksburg, Virginia, as the John W. Warner Rapids.",2023-11-13T20:13:24Z,
110-hr-6997,110,hr,6997,National Water Research and Development Initiative Act of 2008,Water Resources Development,2008-09-23,2008-09-24,Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1874-1875),House,"Rep. Gordon, Bart [D-TN-6]",TN,D,G000309,0,"National Water Research and Development Initiative Act of 2008 - Directs the President to implement a National Water Research and Development Initiative to improve the federal government's role in designing and implementing federal water research, development, demonstration, data collection and dissemination, education, and technology transfer activities to address changes in U.S. water use, supply, and demand.Directs the President to establish or designate an interagency committee to implement the Initiative, which shall: (1) develop a National Water Research and Assessment Plan; (2) coordinate all water-related federal research, development, demonstration, data collection and dissemination, education, and technology transfer activities; (3) ensure cooperation among federal agencies; and (4) facilitate technology transfer, communication, and opportunities for information exchange with various parties through a National Water Initiative Coordination Office (to be established by the President to provide technical and administrative support to the committee).Requires the Plan to: (1) establish priorities for federal water research; (2) identify each current program and activity related to the Initiative; (3) identify funding levels; (4) set forth a strategy and timeline to achieve specified desired outcomes, including implementation of a National Water Census; (5) address suggestions and incorporate public input received; and (6) be submitted to Congress within one year of enactment.Directs the President to: (1) provide guidance to each federal agency participating in the Initiative regarding the preparation of requests for appropriations for activities related to the Plan; and (2) submit, concurrent with the annual budget submission to Congress, a report that describes Initiative activities and results during the previous fiscal year and outlines objectives for the next fiscal year.",2019-11-15T21:42:03Z,
110-hr-7023,110,hr,7023,"To redesignate the third powerhouse facility administered by the Bureau of Reclamation and located at Grand Coulee Dam in Grand Coulee, Washington, as the ""John W. Keys, III Powerplant"", and for other purposes.",Water Resources Development,2008-09-23,2008-09-29,Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.,House,"Rep. McMorris Rodgers, Cathy [R-WA-5]",WA,R,M001159,5,"Designates the third powerhouse facility administered by the Bureau of Reclamation and located at Grand Coulee Dam in Grand Coulee, Washington, as the ""John W. Keys, III Powerplant."",2019-11-15T21:29:38Z,
110-hr-7031,110,hr,7031,"To designate a portion of the Rappahannock River in the State of Virginia as the ""John W. Warner Rapids"".",Water Resources Development,2008-09-23,2008-09-23,Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.,House,"Rep. Wittman, Robert J. [R-VA-1]",VA,R,W000804,10,"Designates a portion of the Rappahannock River comprised of the manmade rapids located at the site of the former Embry Dam in Fredericksburg, Virginia, as the John W. Warner Rapids.",2022-02-03T05:18:15Z,
110-hr-6992,110,hr,6992,Reclamation Title Transfer Act of 2008,Water Resources Development,2008-09-22,2008-09-25,Subcommittee Hearings Held.,House,"Rep. McMorris Rodgers, Cathy [R-WA-5]",WA,R,M001159,7,"Reclamation Title Transfer Act of 2008 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish a program to: (1) identify and analyze the potential for public benefits from the transfer out of federal ownership of eligible reclamation projects or facilities; and (2) facilitate such transfer to promote more efficient management of water and water-related facilities.Authorizes the Secretary to convey title in any such facility to a qualifying entity (including an agency of a state or local government or Indian tribe, a municipal corporation, or another entity such as a water district), provided that: (1) the Secretary retains any associated mineral interests; (2) water interests are conveyed by written agreement; and (3) interests in eligible facilities are conveyed by an agreement developed in consultation with the facility's existing power customers.Requires the Secretary to: (1) complete all actions required under all applicable laws (including environmental and historic preservation laws) before conveying land and facilities; and (2) establish criteria for determining whether facilities are eligible for title transfer, including requirements that a qualifying entity agrees to accept title to the property and that the proposed title transfer will not have an unmitigated significant effect on the environment.Shields the United States from liability for any act, omission, or occurrence based on its prior ownership or operation of the conveyed property. Requires a recipient entity to comply with all applicable laws and regulations in its operation of conveyed property.",2019-11-15T21:29:38Z,
110-hr-6940,110,hr,6940,California Drought Alleviation Act of 2008,Water Resources Development,2008-09-18,2008-09-23,"Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Oceans.",House,"Rep. Radanovich, George [R-CA-19]",CA,R,R000004,7,"California Drought Alleviation Act of 2008 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior: (1) within 30 days after the declaration of a drought emergency by the governor of California, to make a written determination as to the existence of a drought emergency for Central Valley Project and State Water Project service areas; and (2) upon determining such an emergency exists, to temporarily exempt operations of the C.W. "Bill" Jones and Harvey O. Banks Pumping Plants from prohibitions under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA) against taking endangered or threatened species or adversely modifying critical habitat until drought emergency conditions are alleviated. Authorizes the Secretary to include in any such determination reasonable and prudent measures for the protection of an endangered species or its critical habitat.Authorizes the Secretary to enter into a cooperative agreement with California to support the establishment of a fish hatchery program to preserve and restore the species Hypomesus transpacificus (Delta Smelt) in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Requires the program to be designed to establish a sustainable population sufficient to warrant the species' removal from lists published under ESA and the State of California Endangered Species Act. Deems Hypomesus transpacificus maintained, cultured, introduced, or reintroduced to be members of any subspecies or population segment listed under ESA for purposes of determining whether such subspecies or population segment is a threatened or endangered species.",2019-11-15T21:29:37Z,
110-s-3500,110,s,3500,Water Infrastructure Financing Act,Water Resources Development,2008-09-16,2008-09-16,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]",NJ,D,L000123,3,"Water Infrastructure Financing Act - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to: (1) authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish a competitive grant program to provide technical assistance to small and medium treatment works on wastewater and stormwater approaches; (2) expand the list of projects eligible for state water pollution control revolving loan fund (commonly known as the Clean Water State Revolving Fund or CWSRF) assistance; (3) provide assistance, including loan forgiveness, for disadvantaged communities; (4) allow states to forgive repayment of a portion of a loan for alternative approaches to wastewater and stormwater controls; (5) establish a priority system for providing financial assistance from the CWSRF; (6) allow a transfer of capitalization grants between revolving loan funds for water pollution control and safe drinking water treatment; (7) extend through FY2012 the authorization of appropriations for CWSRF; and (8) revise provisions concerning sewer overflow control grants, including by extending the authorization of appropriations for such grants through FY2012.Directs the Administrator to establish a grant program for watershed restoration through the protection or improvement of water quality.Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to: (1) require the Administrator to develop an implementation plan for contaminant prevention, detection, and response and extend funding for such activities through FY2012; (2) establish a priority system for providing assistance to enable small public water systems to achieve and maintain compliance with national primary drinking water regulation; (3) require the Administrator to give grants to provide technical assistance for the design, operation, construction, and maintenance of household wells and small shared well-systems that provide drinking water; (4) expand the list of projects eligible for state drinking water treatment revolving loan funds (commonly known as the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund or DWSRF); and (5) extend the authorization of appropriations for the DWSRF through FY2012.Directs the Administrator to: (1) establish a grant program to assist community water systems in meeting the requirements of the Safe Drinking Water Act; (2) authorize appropriations for lead service line replacement in the District of Columbia; (3) establish a grant program to research and develop the use of innovative and alternative technologies to improve water quality or drinking water supply; (4) establish a nationwide demonstration grant program for water quality enhancement and management; (5) provide capitalization grants to states for agricultural pollution control technology revolving funds; (6) identify ways to improve the state revolving fund review process; and (7) enter into an arrangements with the National Academy of Sciences for a cost of service study of public water systems and treatment works and a study on the management of water supply, wastewater, and stormwater in urban areas and surrounding communities.",2022-02-03T05:08:58Z,
110-s-3482,110,s,3482,"A bill to designate a portion of the Rappahannock River in the Commonwealth of Virginia as the ""John W. Warner Rapids"".",Water Resources Development,2008-09-11,2008-09-11,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Lieberman, Joseph I. [ID-CT]",CT,ID,L000304,1,"Designates a portion of the Rappahannock River comprised of the manmade rapids located at the site of the former Embrey Dam in Fredericksburg, Virginia, as the John W. Warner Rapids.",2017-12-15T00:39:27Z,
110-hr-6814,110,hr,6814,"To affirm that exports and diversions of water from the Great Lakes may only be approved if such exports and diversions are in the public interest, to provide for enforcement, and for other purposes.",Water Resources Development,2008-08-01,2008-08-04,Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.,House,"Rep. Kucinich, Dennis J. [D-OH-10]",OH,D,K000336,0,"Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 to authorize enforcement through a civil suit of the prohibition against the diversion or export of Great Lakes water by a state, federal agency, or private entity for use outside the Great Lakes basin unless such diversion or export is approved by the governor of each of the Great Lakes states.Allows such a civil suit to be filed by the federal government, a state or local government, or by any person or organization whose property or other legally recognized interest will be adversely affected. Makes the proper venue for such a civil suit the federal judicial district with jurisdiction over any portion of the Great Lakes Basin and from which the diversion or export of water will occur or has occurred.",2020-02-14T19:15:35Z,
110-hr-6825,110,hr,6825,"To direct the Secretary of the Interior to assess the irrigation infrastructure of the Pine River Indian Irrigation Project in the State of Colorado, and for other purposes.",Water Resources Development,2008-08-01,2008-08-06,Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.,House,"Rep. Salazar, John T. [D-CO-3]",CO,D,S001158,0,"Directs the Secretary of the Interior to study the irrigation infrastructure of the Pine River Indian Irrigation Project, Colorado, and develop a list of improvements to repair, rehabilitate, or reconstruct the Project over a 10-year period.Requires the Secretary to prioritize improvements based on: (1) recommendations of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe; (2) cost-benefit analyses; (3) the ability of the Project's users to irrigate agricultural land using the Project's irrigation infrastructure; (4) the effect on water conservation; (5) the cultural benefits that the improvements would have on the Tribe; and (6) the opportunity to address water supply or environmental conflicts.Authorizes the Secretary to provide grants to, and enter into cooperative agreements with, the Tribe in order to repair, rehabilitate, reconstruct, or replace the Project's irrigation infrastructure. Prohibits such a grant or agreement from being used for the repair, rehabilitation, or reconstruction of any major impoundment structure or for on-farm improvements.Requires the Secretary, in carrying out a grant or cooperative agreement, to: (1) consult with the Tribe and the Director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and obtain the Tribe's approval; and (2) coordinate the project with any work being conducted under the BIA's irrigation operations and maintenance program. Authorizes the Secretary to require the Tribe to provide nonfederal funds to match not less than 25% of the total amount of a grant or agreement.",2019-11-15T21:28:23Z,
110-s-3415,110,s,3415,Dry-Redwater Regional Water Authority System Act of 2008,Water Resources Development,2008-07-31,2008-07-31,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.,Senate,"Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]",MT,D,B000243,1,"Dry-Redwater Regional Water Authority System Act of 2008 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to enter into a cooperative agreement to provide federal assistance for the planning, design, and construction of the Dry-Redwater Regional Water Authority System for specified counties in Montana and North Dakota.Lists agreement requirements. Limits the federal share of planning, design, and construction of the System to 75% of the total cost. Delineates the components of System facilities for which federal funds may be expended and the System's service area. Limits the obligation of funds for construction. Provides that any cost relating to the System's operation, maintenance, or replacement shall not be a federal responsibility and shall be paid by the System.Directs the Administrator of the Western Area Power Administration to make available to the System a quantity of power required to meet the System's pumping and incidental operation requirements from the water intake facilities and through the water treatment facilities and all first water distribution pumping facilities. Makes the System eligible to receive power only if it operates on a nonprofit basis and is constructed pursuant to the agreement. Directs the Authority to develop a water conservation plan containing a description of water conservation objectives and measures and a schedule for carrying out such measures. Requires the plan to be designed to ensure that users of water provided by the System will use the best practical technology and management techniques to conserve water.",2020-01-29T20:30:07Z,
110-hr-6679,110,hr,6679,"To amend the Water Resources Development Act of 2007 to provide for reimbursement for costs incurred by the non-Federal interest in the flood control project in San Antonio, Texas, and for other purposes.",Water Resources Development,2008-07-30,2008-07-31,Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.,House,"Rep. Rodriguez, Ciro D. [D-TX-23]",TX,D,R000568,2,"Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 2007 to provide for reimbursement for costs incurred by the non-federal interest exceeding the non-federal share of the costs of the flood control project in San Antonio, Texas.Requires: (1) the Secretary of the Army to accept funds provided by the non-federal interest to carry out project planning, engineering, design, and construction; and (2) the federal share of planning, engineering, design, and construction carried out with non-federal contributions to be credited against the non-federal share of the project's cost.",2020-02-14T19:15:34Z,
110-hres-1374,110,hres,1374,Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Grand Coulee Dam and recognizing its critical role in the national and economic security of the United States and the contributions of hydroelectric power to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.,Water Resources Development,2008-07-24,2008-09-22,Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.,House,"Rep. McMorris Rodgers, Cathy [R-WA-5]",WA,R,M001159,8,(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Commemorates the 75th anniversary of the Grand Coulee Dam and recognizes the critical role it continues to pay in the national and economic security of the United States by providing vital electric power and crop irrigation.,2022-02-03T05:18:15Z,
110-hr-6577,110,hr,6577,Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact,Water Resources Development,2008-07-23,2008-09-22,"Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 560.",House,"Rep. Oberstar, James L. [D-MN-8]",MN,D,O000006,47,"(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Grants congressional consent to and approval of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact entered into between the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, and Wisconsin, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act.",2022-02-03T05:38:16Z,
110-sjres-45,110,sjres,45,Great Lakes--St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact,Water Resources Development,2008-07-23,2008-10-03,Became Public Law No: 110-342.,Senate,"Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]",MI,D,L000261,15,"(This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the Senate on August 1, 2008. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Grants congressional consent to and approval of the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact as set forth in this resolution's preamble. Declares that current laws provide protection sufficient to prevent Great Lakes diversions until a Great Lakes water compact is ratified and enforceable.Reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal this resolution.",2023-11-13T20:11:47Z,
110-hr-6550,110,hr,6550,To amend the Water Resources Development Act of 1996 to make modifications to the Chesapeake Bay environmental restoration and protection program.,Water Resources Development,2008-07-17,2008-07-18,Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.,House,"Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3]",MD,D,S001168,20,"Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1996 to eliminate the pilot program status of the Chesapeake Bay environmental restoration and protection program. Permits the nonfederal share of project costs of a local cooperation agreement to include in-kind services. Treats funds provided for a project by a federal agency other than the Corps of Engineers as nonfederal funds for purposes of cost sharing requirements. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to carry out projects under the program in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, with the goal of carrying out projects in Delaware, New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia (currently the Secretary is required to establish at least one project in each of Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania). Directs the Secretary to establish a program, to be administered by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, to provide small watershed grants for technical and financial assistance to local governments and nonprofit organizations in the Chesapeake Bay region. Permits the use of grant funds only for implementation of cooperative tributary basin and other Chesapeake Bay-wide strategies that address storm water management or the establishment, restoration, protection, or enhancement of natural habitat associated with the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem. Increases the authorization of appropriations for the Cheasapeake Bay program. Directs the Secretary to develop at federal expense and submit to Congress a comprehensive plan to prioritize projects within the Chesapeake Bay watershed.",2021-04-20T15:23:00Z,
110-hr-6502,110,hr,6502,Arkansas Valley Conduit Act of 2008,Water Resources Development,2008-07-15,2008-07-17,Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.,House,"Rep. Salazar, John T. [D-CO-3]",CO,D,S001158,2,"Arkansas Valley Conduit Act of 2008 - Provides for the payment of 35% of the cost of the Arkansas Valley Conduit, Colorado, by the Secretary of the Interior. Requires revenue derived from contracts for the use of Fryingpan-Arkansas project excess capacity or exchange contracts using project facilities to be credited towards payment of the actual cost of Ruedi Dam and Reservoir, the Fountain Valley Pipeline, and the South Outlet Works at Pueblo Dam and Reservoir, until the date on which the payments for the Conduit begin, and then towards payment of the actual cost of the Conduit. Allows the concurrent crediting of revenue, with interest, towards payment of the Conduit. Requires any rates charged for water for municipal, domestic, or industrial use or for the use of facilities for the storage or delivery of water to be adjusted to reflect the estimated revenue derived from contracts for the use of Fryingpan-Arkansas project excess capacity or exchange contracts using project facilities.Authorizes appropriations for the construction of the Conduit. Prohibits such sums from being used for its operation or maintenance.",2019-11-15T21:28:24Z,
110-s-3189,110,s,3189,Endangered Fish Recovery Programs Improvement Act of 2008,Water Resources Development,2008-06-25,2008-09-16,Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1005.,Senate,"Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]",NM,D,B000468,2,Endangered Fish Recovery Programs Improvement Act of 2008 - Amends federal law providing funding to continue endangered fish recovery implementation programs for the Upper Colorado and San Juan River Basins by: (1) modifying the definition of "capital projects" to include rehabilitation and repair of facilities; (2) modifying the definition of "facilities" to include facilities for protection of critical habitat and for preventing entrainment of fish in water diversions; (3) increasing funding; and (4) extending the authorization period to fund recovery programs.,2020-01-29T20:30:46Z,
110-s-3172,110,s,3172,"A bill to provide conditions for funds made available for certain projects located in the State of Louisiana, and for other purposes.",Water Resources Development,2008-06-19,2008-06-19,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]",LA,R,V000127,0,"Sets forth non-federal cost allocation, non-federal share repayment, and expenditure requirements to reach the Corps of Engineers designated 100-year level of protection for the Lake Pontchartrain and Vicinity project, the West Bank and Vicinity project, and elements of the Southeast Louisiana Urban Drainage project located within such projects.",2017-12-15T00:29:20Z,
110-hr-6294,110,hr,6294,"To provide for a comprehensive study by the National Research Council of the National Academies to assess the water management, needs, and conservation of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River System.",Water Resources Development,2008-06-18,2008-06-19,Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.,House,"Rep. Boyd, Allen [D-FL-2]",FL,D,B000716,10,"Directs the Secretary of the Army to enter into an agreement with the National Research Council of the National Academies to conduct a comprehensive study of the water management, needs, and conservation of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River System. Requires that the study include: (1) a summary of the existing body of scientific knowledge on the ecology, hydrology, geomorphology, and biogeochemistry of the Apalachicola River and the greater River System, the ecosystem services provided by that River, the impact of variation in freshwater flow on the ecology of the river and downstream coastal ecosystems, and how to restore the natural hydraulic function of the System; (2) assessments of models that serve as the basis for the master manuals of the System, of water availability, supply options, demand-management alternatives, and socioeconomic factors that influence uses in the System, and of policies, regulations, and other factors that affect federal water project operations; and (3) recommendations for an approach to determine water limits that recognize the needs of all water users along the System and for additional measures to address the long-term watershed management needs of the System.",2020-02-14T19:15:35Z,
110-hr-6297,110,hr,6297,Climate Change Drinking Water Adaptation Research Act,Water Resources Development,2008-06-18,2008-07-14,Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.,House,"Rep. DeGette, Diana [D-CO-1]",CO,D,D000197,5,"Climate Change Drinking Water Adaptation Research Act - Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish and provide funding for a program of directed and applied research, to be conducted through a nonprofit water research foundation and sponsored by drinking water utilities, to assist suppliers of drinking water in adapting to the effects of climate change.Requires research areas to include: (1) water quality and quantity impacts and solutions; (2) impacts on groundwater supplies from carbon sequestration; (3) infrastructure impacts and solutions; (4) desalination, water reuse, and alternative supply technologies; (5) energy efficiency and greenhouse gas minimization; (6) regional and hydrological basin cooperative water management solutions; (7) utilities management, decision support systems, and water management models; (8) greenhouse gas emissions reduction and energy demand management; (9) water conservation and demand management; and (10) communications, education, and public acceptance.",2019-11-15T21:41:44Z,
110-s-3152,110,s,3152,"A bill to provide for a comprehensive study by the National Research Council of the National Academies to assess the water management, needs, and conservation of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River System.",Water Resources Development,2008-06-18,2008-06-18,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5760-5761),Senate,"Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]",FL,D,N000032,1,"Directs the Secretary of the Army to enter into an agreement with the National Research Council of the National Academies to conduct a comprehensive study of the water management, needs, and conservation of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River System. Requires that the study include: (1) a summary of the existing body of scientific knowledge on the ecology, hydrology, geomorphology, and biogeochemistry of the Apalachicola River and the greater River System, the ecosystem services provided by that River, the impact of variation in freshwater flow on the ecology of the river and downstream coastal ecosystems, and how to restore the natural hydraulic function of the System; (2) assessments of models that serve as the basis for the master manuals of the System, of water availability, supply options, demand-management alternatives, and socioeconomic factors that influence uses in the System, and of policies, regulations, and other factors that affect federal water project operations; and (3) recommendations for an approach to determine water limits that recognize the needs of all water users along the System and for additional measures to address the long-term watershed management needs of the System.",2017-12-15T00:28:53Z,
110-s-3085,110,s,3085,Cooperative Watershed Management Act of 2008,Water Resources Development,2008-06-05,2008-09-16,Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 999.,Senate,"Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT]",MT,D,T000464,3,"Cooperative Watershed Management Act of 2008 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish a Cooperative Watershed Management Program, under which the Secretary shall provide grants to form or enlarge a watershed group or to conduct water management projects in accordance with the goals of such a group. Defines a "watershed group" as a self-sustaining, cooperative watershed-wide group that: (1) is comprised of representatives of the affected stakeholders of the relevant watershed; (2) is a grassroots, nonregulatory entity that addresses water availability and quality issues within the relevant watershed; (3) is capable of promoting the sustainable use of the water resources of the relevant watershed and improving the functioning condition of rivers and streams through water conservation, improved water quality, ecological resiliency, and the reduction of water conflicts; and (4) makes decisions on a consensus basis. Requires a watershed group to include: (1) representatives of hydroelectric production, livestock grazing, timber production, land development, recreation or tourism, irrigated agricultural production, the environment, potable water purveyors and industrial water users, and private property owners within the watershed; (2) any federal, state, or local agency agency that has authority regarding the watershed; and (3) any Indian tribe member who owns land within the watershed or land held in trust.Authorizes the Secretary, in distributing grant funds, to give priority to watershed groups that represent maximum diversity of interest or serve subbasin-sized watersheds with an eight-digit hydrologic unit code. Sets forth usage and progress requirements for, procedures for awarding, and federal shares of the costs of first-, second-, and third-phase grants.Requires: (1) annual reports by watershed groups to the Secretary on progress; and (2) reports every five years by the Secretary to specified congressional committees on Program benefits and effectiveness. Authorizes appropriations for FY2008-FY2020.",2020-01-29T20:30:47Z,
110-hr-6031,110,hr,6031,Eradicating Asian Carp in the Great Lakes Study Act of 2007,Water Resources Development,2008-05-13,2008-05-15,"Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Oceans.",House,"Rep. Kirk, Mark Steven [R-IL-10]",IL,R,K000360,1,"Eradicating Asian Carp in the Great Lakes Study Act of 2007 [sic]- Requires the Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to study and report to Congress on methods for eradicating Asian carp from the Illinois Waterway System, including harvesting them from the Illinois River, and repopulating the River with native species.",2019-11-15T21:28:11Z,
110-hr-6040,110,hr,6040,To amend the Water Resources Development Act of 2007 to clarify the authority of the Secretary of the Army to provide reimbursement for travel expenses incurred by members of the Committee on Levee Safety.,Water Resources Development,2008-05-13,2008-07-15,Became Public Law No: 110-274.,House,"Rep. Mica, John L. [R-FL-7]",FL,R,M000689,1,"(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 2007 to condition reimbursement for travel expenses incurred by members of the Committee on Levee Safety on the availability of appropriations (currently, on amounts being made available in advance in appropriations Acts).",2023-11-13T20:30:10Z,
110-hr-6024,110,hr,6024,Rio Grande Pueblos Irrigation Infrastructure Improvement Act,Water Resources Development,2008-05-12,2008-05-19,Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.,House,"Rep. Udall, Tom [D-NM-3]",NM,D,U000039,3,"Rio Grande Pueblos Irrigation Infrastructure Improvement Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Commissioner of Reclamation, to: (1) conduct a study of irrigation infrastructure for 18 Rio Grande Pueblos in New Mexico; and (2) develop a list of projects recommended to be implemented over a 10-year period to repair, rehabilitate, or reconstruct such infrastructure. Directs the Secretary: (1) in developing that list, to prioritize the projects recommended for implementation based on consideration of specified factors, including the extent of disrepair, economic and cultural impacts, and overall benefits of the project to efficient water operations; and (2) to notify each Rio Grande Pueblo in writing, inviting the Pueblo to consult with the Secretary regarding the study if it notifies the Secretary in writing of such intent within three months after receiving notice.Authorizes the Secretary (subject to specified limitations) to provide grants to the Pueblos to plan, design, construct, or otherwise implement recommended projects to repair, rehabilitate, reconstruct, or replace Pueblo irrigation infrastructure to: (1) increase water use efficiency and agricultural productivity for the benefit of a Pueblo; (2) conserve water; or (3) otherwise enhance water management or help avert water supply conflicts in the Rio Grande Basin.Sets the federal share of the project's cost at 75%, with an exception based on financial hardship. Provides that nothing in this Act shall affect existing project-specific authority, U.S. responsibilities to any such Pueblo, Pueblo water rights, state water law, or an interstate compact governing water.",2019-11-15T21:28:11Z,
110-hr-6017,110,hr,6017,"To ameliorate the effects of harmful algal blooms in the Great Lakes by reducing phosphorus inputs, and for other purposes.",Water Resources Development,2008-05-08,2008-05-20,"Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Oceans.",House,"Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]",MI,D,S001045,2,"Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop and submit to Congress a regional response plan to address and mitigate harmful algal blooms in the Great Lakes that includes: (1) an analysis of the scientific data about the causes of such blooms; (2) proposed solutions to address and mitigate such blooms, an analysis of the technological and economic feasibility of such solutions, and an estimate of the cost of implementing them; (3) an analysis of the ability of secondary treatment by wastewater treatment facilities to reduce the amount of phosphorus and nitrogen being discharged into the Great Lakes; (4) an evaluation of the relevant water quality standards promulgated by each of the Great Lakes states; and (5) suggested revisions to such standards if they are not adequate to reduce the incidence and severity of such blooms. Requires the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to declare as a banned hazardous substance under the Federal Hazardous Substances Act any cleaning product that contains greater than 0.5% phosphorus by volume and is intended for use in individual households.",2021-06-07T20:03:25Z,
110-s-2970,110,s,2970,Climate Change Drinking Water Adaptation Research Act,Water Resources Development,2008-05-02,2008-09-24,Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1058.,Senate,"Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]",NV,D,R000146,2,"(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)Climate Change Drinking Water Adaptation Research Act - Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish and provide funding for a program of directed and applied research, to be conducted through a nonprofit water research foundation and sponsored by drinking water utilities, to assist suppliers of drinking water in adapting to the effects of climate change.Requires research areas to include: (1) water quality and quantity impacts and solutions; (2) impacts on groundwater supplies from carbon sequestration; (3) infrastructure impacts and solutions; (4) desalination, water reuse, and alternative supply technologies; (5) energy efficiency and greenhouse gas minimization; (6) regional and hydrological basin cooperative water management solutions; (7) utilities management, decision support systems, and water management models; (8) greenhouse gas emissions reduction and energy demand management; (9) water conservation and demand management; and (10) communications, education, and public acceptance.Authorizes appropriations.",2022-02-03T05:09:03Z,
110-s-2974,110,s,2974,Arkansas Valley Conduit Act of 2008,Water Resources Development,2008-05-02,2008-09-16,Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 991.,Senate,"Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]",CO,R,A000109,1,"Arkansas Valley Conduit Act of 2008 - Conditions the construction by the Secretary of the Interior of the Arkansas Valley Conduit, Colorado, on a contract providing for the payment within a specified period of 35% of the Conduit's cost that is comprised of revenue generated by payments pursuant to a repayment contract and revenue that may be derived from contracts for the use of Fryingpan-Arkansas project excess capacity or exchange contracts using project facilities.Requires revenue derived from contracts for the use of Fryingpan-Arkansas project excess capacity or exchange contracts using project facilities to be credited towards payment of the actual cost of Ruedi Dam and Reservoir, the Fountain Valley Pipeline, and the South Outlet Works at Pueblo Dam and Reservoir until the date on which the payments for the Conduit begin, and then towards payment of the actual cost of the Conduit. Provides that nothing in federal reclamation law prohibits the concurrent crediting of revenue towards payment of the Conduit.Requires any project rates charged for water for municipal, domestic, or industrial use or for the use of facilities for the storage or delivery of water to be adjusted to reflect the estimated revenue derived from contracts for the use of project excess capacity or exchange contracts using project facilities.Authorizes appropriations for the construction of the Conduit. Prohibits such sums from being used for its operation or maintenance.",2020-01-29T20:30:46Z,
110-hr-5770,110,hr,5770,To provide for a study by the National Academy of Sciences of potential impacts of climate change on water resources and water quality.,Water Resources Development,2008-04-10,2008-06-04,"Reported by the Committee on Transportation. H. Rept. 110-685, Part I.",House,"Rep. Hall, John J. [D-NY-19]",NY,D,H001039,9,"(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.) Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to arrange for the National Academy of Sciences to prepare a two-part study of potential impacts of climate change on water resources and water quality, addressing issues of: (1) hydrology and water quality (including the potential for impacts to wetlands, shoreline erosion, and saltwater intrusion as a result of sea level rise, as well as significant regional variation in precipitation events from historic patterns); and (2) policy considerations (including an identification of the scientific consensus, assumptions, and uncertainties related to predictions of climate change in the United States and of steps to assess emerging information and identify appropriate response actions, and an assessment of the extent to which federal and state efforts under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and other ocean and coastal laws may be affected by climate change). Requires the Administrator to report the results of the study to specified congressional committees. Authorizes appropriations.",2022-02-03T05:20:27Z,
110-s-2842,110,s,2842,Aging Water Infrastructure and Maintenance Act,Water Resources Development,2008-04-10,2008-09-16,Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 988.,Senate,"Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]",NV,D,R000146,3,"Aging Water Infrastructure and Maintenance Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Commissioner of Reclamation, to: (1) develop specific inspection guidelines for project facilities which are in proximity to urbanized areas and which could pose a risk to public safety or property damage if such facilities were to fail; and (2) inspect those facilities within three years. Defines a ""project facility"" as any part or incidental feature of a project constructed under federal reclamation law, excluding high- and significant-hazard dams. Requires the Secretary, in selecting facilities to inspect, to take into account the potential magnitude of public safety and economic damage posed by each facility.  Requires the Secretary to use the data collected to: (1) provide recommendations to the transferred works operating entities (organizations contractually responsible for operation and maintenance of project facilities which are carried out by a nonfederal entity, under the provisions of a formal transfer contract) for improvement of operation and maintenance processes, operating procedures, and structural modifications to those transferred works; (2) determine an appropriate inspection frequency for such non-dam project facilities, which shall not exceed six years; and (3) provide information regarding potential hazards posed by residential, commercial, industrial, or public-use development adjacent to project facilities upon request of such operating entities, local governments, or state agencies. Authorizes the Secretary, at the request of such an operating entity in proximity to an urbanized area, to provide technical assistance to develop for a facility: (1) documented operating procedures; (2) documented emergency notification and response procedures; (3) facility inspection criteria; (4) a training program on operation and maintenance requirements and practices; (5) a public outreach plan on the operation and associated risks; and (6) other plans or documentation that will contribute to public safety and the facility's safe operation. (Sec. 4) Authorizes the Secretary or the operating entity to carry out any extraordinary operation and maintenance work (defined as major, nonrecurring maintenance to reclamation-owned or operated facilities or facility components that is intended to ensure the continued safe, dependable, and reliable delivery of authorized project benefits and the cost of which is greater than 10% of the contractor's or the entity's annual operation and maintenance budget for the facility or $100,000) on a project facility that the Secretary determines to be reasonably required to preserve the structural safety of the facility. Requires the costs incurred by the Secretary in conducting reserved works (any project facility for which the Secretary carries out operation and maintenance) to be allocated to the authorized reimbursable purposes of the project and to be repaid within 50 years with interest from the year in which work undertaken pursuant to this Act is substantially complete. Authorizes the Secretary, for transferred works, to advance the costs incurred by the entity in conducting extraordinary operation and maintenance work and to negotiate appropriate 50-year repayment contracts with project beneficiaries providing for the return of reimbursable costs with interest, but provides that no contract entered into under this Act shall be deemed a new or amended contract. Sets forth the formula for determining the interest rate used for computing interest on work in progress and on the unpaid balance of the reimbursable costs of authorized extraordinary operation and maintenance work. Directs the Secretary or the operating entity to carry out any emergency extraordinary operation and maintenance work on a project facility that the Secretary determines to be necessary to minimize the risk of imminent harm to public health or safety or property. Authorizes the Secretary to advance funds for such work and requires the Secretary to seek reimbursement from the benefiting entity.  Authorizes the Secretary, upon determining that a project facility requires extraordinary operation and maintenance, to provide federal funds on a nonreimbursable basis sufficient to cover 35% of the entity's cost to minimize the risk of imminent harm, with the remaining share of federal funds advanced by the Secretary for such work repaid under this section. (Sec. 5) Provides that nothing in this Act shall preclude an entity from applying and receiving a loan-guarantee pursuant to the Twenty-First Century Water Works Act. (Sec. 6) Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 7) Directs the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) identify no more than three projects as eligible for federal loan guarantees, including at least one project involving extraordinary operation and maintenance work; (2) complete the Interagency Coordination and Cooperation actions of the Twenty-First Century Act; and (3) make available to lenders federal loan guarantees equal to the full cost of projects identified in this section. Requires the loan guarantee subsidy cost to be the greater of 2% or the subsidy determined by the Secretary of Agriculture for covering the federal cost of guaranteeing loans to lenders financing water projects under the Department of Agricultural Rural Development authorities. Authorizes appropriations.",2020-01-29T20:30:46Z,
110-s-2832,110,s,2832,"A bill to authorize the International Boundary and Water Commission to reimburse State and local governments for expenses incurred by such governments in designing, constructing, and rehabilitating the Lower Rio Grande Valley Flood Control Project.",Water Resources Development,2008-04-09,2008-04-09,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.,Senate,"Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]",TX,R,C001056,0,"Authorizes the International Boundary and Water Commission to reimburse state and local governments for expenses incurred in designing, constructing, and rehabilitating the Lower Rio Grande Valley Flood Control Project.",2019-11-15T21:52:02Z,
110-hr-5710,110,hr,5710,Eastern New Mexico Rural Water System Authorization Act,Water Resources Development,2008-04-03,2008-06-20,Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 826.,House,"Rep. Udall, Tom [D-NM-3]",NM,D,U000039,2,"(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the House reported version is repeated here.)Eastern New Mexico Rural Water System Authorization Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to provide financial and technical assistance to the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water Authority to assist in planning, designing, conducting preconstruction activities for, and constructing the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water System. Limits the federal share of the cost of any activity to 75%. Provides that the total cost of the System shall include any costs incurred by the Authority or the state of New Mexico on or after October 1, 2003, for System development. Makes the Authority responsible for annual operation, maintenance, and replacement costs. Directs the Authority to develop an operation, maintenance, and replacement plan that establishes rates and fees necessary to ensure that the System is properly maintained and capable of delivering approximately 16,500 acre-feet of water per year. Prohibits the use of funds under this Act until such plan is developed and the Secretary and the Authority have complied with applicable requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.Directs the Secretary to: (1) enter into a cooperative agreement with the Authority to provide financial and any other assistance requested by the Authority for planning, design, related preconstruction activities, and construction of the System; and (2) consult with the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission and the Authority in preparing any required biological assessment under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. Authorizes the Secretary, at the Authority's request, to provide technical assistance.Authorizes appropriations.",2022-02-03T05:20:13Z,
110-s-2814,110,s,2814,Eastern New Mexico Rural Water System Authorization Act,Water Resources Development,2008-04-03,2008-06-16,Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 805.,Senate,"Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]",NM,D,B000468,1,"(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)Eastern New Mexico Rural Water System Authorization Act - (Sec. 3) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to provide financial and technical assistance to the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water Authority to assist in planning, designing, conducting preconstruction activities for, and constructing the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water System. Limits the federal share of the cost of any activity to 75%. Provides that the total cost of the System shall include any costs incurred by the Authority or the state of New Mexico on or after October 1, 2003, for System development.(Sec. 4) Makes the Authority responsible for annual operation, maintenance, and replacement costs. Directs the Authority to develop an operation, maintenance, and replacement plan that establishes rates and fees necessary to ensure that the System is properly maintained and capable of delivering approximately 16,500 acre-feet of water per year. Prohibits the use of funds under this Act until such plan is developed and until the Secretary and the Authority have complied with applicable requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. (Sec. 5) Directs the Secretary to: (1) enter into a cooperative agreement to provide financial and any other assistance requested by the Authority for planning, design, related preconstruction activities, and construction of the System, subject to specified requirements; and (2) consult with the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission and the Authority in preparing any required biological assessment under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. Authorizes the Secretary, at the Authority's request, to provide technical assistance in planning, designing, constructing, and operating the System.(Sec. 6) Authorizes appropriations. Requires: (1) the amount made available to be adjusted to reflect changes in construction costs occurring after January 1, 2007, as indicated by engineering cost indices applicable to the types of construction necessary to carry out this Act; (2) amounts made available to the Authority in accordance with the cost-sharing requirement to be nonreimbursable and nonreturnable to the United States; and (3) any unexpended appropriated funds to be retained for use in future fiscal years consistent with this Act.",2022-02-03T05:20:13Z,
110-s-2805,110,s,2805,Rio Grande Pueblos Irrigation Infrastructure Improvement Act,Water Resources Development,2008-04-02,2008-09-16,Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 987.,Senate,"Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]",NM,D,B000468,0,"Rio Grande Pueblos Irrigation Infrastructure Improvement Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Commissioner of Reclamation, to: (1) conduct a study of irrigation infrastructure for 18 Rio Grande Pueblos in New Mexico; and (2) develop a list of projects recommended to be implemented over a 10-year period to repair, rehabilitate, or reconstruct such infrastructure. Requires the Secretary to carry out such activity with the consent of each individual Pueblo that notifies the Secretary of the intention to participate in the study and development of the list with respect to the Pueblo. Directs the Secretary, in developing that list, to: (1) consider specified factors, including the extent of disrepair, economic and cultural impacts, and overall benefits of the project to efficient water operations; and (2) prioritize the recommended projects based on a review of each of the factors and a consideration of the projected benefits. Sets forth reporting requirements. Authorizes the Secretary (subject to specified limitations) to provide grants to and enter into contracts or other agreements with the Pueblos to plan, design, construct, or otherwise implement recommended projects to repair, rehabilitate, reconstruct, or replace Pueblo irrigation infrastructure to: (1) increase water use efficiency and agricultural productivity for the benefit of a Pueblo; (2) conserve water; or (3) otherwise enhance water management or help avert water supply conflicts in the Rio Grande Basin. Prohibits the use of funds for the repair, rehabilitation, or reconstruction of any major impoundment structure or for any on-farm improvements. Sets the federal share of the project's cost at 75%, with an exception based on financial hardship. Authorizes the Secretary to accept a partial or total contribution from: (1) the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District toward the nonfederal share required for a project carried out on land located in any of the Six Middle Rio Grande Pueblos if the Secretary determines that the project is a special project; and (2) the state toward the nonfederal share for a project carried out under this Act. Provides that nothing in this Act shall affect existing project-specific authority, U.S. responsibilities to any such Pueblo, Pueblo water rights, state water law, or an interstate compact governing water. Authorizes appropriations for the study, including for irrigation infrastructure grants for each of FY2010-FY2019.",2020-01-29T20:30:46Z,
110-hr-5587,110,hr,5587,To direct the Secretary of the Army to conduct a comprehensive study of long-term water management in the southeastern United States.,Water Resources Development,2008-03-11,2008-03-12,Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.,House,"Rep. Lewis, John [D-GA-5]",GA,D,L000287,4,"Directs the Secretary of the Army to: (1) conduct a comprehensive study of long-term water management in the southeastern United States, especially in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River basin, the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa River basin, and the Savannah River basin, to develop recommendations to address current and future water needs; and (2) assemble an inventory of actions taken or planned to address long-term watershed management needs in that area.",2020-02-14T19:15:32Z,
110-hr-5589,110,hr,5589,"To modify the project for navigation, Atchafalaya River and Bayous Chene, Boeuf, and Black, Louisiana, to include an additional area, and for other purposes.",Water Resources Development,2008-03-11,2008-03-12,Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.,House,"Rep. Melancon, Charlie [D-LA-3]",LA,D,M001161,0,"Modifies the project for navigation, Atchafalaya River and Bayous Chene, Boeuf, and Black, Louisiana, to authorize the Secretary of the Army to: (1) include as part of the project the portion of the Lower Atchafalaya River known as the Crewboat Cut; and (2) carry out projects for bank stabilization on the eastern shore of Crewboat Cut to prevent erosion from wave action and scouring.",2020-02-14T19:15:32Z,
110-s-2740,110,s,2740,"A bill to modify the project area for the project for navigation, Atchafalaya River, Bayous Chene, Bouef, and Black, Louisiana.",Water Resources Development,2008-03-11,2008-03-11,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]",LA,D,L000550,0,"Authorizes the Chief of Engineers to: (1) include in the project area for the project for navigation, Atchafalaya River and Bayous Chene, Boeuf, and Black, Louisiana, the portion of the Lower Atchafalaya River known as the Crewboat Cut; and (2) carry out projects for bank stabilization on the eastern shore of Crewboat Cut to prevent erosion from wave action and scouring.",2017-12-14T23:59:53Z,
110-s-2728,110,s,2728,Twenty-First Century Water Commission Act of 2008,Water Resources Development,2008-03-06,2008-08-22,Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 941.,Senate,"Sen. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA]",GA,R,I000055,1,"Twenty-First Century Water Commission Act of 2008 - Establishes the Twenty-First Century Water Commission to: (1) project future water supply and demand; (2) study current water management programs of federal, interstate, state, and local agencies and private sector entities directed at increasing water supplies and improving the availability, reliability, and quality of freshwater resources; and (3) consult with representatives of such agencies and entities to develop recommendations for a comprehensive water strategy. Requires that such strategy: (1) identify incentives intended to ensure an adequate and dependable water supply to meet U.S. needs for the next 50 years; (2) consider all available technologies and other methods to optimize water supply reliability, availability, and quality, while safeguarding the environment; (3) recommend means of capturing excess water and flood water for conservation and use in the event of a drought; (4) suggest financing options; (5) suggest strategies to conserve existing water supplies, including recommendations for repairing aging infrastructure and promoting efficiency and conservation; and (6) include other objectives related to the effective management of the water supply to ensure reliability, availability, and quality.Requires the Commission to submit interim and final reports to the President and to specified congressional committees. Terminates the Commission within 30 days after transmitting a final report. Authorizes appropriations.",2022-02-03T05:09:23Z,
110-hr-5511,110,hr,5511,Leadville Mine Drainage Tunnel Remediation Act of 2008,Water Resources Development,2008-02-28,2008-06-20,Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.,House,"Rep. Lamborn, Doug [R-CO-5]",CO,R,L000564,3,"Leadville Mine Drainage Tunnel Remediation Act of 2008 - Amends the Reclamation Projects Authorization and Adjustment Act of 1992 to repeal a provision requiring construction of a water treatment plant to treat effluent discharged from the Leadville Mine Drainage Tunnel, Colorado. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the implementation of the operable unit 6 remedy for the California Gulch Superfund Site, as defined in the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) 2003 Record of Decision for such unit, by: (1) treating water behind any blockage or bulkhead in the Tunnel; and (2) managing and maintaining the mine pool behind such blockage or bulkhead at a level that precludes surface runoff and releases and minimizes the potential for Tunnel failure due to excessive water pressure.Requires the Secretary to take necessary steps to repair or maintain the Tunnel's structural integrity to prevent Tunnel failure and to preclude uncontrolled release of water from the Tunnel.",2022-02-03T05:20:13Z,
110-s-2680,110,s,2680,Leadville Mine Drainage Tunnel Environmental Improvement Act of 2008,Water Resources Development,2008-02-28,2008-04-24,Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-494.,Senate,"Sen. Salazar, Ken [D-CO]",CO,D,S001163,0,"Leadville Mine Drainage Tunnel Environmental Improvement Act of 2008 - Amends the Reclamation Projects Authorization and Adjustment Act of 1992 to repeal provisions requiring construction of a water treatment plant to treat effluent discharged from the Leadville Mine Drainage Tunnel, Colorado, and authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to investigate water pollution sources and impacts attributed to development in the Upper Arkansas River basin, develop corrective action plans, and implement corrective action demonstration projects. Requires the Secretary to operate and maintain the Tunnel in a manner that protects human health and the environment.Directs the Secretary, in cooperation with the state of Colorado, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and other federal agencies, to: (1) investigate the Tunnel, groundwater and surface water affected by any blockage of the Tunnel, and the upper Arkansas River Watershed (study area); and (2) submit to the state, the Administrator, and Congress annual reports on how any blockages in the Tunnel affect water quality and aquatic life in the study area.Requires the Secretary, in conjunction with the Administrator, to take actions to: (1) reduce the water level in the mine pool associated with the Tunnel to prevent the risk of a catastrophic rupture and flood; and (2) maintain the water level in the mine pool at a safe level and prevent further mine pool migration.Directs the Secretary, in conjunction with the Administrator and the state, to implement those portions of the remedy selected by the Administrator, dated September 2003, for the California Gulch Superfund Site that pertain to managing the Tunnel and related mine pool.",2020-01-29T20:29:59Z,
110-hr-5469,110,hr,5469,To provide grants for the revitalization of waterfront brownfields.,Water Resources Development,2008-02-14,2008-02-15,Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.,House,"Rep. Slaughter, Louise McIntosh [D-NY-28]",NY,D,S000480,39,"Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to require the President to establish a grant program for the revitalization of waterfront brownfield sites. Authorizes such grants to be used for reuse planning, site characterization and assessment, or remediation at waterfront brownfields sites, including the integration of activities related to the design and implementation of water quality improvements, low impact development approaches, green infrastructure, remediation and management of sediments, or flood damage prevention associated with brownfields remediation and reuse. Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to provide training, research, and technical assistance to individuals and organizations to facilitate waterfront brownfields revitalization. Authorizes funding for brownfields revitalization for FY2008-FY2012. Requires the Administrator to establish and serve as chairperson of a task force on waterfront brownfields revitalization that shall identify: (1) funding and technical assistance resources; (2) barriers to and solutions for revitalization; and (3) methods to coordinate interagency efforts.",2023-01-11T13:15:44Z,
110-hr-4928,110,hr,4928,Fountain Creek Watershed Feasibility Study Act of 2007,Water Resources Development,2007-12-19,2007-12-20,Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.,House,"Rep. Udall, Mark [D-CO-2]",CO,D,U000038,1,"Fountain Creek Watershed Feasibility Study Act of 2007 - Directs the Chief of Engineers to complete a study to determine the feasibility of constructing a multipurpose water resources project that shall: (1) be located in the Fountain Creek watershed, Colorado; (2) consist of one or more dams or other structures, other facilities, or management activities or one or more other reservoirs that are to be located on- or off-channel of the watershed; and (3) be designed, with respect to the area located in the watershed and the Arkansas River Valley and any residential or commercial activity therein, to provide more reliable flood control and better sediment control, to increase the water supply, to improve water quality, and to conserve fish and wildlife and preserve the ecosystem located close to the project.Requires the Chief to: (1) take into consideration the Supplemental Report on Fountain Reservoir and Reevaluation of Report on Review Survey for Flood Control and Allied Purposes, Arkansas River and Tributaries Above John Martin Dam, Colorado, dated May 15, 1970, and the Fountain Creek Watershed Study prepared by the Corps of Engineers; and (2) conduct the study independently from the Fountain Creek watershed, the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project, or the proposed Southern Delivery System Project.",2023-01-11T13:15:27Z,
110-hr-4504,110,hr,4504,"To authorize the International Boundary and Water Commission to reimburse State and local governments of the States of Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas for expenses incurred by such a government in designing, constructing, and rehabilitating water projects under the jurisdiction of such Commission.",Water Resources Development,2007-12-12,2007-12-13,Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.,House,"Rep. Hinojosa, Ruben [D-TX-15]",TX,D,H000636,7,"Authorizes the International Boundary and Water Commission to reimburse state and local governments in Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas for expenses incurred in designing, constructing, and rehabilitating Commission water projects.",2023-01-11T13:15:38Z,
110-hr-4333,110,hr,4333,To direct the Secretary of the Interior to allow for prepayment of repayment contracts between the United States and the Uintah Water Conservancy District.,Water Resources Development,2007-12-06,2007-12-10,Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.,House,"Rep. Matheson, Jim [D-UT-2]",UT,D,M001142,0,Directs the Secretary of the Interior to allow for prepayment of a specified contract between the United States and the Uintah Water Conservancy District providing for repayment of municipal and industrial water delivery facilities under terms and conditions similar to those used in implementing provisions of the Central Utah Project Completion Act. Provides that the prepayment: (1) may be provided in several installments to reflect substantial completion of the delivery facilities being prepaid; (2) shall be adjusted to conform to a final cost allocation; and (3) may not be adjusted on the basis of the type of prepayment financing utilized by the District.,2023-01-11T13:14:59Z,
110-s-2384,110,s,2384,Fountain Creek Watershed Feasibility Study Act of 2007,Water Resources Development,2007-11-16,2007-11-16,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Salazar, Ken [D-CO]",CO,D,S001163,1,"Fountain Creek Watershed Feasibility Study Act of 2007 - Directs the Chief of Engineers to complete a study to determine the feasibility of constructing a multipurpose project that shall: (1) be located in the Fountain Creek watershed, Colorado; (2) consist of one or more dams or other structures, other facilities, or management activities or one or more other reservoirs that are to be located on- or off-channel of the watershed; and (3) with respect to the area located in the watershed and the Arkansas River Valley and any residential or commercial activity therein, be designed to provide more reliable flood control and better sediment control, to increase the water supply, to improve water quality, and to conserve fish and wildlife and preserve the ecosystem located close to the project.Requires the Chief to: (1) take into consideration the Supplemental Report on Fountain Reservoir and Reevaluation of Report on Review Survey for Flood Control and Allied Purposes, Arkansas River and Tributaries Above John Martin Dam, Colorado, dated May 15, 1970, and the Fountain Creek Watershed Study prepared by the Corps of Engineers; and (2) conduct the study independently from the Fountain Creek watershed, the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project, or the proposed Southern Delivery System Project.",2023-01-11T14:50:56Z,
110-hr-4074,110,hr,4074,San Joaquin River Restoration Settlement Act,Water Resources Development,2007-11-05,2008-05-13,"Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 395.",House,"Rep. Costa, Jim [D-CA-20]",CA,D,C001059,5,"(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)Title I: The San Joaquin River Restoration Settlement Act - (Sec. 101) San Joaquin River Restoration Settlement Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior (the Secretary), in cooperation with the state of California, to implement the Stipulation of Settlement dated September 13, 2006, in Natural Resources Defense Council, et al. v. Kirk Rodgers, et al., United States District Court, Eastern District of California. Directs the Secretary to: (1) enter into agreements with California to facilitate or expedite Settlement implementation; and (2) identify impacts and measures to mitigate impacts on adjacent and downstream water users and landowners. Provides that Settlement implementation and the reintroduction of Chinook salmon shall not result in the involuntary reduction in contract water allocations to Central Valley Project long-term contractors apart from Friant Division contractors.(Sec. 105) Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) purchase property needed to implement the Settlement from willing sellers; and (2) dispose of such property and deposit proceeds into the San Joaquin River Restoration Fund.(Sec. 107) Declares that the Settlement satisfies and discharges the Secretary's obligations under the Reclamation Projects Authorization and Adjustment Act of 1992.(Sec. 109) Requires the costs of implementing the Settlement to be covered by payments or in kind contributions made by Friant Division contractors and other non-federal parties, with specified costs shared by California. Directs the Secretary to enter into agreements with California to fund or implement improvements on a project-by-project basis.(Sec. 110) Directs the Secretary to convert specified long-term contracts to provide for the repayment of construction costs.(Sec. 111) Provides for the reintroduction of Chinook salmon into the San Joaquin River, contingent upon the Secretary of Commerce finding that a permit for such reintroduction may be issued under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. (Sec. 112) Directs the Secretary to establish a conservation of resources fee for non-producing federal oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico, revenues from which shall be treated as offsetting receipts.Title II: Study to Develop Water Plan; Report - (Sec. 201) Directs the Secretary: (1) acting through the Bureau of Reclamation, to provide direct financial assistance to the California Water Institute to study coordination and integration of sub-regional integrated regional water management plans into a unified Integrated Regional Water Management Plan; and (2) to ensure that a report containing the results of the Plan is submitted to specified congressional committees within 24 months after financial assistance is made available to the Institute. Authorizes appropriations.",2023-01-11T20:16:32Z,
110-hr-4028,110,hr,4028,To reauthorize the Mni Wiconi Rural Water Supply Project.,Water Resources Development,2007-10-31,2007-11-05,Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.,House,"Rep. Herseth Sandlin, Stephanie [D-SD-At Large]",SD,D,H001037,0,"Amends the Mni Wiconi Project Act of 1988 to authorize appropriations for the Mni Wiconi Rural Water Supply Project, South Dakota, through 2013.",2023-01-11T20:22:33Z,
110-s-2269,110,s,2269,A bill to reauthorize the Mni Wiconi Rural Water Supply Project.,Water Resources Development,2007-10-31,2007-10-31,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.,Senate,"Sen. Johnson, Tim [D-SD]",SD,D,J000177,1,"Amends the Mni Wiconi Project Act of 1988 to authorize appropriations for the Mni Wiconi Rural Water Supply Project, South Dakota, through 2013.",2023-01-11T20:19:30Z,
110-s-2259,110,s,2259,Santa Ana River Water Supply Enhancement Act of 2007,Water Resources Development,2007-10-30,2008-04-08,Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-460.,Senate,"Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]",CA,D,F000062,0,"Santa Ana River Water Supply Enhancement Act of 2007 - Amends the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation with: (1) the Orange County Water District (the District), to participate in the design, planning, and construction of natural treatment systems and wetlands for the flows of the Santa Ana River, California, and its tributaries into the Prado Basin; and (2) the Chino Basin Watermaster, the Inland Empire Utilities Agency, and the Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority, to participate in the design, planning, and construction of the Lower Chino Dairy Area desalination demonstration and reclamation project. Limits the federal share of total project costs. Prohibits using funds provided by the Secretary for operation and maintenance of the projects.  Directs the Secretary to establish at the District a center to provide: (1) assistance in the development and advancement of membrane technologies; and (2) educational support in the advancement of public understanding and acceptance of membrane produced water supplies. Terminates the Secretary's authority to carry out this Act after 10 years.",2023-01-11T20:19:35Z,
110-s-2238,110,s,2238,Dam Rehabilitation and Repair Act of 2007,Water Resources Development,2007-10-25,2007-10-25,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]",HI,D,A000069,11,Dam Rehabilitation and Repair Act of 2007 - Amends the National Dam Safety Program Act to require the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to establish a program to provide grant assistance to states for use in rehabilitating publicly-owned dams that fail to meet minimum safety standards and pose an unacceptable risk to the public (deficient dams). Sets forth provisions regarding procedures for grant awards and fund allocation. Requires: (1) a state receiving a grant under this Act to comply with requirements applicable to contributions of federal funds under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act; and (2) FEMA to develop a risk-based priority system for identifying deficient dams for which such grants may be made. Limits the federal share of rehabilitation costs to 65%.  Prohibits funds from being used to: (1) rehabilitate a federal dam; (2) perform routine operation or maintenance; (3) modify a dam to produce hydroelectric power; (4) increase water supply storage capacity; or (5) make any other modification that does not also improve safety. Conditions the receipt of grants by states upon compliance with specified requirements regarding contracts for architectural and engineering services. Provides that such contracts shall not be considered to confer a proprietary interest upon the United States.,2023-01-11T20:19:46Z,
110-hr-3957,110,hr,3957,Water Use Efficiency and Conservation Research Act,Water Resources Development,2007-10-24,2008-07-31,Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,House,"Rep. Matheson, Jim [D-UT-2]",UT,D,M001142,2,"Water Use Efficiency and Conservation Research Act - Requires the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Assistant Administrator for Research and Development to establish a research and development program to promote water use efficiency and conservation, including: (1) technologies and processes that enable the collection, storage, treatment, and reuse of rainwater, stormwater, and greywater; (2) water storage and distribution systems; and (3) behavioral, social, and economic barriers to achieving greater water use efficiency.Requires the Assistant Administrator to coordinate the development of a strategic research plan for the water use efficiency and conservation research and development program established by this Act with all other EPA research and development strategic plans.Requires the Assistant Administrator to: (1) facilitate the adoption of technology and processes to promote water use efficiency and conservation; and (2) collect and disseminate information on technologies and processes to promote water use efficiency and conservation, including information on incentives and impediments to development and commercialization, best practices, and anticipated increases in water use efficiency and conservation resulting from the implementation of specific technologies and processes.Requires at least four projects under which funding is provided for the incorporation into a building (at least one residential and one commercial building) of the latest water use efficiency and conservation technologies and designs.Requires biennial reports to Congress on research and development projects initiated under this Act, outreach and communication activities concerning water use efficiency and conservation, and development and implementation of the strategic research plan.Directs the EPA Administrator to enter into an arrangement with the National Academy of Sciences for completion of a study of "low impact" (mimicking predevelopment hydrology) and "soft path" (using natural capacities of ecosystems) strategies for management of water supply, wastewater, and stormwater.Authorizes appropriations.",2023-01-11T20:23:14Z,
110-hr-3830,110,hr,3830,Fisheries Restoration and Irrigation Mitigation Act of 2007,Water Resources Development,2007-10-15,2007-10-17,Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.,House,"Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]",OR,D,D000191,5,"Fisheries Restoration and Irrigation Mitigation Act of 2007 - Amends the Fisheries Restoration and Irrigation Mitigation Act of 2000 to direct the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, to give priority to any project that has a total cost of less than $2.5 million (currently, $5 million). Authorizes the Secretary, without further appropriation and without fiscal year limitation, to accept any amounts provided to the Secretary by the Administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration. Requires: (1) any amounts provided by the Bonneville Power Administration directly or through a grant to another entity for a project carried out under the Program to be credited toward the non-federal share of project costs; and (2) the Secretary's report on projects under such Act to be made after partnering with local governmental entities and the states in the Pacific Ocean drainage area (Oregon, Washington, Montana, and Idaho). Authorizes appropriations for the Act through FY2014. Sets forth limits and requirements on the amount that may be used each fiscal year for federal and state administrative expenses of carrying out this Act.",2023-01-11T20:24:03Z,
110-hr-3768,110,hr,3768,San Joaquin River Settlement Water Management Goal Implementation Act,Water Resources Development,2007-10-04,2007-10-11,Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.,House,"Rep. Nunes, Devin [R-CA-21]",CA,R,N000181,4,"San Joaquin River Settlement Water Management Goal Implementation Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, through the Bureau of Reclamation, to: (1) prepare feasibility studies for the design, planning, and construction of all projects and programs that are included in the Friant Water Users Authority document titled ""San Joaquin River Restoration Program: Water Management Goal-Recirculation, Recapture of Restoration Flows and Mitigation of Water Supply Reductions""; and (2) carry out any projects and programs determined to be feasible pursuant to any such completed study.",2023-01-11T20:24:26Z,
110-s-2156,110,s,2156,SECURE Water Act,Water Resources Development,2007-10-04,2008-09-16,Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 979.,Senate,"Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]",NM,D,B000468,5,"Science and Engineering to Comprehensively Understand and Responsibly Enhance Water Act or the SECURE Water Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior (the Secretary), acting through the Commissioner of Reclamation, to establish a climate change adaptation program to: (1) assess each effect of, and risk resulting from, global climate change regarding the quantity of water resources located in specified areas encompassing a watershed that contains a federally authorized reclamation project (service areas); and (2) ensure that strategies are developed to address potential water shortages, conflicts, and other impacts to water users and the environment of each service area.  Directs the Secretary to: (1) consult with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the regional integrated sciences and assessments program established by the Administrator of NOAA, and each appropriate state water resource agency to ensure that the Secretary has access to the best available scientific information regarding presently observed and projected future impacts of climate change on water resources; (2) assess specific risks to the water supply of each major reclamation river basin; (3) analyze the extent to which changes in U.S. water supply will impact the Secretary's ability to deliver water to contractors, hydroelectric power generation facilities, recreation at reclamation facilities, fish and wildlife habitat, applicable species listed as endangered, threatened, or candidate species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA), water quality issues, flow and water dependent ecological resiliency, and flood control management; and (4) consider and develop strategies to mitigate each impact analyzed.  Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to develop a monitoring plan to acquire and maintain water resources data to strengthen the understanding of water supply trends and to assist in each assessment and analysis. Sets forth reporting requirements. Authorizes the Secretary, in cooperation with any nonfederal participant, to conduct studies to determine the feasibility and impact on ecological resiliency of implementing each mitigation and adaptation strategy. Sets the federal share of study costs at 50%, with a financial hardship exception. Authorizes appropriations for FY2009-FY2023. (Sec. 5) Authorizes the Secretary to provide grants to, or enter agreements with, eligible applicants to assist in planning, designing, or constructing improvements to: (1) conserve water; (2) increase water use efficiency; (3) facilitate water markets; (4) enhance water management, including increasing the use of renewable energy in water management and delivery; (5) accelerate the adoption and use of advanced water treatment technologies to increase water supply; (6) prevent the decline of species that the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service have proposed for listing under ESA; (7) accelerate the recovery of threatened species, endangered species, and designated critical habitats that are adversely affected by federal reclamation projects or are subject to a recovery plan or conservation plan under ESA under which the Commissioner has implementation responsibilities; and (8) carry out any other activity to address any climate-related impact to the water supply that increases ecological resiliency to the impacts of climate change or to prevent any water-related crisis or conflict at any watershed that has a nexus to a federal reclamation project located in a service area. Sets forth eligibility requirements. Prohibits the Secretary from providing a grant or entering into an agreement for an improvement to conserve irrigation water unless the applicant agrees not to use any associated water savings to increase total irrigated acreage or to otherwise increase the consumptive use of water. Provides that if a grant or other agreement is for an infrastructure improvement to a federally owned facility, the government shall continue to hold title to the facility. Limits the federal share of the cost of any infrastructure improvement or activity under a grant or other agreement entered into between the Secretary and an eligible applicant to 50%. Provides that in calculating the nonfederal share of the cost, the Secretary shall: (1) consider the value of any in-kind services that substantially contribute toward the completion of the improvement or activity; and (2) not consider any other amount that the eligible applicant receives from a federal agency. Limits the amount provided to an eligible applicant to $5 million. Sets the nonfederal share of the cost of operating and maintaining any infrastructure improvement under a grant or other agreement at 100%. Immunizes the United States from liability for monetary damages for injury arising out of an act, omission, or occurrence that arises in relation to a facility created or improved under this Act, the title of which is not held by the United States, except as provided in the Federal Tort Claims Act. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into agreements with any university, nonprofit research institution, or organization with water or power delivery authority to fund research activities designed to conserve, increase efficiency of, or enhance management of water resources, including increasing the use of renewable energy in the management and delivery of water. Requires such agreements to be available to all reclamation projects and programs that may benefit from project-specific or programmatic cooperative research and development. Allows grants or other agreements made under this Act to be for the mutual benefit of the United States and the other party. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 6) Directs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) assess each effect of, and risk resulting from, climate change regarding water supplies required for the generation of hydroelectric power at each federal water project that is applicable to a Federal Power Marketing Administration; and (2) consult with USGS, NOAA, the regional integrated sciences and assessments program established by the Administrator of NOAA, and each appropriate state water resource agency, to ensure that the Secretary has access to the best available scientific information regarding the impacts of global climate change on water resources that are used to produce hydroelectric power. Authorizes appropriations for FY2009-FY2023. (Sec. 7) Directs the Secretary to establish and lead a climate change and water intragovernmental panel to: (1) review the current scientific understanding of each impact of climate change on the quantity and quality of U.S. water resources; and (2) develop any strategy that the panel deems necessary to improve observational capabilities, expand data acquisition, or take other actions to increase the reliability and accuracy of modeling and prediction systems to benefit water managers and to increase the understanding of the impacts of climate change on aquatic ecosystems. Requires the panel to consult with state water resource agencies, the National Advisory Committee on Water Information, drinking water utilities, water research organizations, and relevant water user, environmental, and other nongovernmental organizations to: (1) assess the extent to which the conduct of measures of streamflow, groundwater levels, soil moisture, evapotranspiration rates, evaporation rates, snowpack levels, precipitation amounts, flood risk, and glacier mass is necessary to improve the understanding of the federal government and the states regarding each impact of climate change on water resources; (2) identify data gaps in current water monitoring networks; (3) establish data management and communication protocols and standards; (4) consider options for the establishment of a data portal to enhance access to water resource data relating to each nationally significant watershed and aquifer in the United States; (5) expand and integrate each panel initiative with any existing interagency initiative; (6) facilitate the development of hydrologic and other models to integrate data that reflects groundwater and surface water interactions; (7) apply such models to water resource management problems identified by the panel, including the need to maintain or improve ecological resiliency at watershed and aquifer system scales; and (8) facilitate the development of mechanisms to effectively combine global and regional climate models with hydrologic and ecological models to produce water resource information to assist water managers in the development of adaptation strategies that can be incorporated into long-term water management and flood-hazard mitigation decisions.  Authorizes the Secretary to provide grants or enter into contracts to carry out demonstration, research, or methodology development projects to assist in the implementation of the strategy developed by the panel. Limits the federal share of the cost of any such project to $1 million. Requires such entity to report the results to the Secretary. Authorizes appropriations for FY2009-FY2013. (Sec. 8) Directs the Secretary to proceed with implementation of the national streamflow information program, as reviewed by the National Research Council in 2004. Requires the Secretary to: (1) measure streamflow and related environmental variables in nationally significant watersheds in a reliable and continuous manner, to develop a comprehensive source of information on which public and private decisions relating to the management of water resources may be based; (2) provide for a better understanding of hydrologic extremes through the conduct of intensive data collection activities during and following hydrologic extremes; (3) establish a base network that provides resources necessary for the monitoring of long-term changes in streamflow and the conduct of assessments to determine the extent to which each long-term change is related to climate change; (4) integrate the national streamflow information program with data collection activities of federal agencies and appropriate state water resource agencies to enhance the comprehensive understanding of water availability, improve flood-hazard assessments, identify any data gap regarding water resources, and improve hydrologic forecasting; and (5) incorporate principles of adaptive management in the conduct of periodic reviews of information collected under the program to assess whether the program objectives are being adequately addressed. Directs the Secretary to: (1) improve methodologies relating to the analysis and delivery of data; and (2) investigate, develop, and implement new methodologies and technologies to estimate or measure streamflow in a more cost-efficient manner. Requires the Secretary, within 10 years, to: (1) increase the number of streamgages funded by the program to not less than 4,700 sites; and (2) ensure all streamgages are flood-hardened and equipped with water-quality sensors and modernized telemetry. Requires each site to conform with the program plan as reviewed by the National Research Council. Sets the federal share of the cost of carrying out the national streamgaging network at 100%. Authorizes appropriations: (1) necessary to operate the program for FY2009-FY2023; and (2) to carry out network enhancements for each of FY2009-FY2019. Directs the Secretary to develop a systematic groundwater monitoring program for each major aquifer system in the United States. Requires the Secretary: (1) to establish appropriate criteria for monitoring wells to ensure the acquisition of long-term, high-quality data sets, including real-time instrumentation and reporting; (2) in coordination with the Advisory Committee and state and local water resource agencies, to assess the current scope of groundwater monitoring based on the access availability and capability of each existing monitoring well and to develop and carry out a monitoring plan that maximizes coverage for each major aquifer system in the United States; and (3) prior to initiating any specific monitoring activities within a state, to consult and coordinate with the state water resource agency with jurisdiction over the aquifer and comply with all applicable state laws. Directs the Secretary: (1) to provide data necessary for the improvement of understanding regarding surface water and groundwater interactions; (2) by expanding the network of monitoring wells to reach each climate division, to support the groundwater climate response network to improve the understanding of the effects of climate change on groundwater recharge and availability; and (3) to support the objectives of the assessment program. Sets the federal share of the cost of carrying out the monitoring program at 100%. Directs the Secretary to give priority to those activities for which a state or local government agrees to provide a substantial share of the cost of establishing or operating a measuring device to carry out a monitoring activity. Authorizes appropriations for FY2009-FY2023. Directs the Secretary to study and report to Congress on available data relating to significant U.S. brackish groundwater resources. Authorizes appropriations for FY2009-FY2011. Authorizes the Secretary to provide grants to entities with expertise in water resource data acquisition and reporting to: (1) investigate, develop, and implement new methodologies and technologies to estimate or measure water resources data in a cost-efficient manner; and (2) improve methodologies relating to the analysis and delivery of data. Directs the Secretary to give priority to entities that propose the development of new methods and technologies for: (1) predicting and measuring streamflows; (2) estimating changes in the storage of groundwater; (3) improving data standards and methods of analysis; (4) measuring precipitation and potential evapotranspiration; and (5) water withdrawals, return flows, and consumptive use. Directs the Secretary to encourage partnerships among federal agencies, academic institutions, and private entities. Authorizes appropriations for FY2009-FY2019. (Sec. 9) Directs the Secretary, in coordination with the Advisory Committee and state and local water resource agencies, to establish a national water availability and use assessment program to: (1) provide a more accurate assessment of the status of U.S. water resources; (2) assist in the determination of the quantity of water available for beneficial uses; (3) assist in the determination of the quality of U.S. water resources; (4) identify long-term trends in water availability; (5) use each long-term trend to provide a more accurate assessment of the change in the availability of water in the United States; and (6) develop the basis for an improved ability to forecast the availability of water for future economic, energy production, and environmental uses. Requires the Secretary to conduct an ongoing assessment of: (1) water use in hydrologic accounting units and major aquifer systems in the United States; and (2) water availability, by developing and evaluating nationally consistent indicators that reflect each status and trend relating to the availability of U.S. water resources, maintaining a national database of water availability data that meets specified requirements, and developing and applying predictive modeling tools that integrate groundwater, surface water, and ecological systems. Authorizes the Secretary to provide grants to state water resource agencies to assist them in: (1) developing water use and availability datasets that are integrated with datasets developed or maintained by the Secretary; or (2) integrating any water use or water availability dataset of the state water resource agency into each appropriate dataset developed or maintained by the Secretary. Sets forth: (1) grant criteria and maximum amounts; and (2) reporting requirements. Authorizes appropriations for FY2009-FY2023, with appropriations through FY2013 for the grant program. (Sec. 10) Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements, for periods not to exceed five years, to carry out research within the Bureau of Reclamation. (Sec. 11) Provides that nothing in this Act: (1) supersedes or limits any existing authority provided, or responsibility conferred, by any legal provision; and (2) preempts state water law or any interstate compact governing water. Directs the Secretary to comply with applicable state water laws in carrying out this Act.",2023-01-11T20:21:00Z,
110-hr-3739,110,hr,3739,To amend the Arizona Water Settlements Act to modify the requirements for the statement of findings.,Water Resources Development,2007-10-03,2007-12-21,Became Public Law No: 110-148.,House,"Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-7]",AZ,D,G000551,0,"(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Amends the Arizona Water Settlements Act to make the Southern Arizona Water Rights Settlement effective as of the date the Secretary of the Interior publishes in the Federal Register a statement of findings that specified conditions apply, including that the judgment and decree attached to the Tohono O'odham settlement agreement has been approved by the state court having jurisdiction over the Gila River adjudication proceedings. (Current law requires the judgment and decree to have become final and nonappealable.)",2023-03-30T18:35:47Z,
110-hr-3574,110,hr,3574,Willamette River United Act,Water Resources Development,2007-09-18,2007-09-20,"Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.",House,"Rep. Hooley, Darlene [D-OR-5]",OR,D,H000762,3,"Willamette River United Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to enter into cooperative agreements with the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department (OPRD) and the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board to administer grants for recreation, historic, archeological, and cultural preservation or conservation projects. Specifies the general types of projects and specific projects for which grants may be made.Prohibits grant funds from being used: (1) to support regulatory actions or mitigation thereof; or (2) for operations and maintenance costs.Sets forth grant matching requirements.Provides that: (1) private property owners located in the Willamette Basin are not required to participate in programs established under this Act; and (2) funds appropriated to carry out this Act may be used to purchase land only from willing sellers.Requires private landowners voluntarily participating in this Act to permit access to their property to implement, inspect, monitor, or perform repairs or maintenance to funded projects.Authorizes federal agencies with jurisdiction over U.S. natural resources or parks to: (1) use funds to provide assistance to the grant programs of the Board and OPRD when a private investment has been identified and private funds have been committed to a project and to provide financial assistance to Willamette River restoration, recreation, heritage and tourism efforts if the partner can demonstrate strong support in the community; and (2) enter into an agreement with the Board or OPRD to administer federal assistance.",2023-01-11T20:30:26Z,
110-s-2032,110,s,2032,Puget Sound Watershed Comprehensive Conservation Project Act of 2007,Water Resources Development,2007-09-07,2007-09-07,"Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11270)",Senate,"Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]",WA,D,M001111,1,"Puget Sound Watershed Comprehensive Conservation Project Act of 2007 - Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) carry out a competitive grant program for the Puget Sound area to provide comprehensive conservation planning to address water quality; and (2) enter into cooperative agreements with state and local governments, Indian tribes, or non-governmental entities with a history of working with agricultural producers to carry out projects under the program.Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) provide project demonstration grants, provide technical assistance, and carry out information and education programs to improve water quality in the area by reducing soil erosion and improving sediment control; and (2) provide a priority for projects and activities that directly reduce soil erosion or improve water quality.",2023-01-11T20:28:01Z,
110-hr-3465,110,hr,3465,Greater Cooperation with Local Governments in Water Project Analysis Act,Water Resources Development,2007-08-04,2007-09-14,Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.,House,"Rep. Udall, Mark [D-CO-2]",CO,D,U000038,1,"Greater Cooperation with Local Governments in Water Project Analysis Act - Requires the Secretary concerned (the Secretary of Interior with respect to activities of the Bureau of Reclamation and the Secretary of the Army with respect to activities of the Corps of Engineers) to treat a qualified local government, upon request, as if such government is a federal agency afforded the status of a cooperating agency for purposes of an analysis under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 of any water project undertaken by the Bureau or the Corps that would result in initial or increased diversion of water from the basin of one river to the basin of any other river.",2023-01-11T20:37:06Z,
110-hr-3437,110,hr,3437,Jackson Gulch Rehabilitation Act of 2008,Water Resources Development,2007-08-03,2008-10-02,Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1114.,House,"Rep. Salazar, John T. [D-CO-3]",CO,D,S001158,0,"(This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the House on July 31, 2008. The summary of that version is repeated here.)Jackson Gulch Rehabilitation Act of 2008 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Commissioner of Reclamation to: (1) pay the federal share of the cost of carrying out the Jackson Gulch rehabilitation project in Colorado; and (2) use existing studies relating to the project, including engineering and resource information provided by, or at the direction of, federal, state, or local agencies and the Mancos Water Conservancy District.Directs the Secretary to: (1) recover the lesser of 35% of the project's cost or $2.9 million as reimbursable expenses from the District over a 15-year period; and (2) credit the District for any amounts it paid before enactment of this Act for engineering work and improvements directly associated with the project.Makes the District responsible for the operation and maintenance of any facility constructed or rehabilitated under this Act. Shields the United States from liability for damages arising out of any act, omission, or occurrence relating to such a facility. Authorizes appropriations.",2023-01-11T20:37:15Z,
110-hr-3323,110,hr,3323,Goleta Water Distribution System Conveyance Act of 2008,Water Resources Development,2007-08-02,2008-09-16,Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1022.,House,"Rep. Capps, Lois [D-CA-23]",CA,D,C001036,0,"(This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the House on May 13, 2008. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Goleta Water Distribution System Conveyance Act of 2008 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to convey all U.S. rights to the Goleta Water Distribution System of the Cachuma Project, California, consistent with the terms of the Agreement Between the United States and the Goleta Water District to Transfer Title of the Federally Owned Distribution System to the Goleta Water District.Shields the United States from liability for damages relating to the conveyed property, except those caused by negligent acts by U.S. employees or agents prior to conveyance. Provides that after the conveyance, the System shall not be considered to be part of a federal reclamation project. Requires: (1) the Secretary to complete all actions required under environmental and historic preservation laws prior to any conveyance; and (2) the District to comply with all applicable federal, state, and local laws in its operation of the transferred facilities. Provides that federal reclamation law shall continue to apply to project water provided to the District.(Sec. 7) Requires the Secretary to report to Congress if the conveyance has not been completed within 12 months.",2023-01-11T20:37:54Z,
110-hr-3328,110,hr,3328,Sierra Vista Subwatershed Feasibility Study Act,Water Resources Development,2007-08-02,2007-08-08,Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.,House,"Rep. Giffords, Gabrielle [D-AZ-8]",AZ,D,G000554,0,"Sierra Vista Subwatershed Feasibility Study Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, through the Commissioner of Reclamation, to complete a feasibility study of alternatives to augment water supplies in the Sierra Vista Subwatershed, Arizona, that are identified as appropriate for further study in an appraisal report dated June 2007.Directs the Secretary, in evaluating the feasibility of alternatives, to: (1) include any required environmental reviews, the construction, operations, maintenance, and replacement costs for each alternative, and the economic feasibility of each alternative; (2) take into consideration the ability of government and private sources to fund such costs; (3) establish the basis for any cost-sharing allocations and any anticipated repayment of federal contributions; and (4) perform a cost-benefit analysis.",2023-01-11T20:37:52Z,
110-s-1940,110,s,1940,Rio Puerco Watershed Management Program Reauthorization Act,Water Resources Development,2007-08-02,2008-04-10,Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 654.,Senate,"Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]",NM,D,B000468,1,Rio Puerco Watershed Management Program Reauthorization Act - Amends the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 to: (1) include representatives of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on the Rio Puerco Management Committee; and (2) authorize appropriations for the Rio Puerco Watershed Management Program.,2023-01-11T20:36:26Z,
110-s-1962,110,s,1962,Regional Ground and Surface Water Enhancement Program Act of 2007,Water Resources Development,2007-08-02,2007-08-02,"Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.",Senate,"Sen. Sessions, Jeff [R-AL]",AL,R,S001141,2,"Regional Ground and Surface Water Enhancement Program Act of 2007 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) identify areas in which protecting or improving water quality or water quantity, or both, is a priority; (2) establish (within the environmental quality incentives program) a regional water enhancement program to improve agricultural water quality or water quantity; and (3) invite prospective partners to submit competitive grant proposals for regional water enhancement partnerships.",2023-01-11T20:36:19Z,
110-s-1929,110,s,1929,Sierra Vista Subwatershed Feasibility Study Act,Water Resources Development,2007-08-01,2008-06-16,Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 792.,Senate,"Sen. Kyl, Jon [R-AZ]",AZ,R,K000352,1,"(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)Sierra Vista Subwatershed Feasibility Study Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, through the Commissioner of Reclamation, to complete a feasibility study of alternatives to augment water supplies in the Sierra Vista Subwatershed, Arizona, that are identified as appropriate for further study in a Bureau of Reclamation appraisal report dated June 2007.Directs the Secretary, in evaluating the feasibility of alternatives, to: (1) include any required environmental reviews, the construction, operations, maintenance, and replacement costs for each alternative, and the economic feasibility of each alternative; (2) take into consideration the ability of government and private sources to fund such costs; (3) establish the basis for any cost-sharing allocations and any anticipated repayment of federal contributions; and (4) perform a cost-benefit analysis.Limits the federal share of total costs of the study to 45%. Permits the nonfederal share to be in the form of in-kind services that the Secretary determines would contribute substantially toward the conduct and completion of the study. Expresses the intent of Congress that the Secretary complete the study within 30 months of enactment. Authorizes appropriations.",2023-01-11T20:36:30Z,
110-hr-3224,110,hr,3224,Dam Rehabilitation and Repair Act of 2007,Water Resources Development,2007-07-30,2008-09-24,Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1071.,House,"Rep. Salazar, John T. [D-CO-3]",CO,D,S001158,19,"(This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the House on October 29, 2007. The summary of that version is repeated here.)Dam Rehabilitation and Repair Act of 2007 - Amends the National Dam Safety Program Act to require the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to establish a program to provide grant assistance to states for use in rehabilitating publicly-owned dams that fail to meet minimum safety standards and pose an unacceptable risk to the public (deficient dams).Sets forth provisions regarding procedures for grant awards and fund allocation. Requires: (1) states receiving grants under this Act to comply with standards applicable to financial contributions for emergency preparedness purposes under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act; and (2) FEMA to develop a risk-based priority system for identifying deficient dams for which such grants may be made. Limits the federal share of rehabilitation costs to 65%. Authorizes appropriations.",2023-01-11T20:47:42Z,
110-hr-3184,110,hr,3184,Puget Sound Watershed Comprehensive Conservation Project Act of 2007,Water Resources Development,2007-07-26,2007-08-03,"Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.",House,"Rep. Larsen, Rick [D-WA-2]",WA,D,L000560,8,"(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.) Puget Sound Watershed Comprehensive Conservation Project Act of 2007 - Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) carry out a competitive grant program for the Puget Sound area to provide comprehensive conservation planning to address water quality; and (2) enter into cooperative agreements with state and local governments, Indian tribes, or non-governmental entities with a history of working with agricultural producers to carry out projects under the program. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) provide project demonstration grants, provide technical assistance, and carry out information and education programs to improve water quality in the area by reducing soil erosion and improving sediment control; and (2) provide a priority for projects and activities that directly reduce soil erosion or improve water quality. Authorizes appropriations.",2023-01-11T21:18:11Z,
110-hr-3166,110,hr,3166,To reauthorize the Nutria Eradication and Control Act of 2003.,Water Resources Development,2007-07-24,2007-07-31,"Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Oceans.",House,"Rep. Gilchrest, Wayne T. [R-MD-1]",MD,R,G000180,3,Authorizes appropriations to carry out the Nutria Eradication and Control Act of 2003 for FY2009-FY2013.,2023-01-11T21:18:17Z,
110-hconres-187,110,hconres,187,Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the dumping of industrial waste into the Great Lakes.,Water Resources Development,2007-07-18,2007-07-26,Received in the Senate and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,House,"Rep. Emanuel, Rahm [D-IL-5]",IL,D,E000287,32,(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)Expresses disapproval of the Indiana Department of Environmental Management's issuance of a permit allowing BP to increase their daily dumping of ammonia and total suspended solids into Lake Michigan. Urges Indiana to reconsider issuance of such permit.Calls for Congress to take action to protect and restore the Great Lakes.Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) actions in the Great Lakes basin should be consistent with the goal of preserving and restoring the Great Lakes; and (2) EPA should not allow increased dumping of chemicals and pollutants into the Great Lakes.,2023-01-12T17:52:42Z,
110-s-1751,110,s,1751,"Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2008",Water Resources Development,2007-07-09,2007-07-09,Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 263.,Senate,"Sen. Dorgan, Byron L. [D-ND]",ND,D,D000432,0,"(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)  Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2008 - Title I: Corps of Engineers-Civil - Makes FY2008 appropriations for: (1) the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for civil functions pertaining to rivers and harbors, flood and storm damage reduction, and aquatic ecosystem restoration; (2) general investigations and construction (including rescissions of funds); (3) flood damage reduction for the Mississippi River alluvial valley below Cape Girardeau, Missouri; (4) operation, maintenance, and administration of laws pertaining to regulation of navigable waters and wetlands; (5) clean up of contamination from sites resulting from work performed as part of the early atomic energy program; (6) flood control, hurricane, and natural disasters emergency operations; (7) general administration and related civil works functions in the headquarters of the Corps; and (8) the Office of Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works).   (Sec. 102) Prohibits expenditure of funds under this Act for the following activities: (1) certain competitive sourcing actions for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; (2) divestment or transfer of Civil Works missions, functions, or responsibilities of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to other government agencies without specific direction in a subsequent Act of Congress; (3) closure or removal of the St. Georges Bridge across the Intracoastal Waterway, Delaware River to Chesapeake Bay, Delaware and Maryland; and (4) a water reallocation project or component under the Wolf Creek Project, Lake Cumberland, Kentucky.  (Sec. 107) Modifies the project for flood control at Milton, West Virginia, to authorize its construction substantially in accordance with a certain draft report of the Corps of Engineers, at certain estimated costs. (Sec. 108) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army (the Secretary in this title) to: (1) construct a new Environmental Laboratory and improvements to the Information Technology Laboratory at the Engineer Research and Development Center in Vicksburg, Mississippi; and (2) enter into cooperative agreements with any Indian Tribe whose lands are located in New Mexico and occupied by a flood control project owned and operated by the Corps of Engineers, to assist in carrying out associated operation and maintenance activities. (Sec. 110) Directs the Secretary to credit toward the nonfederal share of the cost of the Rio Grande Basin Watershed Study, New Mexico, Colorado and Texas, the cost of in-kind services contributed by the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission for the Study up to the full amount of the required nonfederal share. (Sec. 111) Amends the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2006, to modify the authority of the Secretary regarding compliance with the 2003 Biological Opinion, and to authorize planning studies, watershed surveys and assessments, or technical studies at 100% federal expense. Authorizes the Secretary to provide planning and administrative assistance to the Middle Rio Grande Endangered Species Collaborative Program, which shall not be subject to cost sharing requirements with nonfederal interests. (Sec. 112) Prohibits expenditure of funds for an the update of disputed water control manuals for: (1) the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint Rivers without the approval of the states of Alabama, Florida, and Georgia; (2) the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa Rivers without the approval of the states of Alabama and Georgia; or (3) until such time as all legal proceedings in relation to the water use disputes are concluded and all appeals exhausted. (Sec. 113) Authorizes the Secretary to construct, at specified costs, a project for flood damage reduction, Rio de Flag, Flagstaff, Arizona. (Sec. 114) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1999 to double the funding for avian predation management on the Columbia/Snake River System native fishes. (Sec. 115) Modifies funding for California projects for flood control located at: (1) Santa Ana River Mainstem, including Santiago Creek; and (2) Upper Guadalupe River. (Sec. 117) Directs the Secretary, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to convey, at no cost, lands to Tate County School District, Tate County, Mississippi, including the transfer of any real property interests, not to exceed 50 acres, at Arkabutla Lake deemed available by the Army that is located adjacent to school district property in the vicinity of State Highway 306 west of Coldwater, Mississippi. (Sec. 118) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1999 to add North Dakota to a program providing federal environmental assistance to nonfederal interests. (Sec. 119) Instructs the Secretary, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to: (1) conduct preconstruction engineering and design activities at full federal expense for the Kahuku Storm Damage Reduction Project, Oahu, Hawaii; (2) fully utilize the federal dredging fleet in support of all Army Corps of Engineers missions; (3) maintain the federal dredging fleet to technologically modern and efficient standards; and (4) use the revolving fund to undertake necessary health and safety improvements to the dredge "McFarland." (Sec. 123) Authorizes the Secretary to use or transfer certain funds appropriated under the Missouri River Recovery and Mitigation Program for ecosystem restoration. (Sec. 124) Limits to a specified amount the Corps of Engineers share of the total cost for certain authorized water projects and activities. (Sec. 125) Amends the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2006 to repeal the prohibition against commitment of funds for continuing contracts if they exceed appropriations for the project. (Sec. 126) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1996 to extend from seven to 12 years the Shore Line Erosion Control Development and Demonstration Program.  (Sec. 127) Requires budget documents and justification materials included in the Corps of Engineers annual budget submission to Congress to be based upon the most recent annual appropriations Act. Requires new budget proposals for FY2008 to be submitted separately from the budget justification documents.  (Sec. 128) Instructs the Secretary, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to design and construct a rural health care facility on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation of the Three Affiliated Tribes, North Dakota. (Sec. 129) Amends the Flood Control Act of 1968 to increase from $5 million to $7 million the amount of federal reimbursement to states, including reductions in state contributions, for work performed at an authorized water resource development project. (Sec. 130) Modifies a certain project for flood damage reduction, Johnson Creek, Arlington, Texas, to authorize the Secretary to construct the project in accordance with a specified report at a total cost of $80 million, with an estimated federal cost of $52 million and an estimated nonfederal cost of $28 million. (Sec. 131) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1990 to increase to $430 million the federal share of costs for McAlpine Lock and Dam, Indiana and Kentucky. Sec. 132) Directs the Secretary to reimburse local governments for expenses incurred in storm-proofing pumping stations, constructing safe houses for operators, and other interim flood control measures in and around the New Orleans, Louisiana, metropolitan area. (Sec. 133) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1996 to direct the Secretary to credit toward the nonfederal share of the project up to $2 million of the costs expended by nonfederal interests for the replacement and reconstruction of the Soquel Avenue Bridge. (Sec. 134) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1999 to extend until FY2015 the authorization of appropriations for the Missouri and Middle Mississippi Rivers Enhancement Project. (Sec. 135) Modifies flood damage reduction projects at Nogales Wash, and Tucson Drainage Area, Arizona, to authorize the Secretary to construct the projects at specified revised estimated federal cost and nonfederal costs. (Sec. 137) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 to revise federal funding requirements for Coronado, California. (Sec. 138) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1999 to authorize: (1) specified appropriations for rural Utah; and (2) the provision of in-kind services as the local match for funds appropriated for flood plain delineation on the Navajo reservation in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. (Sec. 140) Authorizes the Nature Conservancy to act as the nonfederal interest to carry out the work detailed in a specified agreement executed between the Conservancy and the Department of the Army. (Sec. 141) Declares that the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal Dispersal Barriers Projects, Illinois, shall be considered to constitute a single project. Sets forth the duties of the Secretary of the Army for such projects. (Sec. 142) Prohibits the use of appropriated funds by the Secretary of the Army for modification of certain statutory water projects unless they are matched by an equal cost share from the Department of the Interior. (Sec. 143) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to contract with any public or private entity to provide visitor reservation services.  (Sec. 144) Modifies the project costs for flood control, Redwood River, Marshall, Minnesota, to authorize the Secretary to construct the project at a total cost of $11.863 million, with specified estimated first federal and first nonfederal costs. (Sec. 145) Declares the project for St. John's Bayou and New Madrid Floodway, Missouri, economically justified and environmentally acceptable. Instructs the Secretary to initiate construction consistent with specified terms and conditions. (Sec. 146) Amends the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Hurricane Recovery, 2006 to require inclusion of the Southeast Louisiana Flood Control project as an integral element of the comprehensive (100-year) protection system for certain areas of the New Orleans metropolitan area. (Sec. 147) Amends the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007 to authorize funds for shore protection restoration projects in New Jersey damaged by the same meteorological events that resulted in Presidential Disaster Declaration FEMA-1694-DR. Title II: Department of the Interior - Makes FY2008 appropriations for: (1) the Central Utah Project Completion Account; (2) the Bureau of Reclamation for management, development, and restoration of water and related natural resources; (3) the Central Valley Project Restoration Fund; (6) California Bay-Delta restoration; and (7) policy and administration in the Office of the Commissioner, the Denver office, and offices in the five regions of the Bureau of Reclamation. (Sec. 201) Prohibits the use of funds to determine the final point of discharge for the interceptor drain for the San Luis Unit until development by the Secretary of the Interior (the Secretary in this title) and the state of California of a plan, conforming to California water quality standards, to minimize any detrimental effect of the San Luis drainage waters.  States that costs of the Kesterson Reservoir Cleanup Program and the San Joaquin Valley Drainage Program shall be classified as reimbursable or nonreimbursable and collected until fully repaid. Declares future U.S. obligations relating to drainage for the San Luis Unit fully reimbursable by Unit beneficiaries. (Sec. 202) Prohibits the use of funds to pay salaries and expenses of personnel to purchase or lease water in the Middle Rio Grande, or the Carlsbad Projects in New Mexico, unless such purchase or lease complies with certain statutory requirements. (Sec. 203) Requires funds scheduled for Drought Emergency Assistance to be made available primarily for the leasing of water for specified drought-related purposes from willing lessors and administered under state water priority allocation.  (Sec. 204) Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation, to enter into agreements to fund up to 50% of water conservation measures with irrigation or water districts and states, including water use efficiency, or enhanced water management. (Sec. 205) Amends the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2004 to: (1) repeal the Endangered Species Collaborative Program; and (2) require the Secretary to establish an Executive Committee of the Middle Rio Grande Endangered Species Collaborative Program. (Sec. 206) Directs the Secretary to continue to participate in implementation of the Project at Las Vegas Wash and Lake Mead. Authorizes the Secretary to provide grants to the Southern Nevada Water Authority to implement the Project. (Sec. 207) Directs the Secretary to provide grants, to be divided equally, to the states of Nevada and California, the Federal Watermaster, the Truckee Meadows Water Authority, and the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe to implement the Truckee River Settlement Act.  (Sec. 208) Directs the Secretary to provide funds under the Farm and Rural Investment Act of 2002 for various specified projects, including: (1) removal of the Numana Dam and other irrigation structures located on the Pyramid Lake Paiute Reservation; (2) Derby Dam Fish Screen and Ladder; and (3) construction of specified Lower Truckee Restoration Projects. (Sec. 209) Amends the Mni Wiconi Project Act of 1988 to extend from 2008 to 2013 the authorization of appropriations for: (1) the Oglala Sioux Rural Water Supply System; (2) the West River Rural Water System; and (3) the Lyman-Jones Rural Water System. (Sec. 210) Amends the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2004 to require the Secretary to enter into an agreement with New Mexico State University for activities at the Tularosa Basin National Desalination Research Facility.  (Sec. 211) Requires the Secretary to report to certain congressional committees before the unilateral termination or removal of cabin or trailer sites on Bureau of Reclamation lands in North Dakota for the purpose of changing land use. (Sec. 212) Amends the Reclamation Projects Authorization and Adjustment Act of 1992 to increase the authorization of appropriations for irrigation within certain boundaries of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. Title III: Department of Energy - Makes FY2008 appropriations to the Department of Energy (DOE) for: (1) energy efficiency and renewable energy; (2) electricity delivery and energy reliability; (3) nuclear energy; (4) legacy management; (5) clean coal technology; (6) fossil energy research and development; (7) naval petroleum and oil shale reserves; (8) the Strategic Petroleum Reserve; (9) the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve; (10) the Energy Information Administration; (11) non-defense environmental cleanup; (12) the Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund; (13) science activities; (14) nuclear waste disposal; (15) the Innovative Technology Loan Guarantee program; (16) departmental administration; and (17) the Office of Inspector General. Makes FY2008 appropriations for activities pertaining to: (1) weapons activities of the National Nuclear Security Administration; (2) defense nuclear nonproliferation; (3) naval reactors; (4) the Office of the Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration; (5) defense environmental cleanup; and (6) defense nuclear waste disposal. Approves specified expenditures from the Bonneville Power Administration Fund for fisheries and designated fish hatcheries.  Makes FY2008 appropriations for operation and maintenance of: (1) the Southeastern, Southwestern, and Western Area Power Administrations; (2) the Falcon and Amistad Dams; and (3) the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). (Sec. 301) Prohibits the use of FY2008 funds to make payments for a noncompetitive management and operating contract unless the Secretary of Energy (the Secretary under this title) has taken specified steps to use competitive procedures for the award of the contract, or to not renew the contract, when the term of the contract expires. (Sec. 302) Prohibits the use of appropriations under this Act to: (1) develop or implement a workforce restructuring plan that covers DOE employees; (2) provide certain enhanced statutory severance benefits for DOE employees; or (3) augment certain funds made available for obligation by this Act for severance benefits and community assistance grants under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993, unless DOE submits a reprogramming request to congressional committees. (Sec. 304) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to prepare or initiate requests for proposals for unfunded programs. (Sec. 306) Prohibits the use of Bonneville Power Administration funds for any agreement to perform energy efficiency services outside the legally defined Bonneville service territory, with the exception of services provided internationally, including services provided on a reimbursable basis, unless the Administrator certifies in advance that such services are not available from private sector businesses. (Sec. 307) Requires DOE: (1) when it makes a user facility available to universities or other potential users, or seeks their input on significant user facility characteristics or equipment, to ensure broad public notice of such availability or input need; and (2) to employ full and open competition in selecting a potential user as a formal partner in the establishment or operation of a user facility.(Sec. 308) Deems any funds appropriated by this or any other Act, or made available by the transfer of funds in this Act, for intelligence activities to be specifically authorized by Congress for purposes of the National Security Act of 1947 during FY2008, until the enactment of the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY2008.(Sec. 309) Authorizes the use of specified funds by: (1) government-owned, contractor-operator operated laboratories for laboratory-directed research and development; and (2) the plant manager of a covered nuclear weapons production plant or the manager of the Nevada Site Office for plant or site-directed research and development. (Sec. 310) Requires the Administrators of the Southeastern, Southwestern and the Western Area Power Administrations to use, for FY2008, the "yield" rate in computing interest during construction and interest on the unpaid balance of the costs of federal power facilities. (Sec. 311) States that a specified Use Permit for activities conducted at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory continues in effect during the term of the existing Operating Contract and extensions or renewals shall be incorporated into any future management and operating contract for such Laboratory..  (Sec. 312) Prohibits the use of certain funds during FY2008 for payment on bonds issued by the Administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration, or for an appropriated Federal Columbia River Power investment, if the payment is both: (1) greater than a certain amount; and (2) based or conditioned on the Administrator's actual or expected net secondary power sales receipts. (Sec. 313) Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to require the Secretary to direct that not more than $25 million from specified federal royalties, rents, and bonuses shall be used for land acquisition for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). Instructs the Secretary to use not more than $25 million from specified accounts to support the land acquisition of the SPR at Bayou Choctaw, Louisiana, Big Hill, Texas, and Richton, Mississippi, to meet the required one billion barrel capacity. Denies the Secretary authority to begin contracting for filling the new capacity of the SPR, either through means of purchase or royalty-in-kind, until such time as the Secretary certifies construction is complete. Title IV: Independent Agencies - Makes FY2008 appropriations to: (1) the Appalachian Regional Commission; (2) the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board; (3) the Delta Regional Authority; (4) the Denali Commission; (5) the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; (6) the Office of Inspector General; (7) the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board; and (8) Office of the Federal Coordinator for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects. Title V: General Provisions - (Sec. 501) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act to: (1) influence congressional action on legislation or appropriation matters pending before Congress; or (2) be transferred to any federal department, agency, or instrumentality except pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority provided in, this Act or any other appropriations Act.",2022-02-03T05:15:56Z,
110-hr-2841,110,hr,2841,To amend the wetlands reserve program of the Department of Agriculture to exclude from enrollment under the program land subject to a State or local set-back requirement unless the Secretary determines that enrollment of the land is essential to restore or preserve wetlands.,Water Resources Development,2007-06-22,2008-04-25,"Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research.",House,"Rep. McHugh, John M. [R-NY-23]",NY,R,M000472,0,Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to exclude from wetlands reserve program enrollment land subject to a state or local setback requirement unless the Secretary of Agriculture determines that such land's enrollment is essential to restore or preserve wetlands.,2023-01-12T17:52:57Z,
110-s-1643,110,s,1643,Reclamation Water Settlements Fund Act of 2007,Water Resources Development,2007-06-18,2007-06-18,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7816-7817),Senate,"Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM]",NM,R,D000407,0,"Reclamation Water Settlements Fund Act of 2007 - Establishes in the Treasury a Reclamation Water Settlements Fund.  Requires the Secretary of the Treasury, for each of the ten years after enactment of this Act, to deposit in such Fund an amount equal to 30% of the revenues generated within the external boundaries of New Mexico that would otherwise be deposited in a reclamation fund established by the Act of June 17, 1902. Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury, upon request of the Secretary of the Interior, to transfer to such Secretary such amounts in the Fund as are necessary to fund any activities of the Bureau of Reclamation related to Indian water rights settlements in New Mexico that are approved by Congress and that are associated with the planning, designing, or construction of: (1) water supply infrastructure; or (2) a project to rehabilitate a water delivery system to conserve water.",2023-01-12T17:52:47Z,
110-hr-2733,110,hr,2733,Trinity River Restoration Fund Act of 2007,Water Resources Development,2007-06-14,2007-09-18,Subcommittee Hearings Held.,House,"Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-1]",CA,D,T000460,2,"Trinity River Restoration Fund Act of 2007 - Establishes in the Treasury the Trinity River Restoration Fund to be available to the Secretary of the Interior for use solely for the purpose of implementing the preferred alternative identified in the Record of Decision issued by the Secretary with the concurrence of the Hoopa Valley Tribe on December 19, 2000, on Trinity River Mainstem Fishery Restoration. Authorizes the Secretary to accept and expend funds from public and private sources to assist in the implementation of the Record of Decision. Provides that amounts deposited into the Fund for specific purposes shall be expended for those purposes only and shall not be subject to appropriation. Requires specified deposits to the Fund from: (1) the capital component of payments made pursuant to long-term contracts with the Bureau of Reclamation by Central Valley Project (CVP) water and power contractors; and (2) non-federal funds contributed to the United States for implementation of the Record of Decision or federal funds appropriated to the Trinity River Restoration Fund. Makes federal costs of implementing this Act nonreimburseable under federal reclamation law. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) funding in the event Central Valley Project (CVP) capital repayments fall below necessary levels; (2) biennial summary reports from the Secretary; (3) required cost of living adjustments; and (4) a reduction of CVP's capital repayment obligation by the amount paid into the Fund.",2023-01-12T17:53:00Z,
110-hr-2649,110,hr,2649,Lake Hodges Surface Water Improvement and Reclamation Act of 2008,Water Resources Development,2007-06-11,2008-05-21,Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.,House,"Rep. Bilbray, Brian P. [R-CA-50]",CA,R,B000461,1,"(This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the House on May 13, 2008. The summary of that version is repeated here.)Lake Hodges Surface Water Improvement and Reclamation Act of 2008 - Amends the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation with the Olivenhain Municipal Water District, California, to participate in the design, planning, and construction of projects to treat, reclaim, and reuse impaired surface water from Lake Hodges in San Diego County, California. Limits the federal share to 25% of the total project costs. Prohibits the Secretary from providing funds for project operation or maintenance.",2023-01-12T17:53:02Z,
110-hr-2650,110,hr,2650,Restore the Apalachicola River Ecosystem Act,Water Resources Development,2007-06-11,2007-06-12,Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.,House,"Rep. Boyd, Allen [D-FL-2]",FL,D,B000716,0,"Restore the Apalachicola River Ecosystem Act - Modifies the project for navigation, Apalachicola, Chattahoochee, and Flint Rivers, Georgia, Florida, and Alabama, and the project for the West Point Reservoir, Chattahoochee River, Georgia, to: (1) deauthorize the channel between the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway near Apalachicola to Jim Woodruff Dam near Chattahoochee; and (2) authorize the Secretary of the Army to develop a comprehensive plan to restore the Apalachicola River basin with the goal of reestablishing the ecological integrity of the Apalachicola River basin ecosystem.",2023-01-12T17:53:02Z,
110-hr-2665,110,hr,2665,Upper Connecticut River Partnership Act,Water Resources Development,2007-06-11,2007-06-13,"Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.",House,"Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large]",VT,D,W000800,1,"Upper Connecticut River Partnership Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish a Connecticut River Grants and Technical Assistance Program to provide grants and technical assistance to the governments of New Hampshire and Vermont, local governments, nonprofits, and the private sector to carry out projects for the conservation, restoration, and interpretation of historic and other resources in the Connecticut River watershed. Limits to a maximum of 75% the federal share of the cost of any project funded by a grant under this Act.",2023-01-12T17:53:02Z,
110-s-1586,110,s,1586,Upper Connecticut River Partnership Act,Water Resources Development,2007-06-11,2007-06-11,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.,Senate,"Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT]",VT,D,L000174,3,"Upper Connecticut River Partnership Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish a Connecticut River Grants and Technical Assistance Program to provide grants and technical assistance to the governments of New Hampshire and Vermont, local governments, nonprofits, and the private sector to carry out projects for the conservation, restoration, and interpretation of historic and other resources in the Connecticut River watershed. Limits to a maximum of 75% the federal share of the cost of any project funded by a grant under this Act.",2023-01-12T17:52:49Z,
110-hr-2614,110,hr,2614,To amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in certain water projects in California.,Water Resources Development,2007-06-07,2008-09-16,Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1019.,House,"Rep. Calvert, Ken [R-CA-44]",CA,R,C000059,1,"(This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the House on November 13, 2007. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Amends the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the design, planning, and construction of: (1) projects to treat impaired surface water, reclaim and reuse impaired groundwater, and provide brine disposal within the Santa Ana Watershed, in cooperation with the Yucaipa Valley Water District; and (2) a project to reclaim and reuse wastewater, including degraded groundwaters, within and outside of the service area of the City of Corona Water Utility, in cooperation with the City of Corona Water Utility. Limits the federal share of each of the project costs to 25%. Prohibits the Secretary from using or providing funds under this Act for project operation or maintenance.",2023-01-12T17:53:04Z,
110-s-1578,110,s,1578,Ballast Water Management Act of 2007,Water Resources Development,2007-06-07,2008-03-03,Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 589.,Senate,"Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]",HI,D,I000025,1,"Ballast Water Management Act of 2007 - (Sec. 3) Amends the Nonindigenous Aquatic Nuisance Prevention and Control Act of 1990 to replace provisions relating to preventing the introduction and spread of aquatic nuisance species in the Great Lakes through the exchange of ballast water with provisions relating to the introduction and spread of such species from ballast water and other ship-borne vectors. (Currently, the provisions focus only on the Great Lakes.) Requires vessel operators to conduct all ballast water management operations in accordance with an approved ballast water management plan that meets requirements prescribed by regulation. Requires maintenance of a ballast water record book in English on board the vessel. Prohibits the discharge of ballast water in waters subject to U.S. jurisdiction except after conducting ballast water exchange in accordance with regulations, using a treatment technology meeting certain requirements, or using alternative ballast water treatment technology. Allows exceptions, including for safety or stability. Allows waiver for a substantial business hardship.   Allows discharge of unexchanged ballast water in designated areas or into a reception facility. Prohibits the discharge of ballast water or sediment containing aquatic nuisance species within a marine sanctuary, a national marine monument, or any other waters designated by the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating.  Sets forth standards for ballast water treatment and requires a review to determine whether appropriate technologies are available to achieve those standards. Requires, if such technologies are not available or cost-effective for any class of vessels, the use of the best performing, cost-effective technology available that at least meets the ballast water discharge standard of the International Maritime Organization. Requires, if no technology is available that meets either set of standards, delay of the application of the standards in the first sentence of this paragraph. Requires notice to vessel owners and operators of any area in waters subject to U.S. jurisdiction in which vessels may not uptake ballast water due to known conditions. Prohibits removing or disposing of sediment from spaces designed to carry ballast water except in accordance with the ballast water management plan required under this Act and the requirements of this paragraph. Makes it unlawful to construct a vessel in the United States unless the vessel is designed and constructed in a way that minimizes sediment uptake and entrapment, facilitates sediment removal, and provides for safe access for sediment removal and sampling. Requires promulgation of sediment reception facility standards.  Requires: (1) the Secretary to examine vessels annually to determine if there is a ballast water management plan and if the ballast water and sediment management equipment is functioning properly; and (2) an annual report to be made available on the National Ballast Information Clearinghouse summarizing the results of ballast water inspection and enforcement activities.  Provides, for violating vessels, for vessel detention, civil and criminal penalties, and revocation of clearance. Addresses international cooperation.  Directs the Secretary to provide support, including grants, for research and development of innovative technologies for the management, treatment, and disposal of ballast water and sediment, for finalizing the validation testing of the verification protocol of the Environmental Technology Verification Program, for ballast water exchange, and for other vessel vectors of aquatic nuisance species such as hull-fouling. Authorizes appropriations.  Requires: (1) an evaluation of vessel discharges other than aquatic nuisance species incidental to the normal operation of a vessel; and (2) submission of a related report to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.  Requires a report to specified congressional committees on vessel-borne vectors of aquatic nuisance species and pathogens other than ballast water and sediment, including vessel hulls, anchors, and equipment. Directs the Secretary to develop a strategy to address other vessel sources of aquatic nuisance species and to reduce the introduction of invasive species into and within the United States from vessels. Requires a related report to such committees. Requires the Commandant of the Coast Guard to report to such committees regarding the magnitude and potential adverse impacts of ballast water operations from foreign vessels that are transiting waters subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. Directs the President to prepare and publish a national rapid response plan for killing, removing, or minimizing the spread of aquatic nuisance species in the waters of the United States, including establishment of a national center to provide coordination and direction for operations in carrying out the plan and including a fish and wildlife response plan. (Sec. 4) Amends the Nonindigenous Aquatic Nuisance Prevention and Control Act of 1990 to authorize appropriations to carry out the Act.",2023-01-12T17:52:49Z,
110-hr-2498,110,hr,2498,"To provide for a study regarding development of a comprehensive integrated regional water management plan that would address four general areas of regional water planning in both the San Joaquin River Hydrologic Region and the Tulare Lake Hydrologic Region, inclusive of Kern, Tulare, Kings, Fresno, Madera, Merced, Stanislaus, and San Joaquin Counties, California, and to provide that such plan be the guide by which those counties use as a mechanism to address and solve long-term water needs in a sustainable and equitable manner.",Water Resources Development,2007-05-24,2007-10-16,Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee Without Recommendation (Amended) by Unanimous Consent .,House,"Rep. Costa, Jim [D-CA-20]",CA,D,C001059,4,"Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Reclamation, to award a grant to the California Water Institute, located at California State University at Fresno, to conduct a study coordinating and integrating sub-regional integrated regional water management plans into a unified Integrated Regional Water Management Plan for Kern, Tulare, Kings, Fresno, Madera, Merced, Stanislaus, and San Joaquin counties in the San Joaquin River Hydrologic Region and the Tulare Lake Hydrologic Region that would address issues related to: (1) water quality, supply, conveyance, and reliability; (2) flood control; (3) water resource-related environmental enhancement; and (4) population growth. Provides that the Plan developed for the two hydrologic basins shall serve as a guide for the eight counties in the study area to use as a mechanism to address and solve long-term water needs in a sustainable and equitable manner.",2023-01-11T16:17:53Z,
110-hr-2515,110,hr,2515,Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program Act,Water Resources Development,2007-05-24,2008-06-16,Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 819.,House,"Rep. Heller, Dean [R-NV-2]",NV,R,H001041,8,"Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) manage and implement the Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program; and (2) enter into an agreement with Arizona, California, and Nevada providing for the use of water from the Lower Colorado River for habitat creation and maintenance in accordance with the Habitat Conservation Plan, Biological Assessment and Biological and Conference Opinion, Environmental Impact Statement/Environmental Impact Report, Funding and Management Agreement, Implementing Agreement, and a specified permit issued and executed in connection with the Program. Authorizes appropriations.Allows any party to the Funding and Management Agreement or the Implementing Agreement and any permittee under the permit to commence a civil action in U.S. district court to adjudicate rights and obligations of the parties under the program documents. Permits the United States or any U.S. agency to be named as a defendant in such actions. Waives the sovereign immunity of the United States for purposes of such actions, except as to claims seeking money from the United States.",2023-01-11T16:17:53Z,
110-s-1472,110,s,1472,North Bay Water Reuse Program Act of 2007,Water Resources Development,2007-05-24,2007-08-01,Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-170.,Senate,"Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]",CA,D,F000062,1,"North Bay Water Reuse Program Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to offer to enter into cooperative agreements with eligible entities in the North San Pablo Bay watershed located in Marin, Napa, Solano, and Sonoma Counties, California, for the planning, design, and construction of water reclamation and reuse projects.  Directs the Secretary and such an entity to use the design work and environmental evaluations initiated by non-federal entities and the Corps of Engineers in that watershed to the maximum extent practicable. Requires such an agreement to specify the responsibilities of the Secretary and the entity regarding: (1) cost-share requirements; (2) needs assessment and project planning and design; (3) environmental compliance activity; (4) facilities construction; and (5) construction contract administration. Requires that any such project consist of two phases, during which the Secretary and an entity shall complete the planning, design, and construction of: (1) the main treatment and main conveyance system; and (2) the sub-regional distribution systems. Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial and technical assistance to an entity in planning, designing, conducting related pre-construction activities for, and constructing a project. Makes the entity responsible for the annual operation, maintenance, and replacement costs of the project. Requires the entity to develop an operation, maintenance, and replacement plan for the project.",2023-01-11T16:47:39Z,
110-s-1473,110,s,1473,Madera Water Supply Enhancement Act,Water Resources Development,2007-05-24,2008-02-28,Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-376.,Senate,"Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]",CA,D,F000062,0,"Madera Water Supply Enhancement Act - Finds that: (1) the Bureau of Reclamation and others have conducted numerous studies regarding the Madera Water Supply Enhancement Project, California; (2) the Project is feasible; and (3) the Bureau shall not conduct any further studies or reports related to determining its feasibility.  Requires all planning, design, and construction of the Project to be undertaken in accordance with a cooperative agreement between the Secretary and the Madera Irrigation District. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into a cooperative agreement for the support of Project design and construction. Limits the federal share of Project capital costs to 25%. Considers: (1) capital, planning, design, permitting, financing, construction, and land acquisition costs incurred by the District prior to this Act's enactment to be part of the nonfederal share; and (2) in-kind services performed by the District to be part of the local share. Requires the District to receive credit toward the nonfederal share for reasonable costs incurred from participation in the planning, design, permitting, financing, and construction of the Project and for the fair market value of lands used or acquired for the Project. Prohibits the Secretary from providing funds for operation or maintenance. Makes Project operation, ownership, and maintenance the sole responsibility of the District. Directs the Secretary, before obligating funds, to work cooperatively with the District to use plans, designs, and engineering and environmental analyses that have already been prepared by the District. Terminates the Secretary's authority to carry out this Act 10 years after its enactment.",2023-01-11T16:47:39Z,
110-s-1474,110,s,1474,Riverside-Corona Feeder Water Supply Act,Water Resources Development,2007-05-24,2008-02-28,Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-376.,Senate,"Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]",CA,D,F000062,0,"Riverside-Corona Feeder Water Supply Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation with the Western Municipal Water District, Riverside County, California, to participate in the planning, design, and construction of the Riverside-Corona Feeder water supply project, which includes 20 groundwater wells, groundwater treatment facilities, water storage and pumping facilities, and 28 miles of pipeline in San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, California.",2023-01-11T16:47:39Z,
110-s-1475,110,s,1475,Bay Area Regional Water Recycling Program Authorization Act of 2007,Water Resources Development,2007-05-24,2007-08-01,Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-170.,Senate,"Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]",CA,D,F000062,1,"Bay Area Regional Water Recycling Program Authorization Act of 2007 - Amends the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the design, planning, and construction of recycled water projects in cooperation with: (1) Palo Alto and Mountain View, California; (2) Pittsburg, California, and the Delta Diablo Sanitation District; (3) Antioch, California, and the Delta Diablo Sanitation District; (4) the North Coast County Water District; (5) Redwood City, California; (6) the South County Regional Wastewater Authority and the Santa Clara Valley Water District; and (7) San Jose, California, and the Santa Clara Valley Water District. Expresses the intent of Congress that a comprehensive water recycling program for the San Francisco Bay Area include the San Jose Area water reclamation and reuse program authorized by the Reclamation Projects Authorization and Adjustment Act of 1992.",2023-01-11T16:47:39Z,
110-s-1477,110,s,1477,Jackson Gulch Rehabilitation Act of 2008,Water Resources Development,2007-05-24,2008-09-16,Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 974.,Senate,"Sen. Salazar, Ken [D-CO]",CO,D,S001163,1,"Jackson Gulch Rehabilitation Act of 2008 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Commissioner of Reclamation: (1) to pay the federal share of the cost of carrying out the Jackson Gulch rehabilitation project in Colorado, subject to a reimbursement requirement; and (2) in preparing any studies related to the project, to use existing studies to the maximum extent possible, including engineering and resource information provided by, or at the direction of, federal, state, or local agencies and the Mancos Water Conservancy District.Requires the Secretary to recover from the District, as reimbursable expenses, the lesser of 35% of the project's cost or $2.9 million over a 15-year period, without interest. Directs the Secretary to credit the District for any amounts it paid before this Act's enactment for engineering work and improvements.Makes the District responsible for the operation and maintenance of any facility constructed or rehabilitated under this Act. Shields the United States from liability for damages arising out of any act, omission, or occurrence relating to a facility rehabilitated or constructed under this Act. Provides that an activity provided federal funding under this Act shall not be considered a supplemental or additional benefit under the reclamation laws or under the Act of August 11, 1939. Authorizes appropriations.",2023-01-11T16:47:39Z,
110-s-1516,110,s,1516,Rural Colorado Water Infrastructure Act,Water Resources Development,2007-05-24,2007-05-24,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]",CO,R,A000109,1,"Rural Colorado Water Infrastructure Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to establish a pilot program to provide environmental assistance to non-federal interests in Colorado, which may be provided in the form of design and construction assistance for water-related environmental infrastructure and resource protection and development projects. Requires projects to be publicly owned as a prerequisite for assistance. Directs the Secretary to enter into local cooperation agreements with non-federal interests for project design and construction. Sets the federal share of project costs under local cooperation agreements at 75%. Sets the non-federal share of operation and maintenance costs for projects constructed with assistance under this Act at 100%.",2023-01-11T16:47:38Z,
110-s-1522,110,s,1522,Fisheries Restoration and Irrigation Mitigation Act of 2007,Water Resources Development,2007-05-24,2008-04-10,Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 649.,Senate,"Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]",OR,D,W000779,7,"Fisheries Restoration and Irrigation Mitigation Act of 2007 - Amends the Fisheries Restoration and Irrigation Mitigation Act of 2000 to direct the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, to give priority to any project that has a total cost of less than $2.5 million (currently, $5 million). Authorizes the Secretary, without further appropriation and without fiscal year limitation, to accept any amounts provided to the Secretary by the Administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration. Requires: (1) any amounts provided by the Bonneville Power Administration directly or through a grant to another entity for a project carried out under the Program to be credited toward the non-federal share of project costs; and (2) the Secretary's report on projects under such Act to be made after partnering with local governmental entities and the states in the Pacific Ocean drainage area (Oregon, Washington, Montana, and Idaho). Authorizes appropriations for the Act through FY2014. Sets forth limits and requirements on the amount that may be used each fiscal year for federal and state administrative expenses of carrying out this Act.",2023-01-11T17:02:47Z,
110-hr-2423,110,hr,2423,Ballast Water Management Act of 2007,Water Resources Development,2007-05-22,2007-05-23,Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.,House,"Rep. LaTourette, Steven C. [R-OH-14]",OH,R,L000553,5,"Ballast Water Management Act of 2007 - Amends the Nonindigenous Aquatic Nuisance Prevention and Control Act of 1990 to direct the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to issue regulations to prevent the introduction and spread of nonindigenous aquatic species in waters of the United States (under current law, of aquatic nuisance species into the Great Lakes). Directs the Secretary to: (1) issue regulations to establish national ballast water discharge standards that limit the number of living organisms contained in ballast water discharged from vessels into waters of the United States; and (2) determine whether one or more alternative ballast water management methods are available to achieve those standards.  Requires vessel operators to conduct all ballast water management operations in accordance with a ballast water management plan designed to minimize the discharge of aquatic nuisance species. Regulates ballast tank sediment management. Removes provisions allowing, except in the Great Lakes, a vessel to exchange ballast water in a harbor if it has, because of safety, not done so at sea. Replaces a ballast water management demonstration program with a shipboard technology evaluation and demonstration program to evaluate alternative ballast water management methods aboard vessels to prevent aquatic nuisance species from being introduced into and spread through discharges of ballast water in waters of the United States. Requires a program to demonstrate and verify technologies and practices to monitor and control the introduction of aquatic invasive species by ship pathways other than the release of ballast water.",2023-01-11T16:03:24Z,
110-hr-2381,110,hr,2381,Upper Mississippi River Basin Protection Act,Water Resources Development,2007-05-17,2008-02-28,Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held.,House,"Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]",WI,D,K000188,8,"(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)Upper Mississippi River Basin Protection Act - Title I: Sediment and Nutrient Monitoring Network  - (Sec. 101) Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the United States Geological Survey (USGS), to establish a sediment and nutrient monitoring network for the Upper Mississippi River Basin. (Sec. 102) Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish guidelines for related data collection and storage activities; (2) inventory the sediment and monitoring efforts of governmental and nongovernmental entities for the purpose of creating a baseline understanding of overlap, data gaps, and redundancies; (3) integrate the existing monitoring efforts into the network; (4) make maximum use of existing data and ongoing programs and efforts in developing the network; (5) carry out this section in coordination with the long-term estuary assessment project authorized by the Estuaries and Clean Waters Act of 2000; (6) collaborate with other public and private monitoring programs; and (7) report to Congress on the network's development. (Sec. 106) Directs the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a water resources assessment of the Basin. Title II: Computer Modeling and Research - (Sec. 201) Requires the Director to establish: (1) a computer modeling program to identify nutrient and sediment sources in the Basin; and (2) an Internet-based system to provide information about nutrient and sediment loss reduction programs and projects and nutrient and sediment levels in the Upper Mississippi River and its tributaries. (Sec. 203) Requires the Director to provide to Congress and make available to the public: (1) an annual report regarding monitoring activities conducted in the Upper Mississippi River Basin; and (2) a progress report every three years regarding modeling activities.Title III: Authorization of Appropriations and Related Matters - (Sec. 301) Authorizes appropriations to: (1) the USGS each fiscal year to carry out this Act, requiring one-third of the appropriated funds for the Cooperative Water Program and the remainder for the Hydrologic Networks and Analysis Program; and (2) the National Research Council for the water resources assessment.(Sec. 302) Makes funds available for the Cooperative Water Program subject to the same cost-sharing requirements as specified in the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006.",2023-01-11T16:03:25Z,
110-hr-2339,110,hr,2339,Produced Water Utilization Act of 2008,Water Resources Development,2007-05-16,2008-07-31,Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.,House,"Rep. Hall, Ralph M. [R-TX-4]",TX,R,H000067,0,"Produced Water Utilization Act of 2008 - Defines "produced water" to mean water from an underground source that is brought to the surface as part of the process of exploration for or development of coalbed methane, oil, natural gas, or any other substance to be used as an energy source.Requires the Secretary of Energy, in conjunction with an existing domestic petroleum production program of the Department of Energy, to conduct a program of research, development, and demonstration of technologies for environmentally sustainable utilization of produced water for agriculture, irrigation, municipal, or industrial uses or other environmentally sustainable purposes. Requires the program to be designed to maximize the utilization of produced water in the United States by increasing its quality and reducing its environmental impacts.Requires that the program address: (1) produced water recovery, including research for desalination and demineralization to reduce total dissolved solids in the produced water; (2) re-injection of produced water into subsurface geological formations to increase energy production; and (3) improving safety and minimizing environmental impacts of such activities.Requires the Secretary, through the appropriate National Laboratory, to carry out research, development, and demonstration activities that are complementary to and supportive of such program.Authorizes appropriations.",2023-01-11T16:03:27Z,
110-hr-2277,110,hr,2277,"To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a feasibility study relating to long-term water needs for the area served by the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project, Colorado, and for other purposes.",Water Resources Development,2007-05-10,2007-05-18,Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.,House,"Rep. Lamborn, Doug [R-CO-5]",CO,R,L000564,1,"Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, through the Bureau of Reclamation, to conduct a study to determine the most feasible method of meeting water supply and related storage requirements within the area served by the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project, Colorado (the Project), including the potential enlargement of Fryingpan-Arkansas facilities. Directs the Secretary to take into consideration the Preferred Storage Options Plan Report published September 21, 2000, by the Southeastern Colorado Water and Storage Needs Assessment Enterprise and Final PSOP Implementation Committee Report dated April 19, 2001 (PSOP Reports), the intergovernmental agreement dated May 27, 2004 among the cities of Pueblo, Aurora, Fountain, and Colorado Springs, the Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District, and the Board of Water Works of Pueblo, Colorado, and the need to ensure compliance with the Arkansas River Compact as executed by the states of Colorado and Kansas on December 14, 1948.Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts with any entity for the use of excess capacity in the Project for the purpose of diverting, storing, impounding, pumping, exchanging, or conveying non-project water for irrigation, domestic, municipal, or industrial purposes. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish charges for such use; and (2) enter into new and renewal contracts with the city of Aurora, or an enterprise of that city, for a term not to exceed 40 years, for use of storage or carrying capacity excess of Project requirements.Sets forth provisions regarding the diversion, storage, impoundment, pumping, exchange, or conveyance of non-project water.",2023-01-11T16:03:29Z,
110-hr-2085,110,hr,2085,McGee Creek Project Pipeline and Associated Facilities Conveyance Act,Water Resources Development,2007-05-01,2008-06-16,Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 817.,House,"Rep. Fallin, Mary [R-OK-5]",OK,R,F000453,1,"(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) McGee Creek Project Pipeline and Associated Facilities Conveyance Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the McGee Creek Authority all U.S. rights to the pipeline and any associated facilities described in the Agreement Between the United States and McGee Creek Authority for the Purpose of Defining Responsibilities Related to and Implementing the Title Transfer of Certain Facilities at the McGee Creek Project, Oklahoma. Excludes the mineral estate from the conveyance.  Requires the Secretary to complete any actions required under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the Endangered Species Act of 1973, and the National Historic Preservation Act before such conveyance.Provides that any rights and obligations under a specified contract between the Authority and the United States for the construction, operation, and maintenance of the McGee Creek Project shall remain in force.",2023-01-11T15:33:19Z,
110-s-1258,110,s,1258,A bill to amend the Reclamation Safety of Dams Act of 1978 to authorize improvements for the security of dams and other facilities.,Water Resources Development,2007-05-01,2007-07-26,Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-152.,Senate,"Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]",WA,D,C000127,5,"Amends the Reclamation Safety of Dams Act of 1978 to: (1) authorize the Secretary of the Interior to make modifications to preserve the site security of Bureau of Reclamation dams and related facilities; and (2) provide for the reimbursement of all costs incurred for post-September 11, 2001 building and site security activities.Requires: (1) dam safety and site security costs allocated to irrigation, municipal, and industrial water service for the Central Valley Project, California, to be collected by the Secretary exclusively through inclusion of such costs in operation and maintenance rates, capital water rates, or both; and (2) reimbursable operation and maintenance costs to be repaid annually. Authorizes the Secretary to develop policies and procedures to provide for agreements with project beneficiaries for the return of reimbursable costs of site security activities. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) the modification of structures resulting from new hydrologic or seismic data or changes in the state-of-the-art criteria deemed necessary for safety purposes, with obligations exceeding a prescribed limit subject to a reporting requirement; and (2) post-September 11, 2001, building and site security activities.Requires the Secretary to: (1) report annually to specified committees on building and site activities undertaken; and (2) include in required reports the Secretary's response when a modification is the result of new data or criteria changes deemed necessary for safety purposes.",2023-01-11T16:32:44Z,
110-hr-2076,110,hr,2076,Lead-Free Drinking Water Act of 2007,Water Resources Development,2007-04-30,2007-04-30,Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.,House,"Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]",DC,D,N000147,1,"Lead-Free Drinking Water Act of 2007 - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to review and revise the national primary drinking water regulation for lead to provide the maximum feasible protection for individuals affected by lead contamination, particularly vulnerable populations (e.g., infants, children, and pregnant and lactating women).  Requires the revised regulation to establish: (1) a maximum contaminant level for lead in drinking water as measured at the tap; or (2) a drinking water treatment technique that meets specified criteria. Directs community water systems or nontransient noncommunity water systems to: (1) annually replace a percentage of non-lead free service lines until all such lines are replaced; (2) provide notice in English and other appropriate languages to individuals and entities that may be exposed to lead contamination in the drinking water supply; (3) provide water lead test results to tested residences; (4) establish a public education program on lead in drinking water; and (5) provide water filters to residences, schools, and day care facilities. Requires the head of each federal agency to conduct water supply testing in federally-owned or occupied buildings. Directs each water system to test drinking water for lead contamination within one year.  Requires the Administrator to revise monitoring requirements under the national primary drinking water regulation to incorporate specified criteria. Prohibits the use of lead pipes and plumbing equipment that is not lead free in public water systems or facilities that provide drinking water. Requires the Administrator to: (1) issue regulations to require states to establish programs to test and remediate lead contamination in school drinking water; and (2) carry out such programs in non-participating states.",2023-01-11T19:42:49Z,
110-s-1248,110,s,1248,Water Resources Development Act of 2007,Water Resources Development,2007-04-30,2007-04-30,Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 126.,Senate,"Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]",CA,D,B000711,0,"Water Resources Development Act of 2007 - Renews the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA). Authorizes Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) water resources development and conservation projects, including flood control, environmental restoration, shoreline protection, and inland navigation projects. Title I: Water Resources Projects - (Sec. 1001) Authorizes specified projects for navigation, ecosystem restoration, flood or storm damage reduction, and related purposes in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and Washington. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to carry out the project for ecosystem restoration, Jamaica Bay, Queens, and Brooklyn, New York, at a specified cost, subject to completion of a favorable final report of the Chief of Engineers by December 31, 2006.(Sec. 1002) Provides for construction of navigation improvements, ecosystem restoration projects, and ecosystem restoration preconstruction and design for the Upper Mississippi River and Illinois Waterway System.  (Sec. 1003) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army (Secretary) to carry out a program to restore the ecosystem of the Louisiana Coastal Area, including by making modifications necessary to the five near-term critical ecosystem restoration features identified in the Chief's report dated January 31, 2005, due to the impact of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on the project areas. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct: (1) a demonstration program within the applicable project area to evaluate new technologies; and (2) a program for the beneficial use of dredged material.  Directs the Secretary, in coordination with the governor of Louisiana, to develop and annually update a plan for protecting, preserving, and restoring the coastal Louisiana ecosystem.Establishes the Coastal Louisiana Ecosystem Protection and Restoration Task Force. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a coastal Louisiana ecosystem science and technology program and a Louisiana Water Resources Council within the Mississippi River Commission; (2) enter into a contract with the National Academy of Sciences to identify the cause of degradation of the Louisiana Coastal Area; (3) study financing alternatives and potential reductions in the expenditure of federal funds in emergency responses that would occur as a result of ecosystem restoration in that Area; (4) report to Congress within six years, evaluating alternative means of authorizing Corps water resources projects; and (5) enter into a contract with the National Academy of Science to perform an external review of the demonstration program.(Sec. 1004) Directs the Secretary to study and, if feasible or appropriate, carry out: (1) a flood damage reduction project at Cache River Basin, Grubbs, Arkansas; (2) specified navigation projects in Arkansas, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Ohio; and (3) specified aquatic ecosystem restoration projects in California, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Virginia.Title II: General Provisions - Subtitle A: Provisions - (Sec. 2001) - Amends the Flood Control Act of 1970 to require: (1) written agreements for water resources projects; and (2) the Secretary to credit toward the non-federal share of the cost of a water resources project the value of in-kind contributions made by the non-federal interest. (Sec. 2003) Authorizes the Secretary to include individuals from the non-federal interest, including the private sector, in Corps' training classes.(Sec. 2004) Directs the Chief of Engineers to submit a report to specified congressional committees on expenditures for the preceding fiscal year and estimated expenditures for the current fiscal year.(Sec. 2005) Amends the WRDA of 1986 to require the Secretary, for all water resources project feasibility reports completed after December 31, 2005, to assess whether: (1) the project and each element is cost-effective; and (2) the project complies with federal, state, and local laws and public policies. Requires the Chief of Engineers: (1) within two years after a feasibility study cost sharing agreement is signed for a project, to complete the study and sign the the project report (allows an extension for a complex or controversial study); and (2) to adopt a risk analysis approach to project cost estimates. Authorizes the Secretary to establish centers to provide specialized planning expertise for water resource projects in order to enhance and supplement the capabilities of the districts of the Corps. Requires: (1) studies and assessments of problems and projects to include recommendations for alternatives; and (2) reports of the Chief of Engineers to be based solely on the best technical solutions to water resource needs and problems.(Sec. 2006) Directs: (1) the President to establish a Water Resources Planning Coordinating Committee, which shall report to the President and Congress on U.S. vulnerability to damage from flooding and related storm damage; and (2) the Secretary and the Committee to propose revisions to modernize the planning principles and guidelines by which the Corps analyzes water projects, including by eliminating biases and disincentives to providing projects to low-income communities and by encouraging wetlands conservation. (Sec. 2007) Directs the Secretary to: (1) appoint a Director of Independent Review from experts in a water resources management discipline; and (2) ensure that the Director does not have a conflict of interest with projects subject to review.Requires the Secretary to ensure that each project study for a water resources project be reviewed by an independent panel of experts if: (1) the project has an estimated total cost of more than $40 million; (2) such review is requested by the governor of a state in which the project is located or of a state within a project drainage basin that would be directly affected economically or environmentally; (3) such review is requested by the head of a federal agency with authority to review the project who determines that it is likely to have a significant adverse impact on public safety or on environmental, fish and wildlife, historical, cultural, or other resources; or (4) the Secretary determines that the project is controversial because there is a significant dispute regarding its size, nature, safety, effects, or economic or environmental costs or benefits. Sets forth provisions regarding project planning review panel establishment, membership, duties, recommendations, reports, and review deadlines.Directs the Secretary to ensure that the construction activities for any flood damage reduction project are reviewed by an independent panel of experts if necessary to ensure public health, safety, and welfare where: (1) the reliability of performance under emergency conditions is critical; (2) the project uses innovative materials or techniques; and (3) the project is lacking in redundancy or has a unique construction sequencing or a short or overlapping design construction schedule. Sets forth provisions regarding safety assurance review panel establishment, membership, review deadlines, cost limitations, and reporting requirements.(Sec. 2008) Lists mitigation plan requirements under WRDA. Directs the Secretary to ensure that each water resources project plan to mitigate losses to flood damage reduction capabilities and fish and wildlife complies fully with the mitigation standards and policies established pursuant to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (FWPCA).Requires a specific mitigation plan for a project to include: (1) a plan for monitoring the implementation and ecological success of each mitigation measure; (2) the criteria for ecological success; (3) land to be acquired and the basis for a determination that the land is available for acquisition; (4) a description of restoration activities and the resource functions and values that will result; and (5) a contingency plan for corrective actions when monitoring demonstrates that mitigation measures are not achieving ecological success.Sets forth criteria for determining success and reporting requirements. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a recordkeeping system to track, for each project undertaken and for each permit issued under the FWPCA, the wetland affected, the mitigation measures required, and the status of monitoring of such measures; and (2) make information contained in that system available to the public on the Internet.(Sec. 2009) Authorizes the Secretary, upon request, to provide technical assistance in managing water resources. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to list in the annual civil works budget submitted to Congress the individual activities proposed for funding.(Sec. 2010) Directs the Secretary, acting through the Corps, to provide public access to water resource and related water quality data in the Corps' custody.(Sec. 2011) Requires: (1) budget priority for construction of flood control projects by non-federal interests to be proportionate to the percentage of project completion; and (2) a completed project to have the same priority as a project with a contractor on site.Directs the Secretary to enter into agreements for development of specified flood control projects in Illinois and Texas.(Sec. 2012) Amends the WRDA of 1992 to direct the Secretary, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to develop Regional Sediment Management plans and carry out projects at identified locations for use in construction, repair, modification, or rehabilitation associated with federal water resources projects for: (1) the protection of property; (2) the protection, restoration, and creation of aquatic and ecologically related habitats, including wetlands; and (3) the transport and placement of suitable sediment. Directs the Secretary to develop plans and projects for regional management of sediment obtained. Limits total federal costs associated with construction of a project to $5 million without congressional approval. Directs the Secretary to give priority to specified regional sediment management projects in New York, California, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and Ohio. Repeals provisions of the WRDA of 1976 regarding the placement on state beaches of sand dredged in constructing and maintaining navigation inlets and channels adjacent to such beaches.(Sec. 2013) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out construction of small shore and beach restoration and protection projects not specifically authorized by Congress that otherwise comply with this Act. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to conduct a national shoreline erosion control development and demonstration program.(Sec. 2014) Declares it to be U.S. policy to promote shore protection projects and related research that encourage the protection, restoration, and enhancement of sandy beaches on a comprehensive and coordinated basis by the federal government, states, localities, and private enterprises.(Sec. 2015) Directs that costs incurred for monitoring for an ecosystem restoration project be cost-shared in accordance with the formula relating to the original construction project for a maximum of ten years.(Sec. 2016) Directs the Corps to include ecosystem restoration benefits in the calculation of benefits for specified projects in California.(Sec. 2017) Repeals a limitation on the duration of the Secretary's authority to accept and expend funds contributed by nonfederal public entities to expedite the evaluation of permits under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Army.(Sec. 2018) Directs the Secretary to implement a program to allow electronic submission of applications for permits under the Corps' jurisdiction.(Sec. 2019) Directs the Secretary to carry out specified measures to support the water resource needs of project sponsors and any affected state, local, or tribal government for authorized project purposes. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) conduct a study to identify unused, underused, or additional water storage capacity at reservoirs; (2) review an operational plan and identify any change to maximize an authorized project purpose to improve water storage capacity and enhance efficiency of releases and withdrawal of water; (3) improve and update data, data collection, and forecasting models to maximize an authorized project purpose and improve water storage capacity and delivery to water users; and (4) conduct a sediment study and implement any sediment management or removal measure.Sets forth provisions regarding the costs of water supply storage, the adjustment of joint use costs in the case of the reallocation of a water supply from another project purpose, and the impact of a reallocation that adversely affects hydropower generation on hydroelectric power rates.(Sec. 2020) Removes certain restrictions on the federal hopper dredges Essayons and Yaquina.(Sec. 2021) Directs that, in Louisiana, extraordinary rainfall events such as Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Andrew shall not be considered in making a determination regarding the ordinary high water mark for purposes of the Rivers and Harbors Act.(Sec. 2022) Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts with state and local governmental entities for procurement of services in the presuppression, detection, and suppression of fires. (Sec. 2023) Amends the Flood Control Act of 1970 to define "non-federal interest" to include a nonprofit organization acting with the consent of the affected unit of government.(Sec. 2024) Requires the Secretary to: (1) assign a unique tracking number to each water resources project to be used by each federal agency throughout the life of the project; and (2) maintain at the Library of Congress a copy of each final feasibility study, environmental impact statement, reevaluation report, record of decision, and report to Congress prepared by the Corps. Makes such documents available to the public.(Sec. 2025) Repeals provisions of the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2006, regarding program administration.(Sec. 2026) Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to review and report to Congress on whether it would be feasible to extend the period of federal financial participation relating to the shore protection project.Subtitle B: Continuing Authorities Projects - (Sec. 2031) Amends the River and Harbor Act of 1960 to increase the limitation on allotments for the construction of a small river and harbor improvement project at any single locality which will result in substantial benefits to navigation.(Sec. 2032) Amends the Flood Control Act of 1946 to increase the cap for funding for the protection of highways, bridge approaches, public works, and nonprofit public services.(Sec. 2033) Amends the WRDA of: (1) 1996 to increase appropriations for an aquatic restoration and protection project and make it a freshwater project; and (2) 1986 to increase appropriations for environmental modification of projects.(Sec. 2035) Directs the Secretary to carry out an estuary habitat restoration project upon determining that it will improve the elements and features of an estuary, is in the public interest, and is cost-effective.(Sec. 2036) Amends the WRDA of 1999 regarding abandoned mine restoration to require the non-federal share of the costs of operation and maintenance for a project to be 100%. Increases authorized appropriations.(Sec. 2037) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a small dam removal or rehabilitation project if it will improve the quality of the environment or is in the public interest.(Sec. 2038) Directs the Secretary to develop eligibility criteria for federal participation in navigation projects located in economically disadvantaged communities that are dependent on water transportation for subsistence in remote areas, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, or the U.S. Virgin Islands.(Sec. 2039) Amends the Flood Control Act of 1970 to direct that if the Secretary determines that a project needs to be continued for public health and safety purposes, the non-federal interest shall pay the increased costs up to 20% of the original estimated project costs (in accordance with the statutorily-determined cost share) and the Secretary shall pay all increased costs remaining.Subtitle C: National Levee Safety Program - (Sec. 2051) National Levee Safety Program Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary to establish a National Levee Safety Committee to: (1) advise the Secretary in implementing a national levee safety program; (2) support programs, policies, and guidelines to enhance levee safety for the protection of human life and property throughout the United States; and (3) support coordination and information exchange between federal and state agencies that share common problems and responsibilities relating to levee safety. Directs the Secretary to establish and maintain a national levee safety program, which shall include: (1) periodically publishing an inventory of levees in the United States, including assessment and inspection results; (2) determining the potential for a failure or overtopping of each levee in the United States that would pose a risk to human life or public safety, with priority to levees constituting the highest risk; and (3) taking into consideration the potential of a levee to fail or overtop because of hydrologic or hydraulic conditions, storm surges, geotechnical conditions, inadequate operating procedures, structural, mechanical, or design deficiencies, or other conditions in the vicinity of the levee. Sets forth provisions regarding state participation, reporting requirements, and subsequent assessments.Directs the Secretary to provide funds to assist state agencies in establishing, maintaining, and improving levee safety programs. Requires the Secretary to: (1) carry out a program of technical and archival research; and (2) establish a program of training for state levee safety agency staff and inspectors. Title III: Project-Related Provisions - (Sec. 3001) Directs the Secretary to remove rubble, sediment, and rock impeding the entrance to the St. Herman and St. Paul Harbors, Kodiak, Alaska.(Sec. 3002) Directs the Secretary to: (1) correct design deficiencies in the Thompson Harbor, Sitka, Alaska, element of the navigation project, Southeast Alaska Harbors of Refuge; and (2) construct a new project management office in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.(Sec. 3004) Modifies the cost of the project for flood damage reduction, Rio de Flag, Flagstaff, Arizona.(Sec. 3005) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out rehabilitation of levees on the White River between Augusta and Clarendon, Arkansas.(Sec. 3006) Modifies the project for improvements at Calion, Arkansas, to include authorization for the comprehensive flood-control project for Ouachita River and tributaries. Requires that the Ouachita River Levees, Louisiana, remain as a component of the Mississippi River and Tributaries Project and be afforded operation and maintenance responsibilities.(Sec. 3007) Authorizes the Secretary to undertake channel stabilization and sediment removal measures for the flood control project at St. Francis Basin, Arkansas and Missouri.(Sec. 3008) Directs the Secretary to: (1) convey to Arkansas specified land acquired as mitigation land for the flood control project, St. Francis Basin, Arkansas and Missouri Project; (2) continue construction of the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System, Arkansas and Oklahoma, to operate and maintain the navigation channel to the authorized depth; and (3) mitigate the impacts of the new south levee of the settling basin of the flood control project at Cache Creek Basin, California, on the storm drainage system of the city of Woodland.(Sec. 3011) Authorizes additional funds for the Calfed Levee Stability Program, California. (Sec. 3012) Modifies the environmental restoration project at Hamilton Airfield, California, to include the diked bayland parcel known as Bel Marin Keys Unit V.(Sec. 3013) Amends the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 to provide that beginning January 1, 2007 (currently, 2003), no permit or authorization for dumping shall be issued for the site located off the coast of Newport Beach, California, known as "LA-3" unless such site has received a final designation or an alternative site has been selected.(Sec. 3014) Directs the Secretary to prepare a limited reevaluation report to determine whether maintenance of the project for navigation at Larkspur Ferry Channel, Larkspur, California, is feasible.(Sec. 3015) Authorizes the Secretary to complete the project for flood damage reduction at Llagas Creek, California, in accordance with specified local cooperation requirements and at a specified cost.(Sec. 3016) Directs the Secretary to apply the cost-sharing requirements applicable to nonstructural flood control under the WRDA of 1986 for the portion of the project at Magpie Creek, California, consisting of land acquisition to preserve and enhance existing floodwater storage.(Sec. 3017) Directs the Secretary to participate with state and local agencies in the implementation of a cooperative program to improve and manage fisheries and aquatic habitat conditions in Pine Flat Reservoir and in the 14-mile reach of the Kings River immediately below Pine Flat Dam, California.(Sec. 3018) Authorizes the Secretary to dredge the Redwood City Navigation Channel, California, annually to maintain the authorized depth.(Sec. 3019) Directs the Secretary: (1) to credit a specified amount toward that portion of the non-federal share of the costs of any flood damage reduction project authorized before this Act's enactment that is to be paid by the Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency; (2) and the Secretary of the Interior to expedite their respective activities, including the formulation of all necessary studies and decision documents, in furtherance of the Project Alternative Solutions Study; and (3) to consolidate technical reviews and design activities for specified flood damage reduction, dam safety, and environmental restoration projects. (Sec. 3020) Directs that if the Secretary determines that projects proposed to be carried out by non-federal entities within specified portions of the San Francisco, California, waterfront are not in the public interest, those portions shall be declared not to be navigable water of the United States.(Sec. 3021) Directs the Secretary to review the preferred restoration concept plan approved by the Salton Sea Authority to determine whether the pilot projects for improvement of the environment of the Salton Sea are economically justified, technically sound, and environmentally acceptable and meet the objectives of the Salton Sea Reclamation Act. (Sec. 3022) Authorizes the Secretary to construct the project for flood damage reduction, Santa Barbara Streams, Lower Mission Creek, California, at a specified cost.(Sec. 3023) Authorizes the Secretary to construct the projects for: (1) flood damage reduction and recreation, Upper Guadalupe River, California, in accordance with the Upper Guadalupe River Flood Damage Reduction, San Jose, California, Limited Reevaluation Report, dated March, 2004; and (2) flood damage reduction, Yuba River Basin, California.(Sec. 3025) Designates the western breakwater for the navigation project, New Haven Harbor, Connecticut, as the "Charles Hervey Townshend Breakwater."(Sec. 3026) Deauthorizes: (1) a portion of the navigation project, New London Harbor, Connecticut; and (2) portions of a 10-foot channel of the navigation project, Norwalk Harbor, Connecticut.(Sec. 3028) Amends the WRDA of 1990 to bar the Secretary from carrying out any action to close or remove the St. George's Bridge, Delaware, without specific congressional authorization.(Sec. 3029) Amends the WRDA of 2000 to apply maximum cost restrictions of the WRDA of 1986 to individual project funding limits and aggregate cost limits for Everglades restoration, Florida. (Sec. 3030) Increases the reach of the shoreline protection project in Brevard County, Florida. (Sec. 3031) Amends the WRDA of 1996 to increase the federal share of the cost of carrying out the Seminole Water Conservation Plan.(Sec. 3032) Amends the WRDA of 2000 to direct that the pilot projects for aquifer storage and recovery, Hillsboro and Okeechobee Aquifer, Florida, be treated as being in the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan, but with costs of operation and maintenance remaining 100% non-federal.(Sec. 3033) Directs the Secretary to carry out the hurricane and storm damage reduction project at Lido Key, Sarasota County, Florida.(Sec. 3034) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out the Port Sutton Channel, Tampa Harbor, Florida, navigation project at a specified cost.(Sec. 3035) Modifies the Tampa Harbor, Florida, navigation project to authorize the Secretary to construct passing lanes in an area centered on Tampa Bay Cut B if necessary for navigational safety.(Sec. 3036) Authorizes the Secretary to exchange land at Allatoona Lake, Georgia.(Sec. 3037) Directs the Secretary to: (1) carry out additional general construction measures to allow for operation at lower pool levels to satisfy the recreation mission at Dworshak Dam, Idaho; and (2) rehabilitate the Gooding Channel Project, Idaho, if the rehabilitation and ecosystem restoration are feasible.(Sec. 3039) Extinguishes reversionary interests and use restrictions relating to industrial use purposes, Port of Lewiston, Idaho.(Sec. 3040) Modifies the Cache River Levee, Illinois, project to add environmental restoration as a project purpose.(Sec. 3041) Amends the WRDA of 2000 to include Lake Michigan in a study along with the Chicago River.(Sec. 3042) Redefines the federal navigation channel for the North Branch Channel portion of the Chicago River to be no wider than 66 feet.(Sec. 3043) Amends the WRDA of 2000 to increase funding for critical restoration projects for Illinois River Basin Restoration.(Sec. 3044) Authorizes the Secretary, as a pilot program, to participate in the reconstruction of flood control projects within Missouri and Illinois if such reconstruction is not required as a result of improper operation and maintenance by the non-federal interest. (Sec. 3045) Authorizes ecosystem restoration as a purpose of the project for flood control, Illinois and Des Plaines River Basin (Spunky Bottom).(Sec. 3046) Directs the Secretary, acting through the Tulsa District of the Corps, to transfer land to Pleasant Township, Coffey County, Kansas, for use as the New Strawn Cemetery.(Sec. 3047) Directs the Secretary to convey to Geary County Fire Department, Milford, Kansas, all U.S. right to specified land for a fire station.(Sec. 3048) Amends the WRDA o 2000 to modify the project for ecosystem restoration, Ohio River, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, to authorize the Secretary to cost share projects with the consent of the affected local government, prepare an implementation plan, and initiate a pilot program in the Lower Scioto Basin, Ohio. (Sec. 3049) Amends the WRDA of 1990 to increase authorized funding the McAlpine Lock and Dam, Kentucky and Indiana.(Sec. 3050) Modifies the public access feature of the Atchafalaya Basin Floodway System, Louisiana project, to authorize the Secretary to acquire from willing sellers the fee interest of an additional 20,000 acres in the Lower Atchafalaya Basin Floodway. (Sec. 3051) Directs the Secretary: (1) to carry out a project for flood control, Atchafalaya Basin Floodway System, Louisiana; and (2) acting through the Chief of Engineers, to study, design, and construct a type A regional visitors center in the vicinity of Morgan City, Louisiana.(Sec. 3052) Modifies: (1) the project for the Calcasieu River and Pass, Louisiana to authorize specified funds for rock bank protection; and (2) the flood damage reduction and recreation project, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, to authorize the Secretary to carry out the project in accordance with specified reports at a specified cost (Sec. 3054) Authorizes appropriations to support the relocation of Port of New Orleans deep draft facilities from the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, the Gulf Intercoastal Waterway, and the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal to the Mississippi River. (Sec. 3055) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out the project for mitigation of fish and wildlife losses, Red River Waterway, Louisiana, at a specified cost. Permits the purchase of marginal farmland for reforestation. Incorporates certain wildlife and forestry management practices to improve species diversity.(Sec. 3056) Limits federal expenditures for a project at Camp Ellis, Saco, Maine.(Sec. 3057) Redesignates a specified portion of the navigation project at Union River, Maine, as an anchorage area.(Sec. 3058) Amends the WRDA of 1996 to increase the funding limit for the Chesapeake Bay environmental restoration and protection program, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.(Sec. 3059) Amends the WRDA of 1999 to increase the total authorized cost for a project at Cumberland, Maryland.(Sec. 3060) Deauthorizes the portion of the navigation project, Aunt Lydia's Cove, Massachusetts, consisting of the eight-foot deep anchorage in the cove.(Sec. 3061) Allows the navigation project at Fall River Harbor, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, to remain authorized, but limits the authorized depth of a portion of the project.(Sec. 3062) Amends the WRDA of 1999 to direct the Secretary to establish and lead a partnership of appropriate federal agencies and the State of Michigan to: (1) promote cooperation in the management of the St. Clair River and Lake St. Clair watersheds; and (2) develop and implement projects consistent with the management plan.(Sec. 3063) Directs the Secretary to carry out the navigation project at Duluth Harbor, Minnesota.(Sec. 3064) Directs the Secretary to carry out that portion of the project for environmental enhancement, Mississippi and Louisiana Estuarine Areas, Mississippi and Louisiana, identified as the Bonnet Carre Freshwater Diversion Project. (Sec. 3065) Provides for a land exchange between S.S.S., Inc., and the Corps, at Pike County, Missouri.(Sec. 3066) Considers a portion of the L-15 levees system, Missouri, to be a federal levee for purposes of cost sharing.(Sec. 3067) Directs the Secretary to offer to convey to Missouri land purchased for the Union Lake Project that was deauthorized.(Sec. 3068) Authorizes the Secretary to use funds appropriated to carry out the Missouri River recovery and mitigation program to assist the Bureau of Reclamation in the design and construction of the Lower Yellowstone project of the Bureau, Intake, Montana, for the purpose of ecosystem restoration.(Sec. 3069) Directs the Secretary to carry out restoration projects in the watershed of the Yellowstone River and tributaries, Montana and North Dakota, to produce ecosystem restoration and recreation benefits.(Sec. 3070) Limits federal expenditures for the environmental restoration project at McCarran Ranch, Nevada.(Sec. 3071) Directs the Secretary to: (1) carry out restoration projects in the Middle Rio Grande from Cochiti Dam to the headwaters of Elephant Butte Reservoir, New Mexico; and (2) plan, design, and construct projects to increase aquatic habitats within Long Island Sound and adjacent waters, New York and Connecticut.(Sec. 3073) Amends the WRDA of 1996 to: (1) increase the maximum total federal cost of the project at Orchard Beach, Bronx, New York; and (2) authorize the Secretary to enter into cost-sharing agreements with non-federal public interests for the acquisition, design, construction, management, or operation of a dredged material processing, treatment, contaminant reduction, or disposal facility using government funds.(Sec. 3075) Amends the WRDA of 2000 to increase the authorization of appropriations for Missouri River restoration, North Dakota.(Sec. 3076) Amends the WRDA of 1996 to increase the authorization for repair and rehabilitation of the Lower Girard Lake Dam, Ohio.(Sec. 3077) Requires increased operation and maintenance activities for the Toussaint River Federal Navigation Project, Carroll Township, Ohio, relating directly to the presence of unexploded ordnance to be carried out at full federal expense.(Sec. 3078) Declares that payments made by the city of Edmond, Oklahoma, to the Secretary in October 1999 of all costs associated with water storage costs at Arcadia Lake, Oklahoma, under a specified contract shall satisfy the city's obligations.(Sec. 3079) Declares that the goal for operation of Lake Eufala shall be to maximize the use of available storage in a balanced approach that ensures that the full value of the reservoir is realized by the United States. Recognizes recreation as a project purpose. Requires the Secretary: (1) to establish an advisory committee for the lake; and (2) acting through the Chief of Engineers, to perform a reallocation study to develop recommendations for use of the lake storage capacity. Directs the Tulsa District Engineer to develop an interim management plan.(Sec. 3080) Terminates each reversionary interest and use restriction relating to public parks and recreation on specified land conveyed by the Secretary to Oklahoma at Lake Texoma.(Sec. 3081) Directs the Secretary to implement an innovative program at the lakes located primarily in Oklahoma that are a part of an authorized Corps civil works project to demonstrate the benefits of enhanced recreation facilities and activities.(Sec. 3082) Sets the remaining obligation of the Waurika Project Master Conservancy District payable to the government at the amounts, rates of interest, and payment schedules that existed on June 3, 1986.(Sec. 3083) Directs the Secretary to: (1) convey to Lowell School District No. 71, Oregon, all U.S. rights to a parcel of land located in Lane County, Oregon; and (2) conduct studies and ecosystem restoration projects for the upper Willamette River watershed from Albany, Oregon, to the headwaters of the Willamette River and tributaries.(Sec. 3085) Amends the WRDA of 1996 to authorize the Secretary, with respect to the ecosystem restoration project for the Upper Susquehanna River Basin, Pennsylvania and New York, to provide assistance for implementation of wetland restoration projects and soil and water conservation measures.(Sec. 3086) Authorizes the Secretary to use amounts in the Environmental Restoration Account, Formerly Used Defense Sites, for the removal of abandoned marine camels at any Formerly Used Defense Site under the jurisdiction of the Department of Defense (DOD) that is undergoing environmental remediation in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island.(Sec. 3087) Directs the Secretary to convey to South Carolina all U.S. rights to land managed by the South Carolina Department of Commerce for public recreation purposes for the Richard B. Russell Dam and Lake, South Carolina, project.(Sec. 3088) Amends the WRDA of 2000 to extend the authorization of appropriations for Missouri River restoration, South Dakota.(Sec. 3089) Amends the WRDA of 1999 to extend the authorization of appropriations for the Missouri and Middle Mississippi Rivers Enhancement Project through FY2015.(Sec. 3090) Authorizes the Secretary to reconstruct, repair, and maintain the weir originally constructed in the vicinity of the mouth of Nonconnah Creek, Tennessee and Mississippi.(Sec. 3091) Extinguishes the reversionary interests and use restrictions relating to recreation and camping for land conveyed by the Secretary to the Tennessee Society of Crippled Children and Adults, Inc. (Easter Seals Tennessee) at Old Hickory Lock and Dam, Cumberland River, Tennessee.(Sec. 3092) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a flood damage reduction project at Sandy Creek, Jackson County, Tennessee, if the Secretary determines that the project is technically sound, environmentally acceptable, and economically justified.(Sec. 3093) Amends the WRDA of 2000 to authorize construction of a navigation channel at Cedar Bayou, Texas, ten feet wide by 100 feet instead of 12 feet by 125 feet.(Sec. 3094) Authorizes the Secretary to offer to convey specified U.S. land in Grayson County, Texas, to the city of Denison, Texas.(Sec. 3095) Provides that: (1) all costs of the navigation project, Freeport Harbor, Texas, incurred as a result of the discovery of the sunken vessel Comstock of the Corps are a federal responsibility; and (2) the Secretary shall not seek further obligation or responsibility for that vessel's removal or costs associated with a delay due to its discovery.(Sec. 3096) Amends the WRDA of 1996 to bar the Secretary from considering flood control works constructed by non-federal interests within the drainage area in the determination of conditions existing prior to construction of the Upper White Oak Bayou, Texas, project.(Sec. 3097) Amends the Flood Control Act of 1970 to permit a nonprofit entity to act as the non-federal interest for purposes of carrying out activities described in the agreement executed between the Nature Conservancy and the Department of the Army with respect to the Connecticut River (Vermont) Restoration Authority study.(Sec. 3098) Amends the WRDA of 2000 to authorize the Secretary to carry out measures to restore, protect, and preserve an ecosystem affected by a dam, and to include nine specified dams to be evaluated, under a dam remediation project in Vermont. (Sec. 3099) Directs the Secretary to: (1) revise the existing General Design Memorandum to permit the use of chemical means of control of Eurasian milfoil, water chestnuts, and other non-native plants in the Lake Champlain basin, Vermont; (2) carry out a study and develop a strategy for the use of wetland restoration, soil and water conservation practices, and nonstructural measures to reduce flood damage, improve water quality, and create wildlife habitat in the Upper Connecticut River watershed; and (3) conduct a study and develop a general management plan for restoration of the Upper Connecticut River ecosystem.(Sec. 3102) Amends the WRDA of 2000 to include among critical restoration projects for the Lake Champlain watershed, Vermont and New York, river corridor assessment, protection, management, and restoration for ecosystem restoration purposes and geographic mapping to produce a high-resolution, multispectral satellite imagery-based land use and cover data set.(Sec. 3103) Amends the WRDA of 1986 to authorize the restoration and rehabilitation of habitat for fish, including native oysters, in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries in Virginia and Maryland and to increase the project cost for the Tangier Island Seawall, Virginia.(Sec. 3105) Directs the Secretary to provide a one-time placement of dredged material along portions of the Columbia River shoreline of Puget Island, Washington, for erosion control for the Lower Columbia River levees and bank protection works with regard to the Wahkiakum County diking districts No. 1 and 3.(Sec. 3106) Extinguishes the reversionary interests and use restrictions relating to port or industrial purposes for the Lower Granite Pool, Washington.(Sec. 3107) Transfers to the Secretary of the Interior administrative jurisdiction over the land acquired for the McNary Lock and Dam Project, Washington and Idaho, to be managed as part of the McNary National Wildlife Refuge. Directs the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to obtain prior approval of the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife for any change to the previously approved site development plan for the Cummins property.(Sec. 3108) Amends the Fish and Wildlife Compensation Plan for the Lower Snake River, Washington and Idaho, to authorize the Secretary to conduct studies and implement aquatic and riparian ecosystem restorations and improvements specifically for fisheries and wildlife.(Sec. 3109) Deauthorizes a portion of the navigation project, Whatcom Creek Waterway, Bellingham, Washington.(Sec. 3110) Authorizes the Secretary to construct the flood control project at Lower Mud River, Milton, West Virginia, substantially in accordance with the May 2004 draft report of the Corps.(Sec. 3111) Modifies the McDowell County nonstructural component of the flood control project, Levisa and Tug Fork of the Big Sandy and Cumberland Rivers, West Virginia, Virginia, and Kentucky, to direct the Secretary to take measures to provide protection, throughout McDowell County, West Virginia, from the reoccurrence of the greatest of the April 1977 flood, the July 2001 flood, the May 2002 flood, or the 100-year frequency event.(Sec. 3112) Authorizes a width of 75 feet and a depth of six feet for the portion of the inner harbor of the federal navigation channel of the Green Bay Harbor project, Wisconsin.(Sec. 3113) Amends the WRDA of 1999 to direct the Secretary to undertake specified flood mitigation and riverine restoration activities at the Underwood Creek Diversion Facility Project, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.(Sec. 3114) Deauthorizes a portion of the navigation project, Oconto Harbor, Wisconsin.(Sec. 3115) Amends the WRDA of 1988 to allow the Secretary to operate headwaters reservoirs outside specified minimum or maximum water levels after consultation with the governor of Minnesota, affected tribal governments, and other specified parties.(Sec. 3116) Amends the WRDA of 1992 to allow the purchase of riverfront property for the Lower Mississippi River Museum and Riverfront Interpretive Site.(Sec. 3117) Allows: (1) a nongovernmental organization to be considered a non-federal interest with the consent of the affected local government for any Upper Mississippi River fish and wildlife habitat rehabilitation and enhancement project under the WRDA of 1986; and (2) funds made available for recovery or mitigation activities in the lower basin of the Missouri River to be used for recovery or mitigation activities in the upper basin, including Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.(Sec. 3119) Amends the WRDA of 2000 to direct the Secretary to carry out a reconnaissance study to identify methods of restoring the fishery, ecosystem, and beneficial uses of the Great Lakes. Extends the authorization for programs for: (1) Great Lakes remedial action plans and sediment remediation; and (2) Great Lakes tributary models.(Sec. 3122) Directs the Secretary to establish a pilot program to evaluate new technologies applicable to the Upper Ohio River and Tributaries Navigation System.Title IV: Studies - (Sec. 4001) Directs the Secretary to carry out a study to develop national protocols for the use of the Euhrychiopsis lecontei weevil for biological control of Eurasian milfoil in the lakes of Vermont and other northern tier states. (Sec. 4002) Requires the Secretary to convene a panel to review the genetic variation of sturgeon species in the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation Channel.(Sec. 4003) Directs the Secretary, in coordination with the city of Los Angeles, California, to prepare a feasibility study for environmental ecosystem restoration, flood control, recreation, and other aspects of Los Angeles River revitalization that is consistent with the goals of the city's Los Angeles River Revitalization Master Plan.(Sec. 4004) Directs the Secretary to carry out a study for bank stabilization and shore protection for Nicholas Canyon, Los Angeles, California.(Sec. 4005) Amends the WRDA of 2000 to increase by 12 months an extension for completing the Oceanside, California, Shoreline Special Study.(Sec. 4006) Directs the Secretary to review the flood control and environmental restoration project at St. Helena, California.(Sec. 4007) Requires the Secretary to conduct feasibility studies for: (1) a project to use Sherman Island, California, as a dredged material rehandling facility to enhance the environment and meet other water resource needs on the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California; and (2) a project for flood protection of South San Francisco Bay shoreline and restoration of the South San Francisco Bay salt ponds.(Sec. 4009) Directs the Secretary to: (1) complete work on the San Pablo watershed, California, to determine the feasibility of opportunities for restoring, preserving, and protecting the San Pablo Bay Watershed; (2) expedite the completion of the Fountain Creek, North of Pueblo, Colorado, watershed study; and (3) conduct regional and watershed-wide studies to address selenium concentrations in Colorado. (Sec. 4012) Authorizes the Secretary to conduct a third-party review of the Promontory Point project along the Chicago, Shoreline, Chicago, Illinois, at a specified cost. (Sec. 4013) Directs the Secretary to conduct feasibility studies for: (1) a navigation improvement project at Vidalia, Louisiana; (2) storm damage reduction and beach erosion protection along Lake Erie at Luna Pier, Michigan; and (3) a project for navigation improvements and shoreline protection for Middle Bass Island State Park, Middle Bass Island, Ohio.(Sec. 4016) Authorizes the Secretary to determine the feasibility of providing improvements to the Savannah River for navigation and related purposes necessary to support the location of container cargo and other port facilities to be located in Jasper County, South Carolina.(Sec. 4017) Directs the Secretary to determine the feasibility of: (1) the plan prepared by the city of Arlington, Texas, as generally described in a specified report on Johnson Creek, dated March 2006; and (2) a dispersal barrier project at the Lake Champlain Canal. Title V: Miscellaneous Provisions - (Sec. 5001) Amends the WRDA of 1986 to provide for the removal of silt and related measures for sites (besides the Great Lakes) in Illinois, North Dakota, Vermont, and North Carolina.(Sec. 5002) Adds to the purposes of the Estuary Restoration Act of 2000 the implementation of a coordinated federal approach to estuary habitat restoration activities. Establishes the Estuary Habitat Restoration Council. Allows the Secretary, upon the Council's recommendation, to delegate the implementation of projects costing less than $1 million to the Secretary of the Interior, the Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere of the Department of Commerce, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), or the Secretary of Agriculture. Authorizes appropriations.(Sec. 5003) Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical assistance to the Secretary of Agriculture for use in carrying out the Conservation Corridor Demonstration Program, Delmarva Conservation Corridor, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia.(Sec. 5004) Designates the Division Engineer, North Atlantic Division of the Corps, as the ex officio U.S. member under the Susquehanna River Basin Compact, the Delaware River Basin Compact, and the Potomac River Basin Compact. Directs the Secretary to enter into agreements with the Susquehanna, Delaware, and Potomac River Basin Commissions to provide temporary water supply and conservation storage during any period in which such Commissions have determined that a drought warning or drought emergency exists.(Sec. 5005) Directs the Secretary, in coordination with the mayor of the District of Columbia (DC), the governor of Maryland, the county executives of Montgomery and Prince George's Counties, Maryland, and other stakeholders, to develop and make available to the public a 10-year comprehensive action plan to provide for the restoration and protection of the ecological integrity of the Anacostia River and its tributaries. (Sec. 5006) Requires the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal Dispersal Barrier Project Barrier I and Barrier II to be considered to constitute a single project. Authorizes and directs the Secretary, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to upgrade and make permanent Barrier I, construct Barrier II, operate and maintain Barriers I and II as a system, and conduct a study of a full range of options and technologies for reducing impacts of hazards that may reduce the efficacy of the Barriers. Authorizes such sums as necessary to carry out the Barriers projects. (Sec. 5007) Rio Grande Environmental Management Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary to carry out in the Rio Grande Basin: (1) a program for the planning, construction, and evaluation of measures for fish and wildlife habitat rehabilitation and enhancement; and (2) implementation of a long-term monitoring, computerized data inventory and analysis, applied research, and adaptive management program. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 5008) Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct a study of the Missouri River and its tributaries to determine actions required to mitigate losses of aquatic and terrestrial habitat, recover federally listed species under the Endangered Species Act, and restore the ecosystem to prevent further declines among other native species; and (2) establish, by June 31, 2006, the Missouri River Recovery Implementation Committee to take specified actions to facilitate Missouri River recovery and mitigation. Provides that the study shall be funded under the Missouri River Fish and Wildlife Mitigation Program. (Sec. 5009) Directs the Secretary to conduct all necessary studies, develop an emergency response plan, provide technical and planning and design assistance, and rehabilitate and construct the St. Mary Diversion and Conveyance Works project located within the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana, at a specified cost and a 75% federal share.  (Sec. 5010) Directs the Secretary, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to cooperate with and provide assistance to the Lower Platte River natural resources districts in Nebraska to serve as local sponsors with respect to conducting comprehensive watershed planning, assessing water resources, and providing project feasibility planning, design, and construction assistance for water resource and watershed management in the natural resource districts. Authorizes appropriations.(Sec. 5011) Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to make funds available to the State of South Dakota Terrestrial Wildlife Habitat Restoration Trust Fund. Establishes auditing requirements and modifies investment requirements. Authorizes appropriations.(Sec. 5012) Directs the Secretary to evaluate, design, and construct structural modifications to the Union Village, North Hartland, North Springfield, Ball Mountain, and Townshend Dams in Vermont to regulate flow and temperature to mitigate downstream impacts on aquatic habitat and fisheries. Authorizes appropriations. Title VI: Project Deauthorizations - (Sec. 6001) Deauthorizes specified flood damage reduction, flood control, navigation, environmental infrastructure, bridge construction, water supply, recreation, erosion protection, bulkhead construction and repair, jetty construction, cropland irrigation, and soil conservation projects in Alabama, California, Connecticut, Delaware and Maryland, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky and Tennessee, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina and South Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, Washington, and West Virginia.",2022-02-03T05:08:47Z,