[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7872 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]
H.R.7872
One Hundred Eighteenth Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE SECOND SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,
the third day of January, two thousand and twenty-four
An Act
To amend the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act to modify certain
requirements applicable to salinity control units, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Colorado River Salinity Control Fix
Act''.
SEC. 2. SALINITY CONTROL UNITS.
Section 205 of the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act (43
U.S.C. 1595) is amended--
(1) by striking the section designation and all that follows
through ``(a) The Secretary'' and inserting the following:
``SEC. 205. SALINITY CONTROL UNITS; AUTHORITY AND FUNCTIONS OF THE
SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR.
``(a) Allocation of Costs.--The Secretary'';
(2) by striking paragraph (1) and inserting the following:
``(1) Nonreimbursable costs; reimbursable costs.--
``(A) Nonreimbursable costs.--
``(i) In general.--In recognition of Federal
responsibility for the Colorado River as an interstate
stream and for international comity with Mexico, Federal
ownership of the land of the Colorado River Basin from
which most of the dissolved salts originate, and the policy
established in the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33
U.S.C. 1251 et seq.) and except as provided in clause (ii),
the following shall be nonreimbursable:
``(I) 75 percent of the total costs of construction
and replacement of each unit or separable feature of a
unit authorized by section 202(a)(1), including 90
percent of--
``(aa) the costs of operation and maintenance
of each unit or separable feature of a unit
authorized by that section; and
``(bb) the total costs of construction,
operation, and maintenance of the associated
measures to replace incidental fish and wildlife
values foregone.
``(II) 75 percent of the total costs of
construction and replacement of each unit or separable
feature of a unit authorized by section 202(a)(2),
including 100 percent of--
``(aa) the costs of operation and maintenance
of each unit or separable feature of a unit
authorized by that section; and
``(bb) the total costs of construction,
operation, and maintenance of the associated
measures to replace incidental fish and wildlife
values foregone.
``(III) 75 percent of the total costs of
construction, operation, maintenance, and replacement
of each unit or separable feature of a unit authorized
by section 202(a)(3), including 75 percent of the total
costs of construction, operation, and maintenance of
the associated measures to replace incidental fish and
wildlife values foregone.
``(IV) 70 percent of the total costs of
construction, operation, maintenance, and replacement
of each unit or separable feature of a unit authorized
by paragraphs (4) and (6) of section 202(a), including
70 percent of the total costs of construction,
operation, and maintenance of the associated measures
to replace incidental fish and wildlife values
foregone.
``(V) 70 percent of the total costs of construction
and replacement of each unit or separable feature of a
unit authorized by section 202(a)(5), including 100
percent of--
``(aa) the costs of operation and maintenance
of each unit or separable feature of a unit
authorized by that section; and
``(bb) the total costs of construction,
operation, and maintenance of the associated
measures to replace incidental fish and wildlife
values foregone.
``(VI) 85 percent of the total costs of
implementation of the on-farm measures authorized by
section 202(c), including 85 percent of the total costs
of the associated measures to replace incidental fish
and wildlife values foregone.
``(ii) Special rule for nonreimbursable costs for
fiscal years 2024 and 2025.--Notwithstanding clause (i),
for each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025, the following shall
be nonreimbursable:
``(I) 75 percent of all costs described in clause
(i)(I).
``(II) 75 percent of all costs described in clause
(i)(II).
``(III) 70 percent of all costs described in clause
(i)(V).
``(IV) The percentages of all costs described in
subclauses (III), (IV), and (VI) of clause (i).
``(B) Reimbursable costs.--The total costs remaining after
the allocations under clauses (i) and (ii) of subparagraph (A)
shall be reimbursable as provided for in paragraphs (2), (3),
(4), and (5).'';
(3) in subsection (b), by striking the subsection designation
and all that follows through ``Costs of construction'' in paragraph
(1) and inserting the following:
``(b) Costs Payable From Lower Colorado River Basin Development
Fund.--
``(1) In general.--Costs of construction'';
(4) in subsection (c), by striking ``(c) Costs of
construction'' and inserting the following:
``(c) Costs Payable From Upper Colorado River Basin Fund.--Costs of
construction''; and
(5) in subsection (e), by striking ``(e) The Secretary is'' and
inserting the following:
``(e) Upward Adjustment of Rates for Electrical Energy.--The
Secretary is''.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.