[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9969 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9969

To provide for a memorandum of understanding to address the impacts of 
  a certain record of decision on the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 11, 2024

  Ms. Hageman (for herself, Ms. Maloy, and Mr. Curtis) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural 
                               Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide for a memorandum of understanding to address the impacts of 
  a certain record of decision on the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund.

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

SECTION 1. MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING TO ADDRESS POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF 
              A CERTAIN RECORD OF DECISION ON THE UPPER COLORADO RIVER 
              BASIN FUND.

    (a) In General.--As soon as practicable after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the 
Commissioner of Reclamation, and the Secretary of Energy, acting 
through the Administrator of the Western Area Power Administration, in 
consultation with the Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Work Group, 
shall enter into a memorandum of understanding to explore and address 
the impact that the record of decision entitled the ``Supplement to the 
2016 Glen Canyon Dam Long-Term Experimental and Management Plan Record 
of Decision'' and dated July 2024 (referred to in this section as the 
``record of decision'') has on the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund 
(referred to in this section as the ``Fund'').
    (b) Required Plan.--The memorandum of understanding entered into 
under subsection (a) shall, using information derived from existing 
hydropower contracts, include the establishment of a plan to--
            (1) address the effects that the record of decision may 
        have on Fund obligations including routine operations, 
        maintenance, and replacement of critical infrastructure;
            (2) address the impact that the record of decision has on 
        hydropower production at Glen Canyon Dam, including costs to 
        replace hydropower resources and grid reliability; and
            (3) identify impacts that the record of decision has had on 
        species listed as a threatened species or an endangered species 
        under section 4 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 
        U.S.C. 1533).
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