June 30, 2020 - Issue: Vol. 166, No. 120 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 2nd Session

[Page S4080]
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AMENDING THE KLAMATH BASIN WATER SUPPLY ENHANCEMENT ACT OF 2000 TO MAKE 
                     CERTAIN TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS

  Mr. PERDUE. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources be discharged from further 
consideration of S. 3758 and that the Senate proceed to its immediate 
consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 3758) to amend the Klamath Basin Water Supply 
     Enhancement Act of 2000 to make certain technical 
     corrections.

  There being no objection, the committee was discharged, and the 
Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mr. PERDUE. I ask unanimous consent that the Merkley amendment at the 
desk be agreed to and that the bill, as amended, be considered read a 
third time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment (No. 2388) in the nature of a substitute was agreed to, 
as follows

                (Purpose: In the nature of a substitute)

        Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the 
     following:

     SECTION 1. KLAMATH BASIN WATER SUPPLY ENHANCEMENT ACT OF 2000 
                   TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS.

       Section 4(b) of the Klamath Basin Water Supply Enhancement 
     Act of 2000 (114 Stat. 2222; 132 Stat. 3887) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1)--
       (A) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A)--
       (i) by striking ``Pursuant to the reclamation laws and 
     subject'' and inserting ``Subject''; and
       (ii) by striking ``may'' and inserting ``is authorized 
     to''; and
       (B) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ``, including 
     conservation and efficiency measures, land idling, and use of 
     groundwater,'' after ``administer programs'';
       (2) in paragraph (3)(A), by inserting ``and'' after the 
     semicolon at the end;
       (3) by redesignating the second paragraph (4) (relating to 
     the effect of the subsection) as paragraph (5); and
       (4) in paragraph (5) (as so redesignated)--
       (A) by striking subparagraph (B);
       (B) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``; or'' and inserting 
     a period; and
       (C) by striking ``the Secretary--'' and all that follows 
     through ``to develop'' in subparagraph (A) and inserting 
     ``the Secretary to develop''.

     SEC. 2. CONTINUED USE OF PICK-SLOAN MISSOURI BASIN PROGRAM 
                   PROJECT USE POWER BY THE KINSEY IRRIGATION 
                   COMPANY AND THE SIDNEY WATER USERS IRRIGATION 
                   DISTRICT.

       (a) Authorization.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
     law and subject to subsection (b), the Secretary of the 
     Interior (acting through the Commissioner of Reclamation) 
     shall continue to treat the irrigation pumping units known as 
     the ``Kinsey Irrigation Company'' in Custer County, Montana 
     and the ``Sidney Water Users Irrigation District'' in 
     Richland County, Montana, or any successor to the Kinsey 
     Irrigation Company or Sidney Water Users Irrigation District, 
     as irrigation pumping units of the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin 
     Program for the purposes of wheeling, administration, and 
     payment of project use power, including the applicability of 
     provisions relating to the treatment of costs beyond the 
     ability to pay under section 9 of the Act of December 22, 
     1944 (commonly known as the ``Flood Control Act of 1944'') 
     (58 Stat. 891, chapter 665).
       (b) Limitation.--The quantity of power to be provided to 
     the Kinsey Irrigation Company and the Sidney Water Users 
     Irrigation District (including any successor to the Kinsey 
     Irrigation Company or the Sidney Water Users Irrigation 
     District) under subsection (a) may not exceed the maximum 
     quantity of power provided to the Kinsey Irrigation Company 
     and the Sidney Water Users Irrigation District under the 
     applicable contract for electric service in effect on the 
     date of enactment of this Act.
  The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading and was read 
the third time.
  Mr. PERDUE. I know of no further debate on the bill, as amended.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there further debate?
  If not, the bill having been read the third time, the question is, 
Shall the bill pass?
  The bill (S. 3758), as amended, was passed.
  Mr. PERDUE. I ask unanimous consent that the motion to reconsider be 
considered made and laid upon the table.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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