A bill to authorize the construction of the Perkins County Rural Water System and authorize financial assistance to the Perkins County Rural Water System, Inc., a nonprofit corporation, in the planning and construction of the water supply system, and for other purposes.
Perkins County Rural Water System Act of 1999 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to make grants to the Perkins County Rural Water System, Inc. (Corporation) for the Federal share of the costs of: (1) planning and construction of the Corporation's water supply system; and (2) repairs to existing public water distribution systems to ensure conservation of resources and to make such systems functional under the new water supply system. Prohibits the obligation of water supply system construction funds until: (1) Federal environmental compliance requirements have been met; and (2) a final engineering report and plan for a water conservation program have been prepared and submitted to the Congress for at least a 90-day period.
Requires the mitigation of fish and wildlife losses during water supply system construction and operation on an acre-for-acre basis, based on ecological equivalency, and concurrent with project construction.
Directs the Western Area Power Administration to make available, from power produced under the Pick-Sloan Missouri River Basin Program, the capacity and energy required to meet the pumping and incidental operational requirements of the water supply system from May 1 to October 31 of each year. Provides power use conditions.
Provides the Federal share (75 percent) of such water supply system costs.
Authorizes the Secretary, at the Corporation's request, to provide the Corporation assistance in overseeing matters relating to water supply system construction. Limits the amount that may be used by the Secretary for planning and construction of the water supply system to three percent of the total project construction budget for the portion of the project to be constructed in Perkins County, South Dakota.
Authorizes appropriations.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Referred to Subcommittee on Water and Power.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources requested executive comment from Department of the Interior, OMB.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported to Senate by Senator Murkowski without amendment. With written report No. 106-18.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported to Senate by Senator Murkowski without amendment. With written report No. 106-18.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 45.
Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S3568, 3574-3575)
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
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Received in the House.
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.