Amends the Reclamation Safety of Dams Act of 1978 to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to make modifications that are reasonably required to preserve the site security of Bureau of Reclamation dams and related facilities. Provides for specified reimbursement for costs incurred for building and site security activities.
Requires 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, not segregated from other project costs for separate allocation or repayment. Directs the Secretary, during site security-related construction, to consider cost containment measures.
Prohibits the obligation of funds exceeding a specified amount for carrying out actual construction to modify an existing dam, the cause of which results from new hydrologic or seismic data or changes in the state-of-the-art criteria deemed necessary for site security or structural safety purposes, prior to 30 calendar days after the Secretary has transmitted a report on such existing dam to Congress.
Requires the Secretary to: (1) report annually to Congress on building and site measures undertaken (including a summary of expenditures and information relating to a five-year plan for security measures detailed to show pre- and post-September 11, 2001 costs); (2) provide written notice to project beneficiaries upon identifying a Bureau facility for a site security measure; and (3) include in required reports the Secretary's response when a modification is the result of new data deemed necessary for structural safety purposes. Authorizes the Secretary to waive reporting requirements that could adversely impact site security.
[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6029 Introduced in House (IH)]
109th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 6029
To amend the Reclamation Safety of Dams Act of 1978 to authorize
improvements for the security of dams and other facilities, and for
other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
September 6, 2006
Mr. Radanovich (for himself and Mrs. Napolitano) introduced the
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Resources
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A BILL
To amend the Reclamation Safety of Dams Act of 1978 to authorize
improvements for the security of dams and other facilities, 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. ADDITIONAL AUTHORIZATION FOR IMPROVEMENTS TO SITE SECURITY.
(a) In General.--The Reclamation Safety of Dams Act of 1978 (Public
Law 95-578) is amended--
(1) in section 2, by inserting ``and site security'' after
``structural safety'';
(2) in section 3, by inserting ``and site security'' after
``dam safety'';
(3) in section 4(c)--
(A) by inserting ``and all costs incurred for
building and site security activities (including
facility fortifications, operation, maintenance and
replacement of such fortifications, and guards and
patrols, as identified in the Bureau of Reclamation's
Report to Congress dated February 2006,)'' after ``for
safety purposes'';
(B) by inserting after subsection (c)(2) the
following:
``(3) In the case of the Central Valley Project of
California, dam safety and site security costs allocated to
irrigation and municipal and industrial water service shall be
collected by the Secretary exclusively through inclusion of
these costs in the operation and maintenance, rates, capital
water rates, or both, and shall not be segregated from other
project operation, maintenance, or capital costs for separate
allocation or repayment.''; and
(C) by redesignating paragraphs (3) and (4) as
paragraphs (4) and (5), respectively; and
(4) in section 4(e), by inserting ``or site security
measure,'' after ``of the modification'' each place it appears.
SEC. 2. REPORTS TO CONGRESS.
The Reclamation Safety of Dams Act of 1978 is amended as follows:
(1) In section 5--
(A) by striking ``There are hereby'' inserting the
following:
``(a) There are hereby'';
(B) by striking ``Act:'' and inserting ``Act.'';
(C) by striking ``Provided, that no funds'' and
inserting the following:
``(b) No funds'';
(D) by inserting ``the cause of which results from
new hydrologic or seismic data or changes in the state-
of-the-art criteria deemed necessary for site security
or structural safety purposes,'' after ``an existing
dam under this Act,'' and before ``prior to 30 calendar
days.''; and
(E) by adding at the end the following:
``(c) The Secretary shall transmit an annual report to the
Committee on Resources of the House of Representatives and the
Committee Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate on building and
site security measures undertaken pursuant to this Act during the
fiscal year covered by the report. The report shall include--
``(1) a summary of Federal and non-Federal expenditures for
the fiscal year; and
``(2) information relating to a 5-year plan for building
and site security measures undertaken pursuant to this Act,
detailed to show pre-September 11, 2001, and post September 11,
2001, costs for the building and site security measures.''.
(2) In section 5A--
(A) by inserting ``or site security measure,''
after ``modification'' each place it appears;
(B) in subsection (c)(3), by striking ``The
response'' and inserting ``When a modification is the
result of new hydrologic or seismic data or changes in
the state-of-the-art criteria deemed necessary for
structural safety purposes, the response'';
(C) by striking ``section 5'' and inserting
``section 5(b)''; and
(D) in subsection (d), by inserting ``or site
security'' after ``dam safety''.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
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