A bill to amend the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015, to reauthorize certain projects to increase Colorado River System water.

This bill amends the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015 to reauthorize through FY2022 the authority of the Department of the Interior to fund pilot projects to increase Colorado River System water in Lake Mead and the initial units of Colorado River Storage Project reservoirs to address the effects of historic drought conditions.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2539 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2539

    To amend the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies 
 Appropriations Act, 2015, to reauthorize certain projects to increase 
                      Colorado River System water.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 13, 2018

  Mr. Heller introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies 
 Appropriations Act, 2015, to reauthorize certain projects to increase 
                      Colorado River System water.

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

SECTION 1. REAUTHORIZATION OF PROJECTS TO INCREASE COLORADO RIVER 
              SYSTEM WATER.

    Section 206(c)(2) of the Energy and Water Development and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015 (43 U.S.C. 620 note; Public Law 113-
235), is amended by striking ``2018'' and inserting ``2022''.
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