To amend the Klamath Basin Water Supply Enhancement Act of 2000 to make certain technical corrections.

This bill specifies types of programs the Bureau of Reclamation may participate in, such as land idling (i.e., refraining from cultivating crops on certain land), for the purpose of aligning water supply and demand for users of irrigation water associated with the Klamath Project in Oregon and California.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7116 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7116

To amend the Klamath Basin Water Supply Enhancement Act of 2000 to make 
                     certain technical corrections.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 4, 2020

Mr. Walden (for himself and Mr. LaMalfa) introduced the following bill; 
        which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Klamath Basin Water Supply Enhancement Act of 2000 to make 
                     certain technical corrections.

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

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''.
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