Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to engage in water resource development feasibility studies of the following: (1) Chief Joseph Dam project, Washington; (2) Imperial Irrigation District canal lining, California; (3) New Melones conveyance system study, California; (4) Prairie Bend unit, Nebraska (including a report of the effects on wildlife habitat); (5) Spring Canyon pumped-storage project, Arizona; (6) Tongue River Dam, Montana; (7) Upper Klamath offstream storage study, Oregon; (8) Blue Holes Reservoir, Wyoming; (9) Mudddy Creek Basin hydrologic, surge relief, and erosion control study, Montana; (10) San Joaquin Valley ground/surface water integration study, California; (11) Delta Channel constriction investigation, California; (12) deep corbonate aquifer Project, Nevada; (13) Arizona Upper Gila study, Arizona; (14) San Juan River unit, Colorado River water quality improvement program, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah; (15) Mesa Delta municipal and industrial ground water study, Colorado; (16) Southeast Oklahoma water supply and distribution study, Oklahoma; (17) Northwest Oklahoma water supply project, Oklahoma; (18) Westside irrigation project, Wyoming; (19) Crow Creek Indian Reservation area, South Dakota; (20) Rapid City regional water supply, South Dakota; (21) Saline water use and disposal opportunity unit, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, and California; and (22) Sites reservoir investigation, Sacramento River Division, California.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources requested executive comment from Interior Department, OMB.
Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 98-224 Pt.2.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources received executive comment from OMB. Favorable.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported to Senate by Senator Hatfield for Senator McClure with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 98-271. Additional and minority views filed.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported to Senate by Senator Hatfield for Senator McClure with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 98-271. Additional and minority views filed.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 468.
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