To amend the Act that authorized construction of the San Luis Unit of the Central Valley Project, California, to facilitate water transfers in the Central Valley Project.

Amends the Act authorizing construction of the San Luis unit of the Central Valley Project, California, to eliminate certain restrictions on water service for lands in that unit's service area.

Prohibits the State of California from using additional capacity to deliver water inside the San Luis service area unless: (1) such delivery is managed to ensure that agricultural drainage discharges arising from such water's use comply with appropriate discharge requirements or, if there are no such requirements, do not cause water quality conditions in the San Joaquin River and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and San Francisco Bay to be degraded or otherwise adversely affected; (2) use of delivered water for irrigation does not frustrate or interfere with U.S.-California efforts to manage agricultural subsurface drainage discharges from such unit; and (3) such delivery is consistent with current operating agreements between the Secretary of the Interior and California that are consistent with this Act.

Directs the Secretary: (1) to revise current water agreements between the United States and California to reflect amendments made by this Act; and (2) pending such amendments, not to enforce any such restriction.

[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3077 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3077

 To amend the Act that authorized construction of the San Luis Unit of 
 the Central Valley Project, California, to facilitate water transfers 
                     in the Central Valley Project.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 14, 1999

Mr. Dooley of California (for himself, Mr. Radanovich, Mr. Condit, and 
 Mr. Thomas) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                         Committee on Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Act that authorized construction of the San Luis Unit of 
 the Central Valley Project, California, to facilitate water transfers 
                     in the Central Valley Project.

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

SECTION 1. ELIMINATION OF RESTRICTIONS ON USE OF SAN LUIS UNIT 
              FACILITIES FOR WATER TRANSFERS IN THE CENTRAL VALLEY 
              PROJECT.

    (a) Elimination of Statutory Restrictions.--Public Law 86-488 (74 
Stat. 156) is amended--
            (1) in section 2 by striking ``and the use of the 
        additional capacity for water service shall be limited to 
        service outside of the Federal San Luis Unit service area''; 
        and
            (2) in section 3 by adding ``and'' after the semicolon at 
        the end of paragraph (h), by striking the semicolon at the end 
        of paragraph (i) and inserting a period, and by striking 
        paragraph (j).
    (b) Amendment of Existing Agreements.--The Secretary of the 
Interior--
            (1) shall seek to amend each agreement entered into by the 
        United States and the State of California under section 2 of 
        Public Law 88-488 before the date of the enactment of this Act, 
        as necessary to delete from such agreement any restriction on 
        water service for lands in the Federal San Luis Unit service 
        area; and
            (2) pending such amendment, shall not enforce any such 
        restriction.
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