St. Mary's Reinvestment Act

St. Mary's Reinvestment Act

This bill requires the government to pay 75% of the costs, including repair costs, for the Bureau of Reclamation's Milk River Project, which provides water for irrigation of land in Montana.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2492 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2492

To establish a Federal cost share percentage for the Milk River Project 
                        in the State of Montana.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 2, 2019

Mr. Gianforte introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To establish a Federal cost share percentage for the Milk River Project 
                        in the State of Montana.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``St. Mary's Reinvestment Act''.

SEC. 2. COST SHARE FOR THE MILK RIVER PROJECT.

    (a) Definition of Milk River Project.--
            (1) In general.--In this Act, the term ``Milk River 
        Project'' means the Bureau of Reclamation project authorized by 
        the Secretary of the Interior on March 14, 1903, under the Act 
        of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 388, chapter 1093), commencing at 
        Lake Sherburne and providing water to a point approximately 6 
        miles east of Nashua, Montana.
            (2) Inclusions.--The term ``Milk River Project'' includes--
                    (A) Swiftcurrent Dike;
                    (B) Lake Sherburne;
                    (C) Nelson and Fresno dams, dikes, and reservoirs;
                    (D) St. Mary, Dodson, Vandalia, and Paradise 
                Diversion dams;
                    (E) Dodson pumping plant; and
                    (F) associated siphons, canals, drops, laterals, 
                and drains.
    (b) Cost Share.--The Federal share of the cost of the operation, 
maintenance, repair, and replacement of the Milk River Project shall be 
75 percent, which shall not be reimbursable to the United States.
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