To make available the continued use of Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program project use power by the Kinsey Irrigation Company and the Sidney Water Users Irrigation District, and for other purposes.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3471 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3471

   To make available the continued use of Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin 
  Program project use power by the Kinsey Irrigation Company and the 
    Sidney Water Users Irrigation District, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 25, 2019

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

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                                 A BILL


 
   To make available the continued use of Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin 
  Program project use power by the Kinsey Irrigation Company and the 
    Sidney Water Users Irrigation District, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. CONTINUED USE OF PICK-SLOAN MISSOURI BASIN PROGRAM PROJECT 
              USE POWER BY THE KINSEY IRRIGATION COMPANY AND THE SIDNEY 
              WATER USERS IRRIGATION DISTRICT.

    (a) Findings.--Congress finds that--
            (1) the Act of May 18, 1938 (52 Stat. 403, chapter 250; 16 
        U.S.C. 833 et seq.), authorized the completion, maintenance, 
        and operation of the Fort Peck project;
            (2) section 2 of that Act (52 Stat. 404, chapter 250; 16 
        U.S.C. 833a) authorized and directed the Bureau of 
        Reclamation--
                    (A) to transmit and sell electric energy generated 
                by the Fort Peck project; and
                    (B) ``to interconnect the Fort Peck project with 
                either private or with other Federal projects and 
                publicly owned power systems now or hereafter 
                constructed.'';
            (3) section 9 of the Act of December 22, 1944 (commonly 
        known as the ``Flood Control Act of 1944'') (58 Stat. 891, 
        chapter 665)--
                    (A) authorized the Missouri River Basin Project, 
                now known as the ``Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program'' 
                (referred to in this section as the ``Program'');
                    (B) approved the comprehensive plan for the Program 
                set forth in Senate Document 191 and House Document 
                475, as revised and coordinated by Senate Document 247, 
                78th Congress;
                    (C) established a permanent administration for the 
                development of the Missouri River Basin; and
                    (D) incorporated the Fort Peck project as part of 
                the Program;
            (4) in 1946, the Bureau of Reclamation entered into project 
        use power contracts to provide the Kinsey Irrigation Company 
        and the predecessor of the Sidney Water Users Irrigation 
        District electrical service under the authority of the Act of 
        May 18, 1938 (52 Stat. 403, chapter 250; 16 U.S.C. 833 et 
        seq.);
            (5) since 1946, the Bureau of Reclamation has approved 9 
        modifications to the project use power contracts between the 
        Bureau of Reclamation, the Kinsey Irrigation Company, and the 
        Sidney Water Users Irrigation District;
            (6) the project use power contracts in effect on the date 
        of enactment of this Act provide electric service to the Kinsey 
        Irrigation Company and the Sidney Water Users Irrigation 
        District at the Program rate of 2.5 mills per kilowatt-hour, 
        including wheeling, through 2020; and
            (7) the Kinsey Irrigation Company and the Sidney Water 
        Users Irrigation District have reasonably relied on the 
        authority of the Act of May 18, 1938 (52 Stat. 403, chapter 
        250; 16 U.S.C. 833 et seq.), and the fact that the Bureau of 
        Reclamation has treated the Kinsey Irrigation Company and the 
        Sidney Water Users Irrigation District as irrigation pumping 
        units of the Program for more than 74 years.
    (b) Authorization.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law and 
subject to subsection (c), the Secretary of the Interior (acting 
through the Commissioner of Reclamation) shall continue to treat the 
irrigation pumping units known as the ``Kinsey Irrigation Company'' in 
Custer County, Montana, and the ``Sidney Water Users Irrigation 
District'' in Richland County, Montana, or any successor to the Kinsey 
Irrigation Company or Sidney Water Users Irrigation District, as 
irrigation pumping units of the Program for the purposes of wheeling, 
administration, and payment of project use power.
    (c) Limitation.--The quantity of power to be provided to the Kinsey 
Irrigation Company and the Sidney Water Users Irrigation District 
(including any successor to the Kinsey Irrigation Company or the Sidney 
Water Users Irrigation District) under subsection (b) may not exceed 
the maximum quantity of power provided to the Kinsey Irrigation Company 
and the Sidney Water Users Irrigation District under the applicable 
contract for electric service in effect on the date of enactment of 
this Act.
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