Western Water Accelerated Revenue Repayment Act

Western Water Accelerated Revenue Repayment Act

This bill permanently authorizes a provision under the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act that (1) allows certain water users (e.g., agriculture and municipal water users) in western states to prepay what they owe under contracts with the Bureau of Reclamation for the storage and supply of water resources; and (2) requires a specified portion of the receipts generated from such prepayments be directed to the Reclamation Water Storage Account for the construction of water storage.

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3675 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3675

 To amend the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act to 
             extend certain contract prepayment authority.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 25, 2023

 Mrs. Boebert (for herself, Ms. Hageman, Mr. Newhouse, Mr. Gosar, Mr. 
    Rosendale, Mr. Zinke, Mr. Lawler, and Mr. Nehls) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural 
                               Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act to 
             extend certain contract prepayment authority.

    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 ``Western Water Accelerated Revenue 
Repayment Act''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF PREPAYMENT AUTHORITY.

    Section 4013 of the Water Infrastructure Improvements for The 
Nation Act (Public Law 114-322) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``; and'' and inserting a 
        semicolon;
            (2) in paragraph (2), by striking the period and inserting 
        ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) section 4011.''.
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