To amend the Lower Rio Grande Valley Water Resources Conservation and Improvement Act of 2000 to authorize additional projects under that Act, and for other purposes.

Summary: Lower Rio Grande Valley Water Resources Conservation and Improvement Act of 2002 - Amends the Lower Rio Grande Valley Water Resources Conservation and Improvement Act of 2000 to: (1) authorize the construction of 20 additional specified projects in Texas; (2) require the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Reclamation, to undertake the Lower Rio Grande Water Conservation and Improvement Program through cooperative agreements; (3) require that project proposals be reviewed and evaluated under the guidelines set forth in a specified Bureau of Reclamation document; (4) require the Secretary to determine that a non-Federal project sponsor is financially capable of funding the non-Federal share of the project's costs, including operation, maintenance, repair, and replacement, and whether the project meets the guidelines; (5) permit project sponsors to contract with the Secretary to have the Secretary prepare the reports required under the Act (at a Federal cost share not to exceed 50 percent); (6) increase the authorization of appropriations for carrying out the Program; and (7) limit the non-Federal share of the total cost of any project carried out under or with assistance provided under the Act to 50 percent.

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Lower Rio Grande Valley Water 
Resources Conservation and Improvement Act of 2002''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF ADDITIONAL PROJECTS UNDER THE LOWER RIO GRANDE 
              VALLEY WATER RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND IMPROVEMENT ACT 
              OF 2000.

    Section 4(a) of the Lower Rio Grande Valley Water Resources 
Conservation and Improvement Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-576; 114 Stat. 
3067) is amended by adding at the end the following:
        ``(5) In the United Irrigation District of Hidalgo County, 
    Texas, a pipeline and pumping system as identified in the Sigler, 
    Winston, Greenwood, Associates, Incorporated, study dated January 
    2001.
        ``(6) In the Cameron County, Texas, Irrigation District No. 2, 
    proposed improvements to Canal C, as identified in the February 8, 
    2001, engineering report by Martin, Brown, and Perez.
        ``(7) In the Cameron County, Texas, Irrigation District No. 2, 
    a proposed Canal C and Canal 13 Inner Connect, as identified in the 
    February 12, 2001, engineering report by Martin, Brown, and Perez.
        ``(8) In Delta Lake Irrigation District of Hidalgo and Willacy 
    Counties, Texas, proposed water conservation projects, as 
    identified by the AW Blair Engineering report of February 13, 2001.
        ``(9) In the Hidalgo and Cameron County, Texas, Irrigation 
    District No. 9, a proposed project to salvage spill water using 
    automatic control of canal gates as identified in the AW Blair 
    Engineering report dated February 14, 2001.
        ``(10) In the Brownsville Irrigation District of Cameron 
    County, Texas, a proposed main canal replacement as outlined in the 
    Holdar-Garcia & Associates engineering report dated February 14, 
    2001.
        ``(11) In the Hidalgo County, Texas, Irrigation District No. 
    16, a proposed off-district pump station project as identified by 
    the Melden & Hunt, Incorporated, engineering report dated February 
    14, 2001.
        ``(12) In the Hidalgo County, Texas, Irrigation District No. 1, 
    a proposed canal replacement of the North Branch East Main, as 
    outlined in the Melden & Hunt, Incorporated, engineering analysis 
    dated February, 2001.
        ``(13) In the Donna (Texas) Irrigation District, a proposed 
    improvement project as identified by the Melden & Hunt, 
    Incorporated, engineering analysis dated February 13, 2001.
        ``(14) In the Hudspeth County, Texas, Conservation and 
    Reclamation District No. 1, the Alamo Arroyo Pumping Plant water 
    quality project as identified by the engineering report and 
    drawings by Gebhard-Sarma and Associates dated July 1996 and the 
    construction of a 1,000 acre-foot off-channel regulating reservoir 
    for the capture and conservation of irrigation water, as identified 
    in the engineering report by AW Blair Engineering dated June 2002.
        ``(15) In the El Paso County, Texas, Water Improvement District 
    No. 1, the Riverside Canal Improvement Project Phase I Reach A, a 
    canal lining and water conservation project as identified by the 
    engineering report by AW Blair Engineering dated June 2002.
        ``(16) In the Maverick County, Texas, Water Improvement and 
    Control District No. 1, the concrete lining project of 12 miles of 
    the Maverick Main Canal, identified in the engineering report by AW 
    Blair Engineering dated June 2002.
        ``(17) In the Hidalgo County, Texas, Irrigation District No. 6, 
    rehabilitation of 10.2 miles of concrete lining in the main canal 
    between Lift Stations Nos. 2 and 3 as identified in the engineering 
    report by AW Blair Engineering dated June 2002.
        ``(18) In the Hidalgo County, Texas, Irrigation District No. 2, 
    Wisconsin Canal Improvements as identified in the Sigler, Winston, 
    Greenwood & Associates, Incorporated, engineering report dated 
    February 2001.
        ``(19) In the Hidalgo County, Texas, Irrigation District No. 2, 
    Lateral `A' Canal Improvements as identified in the Sigler, 
    Winston, Greenwood & Associates, Incorporated, engineering report 
    dated July 25, 2001.''.

SEC. 3. AMENDMENTS TO THE LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY WATER RESOURCES 
              CONSERVATION AND IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 2000.

    The Lower Rio Grande Valley Water Resources Conservation and 
Improvement Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-576; 114 Stat. 3065 et seq.) is 
further amended as follows:
        (1) Section 3(a) is amended in the first sentence by striking 
    ``The Secretary'' and all that follows through ``in cooperation'' 
    and inserting ``The Secretary, acting through the Bureau of 
    Reclamation, shall undertake a program under cooperative 
    agreements''.
        (2) Section 3(b) is amended to read as follows:
    ``(b) Project Review.--Project proposals shall be reviewed and 
evaluated under the guidelines set forth in the document published by 
the Bureau of Reclamation entitled `Guidelines for Preparing and 
Reviewing Proposals for Water Conservation and Improvement Projects 
Under P.L. 106-576', dated June 2001.''.
        (3) Section 3(d) is amended by inserting before the period at 
    the end the following: ``, including operation, maintenance, 
    repair, and replacement''.
        (4) Section 3(e) is amended by striking ``the criteria 
    established pursuant to this section'' and inserting ``the 
    guidelines referred to in subsection (b)''.
        (5) Subsection (f) of section 3 is amended by striking ``to 
    prepare'' and all that follows through the end of the subsection 
    and inserting ``to have the Secretary prepare the reports required 
    under this section. The Federal share of the cost of such 
    preparation by the Secretary shall not exceed 50 percent of the 
    total cost of such preparation.''.
        (6) Section 3(g) is amended by striking ``$2,000,000'' and 
    inserting ``$8,000,000''.
        (7) Section 4(b) is amended--
            (A) in the first sentence by striking ``costs of any 
        construction'' and inserting ``total project cost of any 
        project''; and
            (B) in the last sentence by inserting ``the actual'' before 
        ``funds''.
        (8) Section 4(c) is amended by striking ``$10,000,000'' and 
    inserting ``$47,000,000 (2001 dollars)''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.