H. R. 7938 

One Hundred Eighteenth Congress 

of the 

United States of America 

AT THE SECOND SESSION 

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday, 

the third day of January, two thousand and twenty-four 

An Act 

To amend the Klamath Basin Water Supply Enhancement Act of 2000 to provide 

the Secretary of the Interior with certain authorities with respect to projects 

affecting the Klamath Basin watershed, 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. SHORT TITLE. 

This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Klamath Basin Water Agreement 

Support Act of 2024’’. 

SEC. 2. KLAMATH PROJECT WATER AND POWER. 

(a) ADDRESSING WATER, POWER, AND FACILITIES MANAGEMENT

FOR IRRIGATION.—Section 4 of the Klamath Basin Water Supply 

Enhancement Act of 2000 (Public Law 106–498) is amended by 

adding at the end the following: 

‘‘(d) RESTORATION ACTIVITIES.—The Secretary may— 

‘‘(1) plan, design, construct, operate, and maintain projects 

in the Klamath Basin watershed, including— 

‘‘(A) facilities to reduce fish entrainment; 

‘‘(B) projects that reduce or avoid impacts on aquatic 

resources of facilities involved in the storage or diversion 

of water for irrigation in the Klamath Project service area; 

and 

‘‘(C) projects that restore habitats in the Klamath 

Basin watershed, including Tribal fishery resources held 

in trust; 

‘‘(2) undertake studies, including feasibility studies, and 

improvements that the Secretary determines to be necessary 

to implement this subsection; 

‘‘(3) in implementing this subsection, enter into contracts, 

memoranda of understanding, financial assistance agreements, 

cost-sharing agreements, or other appropriate agreements 

with— 

‘‘(A) State, Tribal, and local governmental agencies; 

and 

‘‘(B) private parties; and 

‘‘(4) accept and expend non-Federal funds in order to facilitate implementation of this subsection. 

‘‘(e) GOALS.—The goals of activities under subsections (b) and 

(d) shall include, as applicable— 

‘‘(1) the short-term and long-term reduction and resolution 

of conflicts relating to water in the Klamath Basin watershed; 

and 
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‘‘(2) compatibility and utility for protecting natural 

resources throughout the Klamath Basin watershed, including 

the protection, preservation, and restoration of Klamath River 

Tribal fishery resources, particularly through collaboratively 

developed agreements. 

‘‘(f) PUMPING PLANT D.—The Secretary may enter into 1 or 

more agreements with the Tulelake Irrigation District to reimburse 

the Tulelake Irrigation District for not more than 69 percent of 

the cost incurred by the Tulelake Irrigation District for the operation and maintenance of Pumping Plant D, subject to the condition 

that the cost results in benefits to the United States. 

‘‘(g) KENO AND LINK RIVER DAMS.—The Secretary of the Interior 

shall comply with the terms of the agreement entitled ‘2016 

Klamath Power and Facilities Agreement’ (‘Agreement’), including 

Attachment A to the Agreement.’’. 

(b) ADMINISTRATION; EFFECT.— 

(1) COMPLIANCE.—In implementing the amendments made 

by this section, the Secretary of the Interior shall comply with— 

(A) the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 

(42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.); 

(B) the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 

1531 et seq.); and 

(C) all other applicable laws. 

(2) EFFECT.—None of the amendments made by this section— 

(A) modify any authority or obligation of the United 

States with respect to any Tribal trust or treaty obligation 

of the United States; 

(B) create or determine any water right; or 

(C) affect any water right or water right claim in 

existence on the date of the enactment of this Act. 

Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

Vice President of the United States and

President of the Senate.