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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7872 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.7872

                     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 Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act to modify certain 
    requirements applicable to salinity control units, 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 ``Colorado River Salinity Control Fix 
Act''.
SEC. 2. SALINITY CONTROL UNITS.
    Section 205 of the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act (43 
U.S.C. 1595) is amended--
        (1) by striking the section designation and all that follows 
    through ``(a) The Secretary'' and inserting the following:
    ``SEC. 205. SALINITY CONTROL UNITS; AUTHORITY AND FUNCTIONS OF THE 
      SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR.
    ``(a) Allocation of Costs.--The Secretary'';
        (2) by striking paragraph (1) and inserting the following:
        ``(1) Nonreimbursable costs; reimbursable costs.--
            ``(A) Nonreimbursable costs.--
                ``(i) In general.--In recognition of Federal 
            responsibility for the Colorado River as an interstate 
            stream and for international comity with Mexico, Federal 
            ownership of the land of the Colorado River Basin from 
            which most of the dissolved salts originate, and the policy 
            established in the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 
            U.S.C. 1251 et seq.) and except as provided in clause (ii), 
            the following shall be nonreimbursable:

                    ``(I) 75 percent of the total costs of construction 
                and replacement of each unit or separable feature of a 
                unit authorized by section 202(a)(1), including 90 
                percent of--

                        ``(aa) the costs of operation and maintenance 
                    of each unit or separable feature of a unit 
                    authorized by that section; and
                        ``(bb) the total costs of construction, 
                    operation, and maintenance of the associated 
                    measures to replace incidental fish and wildlife 
                    values foregone.

                    ``(II) 75 percent of the total costs of 
                construction and replacement of each unit or separable 
                feature of a unit authorized by section 202(a)(2), 
                including 100 percent of--

                        ``(aa) the costs of operation and maintenance 
                    of each unit or separable feature of a unit 
                    authorized by that section; and
                        ``(bb) the total costs of construction, 
                    operation, and maintenance of the associated 
                    measures to replace incidental fish and wildlife 
                    values foregone.

                    ``(III) 75 percent of the total costs of 
                construction, operation, maintenance, and replacement 
                of each unit or separable feature of a unit authorized 
                by section 202(a)(3), including 75 percent of the total 
                costs of construction, operation, and maintenance of 
                the associated measures to replace incidental fish and 
                wildlife values foregone.
                    ``(IV) 70 percent of the total costs of 
                construction, operation, maintenance, and replacement 
                of each unit or separable feature of a unit authorized 
                by paragraphs (4) and (6) of section 202(a), including 
                70 percent of the total costs of construction, 
                operation, and maintenance of the associated measures 
                to replace incidental fish and wildlife values 
                foregone.
                    ``(V) 70 percent of the total costs of construction 
                and replacement of each unit or separable feature of a 
                unit authorized by section 202(a)(5), including 100 
                percent of--

                        ``(aa) the costs of operation and maintenance 
                    of each unit or separable feature of a unit 
                    authorized by that section; and
                        ``(bb) the total costs of construction, 
                    operation, and maintenance of the associated 
                    measures to replace incidental fish and wildlife 
                    values foregone.

                    ``(VI) 85 percent of the total costs of 
                implementation of the on-farm measures authorized by 
                section 202(c), including 85 percent of the total costs 
                of the associated measures to replace incidental fish 
                and wildlife values foregone.

                ``(ii) Special rule for nonreimbursable costs for 
            fiscal years 2024 and 2025.--Notwithstanding clause (i), 
            for each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025, the following shall 
            be nonreimbursable:

                    ``(I) 75 percent of all costs described in clause 
                (i)(I).
                    ``(II) 75 percent of all costs described in clause 
                (i)(II).
                    ``(III) 70 percent of all costs described in clause 
                (i)(V).
                    ``(IV) The percentages of all costs described in 
                subclauses (III), (IV), and (VI) of clause (i).

            ``(B) Reimbursable costs.--The total costs remaining after 
        the allocations under clauses (i) and (ii) of subparagraph (A) 
        shall be reimbursable as provided for in paragraphs (2), (3), 
        (4), and (5).'';
        (3) in subsection (b), by striking the subsection designation 
    and all that follows through ``Costs of construction'' in paragraph 
    (1) and inserting the following:
    ``(b) Costs Payable From Lower Colorado River Basin Development 
Fund.--
        ``(1) In general.--Costs of construction'';
        (4) in subsection (c), by striking ``(c) Costs of 
    construction'' and inserting the following:
    ``(c) Costs Payable From Upper Colorado River Basin Fund.--Costs of 
construction''; and
        (5) in subsection (e), by striking ``(e) The Secretary is'' and 
    inserting the following:
    ``(e) Upward Adjustment of Rates for Electrical Energy.--The 
Secretary is''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

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