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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7938 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        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
        ``(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.
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