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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7938 Engrossed in House (EH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7938

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                                 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.

            Passed the House of Representatives December 17, 2024.

            Attest:

                                                                 Clerk.
118th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                               H. R. 7938

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 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.
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