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 
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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).’’; 
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(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.