S. 3758 

One Hundred Sixteenth Congress 

of the 

United States of America 

AT THE SECOND SESSION 

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday, 

the third day of January, two thousand and twenty 

An Act 

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

certain technical corrections. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 

the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

SECTION 1. KLAMATH BASIN WATER SUPPLY ENHANCEMENT ACT OF 

2000 TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS. 

Section 4(b) of the Klamath Basin Water Supply Enhancement 

Act of 2000 (114 Stat. 2222; 132 Stat. 3887) is amended— 

(1) in paragraph (1)— 

(A) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A)— 

(i) by striking ‘‘Pursuant to the reclamation laws 

and subject’’ and inserting ‘‘Subject’’; and 

(ii) by striking ‘‘may’’ and inserting ‘‘is authorized 

to’’; and 

(B) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ‘‘, including conservation and efficiency measures, land idling, and use 

of groundwater,’’ after ‘‘administer programs’’; 

(2) in paragraph (3)(A), by inserting ‘‘and’’ after the semicolon at the end; 

(3) by redesignating the second paragraph (4) (relating 

to the effect of the subsection) as paragraph (5); and 

(4) in paragraph (5) (as so redesignated)— 

(A) by striking subparagraph (B); 

(B) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘; or’’ and inserting 

a period; and 

(C) by striking ‘‘the Secretary—’’ and all that follows 

through ‘‘to develop’’ in subparagraph (A) and inserting 

‘‘the Secretary to develop’’. 

SEC. 2. CONTINUED USE OF PICK-SLOAN MISSOURI BASIN PROGRAM 

PROJECT USE POWER BY THE KINSEY IRRIGATION COMPANY 

AND THE SIDNEY WATER USERS IRRIGATION DISTRICT. 

(a) AUTHORIZATION.—Notwithstanding any other provision of 

law and subject to subsection (b), the Secretary of the Interior 

(acting through the Commissioner of Reclamation) shall continue 

to treat the irrigation pumping units known as the ‘‘Kinsey Irrigation Company’’ in Custer County, Montana and the ‘‘Sidney Water 

Users Irrigation District’’ in Richland County, Montana, or any 

successor to the Kinsey Irrigation Company or Sidney Water Users 

Irrigation District, as irrigation pumping units of the Pick-Sloan 

Missouri Basin Program for the purposes of wheeling, administration, and payment of project use power, including the applicability 

of provisions relating to the treatment of costs beyond the ability 
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to pay under section 9 of the Act of December 22, 1944 (commonly 

known as the ‘‘Flood Control Act of 1944’’) (58 Stat. 891, chapter 

665). 

(b) LIMITATION.—The quantity of power to be provided to the 

Kinsey Irrigation Company and the Sidney Water Users Irrigation 

District (including any successor to the Kinsey Irrigation Company 

or the Sidney Water Users Irrigation District) under subsection 

(a) may not exceed the maximum quantity of power provided to 

the Kinsey Irrigation Company and the Sidney Water Users Irrigation District under the applicable contract for electric service in 

effect on the date of enactment of this Act. 

Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

Vice President of the United States and

President of the Senate.