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118TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 6107 

To amend the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to authorize 

certain extraordinary operation and maintenance work for urban canals 

of concern. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

OCTOBER 26, 2023 

Mr. SIMPSON (for himself, Mr. FULCHER, and Mr. NEWHOUSE) introduced 

the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources 

A BILL 

To amend the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 

2009 to authorize certain extraordinary operation and 

maintenance work for urban canals of concern. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Urban Canal Mod5 ernization Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. EXTRAORDINARY OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE 

2 WORK PERFORMED BY THE SECRETARY OF 

3 THE INTERIOR. 

4 (a) DEFINITIONS.—Section 9601 of the Omnibus 

5 Public Land Management Act of 2009 (43 U.S.C. 510) 

6 is amended— 

7 (1) by redesignating paragraphs (1), (2), (3), 

8 (4), (5), (6), and (7) as paragraphs (2), (3), (4), 

9 (5), (6), (7), and (1), respectively; 

10 (2) in paragraph (3) (as so redesignated), by 

11 striking ‘‘et seq.)’’ and inserting ‘‘et seq.))’’; 

12 (3) in paragraph (4) (as so redesignated), by 

13 striking ‘‘mean’’ and inserting ‘‘means’’; and 

14 (4) by adding at the end the following: 

15 ‘‘(8) URBAN CANAL OF CONCERN.—The term 

16 ‘urban canal of concern’ means a transferred works 

17 or segment of a transferred works— 

18 ‘‘(A) that is— 

19 ‘‘(i) a canal reach, the failure of which 

20 would result in— 

21 ‘‘(I) an estimated at-risk popu22 lation of more than 100 individuals; 

23 or 

24 ‘‘(II) an estimated property dam25 age of more than $5,000,000; or 


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1 ‘‘(ii) a canal reach determined by the 

2 responsible Bureau of Reclamation re3 gional or area office to be classified as an 

4 urban canal reach; and 

5 ‘‘(B) with respect to which the Secretary 

6 determines, pursuant to the guidelines and cri7 teria developed under section 9602(a), that if a 

8 failure were to occur, the failure would result in 

9 loss of life and property in the vicinity of the 

10 failed transferred works or segment of trans11 ferred works.’’. 

12 (b) EXTRAORDINARY MAINTENANCE AND OPER13 ATION WORK ON URBAN CANAL OF CONCERNS.—Section 

14 9603 of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 

15 2009 (43 U.S.C. 510b) is amended by adding at the end 

16 the following: 

17 ‘‘(e) EXTRAORDINARY OPERATION AND MAINTE18 NANCE WORK ON URBAN CANALS OF CONCERN.— 

19 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary or the trans20 ferred works operating entity shall carry out any ex21 traordinary operation and maintenance work on an 

22 urban canal of concern that the transferred works 

23 operating entity, with the concurrence of the Sec24 retary, determines to be necessary. 


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1 ‘‘(2) FUNDING.—In the case of extraordinary 

2 operation and maintenance work on an urban canal 

3 of concern authorized under paragraph (1), or if the 

4 Secretary determines that a project facility inspected 

5 and maintained pursuant to the guidelines and cri6 teria set forth in section 9602(a) requires extraor7 dinary operation and maintenance work pursuant to 

8 paragraph (1), the Secretary shall provide Federal 

9 funds on a nonreimbursable basis sufficient to cover 

10 35 percent of the portion of total cost of the extraor11 dinary operation and maintenance work allocable to 

12 the transferred works operating entity that is needed 

13 to carry out the extraordinary operation and mainte14 nance work on the urban canal of concern, with the 

15 remaining share of any additional Federal funds ad16 vanced by the Secretary for the extraordinary oper17 ation and maintenance work to be repaid under sub18 section (b). 

19 ‘‘(f) REIMBURSABLE FUNDS.—Any reimbursable 

20 funds provided under this section shall be considered to 

21 be a non-Federal source of funds for purposes of any cost22 sharing requirement for a Federal grant.’’. 

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