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Union Calendar No. 619 

118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 6107 

[Report No. 118–734] 

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 

NOVEMBER 14, 2024 

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 

House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 

[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 

[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on October 26, 2023] 


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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. 


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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’’. 

6 SEC. 2. EXTRAORDINARY OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE 

7 WORK PERFORMED BY THE SECRETARY OF 

8 THE INTERIOR. 

9 (a) DEFINITIONS.—Section 9601 of the Omnibus Pub10 lic Land Management Act of 2009 (43 U.S.C. 510) is 

11 amended— 

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

13 (4), (5), (6), and (7) as paragraphs (2), (3), (4), (5), 

14 (6), (7), and (1), respectively; 

15 (2) by moving paragraph (1) (as so redesig16 nated) to appear before paragraph (2) (as so redesig17 nated); 

18 (3) in paragraph (3) (as so redesignated), by 

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

20 (4) in paragraph (4) (as so redesignated), by 

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

22 (5) by adding at the end the following: 

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

24 ‘urban canal of concern’ means a transferred works or 

25 segment of a transferred works that is classified as an 


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1 urban canal reach, the failure of which the Secretary 

2 determines would result in loss of life in the vicinity 

3 of the failed transferred works or segment of trans4 ferred works with an estimated at-risk population of 

5 more than 100 individuals.’’. 

6 (b) EXTRAORDINARY MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION

7 WORK ON URBAN CANAL OF CONCERNS.—Section 9603 of 

8 the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 (43 

9 U.S.C. 510b) is amended by adding at the end the following: 

10 ‘‘(e) EXTRAORDINARY OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE

11 WORK ON URBAN CANALS OF CONCERN.— 

12 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary or the trans13 ferred works operating entity shall carry out any ex14 traordinary operation and maintenance work on an 

15 urban canal of concern that the transferred works op16 erating entity, with the concurrence of the Secretary, 

17 determines to be necessary. 

18 ‘‘(2) FUNDING.—In the case of extraordinary op19 eration and maintenance work on an urban canal of 

20 concern authorized under paragraph (1), or if the 

21 Secretary determines that a project facility inspected 

22 and maintained pursuant to the guidelines and cri23 teria set forth in section 9602(a) requires extraor24 dinary operation and maintenance work pursuant to 

25 paragraph (1), the Secretary shall provide Federal 


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1 funds on a nonreimbursable basis sufficient to cover 

2 35 percent of the portion of total cost of the extraor3 dinary operation and maintenance work allocable to 

4 the transferred works operating entity that is needed 

5 to carry out the extraordinary operation and mainte6 nance work on the urban canal of concern, with the 

7 remaining share of any additional Federal funds ad8 vanced by the Secretary for the extraordinary oper9 ation and maintenance work to be repaid under sub10 section (b).’’. 


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Union Calendar No. 619 

118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 6107 

[Report No. 118–734] 

A BILL 

To amend the Omnibus Public Land Management 

nals of concern. operation and maintenance work for urban caAct of 2009 to authorize certain extraordinary 

NOVEMBER 14, 2024 

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Comand ordered to be printed mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 


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