SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the
‘‘Water-Related Technical Corrections Act of 1997’’.
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents of this
Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Reduction of waiting period for obligation of funds provided under Rec-
lamation Safety of Dams Act of 1978.
Sec. 3. Albuquerque Metropolitan Area Reclamation and Reuse Project.
Sec. 4. Phoenix Metropolitan Water Reclamation and Reuse Project.
Sec. 5. Refund of amounts received as paid form compensation bills under Rec-
lamation Reform Act of 1982.
Sec. 6. Extension of periods for repayments for Nueces River reclamation project
and Canadian River reclamation project, Texas.
Sec. 7. Solano Project Water.
SEC. 2. REDUCTION OF WAITING PERIOD FOR OBLIGATION
OF FUNDS PROVIDED UNDER RECLAMATION
SAFETY OF DAMS ACT OF 1978.
Section 5 of the Reclamation Safety of Dams Act of
1978 (92 Stat. 2471; 43 U.S.C. 509) is amended by striking
‘‘sixty days’’ and all that follows through ‘‘day certain)’’
and inserting ‘‘30 calendar days’’.
SEC. 3. ALBUQUERQUE METROPOLITAN AREA RECLAMA-
TION AND REUSE PROJECT.
Section 1621 of the Reclamation Projects Authoriza-
tion and Adjustment Act of 1992, as added by section
2(a)(2) of the Reclamation Recycling and Water Conserva-
tion Act of 1996 (110 Stat. 3292; 43 U.S.C. 390h–12g), is
amended—
(1) in the heading by striking ‘‘STUDY’’; and
(2) in subsection (a)—
(A) by inserting ‘‘the planning, design, and
construction of’’ after ‘‘participate in’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘Study’’ and inserting
‘‘Project’’.
SEC. 4. PHOENIX METROPOLITAN WATER RECLAMATION
AND REUSE PROJECT.
Section 1608 of the Reclamation Projects Authoriza-
tion and Adjustment Act of 1992 (106 Stat. 4666; 43 U.S.C.
390h–6) is amended—
(1) by amending subsection (a) to read as fol-
lows:
‘‘(a) The Secretary, in cooperation with the city of
Phoenix, Arizona, shall participate in the planning, design,
and construction of the Phoenix Metropolitan Water Rec-
lamation and Reuse Project to utilize fully wastewater from
the regional wastewater treatment plant for direct munici-
pal, industrial, agricultural, and environmental purposes,
groundwater recharge, and direct potable reuse in the Phoe-
nix metropolitan area.’’;
(2) in subsection (b) by striking the first sen-
tence; and
(3) by striking subsection (c).
SEC. 5. REFUND OF AMOUNTS RECEIVED AS PAID FORM
COMPENSATION BILLS UNDER RECLAMATION
REFORM ACT OF 1982.
(a) REFUND REQUIRED.—Subject to subsection (b)
and the availability of appropriations, the Secretary of the
Interior shall refund fully amounts received by the United
States as collections under section 224(i) of the Reclamation
Reform Act of 1982 (101 Stat. 1330–268; 43 U.S.C.
390ww(i)) for paid form compensation bills (including in-
terest collected) issued by the Secretary of the Interior before
January 1, 1994, for furnishing certificates under sections
206 and 224(c) of such Act (96 Stat. 1266, 1272; 43 U.S.C.
390ff, 390ww(c)).
(b) ADMINISTRATIVE FEE.—In the case of a refund of
amounts collected in connection with sections 206 and
224(c) of the Reclamation Reform Act of 1982 (96 Stat.
1266, 1272; 43 U.S.C. 390ff, 390ww(c)) with respect to any
water year after the 1987 water year, the amount refunded
shall be reduced by an administrative fee of $260 for each
occurrence so refunded.
(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There are
authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section
$3,000,000.
SEC. 6. EXTENSION OF PERIODS FOR REPAYMENTS FOR
NUECES RIVER RECLAMATION PROJECT AND
CANADIAN RIVER RECLAMATION PROJECT,
TEXAS.
Section 2 of the Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1996
(Public Law 104–318; 110 Stat. 3862) is amended by add-
ing at the end the following new subsection:
‘‘(c) EXTENSION OF PERIODS FOR REPAYMENT.—Not-
withstanding any provision of the Reclamation Project Act
of 1939 (43 U.S.C. 485 et seq.), the Secretary of the Inte-
rior—
‘‘(1) shall extend the period for repayment by the
City of Corpus Christi, Texas, and the Nueces River
Authority under contract No. 6–07–01–X0675, relat-
ing to the Nueces River reclamation project, Texas,
until—
‘‘(A) August 1, 2029, for repayment pursu-
ant to the municipal and industrial water sup-
ply benefits portion of the contract; and
‘‘(B) until August 1, 2044, for repayment
pursuant to the fish and wildlife and recreation
benefits portion of the contract; and
‘‘(2) shall extend the period for repayment by the
Canadian River Municipal Water Authority under
contract No. 14–06–500–485, relating to the Cana-
dian River reclamation project, Texas, until October
1, 2021.’’.
SEC. 7. SOLANO PROJECT WATER.
(a) AUTHORIZATION.—The Secretary of the Interior is
authorized to enter into contracts with the Solano County
Water Agency, or any of its member unit contractors for
water from the Solano Project, California, pursuant to the
Act of February 21, 1911 (43 U.S.C. 523), for—
(1) the impounding, storage, and carriage of
nonproject water for domestic, municipal, industrial,
and other beneficial purposes, using any facilities as-
sociated with the Solano Project, California, and
(2) the exchange of water among Solano Project
contractors, for the purposes set forth in paragraph
(1), using facilities associated with the Solano
Project, California.
(b) LIMITATION.—The authorization under subsection
(a) shall be limited to the use of that portion of the Solano
Project facilities downstream of Mile 26 of the Putah South
Canal as depicted on the official maps of the Bureau of
Reclamation, and to that portion of the Solano Project fa-
cilities below the diversion points on the Putah South Canal
utilized by the city of Fairfield for delivery of Solano
Project water.