Project and State Water Project, signed on 
February 18, 2020. 
(b) APPLICABLE PROCEDURES AND REVIEW.—For 
the purposes of this Act, before reinitiating consultation 
on the Long-Term Operation of the CVP and SWP, a re-
quest by the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of 
the Commerce, or any other Federal employee, to reini-
tiate consultation shall be made in writing and considered 
a rule under section 551 of title 5, United States Code, 
and subject to the requirements of sections 801 through 
808 of that title. 
(c) COOPERATION.—In implementing this section, the 
Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Commerce 
shall comply with requirements included in section 4004 
of the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation 
Act (Public Law 114–322). 
(d) EXCLUSION.—Notwithstanding subsection (b), in 
implementing this section, section 801(b)(2) of title 5, 
United States Code, shall not apply. 
SEC. 515. SUNSET. 
Sections 511 through 514 shall have no force or ef-
fect on and after the date that is 7 years after the date 
of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 516. CONSULTATION ON COORDINATED OPER-
ATIONS.
The Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Na-
tion Act (Public Law 114–322) is amended— 
(1) in section 4004(a)— 
(A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), 
strike ‘‘public water agency that contracts’’ and 
insert ‘‘contractor’’; 
(B) in paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘or pro-
posed action’’ after ‘‘biological assessment,’’; 
(C) in paragraph (2), by inserting ‘‘or pro-
posed action’’ after ‘‘biological assessment,’’; 
(D) by redesignating paragraphs (3) 
through (6) as paragraphs (4) through (7), re-
spectively; 
(E) after paragraph (2), by inserting the 
following new paragraph: 
‘‘(3) receive a copy of the draft proposed action 
and have the opportunity to review that document 
and provide comment to the action agency, which 
comments shall be afforded due consideration during 
development;’’; and 
(F) in paragraph (7), as redesignated by 
subparagraph (C) of this paragraph— 
(i) in the matter preceding subpara-
graph (A), by inserting ‘‘action agency pro-
poses a proposed action or’’ before ‘‘the 
consulting agency’’; 
(ii) in subparagraph (A), by inserting 
‘‘proposed action or’’ before ‘‘alternative 
will’’; and 
(iii) in subparagraph (B), by striking 
‘‘alternative actions’’ and insert ‘‘actions 
or alternatives’’; and 
(2) in section 4013, by deleting ‘‘section 4004, 
which shall expire 10 years after the date of its en-
actment;’’ and inserting ‘‘section 4004, which shall 
expire on December 16, 2033;’’. 
Subtitle B—Allocations for Sacramento Valley 
Contractors 
SEC. 521. DEFINITIONS. 
In this subtitle, the following definitions apply: 
(1) The term ‘‘existing CVP agricultural water 
service or repayment contractor within the Sac-
ramento River Watershed’’ means any water service 
or repayment contractor within the Shasta, Trinity, 
or Sacramento River division of the CVP that has 
in effect a water service or repayment contract on 
the date of enactment of this title that provides 
water for irrigation.
(2) The terms ‘‘Above Normal’’, ‘‘Below Nor-
mal’’, ‘‘Dry’’, and ‘‘Wet’’, with respect to a year, 
have the meanings given those terms in the Sac-
ramento Valley Water Year Type (40–30–30) Index. 
SEC. 522. ALLOCATIONS OF WATER. 
Subject to section 523, the Secretary of the Interior 
shall make every reasonable effort in the operation of the 
CVP to allocate water provided for irrigation purposes to 
each existing CVP agricultural water service contractor 
within the Sacramento River Watershed in accordance 
with the following: 
(1) Not less than 100 percent of the contract 
quantity of the existing CVP agricultural water serv-
ice contractor within the Sacramento River Water-
shed in a Wet year. 
(2) Not less than 100 percent of the contract 
quantity of the existing CVP agricultural water serv-
ice contractor within the Sacramento River Water-
shed in an Above Normal year. 
(3) Not less than 100 percent of the contract 
quantity of the existing CVP agricultural water serv-
ice contractor within the Sacramento River Water-
shed in a Below Normal year that is preceded by an 
Above Normal or Wet year.