IIB 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 495 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JULY 24, 2007 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources 
AN ACT 
To update the management of Oregon water resources, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Oregon Water Re-
sources Management Act of 2007’’. 
SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF PARTICIPATION OF BUREAU OF 
RECLAMATION IN DESCHUTES RIVER CON-
SERVANCY. 
Section 301 of the Oregon Resource Conservation Act 
of 1996 (division B of Public Law 104–208; 110 Stat. 
3009–534) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)(1), by striking ‘‘Deschutes 
River 
Basin 
Working 
Group’’ 
and 
inserting 
‘‘Deschutes River Conservancy Working Group’’; 
(2) by amending the text of subsection 
(a)(1)(B) to read as follows: ‘‘4 representatives of 
private interests including two from irrigated agri-
culture who actively farm more than 100 acres of ir-
rigated land and are not irrigation district managers 
and two from the environmental community;’’; 
(3) in subsection (b)(3), by inserting before the 
final period the following: ‘‘, and up to a total 
amount of $2,000,000 during each of fiscal years 
2007 through 2016’’; and 
(4) in subsection (h), by inserting before the pe-
riod at the end the following: ‘‘, and $2,000,000 for 
each of fiscal years 2007 through 2016’’. 
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SEC. 3. WALLOWA LAKE DAM REHABILITATION ACT. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the following defi-
nitions apply: 
(1) ASSOCIATED
DITCH
COMPANIES, INCOR-
PORATED.—The term ‘‘Associated Ditch Companies, 
Incorporated’’ means the nonprofit corporation es-
tablished under the laws of the State of Oregon that 
operates Wallowa Lake Dam. 
(2) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the 
Commissioner of Reclamation. 
(3) WALLOWA
LAKE
DAM
REHABILITATION 
PROGRAM.—The term ‘‘Wallowa Lake Dam Reha-
bilitation Program’’ means the program for the re-
habilitation of the Wallowa Lake Dam in Oregon, as 
contained in the engineering document titled, 
‘‘Phase I Dam Assessment and Preliminary Engi-
neering Design’’, dated December 2002, and on file 
with the Bureau of Reclamation. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION
TO
PARTICIPATE
IN
PRO-
GRAM.— 
(1) 
GRANTS
AND
COOPERATIVE
AGREE-
MENTS.—The Secretary may provide grants to, or 
enter into cooperative or other agreements with, 
tribal, State, and local governmental entities and the 
Associated Ditch Companies, Incorporated, to plan, 
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design, and construct facilities needed to implement 
the Wallowa Lake Dam Rehabilitation Program. 
(2) CONDITIONS.—As a condition of providing 
funds under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall en-
sure that— 
(A) the Wallowa Lake Dam Rehabilitation 
Program and activities under this section meet 
the standards of the dam safety program of the 
State of Oregon; 
(B) the Associated Ditch Companies, In-
corporated, agrees to assume liability for any 
work performed, or supervised, with Federal 
funds provided to it under this section; and 
(C) the United States shall not be liable 
for damages of any kind arising out of any act, 
omission, or occurrence relating to a facility re-
habilitated or constructed with Federal funds 
provided under this section, both while and 
after activities are conducted using Federal 
funds provided under this section. 
(3) COST SHARING.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Federal share of 
the costs of activities authorized under this sec-
tion shall not exceed 50 percent. 
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(B) 
EXCLUSIONS
FROM
FEDERAL 
SHARE.—There shall not be credited against 
the Federal share of such costs— 
(i) any expenditure by the Bonneville 
Power Administration in the Wallowa 
River watershed; and 
(ii) expenditures made by individual 
agricultural producers in any Federal com-
modity or conservation program. 
(4) COMPLIANCE WITH STATE LAW.—The Sec-
retary, in carrying out this section, shall comply 
with applicable Oregon State water law. 
(5) PROHIBITION
ON
HOLDING
TITLE.—The 
Federal Government shall not hold title to any facil-
ity rehabilitated or constructed under this section. 
(6) PROHIBITION ON OPERATION AND MAINTE-
NANCE.—The Federal Government shall not be re-
sponsible for the operation and maintenance of any 
facility constructed or rehabilitated under this sec-
tion. 
(c) RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER LAW.—Activities fund-
ed under this section shall not be considered a supple-
mental or additional benefit under Federal reclamation 
law (the Act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 388, chapter 
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