‘‘(A) arrange and provide logistical support 
for meetings of the Conservation Advisory 
Group; 
‘‘(B) use a facilitator to serve as a moder-
ator for meetings of the Conservation Advisory 
Group or provide additional logistical support; 
and 
‘‘(C) grant any request for a facilitator by 
any member of the Conservation Advisory 
Group.’’; 
(3) in subsection (d), by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘(4) PAYMENT OF LOCAL SHARE BY STATE OR 
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The State or the Fed-
eral Government may fund not more than the 
17.5-percent local share of the costs of the 
Basin Conservation Program in exchange for 
the long-term use of conserved water, subject to 
the requirement that the funding by the Fed-
eral Government of the local share of the costs 
shall provide a quantifiable public benefit in 
meeting Federal responsibilities in the Yakima 
River basin and the purposes of this title. 
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‘‘(B) USE
OF
CONSERVED
WATER.—The 
Yakima Project Manager may use water result-
ing from conservation measures taken under 
this title, in addition to water that the Bureau 
of Reclamation may acquire from any willing 
seller through purchase, donation, or lease, for 
water management uses pursuant to this title.’’; 
(4) in subsection (e), by striking the first sen-
tence and inserting the following: ‘‘To participate in 
the Basin Conservation Program, as described in 
subsection (b), an entity shall submit to the Sec-
retary a proposed water conservation plan.’’; 
(5) in subsection (i)(3)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘purchase or lease’’ each 
place it appears and inserting ‘‘purchase, lease, 
or management’’; and 
(B) in the third sentence, by striking 
‘‘made immediately upon availability’’ and all 
that follows through ‘‘Committee’’ and inserting 
‘‘continued as needed to provide water to be 
used by the Yakima Project Manager as rec-
ommended by the System Operations Advisory 
Committee and the Conservation Advisory 
Group’’; and 
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(6) in subsection (j)(4), in the first sentence, by 
striking ‘‘initial acquisition’’ and all that follows 
through ‘‘flushing flows’’ and inserting ‘‘acquisition 
of water from willing sellers or lessors specifically to 
provide improved instream flows for anadromous 
and resident fish and other aquatic life, including 
pulse flows to facilitate outward migration of anad-
romous fish’’. 
SEC. 5. YAKIMA BASIN WATER PROJECTS, OPERATIONS, 
AND AUTHORIZATIONS. 
(a) REDESIGNATION OF YAKAMA NATION.—Section 
1204(g) of Public Law 103–434 (108 Stat. 4557) is 
amended— 
(1) by striking the subsection designation and 
heading and all that follows through paragraph (1) 
and inserting the following: 
‘‘(g) REDESIGNATION OF YAKAMA INDIAN NATION 
TO YAKAMA NATION.— 
‘‘(1) 
REDESIGNATION.—The 
Confederated 
Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Indian Nation 
shall be known and designated as the ‘Confederated 
Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation’.’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘deemed to be 
a reference to the ‘Confederated Tribes and Bands 
of the Yakama Indian Nation’.’’ and inserting 
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‘‘deemed to be a reference to the ‘Confederated 
Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation’.’’. 
(b) OPERATION OF YAKIMA BASIN PROJECTS.—Sec-
tion 1205 of Public Law 103–434 (108 Stat. 4557) is 
amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)(4)— 
(A) in subparagraph (A)— 
(i) in clause (i)— 
(I) 
by 
inserting 
‘‘additional’’ 
after ‘‘secure’’; 
(II) by striking ‘‘flushing’’ and 
inserting ‘‘pulse’’; and 
(III) by striking ‘‘uses’’ and in-
serting ‘‘uses, in addition to the quan-
tity of water provided under the trea-
ty between the Yakama Nation and 
the United States’’; 
(ii) by striking clause (ii); 
(iii) by redesignating clause (iii) as 
clause (ii); and 
(iv) in clause (ii) (as so redesignated) 
by inserting ‘‘and water rights mandated’’ 
after ‘‘goals’’; and 
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(B) in subparagraph (B)(i), in the first 
sentence, by inserting ‘‘in proportion to the 
funding received’’ after ‘‘Program’’; 
(2) in subsection (b), in the second sentence, by 
striking ‘‘instream flows for use by the Yakima 
Project Manager as flushing flows or as otherwise’’ 
and inserting ‘‘fishery purposes, as’’; and 
(3) in subsection (e), by striking paragraph (1) 
and inserting the following: 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Additional purposes of the 
Yakima Project shall be any of the following: 
‘‘(A) To recover and maintain self-sus-
taining harvestable populations of native fish, 
both anadromous and resident species, through-
out their historic distribution range in the Yak-
ima River basin. 
‘‘(B) To protect, mitigate, and enhance 
aquatic life and wildlife. 
‘‘(C) Recreation. 
‘‘(D) Municipal, industrial, and domestic 
use.’’. 
(c) ENHANCEMENT OF WATER SUPPLIES FOR YAK-
IMA BASIN TRIBUTARIES.—Section 1207 of Public Law 
103–434 (108 Stat. 4560) is amended— 
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(1) in the section heading, by striking ‘‘SUP-
PLIES’’ and inserting ‘‘MANAGEMENT’’; 
(2) in subsection (a)— 
(A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), 
by striking ‘‘supplies’’ and inserting ‘‘manage-
ment’’; 
(B) in paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘and 
water supply entities’’ after ‘‘owners’’; and 
(C) in paragraph (2)— 
(i) in subparagraph (A), by inserting 
‘‘that choose not to participate in, or opt 
out of, tributary enhancement projects 
pursuant to this section’’ after ‘‘water 
right owners’’; and 
(ii) in subparagraph (B), by inserting 
‘‘nonparticipating’’ before ‘‘tributary water 
users’’; 
(3) in subsection (b)— 
(A) in paragraph (1)— 
(i) by striking the paragraph designa-
tion and all that follows through ‘‘(but not 
limited to)—’’ and inserting the following: 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary, following 
consultation with the State of Washington, tributary 
water right owners, and the Yakama Nation, and on 
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agreement of appropriate water right owners, is au-
thorized to conduct studies to evaluate measures to 
further Yakima Project purposes on tributaries to 
the Yakima River. Enhancement programs that use 
measures authorized by this subsection may be in-
vestigated and implemented by the Secretary in trib-
utaries to the Yakima River, including Taneum 
Creek, other areas, or tributary basins that currently 
or could potentially be provided supplemental or 
transfer water by entities, such as the Kittitas Rec-
lamation District or the Yakima-Tieton Irrigation 
District, subject to the condition that activities may 
commence on completion of applicable and required 
feasibility studies, environmental reviews, and cost- 
benefit analyses that include favorable recommenda-
tions for further project development, as appro-
priate. Measures to evaluate include—’’; 
(ii) by indenting subparagraphs (A) 
through (F) appropriately; 
(iii) in subparagraph (A), by inserting 
before the semicolon at the end the fol-
lowing: ‘‘, including irrigation efficiency 
improvements (in coordination with pro-
grams of the Department of Agriculture), 
consolidation of diversions or administra-
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tion, and diversion scheduling or coordina-
tion’’; 
(iv) by redesignating subparagraphs 
(C) through (F) as subparagraphs (E) 
through (H), respectively; 
(v) by inserting after subparagraph 
(B) the following: 
‘‘(C) improvements in irrigation system 
management or delivery facilities within the 
Yakima River basin when those improvements 
allow for increased irrigation system conveyance 
and corresponding reduction in diversion from 
tributaries or flow enhancements to tributaries 
through direct flow supplementation or ground-
water recharge; 
‘‘(D) improvements of irrigation system 
management or delivery facilities to reduce or 
eliminate excessively high flows caused by the 
use of natural streams for conveyance or irriga-
tion water or return water;’’; 
(vi) in subparagraph (E) (as redesig-
nated by clause (iv)), by striking ‘‘ground 
water’’ and inserting ‘‘groundwater re-
charge and’’; 
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(vii) in subparagraph (G) (as so re-
designated), by inserting ‘‘or transfer’’ 
after ‘‘purchase’’; and 
(viii) in subparagraph (H) (as so re-
designated), by inserting ‘‘stream processes 
and’’ before ‘‘stream habitats’’; 
(B) in paragraph (2)— 
(i) in the matter preceding subpara-
graph (A), by striking ‘‘the Taneum Creek 
study’’ and inserting ‘‘studies under this 
subsection’’; 
(ii) in subparagraph (B)— 
(I) by striking ‘‘and economic’’ 
and inserting ‘‘, infrastructure, eco-
nomic, and land use’’; and 
(II) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(iii) in subparagraph (C), by striking 
the period at the end and inserting ‘‘; 
and’’; and 
(iv) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(D) any related studies already underway 
or undertaken.’’; and 
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(C) in paragraph (3), in the first sentence, 
by inserting ‘‘of each tributary or group of trib-
utaries’’ after ‘‘study’’; 
(4) in subsection (c)— 
(A) in the subsection heading, by inserting 
‘‘AND NONSURFACE STORAGE’’ after ‘‘NON-
STORAGE’’; and 
(B) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), 
by inserting ‘‘and nonsurface storage’’ after 
‘‘nonstorage’’; 
(5) by striking subsection (d); 
(6) by redesignating subsection (e) as sub-
section (d); and 
(7) in paragraph (2) of subsection (d) (as so re-
designated)— 
(A) in the first sentence— 
(i) by inserting ‘‘and implementation’’ 
after ‘‘investigation’’; 
(ii) by striking ‘‘other’’ before ‘‘Yak-
ima River’’; and 
(iii) by inserting ‘‘and other water 
supply entities’’ after ‘‘owners’’; and 
(B) by striking the second sentence. 
(d) CHANDLER PUMPING PLANT AND POWERPLANT- 
OPERATIONS
AT PROSSER DIVERSION DAM.—Section 
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1208(d) of Public Law 103–434 (108 Stat. 4562; 114 
Stat. 1425) is amended by inserting ‘‘negatively’’ before 
‘‘affected’’. 
Æ 
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