I 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2813 
To amend the Water Supply Act of 1958 to establish a mechanism to 
permit State and local interests to release to the United States future 
water storage rights associated with Corps of Engineers reservoir 
projects. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 24, 2013 
Mr. COTTON introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 
A BILL 
To amend the Water Supply Act of 1958 to establish a 
mechanism to permit State and local interests to release 
to the United States future water storage rights associ-
ated with Corps of Engineers reservoir projects. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. FUTURE WATER SUPPLY. 
Section 301 of the Water Supply Act of 1958 (43 
U.S.C. 390b) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subsections (c) and (d) as 
subsections (d) and (e), respectively; and 
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(2) by inserting after subsection (b) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(c) RELEASE OF FUTURE WATER STORAGE.— 
‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT OF 10-YEAR PLANS FOR 
THE UTILIZATION OF FUTURE STORAGE.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Beginning 180 days 
after the date of enactment of this subsection 
and not later than January 1, 2016, an inter-
ested State or local interest may submit to the 
Secretary a plan for the utilization of future 
use water storage under this Act. 
‘‘(B) CONTENTS.—A plan submitted under 
subparagraph (A) shall include— 
‘‘(i) a 10-year timetable for conversion 
of future use storage to present use; and 
‘‘(ii) a schedule of actions that the 
State or local interest agrees to carry out 
over a 10-year period, in cooperation with 
the Corps of Engineers, to seek new and 
alternative users of future water storage 
that is contracted to the State or local in-
terest on the date of enactment of this 
subsection. 
‘‘(2) RELEASE OF FUTURE WATER STORAGE.— 
For Corps of Engineers projects, for the period be-
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ginning on January 1, 2026, and ending on Decem-
ber 31, 2028, a State or local interest that the Sec-
retary determines has carried out the obligations of 
the State or local interest under an applicable plan 
described in paragraph (1) may notify the Secretary 
of the Army that the State or local interest seeks to 
release to the United States any right of the State 
or local interest to future water storage under this 
Act that— 
‘‘(A) was allocated for future use water 
supply prior to November 17, 1986; and 
‘‘(B) as of December 31, 2025, has not 
been allocated or used. 
‘‘(3) ADMINISTRATION.—On receipt of a notifi-
cation under paragraph (2) by the Secretary of the 
Army— 
‘‘(A) the request of the applicable State or 
local interest to release future water storage 
rights shall be considered to be approved; and 
‘‘(B) the applicable State or local interest 
shall not be responsible for the cost of any 
water storage rights released under this sub-
section.’’. 
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