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Calendar No. 677
107TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 2990
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JULY 23, 2002
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources 
OCTOBER 8, 2002
Reported by Mr. BINGAMAN, without amendment 
AN ACT 
To amend the Lower Rio Grande Valley Water Resources 
Conservation and Improvement Act of 2000 to authorize 
additional projects under that Act, and for other pur-
poses.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Lower Rio Grande Val-
ley Water Resources Conservation and Improvement Act 
of 2002’’.
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SEC. 
2. 
AUTHORIZATION 
OF 
ADDITIONAL 
PROJECTS 
UNDER THE LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY 
WATER RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND IM-
PROVEMENT ACT OF 2000. 
Section 4(a) of the Lower Rio Grande Valley Water 
Resources Conservation and Improvement Act of 2000 
(Public Law 106–576; 114 Stat. 3067) is amended by 
adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(5) In the United Irrigation District of Hi-
dalgo County, Texas, a pipeline and pumping system 
as identified in the Sigler, Winston, Greenwood, As-
sociates, Incorporated, study dated January 2001. 
‘‘(6) In the Cameron County, Texas, Irrigation 
District No. 2, proposed improvements to Canal C, 
as identified in the February 8, 2001, engineering 
report by Martin, Brown, and Perez. 
‘‘(7) In the Cameron County, Texas, Irrigation 
District No. 2, a proposed Canal C and Canal 13 
Inner Connect, as identified in the February 12, 
2001, engineering report by Martin, Brown, and 
Perez. 
‘‘(8) In Delta Lake Irrigation District of Hi-
dalgo and Willacy Counties, Texas, proposed water 
conservation projects, as identified by the AW Blair 
Engineering report of February 13, 2001.
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‘‘(9) In the Hidalgo and Cameron County, 
Texas, Irrigation District No. 9, a proposed project 
to salvage spill water using automatic control of 
canal gates as identified in the AW Blair Engineer-
ing report dated February 14, 2001. 
‘‘(10) In the Brownsville Irrigation District of 
Cameron County, Texas, a proposed main canal re-
placement as outlined in the Holdar-Garcia & Asso-
ciates engineering report dated February 14, 2001. 
‘‘(11) In the Hidalgo County, Texas, Irrigation 
District No. 16, a proposed off-district pump station 
project as identified by the Melden & Hunt, Incor-
porated, engineering report dated February 14, 
2001. 
‘‘(12) In the Hidalgo County, Texas, Irrigation 
District No. 1, a proposed canal replacement of the 
North Branch East Main, as outlined in the Melden 
& Hunt, Incorporated, engineering analysis dated 
February, 2001. 
‘‘(13) In the Donna (Texas) Irrigation District, 
a proposed improvement project as identified by the 
Melden & Hunt, Incorporated, engineering analysis 
dated February 13, 2001. 
‘‘(14) In the Hudspeth County, Texas, Con-
servation and Reclamation District No. 1, the Alamo
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identified in the Sigler, Winston, Greenwood & Asso-
ciates, Incorporated, engineering report dated Feb-
ruary 2001. 
‘‘(19) In the Hidalgo County, Texas, Irrigation 
District No. 2, Lateral ‘A’ Canal Improvements as 
identified in the Sigler, Winston, Greenwood & Asso-
ciates, Incorporated, engineering report dated July 
25, 2001.’’. 
SEC. 3. AMENDMENTS TO THE LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY 
WATER RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND IM-
PROVEMENT ACT OF 2000. 
The Lower Rio Grande Valley Water Resources Con-
servation and Improvement Act of 2000 (Public Law 106–
576; 114 Stat. 3065 et seq.) is further amended as fol-
lows: 
(1) Section 3(a) is amended in the first sen-
tence by striking ‘‘The Secretary’’ and all that fol-
lows through ‘‘in cooperation’’ and inserting ‘‘The 
Secretary, acting through the Bureau of Reclama-
tion, shall undertake a program under cooperative 
agreements’’. 
(2) Section 3(b) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(b) PROJECT REVIEW.—Project proposals shall be 
reviewed and evaluated under the guidelines set forth in 
the document published by the Bureau of Reclamation en-
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titled ‘Guidelines for Preparing and Reviewing Proposals 
for Water Conservation and Improvement Projects Under 
P.L. 106–576’, dated June 2001.’’. 
(3) Section 3(d) is amended by inserting before 
the period at the end the following: ‘‘, including op-
eration, maintenance, repair, and replacement’’. 
(4) Section 3(e) is amended by striking ‘‘the 
criteria established pursuant to this section’’ and in-
serting ‘‘the guidelines referred to in subsection 
(b)’’. 
(5) Subsection (f) of section 3 is amended by 
striking ‘‘to prepare’’ and all that follows through 
the end of the subsection and inserting ‘‘to have the 
Secretary prepare the reports required under this 
section. The Federal share of the cost of such prepa-
ration by the Secretary shall not exceed 50 percent 
of the total cost of such preparation.’’. 
(6) Section 3(g) is amended by striking 
‘‘$2,000,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$8,000,000’’. 
(7) Section 4(b) is amended—
(A) in the first sentence by striking ‘‘costs 
of any construction’’ and inserting ‘‘total 
project cost of any project’’; and 
(B) in the last sentence by inserting ‘‘the 
actual’’ before ‘‘funds’’.
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(8) Section 4(c) is amended by striking 
‘‘$10,000,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$47,000,000 (2001 
dollars)’’.
Passed the House of Representatives July 22, 2002. 
Attest: 
JEFF TRANDAHL, 
Clerk.
Calendar No. 677
107TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 2990
AN ACT 
To amend the Lower Rio Grande Valley Water Re-
sources Conservation and Improvement Act of 
2000 to authorize additional projects under that 
Act, and for other purposes. 
OCTOBER 8, 2002
Reported without amendment