Stat. 2444; 133 Stat. 809) (as amended by section 101 
of division CC of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 
2023 (Public Law 117–328)) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘(1) 
There is hereby authorized to be appropriated 
to the Secretary, $88,000,000 to undertake 
capital projects to carry out the purposes of 
this Act. Such funds’’ and inserting the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(1) AUTHORIZATION.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—Subject to subpara-
graph (B), there is authorized to be appro-
priated to the Secretary for use by the Bureau 
of Reclamation to undertake capital projects to 
carry out the purposes of this Act $50,000,000 
for the period of fiscal years 2024 through 
2031. 
‘‘(B) INFLATION ADJUSTMENT.—Each fis-
cal year, the amount authorized to be appro-
priated under subparagraph (A) shall be ad-
justed for inflation from the date of enactment 
of the Upper Colorado and San Juan River Ba-
sins Endangered Fish Recovery Programs Re-
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authorization Act of 2023 to the beginning of 
that fiscal year. 
‘‘(C) 
NONREIMBURSABLE
FUNDS.— 
Amounts made available pursuant to subpara-
graph (A)’’; 
(B) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘Pro-
gram for Endangered Fish Species in the 
Upper Colorado River Basin shall expire in fis-
cal year 2024’’ and inserting ‘‘Programs shall 
expire in fiscal year 2031’’; and 
(C) by striking paragraph (3); 
(2) by striking subsections (b) and (c) and in-
serting the following: 
‘‘(b) NON-FEDERAL CONTRIBUTIONS
TO CAPITAL 
PROJECTS.—The Secretary, acting through the Bureau of 
Reclamation, may accept contributed funds, interests in 
land and water, or other contributions from the Upper Di-
vision States, political subdivisions of the Upper Division 
States, or individuals, entities, or organizations within the 
Upper Division States, pursuant to agreements that pro-
vide for the contributions to be used for capital projects 
costs.’’; 
(3) by redesignating subsections (d) through (j) 
as subsections (c) through (i), respectively; 
(4) in subsection (c) (as so redesignated)— 
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(A) in paragraph (1)(A), by striking 
‘‘$10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2020 
through 2024’’ and inserting ‘‘$80,000,000 for 
the period of fiscal years 2024 through 2031’’; 
(B) in paragraph (2)— 
(i) in the first sentence, by striking 
‘‘$4,000,000 per year’’ and inserting 
‘‘$52,914,285 for the period of fiscal years 
2024 through 2031’’; 
(ii) in the second sentence— 
(I) by inserting ‘‘Basin’’ after 
‘‘San Juan River’’; and 
(II) by striking ‘‘$2,000,000 per 
year’’ and inserting ‘‘$27,085,715 for 
the period of fiscal years 2024 
through 2031’’; and 
(iii) in the third sentence, by striking 
‘‘in fiscal years commencing after the en-
actment of this Act’’ and inserting ‘‘for fis-
cal year 2024 and each fiscal year there-
after’’; and 
(C) by striking paragraph (3) and insert-
ing the following: 
‘‘(3) FEDERAL
CONTRIBUTIONS
TO
ANNUAL 
BASE FUNDING.— 
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‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—For each of fiscal 
years 2024 through 2031, the Secretary, acting 
through the Bureau of Reclamation, may accept 
funds from other Federal agencies, including 
power revenues collected pursuant to the Act of 
April 11, 1956 (commonly known as the ‘Colo-
rado River Storage Project Act’) (43 U.S.C. 
620 et seq.). 
‘‘(B) AVAILABILITY
OF
FUNDS.—Funds 
made available under subparagraph (A) shall be 
available for expenditure by the Secretary, as 
determined by the contributing agency in con-
sultation with the Secretary. 
‘‘(C) TREATMENT
OF
FUNDS.—Funds 
made available under subparagraph (A) shall be 
treated as nonreimbursable Federal expendi-
tures. 
‘‘(D) 
TREATMENT
OF
POWER
REVE-
NUES.—Any power revenues accepted under 
subparagraph (A) shall be treated as having 
been repaid and returned to the general fund of 
the Treasury. 
‘‘(4) NON-FEDERAL
CONTRIBUTIONS
TO
AN-
NUAL
BASE
FUNDING.—The 
Secretary, 
acting 
through the Bureau of Reclamation, may accept con-
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tributed funds from the Upper Division States, polit-
ical subdivisions of the Upper Division States, or in-
dividuals, entities, or organizations within the Upper 
Division States, pursuant to agreements that provide 
for the contributions to be used for annual base 
funding. 
‘‘(5) REPLACEMENT POWER.—Contributions of 
funds made pursuant to this subsection shall not in-
clude the cost of replacement power purchased to 
offset modifications to the operation of the Colorado 
River Storage Project to benefit threatened or en-
dangered fish species under the Recovery Implemen-
tation Programs.’’; 
(5) in subsection (f) (as so redesignated), in the 
first sentence, by inserting ‘‘or threatened’’ after 
‘‘endangered’’; 
(6) in subsection (g) (as so redesignated), by 
striking ‘‘unless the time period for the respective 
Cooperative Agreement is extended to conform with 
this Act’’ and inserting ‘‘, as amended or extended’’; 
(7) in subsection (h) (as so redesignated), in 
the first sentence, by striking ‘‘Upper Colorado 
River Endangered Fish Recovery Program or the 
San Juan River Basin Recovery Implementation 
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Program’’ and inserting ‘‘Recovery Implementation 
Programs’’; and 
(8) in subsection (i)(1) (as so redesignated)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘2022’’ each place it ap-
pears and inserting ‘‘2030’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘2024’’ each place it ap-
pears and inserting ‘‘2031’’; and 
(C) in subparagraph (C)(ii)(III), by strik-
ing ‘‘contributions by the States, power cus-
tomers, Tribes, water users, and environmental 
organizations’’ and inserting ‘‘non-Federal con-
tributions’’. 
Æ 
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