IIB 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 131 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JULY 22, 2025 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources 
AN ACT 
To make certain modifications to the repayment for the 
Arkansas Valley Conduit in the State of Colorado. 
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 ‘‘Finish the Arkansas 
Valley Conduit Act’’. 
SEC. 2. ARKANSAS VALLEY CONDUIT, COLORADO. 
Public Law 87–590 (76 Stat. 389; 123 Stat. 1320) 
is amended— 
(1) in the first section— 
(A) in subsection (c), in the second sen-
tence, by striking ‘‘or in the case of the Arkan-
sas Valley Conduit, payment in an amount 
equal to 35 percent of the cost of the conduit 
that is comprised of revenue generated by pay-
ments pursuant to a repayment contract and 
revenue that may be derived from contracts for 
the use of Fryingpan-Arkansas project excess 
capacity 
or 
exchange 
contracts 
using 
Fryingpan-Arkansas project facilities,’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(d) ARKANSAS VALLEY CONDUIT.— 
‘‘(1) REPAYMENT CONTRACT.—To provide do-
mestic water supplies to communities and house-
holds that do not have reliable access to domestic 
water supplies, the contract for the Arkansas Valley 
Conduit shall provide for payment in an amount 
equal to 35 percent of the cost of the conduit, not-
withstanding the reclamation laws or any other pro-
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vision of this Act. The contract payments shall con-
sist of— 
‘‘(A) funding provided during construction 
from any entity other than the Secretary; and 
‘‘(B) based on a demonstration of financial 
hardship, as determined by the Secretary, re-
payment of the balance not covered under sub-
paragraph (A) for a period of not more than 75 
years with simple interest at a rate that is 
equal to 50 percent of the interest rate deter-
mined by the Secretary of the Treasury under 
section 2(c), including revenue derived from 
contracts for the use of excess capacity or ex-
change contracts using Fryingpan-Arkansas 
project facilities. 
‘‘(2) OPERATIONS
AND
MAINTENANCE.—The 
contract for the Arkansas Valley Conduit shall pro-
vide for the assumption by the contracting parties of 
the care, operation, maintenance, and replacement of 
the conduit.’’; and 
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(2) in section 2(b)(3)(A), by striking ‘‘this sec-
tion’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection (d) of the first sec-
tion’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives July 21, 2025. 
Attest: 
KEVIN F. MCCUMBER, 
Clerk. 
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