H. R. 2640 
One Hundred Thirteenth Congress 
of the 
United States of America 
AT THE SECOND SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday, 
the third day of January, two thousand and fourteen 
An Act 
To amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to adjust the Crooked River boundary, 
to provide water certainty for the City of Prineville, Oregon, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Crooked River Collaborative 
Water Security and Jobs Act of 2014’’. 
SEC. 2. WILD AND SCENIC RIVER; CROOKED, OREGON. 
Section 3(a) of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (16 U.S.C. 
1274(a)) is amended by striking paragraph (72) and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘(72) CROOKED, OREGON.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The 14.75-mile segment from the 
National Grassland boundary to Dry Creek, to be adminis-
tered by the Secretary of the Interior in the following 
classes: 
‘‘(i) The 7-mile segment from the National Grass-
land boundary to River Mile 8 south of Opal Spring, 
as a recreational river. 
‘‘(ii) The 7.75-mile segment from a point 1⁄4-mile 
downstream from the center crest of Bowman Dam, 
as a recreational river. 
‘‘(B) HYDROPOWER.—In any license or lease of power 
privilege application relating to non-Federal hydropower 
development (including turbines and appurtenant facilities) 
at Bowman Dam, the applicant, in consultation with the 
Director of the Bureau of Land Management, shall— 
‘‘(i) analyze any impacts to the scenic, recreational, 
and fishery resource values of the Crooked River from 
the center crest of Bowman Dam to a point 1⁄4-mile 
downstream that may be caused by the proposed hydro-
power development, including the future need to under-
take routine and emergency repairs; 
‘‘(ii) propose measures to minimize and mitigate 
any impacts analyzed under clause (i); and 
‘‘(iii) propose designs and measures to ensure that 
any access facilities associated with hydropower 
development at Bowman Dam shall not impede the 
free-flowing nature of the Crooked River below Bow-
man Dam.’’.
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SEC. 3. CITY OF PRINEVILLE WATER SUPPLY. 
Section 4 of the Act of August 6, 1956 (70 Stat. 1058; 73 
Stat. 554; 78 Stat. 954) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘SEC. 4. In order’’ and inserting the following: 
‘‘SEC. 4. CITY OF PRINEVILLE WATER SUPPLY. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—In order’’; 
(2) in subsection (a) (as so designated), by striking ‘‘during 
those months’’ and all that follows through ‘‘purpose of the 
project’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(b) ANNUAL RELEASE.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Without further action by the Secretary 
of the Interior, beginning on the date of enactment of the 
Crooked River Collaborative Water Security and Jobs Act of 
2014, 5,100 acre-feet of water shall be annually released from 
the project to serve as mitigation for City of Prineville ground-
water pumping, pursuant to and in a manner consistent with 
Oregon State law, including any shaping of the release of 
the water. 
‘‘(2) PAYMENTS.—The City of Prineville shall make pay-
ments to the Secretary of the Interior for the water released 
under paragraph (1), in accordance with applicable Bureau 
of Reclamation policies, directives, and standards. 
‘‘(c) ADDITIONAL QUANTITIES.—Consistent with the National 
Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), the 
Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), and 
other applicable Federal laws, the Secretary of the Interior may 
contract exclusively with the City of Prineville for additional quan-
tities of water, at the request of the City of Prineville.’’. 
SEC. 4. ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS. 
The Act of August 6, 1956 (70 Stat. 1058; 73 Stat. 554; 78 
Stat. 954), is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 6. FIRST FILL STORAGE AND RELEASE. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Other than the 10 cubic feet per second 
release provided for in section 4, and subject to compliance with 
the flood curve requirements of the Corps of Engineers, the Sec-
retary shall, on a ‘first fill’ priority basis, store in and when called 
for in any year release from Prineville Reservoir, whether from 
carryover, infill, or a combination of both, the following: 
‘‘(1) Not more than 68,273 acre-feet of water annually to 
fulfill all 16 Bureau of Reclamation contracts existing as of 
January 1, 2011. 
‘‘(2) Not more than 2,740 acre-feet of water annually to 
supply the McKay Creek land, in accordance with section 5 
of the Crooked River Collaborative Water Security and Jobs 
Act of 2014. 
‘‘(3) Not more than 10,000 acre-feet of water annually, 
to be made available first to the North Unit Irrigation District, 
and subsequently to any other holders of Reclamation contracts 
existing as of January 1, 2011 (in that order) pursuant to 
Temporary Water Service Contracts, on the request of the 
North Unit Irrigation District or the contract holders, consistent 
with the same terms and conditions as prior such contracts 
between the Bureau of Reclamation and District or contract 
holders, as applicable.
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‘‘(4) Not more than 5,100 acre-feet of water annually to 
mitigate the City of Prineville groundwater pumping under 
section 4, with the release of this water to occur not based 
on an annual call, but instead pursuant to section 4 and the 
release schedule developed pursuant to section 7(b). 
‘‘(b) CARRYOVER.—Except for water that may be called for and 
released after the end of the irrigation season (either as City of 
Prineville groundwater pumping mitigation or as a voluntary 
release, in accordance with section 4 of this Act and section 6(c) 
of the Crooked River Collaborative Water Security and Jobs Act 
of 2014, respectively), any water stored under this section that 
is not called for and released by the end of the irrigation season 
in a given year shall be— 
‘‘(1) carried over to the subsequent water year, which, 
for accounting purposes, shall be considered to be the 1-year 
period beginning October 1 and ending September 30, consistent 
with Oregon State law; and 
‘‘(2) accounted for as part of the ‘first fill’ storage quantities 
of the subsequent water year, but not to exceed the maximum 
‘first fill’ storage quantities described in subsection (a). 
‘‘SEC. 7. STORAGE AND RELEASE OF REMAINING STORED WATER 
QUANTITIES. 
‘‘(a) AUTHORIZATION.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall store in and release 
from Prineville Reservoir sufficient quantities of remaining 
stored quantities to be released pursuant to the annual release 
schedule under subsection (b) and to provide instream flows 
consistent, to the maximum extent practicable, with the rec-
ommendations for in-channel strategies in the plan prepared 
by the Northwest Power and Conservation Council entitled 
‘Deschutes Subbasin Plan’ and dated March 24, 2005, for flow 
between Bowman Dam and Lake Billy Chinook. 
‘‘(2) 
REQUIREMENTS.—In 
calculating 
the 
quantity 
of 
released water under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall— 
‘‘(A) comply with the flood curve requirements of the 
Corps of Engineers; and 
‘‘(B) credit toward the requirements of paragraph (1) 
the instream flow benefits provided by— 
‘‘(i) the quantities released under section 4; 
‘‘(ii) the ‘first fill’ quantities released under section 
6; and 
‘‘(iii) any quantities released to comply with the 
flood curve requirements of the Corps of Engineers. 
‘‘(3) USE OF UNCONTRACTED WATER.—If a consultation con-
ducted under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 
1531 et seq.) or an order of a court in a proceeding under 
that Act requires releases of stored water from Prineville Res-
ervoir for fish and wildlife downstream of Bowman Dam, the 
Secretary shall use uncontracted water under paragraph (1). 
‘‘(4) STATE WATER LAW.—All releases and downstream uses 
authorized under paragraph (1) shall be in accordance with 
Oregon State water law. 
‘‘(b) ANNUAL RELEASE SCHEDULE.—The Commissioner of Rec-
lamation, in consultation with the Assistant Administrator of Fish-
eries of the National Marine Fisheries Service and the Director 
of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, shall develop annual
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release schedules for the remaining stored water quantities 
(including the quantities described in subsection (a) and the water 
serving as mitigation for City of Prineville groundwater pumping 
pursuant to section 4) that maximizes, to the maximum extent 
practicable, benefits to downstream fish and wildlife. 
‘‘(c) CARRYOVER.—Any water stored under subsection (a) in 
1 water year that is not released during the water year— 
‘‘(1) shall be carried over to the subsequent water year; 
and 
‘‘(2)(A) may be released for downstream fish and wildlife 
resources, consistent with subsection (b), until the reservoir 
reaches maximum capacity in the subsequent water year; and 
‘‘(B) once the reservoir reaches maximum capacity under 
subparagraph (A), shall be credited to the ‘first fill’ storage 
quantities, but not to exceed the maximum ‘first fill’ storage 
quantities described in section 6(a). 
‘‘(d) EFFECT.—Nothing in this section affects the authority of 
the Commissioner of Reclamation to perform all other traditional 
and routine activities associated with the Crooked River Project. 
‘‘SEC. 8. RESERVOIR LEVELS. 
‘‘The Commissioner of Reclamation shall— 
‘‘(1) project reservoir water levels over the course of the 
year; and 
‘‘(2) make the projections under paragraph (1) available 
to— 
‘‘(A) the public (including fisheries groups, recreation 
interests, and municipal and irrigation stakeholders); 
‘‘(B) the Assistant Administrator of Fisheries of the 
National Marine Fisheries Service; and 
‘‘(C) the Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife 
Service. 
‘‘SEC. 9. EFFECT. 
‘‘Except as otherwise provided in this Act, nothing in this 
Act— 
‘‘(1) modifies contractual rights that may exist between 
contractors and the United States under Reclamation contracts; 
‘‘(2) amends or reopens contracts referred to in paragraph 
(1); or 
‘‘(3) modifies any rights, obligations, or requirements that 
may be provided or governed by Federal or Oregon State law.’’. 
SEC. 5. OCHOCO IRRIGATION DISTRICT. 
(a) EARLY REPAYMENT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding section 213 of the Rec-
lamation Reform Act of 1982 (43 U.S.C. 390mm), any landowner 
within Ochoco Irrigation District, Oregon (referred to in this 
section as the ‘‘district’’), may repay, at any time, the construc-
tion costs of the project facilities allocated to the land of the 
landowner within the district. 
(2) EXEMPTION FROM LIMITATIONS.—Upon discharge, in full, 
of the obligation for repayment of the construction costs allo-
cated to all land of the landowner in the district, the land 
shall not be subject to the ownership and full-cost pricing 
limitations of Federal reclamation law (the Act of June 17, 
1902 (32 Stat. 388, chapter 1093), and Acts supplemental to 
and amendatory of that Act (43 U.S.C. 371 et seq.)).
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(b) CERTIFICATION.—Upon the request of a landowner who has 
repaid, in full, the construction costs of the project facilities allo-
cated to the land of the landowner within the district, the Secretary 
of the Interior shall provide the certification described in section 
213(b)(1) of the Reclamation Reform Act of 1982 (43 U.S.C. 
390mm(b)(1)). 
(c) CONTRACT AMENDMENT.—On approval of the district direc-
tors and notwithstanding project authorizing authority to the con-
trary, the Reclamation contracts of the district are modified, without 
further action by the Secretary of the Interior— 
(1) to authorize the use of water for instream purposes, 
including fish or wildlife purposes, in order for the district 
to engage in, or take advantage of, conserved water projects 
and temporary instream leasing as authorized by Oregon State 
law; 
(2) to include within the district boundary approximately 
2,742 acres in the vicinity of McKay Creek, resulting in a 
total of approximately 44,937 acres within the district 
boundary; 
(3) to classify as irrigable approximately 685 acres within 
the approximately 2,742 acres of included land in the vicinity 
of McKay Creek, with those approximately 685 acres authorized 
to receive irrigation water pursuant to water rights issued 
by the State of Oregon if the acres have in the past received 
water pursuant to State water rights; and 
(4) to provide the district with stored water from Prineville 
Reservoir for purposes of supplying up to the approximately 
685 acres of land added within the district boundary and classi-
fied as irrigable under paragraphs (2) and (3), with the stored 
water to be supplied on an acre-per-acre basis contingent on 
the transfer of existing appurtenant McKay Creek water rights 
to instream use and the issuance of water rights by the State 
of Oregon for the use of stored water. 
(d) LIMITATION.—Except as otherwise provided in subsections 
(a) and (c), nothing in this section— 
(1) modifies contractual rights that may exist between the 
district and the United States under the Reclamation contracts 
of the district; 
(2) amends or reopens the contracts referred to in para-
graph (1); or 
(3) modifies any rights, obligations, or relationships that 
may exist between the district and any owner of land within 
the district, as may be provided or governed by Federal or 
Oregon State law. 
SEC. 
6. 
DRY-YEAR 
MANAGEMENT 
PLANNING 
AND 
VOLUNTARY 
RELEASES. 
(a) PARTICIPATION
IN
DRY-YEAR
MANAGEMENT
PLANNING 
MEETINGS.—The Bureau of Reclamation shall participate in dry- 
year management planning meetings with the State of Oregon, 
the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of 
Oregon, municipal, agricultural, conservation, recreation, and other 
interested stakeholders to plan for dry-year conditions. 
(b) DRY-YEAR MANAGEMENT PLAN.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 3 years after the date 
of enactment of this Act, the Bureau of Reclamation shall
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develop a dry-year management plan in coordination with the 
participants referred to in subsection (a). 
(2) REQUIREMENTS.—The plan developed under paragraph 
(1) shall only recommend strategies, measures, and actions 
that the irrigation districts and other Bureau of Reclamation 
contract holders voluntarily agree to implement. 
(3) LIMITATIONS.—Nothing in the plan developed under 
paragraph (1) shall be mandatory or self-implementing. 
(c) VOLUNTARY RELEASE.—In any year, if North Unit Irrigation 
District or other eligible Bureau of Reclamation contract holders 
have not initiated contracting with the Bureau of Reclamation 
for any quantity of the 10,000 acre feet of water described in 
subsection (a)(3) of section 6 of the Act of August 6, 1956 (70 
Stat. 1058) (as added by section 4), by June 1 of any calendar 
year, with the voluntary agreement of North Unit Irrigation District 
and other Bureau of Reclamation contract holders referred to in 
that paragraph, the Secretary may release that quantity of water 
for the benefit of downstream fish and wildlife as described in 
section 7 of that Act. 
SEC. 7. HYDROPOWER DECISION. 
Not later than 3 years after the date of enactment of this 
Act, the Commissioner of Reclamation shall determine the applica-
bility of the jurisdiction of the Commissioner of Reclamation to 
non-Federal hydropower development pursuant to— 
(1) the Memorandum of Understanding between the Fed-
eral Energy Regulatory Commission and the Bureau of Rec-
lamation, Department of the Interior, entitled ‘‘Establishment 
of Processes for the Early Resolution of Issues Related to the 
Timely Development of Non-Federal Hydroelectric power at 
the Bureau of Reclamation Facilities’’ and signed November 
6, 1992 (58 Fed. Reg. 3269); or 
(2) any memorandum of understanding that is subsequent 
or related to the memorandum of understanding described in 
paragraph (1). 
SEC. 8. RELATION TO EXISTING LAWS AND STATUTORY OBLIGATIONS. 
Nothing in this Act (or an amendment made by this Act)— 
(1) provides to the Secretary the authority to store and 
release the ‘‘first fill’’ quantities provided for in section 6 of 
the Act of August 6, 1956 (70 Stat. 1058) (as added by section 
4) for any purposes other than the purposes provided for in 
that section, except for— 
(A) the potential instream use resulting from conserved 
water projects and temporary instream leasing as provided 
for in section 5(c)(1); 
(B) the potential release of additional amounts that 
may result from voluntary actions agreed to through the 
dry-year management plan developed under section 6(b); 
and 
(C) the potential release of the 10,000 acre feet for 
downstream fish and wildlife as provided for in section 
6(c); or
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(2) alters any responsibilities under Oregon State law or 
Federal law, including section 7 of the Endangered Species 
Act (16 U.S.C. 1536). 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.