H. R. 2990
One Hundred Seventh Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE SECOND SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,
the twenty-third day of January, two thousand and two
An Act
To amend the Lower Rio Grande Valley Water Resources Conservation and Improve-
ment Act of 2000 to authorize additional projects under that Act, 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 ‘‘Lower Rio Grande Valley Water
Resources Conservation and Improvement Act of 2002’’.
SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF ADDITIONAL PROJECTS UNDER THE
LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY WATER RESOURCES CON-
SERVATION AND IMPROVEMENT 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 Hidalgo County,
Texas, a pipeline and pumping system as identified in the
Sigler, Winston, Greenwood, Associates, 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 Hidalgo and Willacy
Counties, Texas, proposed water conservation projects, as
identified by the AW Blair Engineering report of February
13, 2001.
‘‘(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
Engineering report dated February 14, 2001.
‘‘(10) In the Brownsville Irrigation District of Cameron
County, Texas, a proposed main canal replacement as outlined
in the Holdar-Garcia & Associates 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, Incorporated, engineering report dated
February 14, 2001.
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‘‘(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, Incor-
porated, engineering analysis dated February 13, 2001.
‘‘(14) In the Hudspeth County, Texas, Conservation and
Reclamation District No. 1, the Alamo Arroyo Pumping Plant
water quality project as identified by the engineering report
and drawings by Gebhard-Sarma and Associates dated July
1996 and the construction of a 1,000 acre-foot off-channel regu-
lating reservoir for the capture and conservation of irrigation
water, as identified in the engineering report by AW Blair
Engineering dated June 2002.
‘‘(15) In the El Paso County, Texas, Water Improvement
District No. 1, the Riverside Canal Improvement Project Phase
I Reach A, a canal lining and water conservation project as
identified by the engineering report by AW Blair Engineering
dated June 2002.
‘‘(16) In the Maverick County, Texas, Water Improvement
and Control District No. 1, the concrete lining project of 12
miles of the Maverick Main Canal, identified in the engineering
report by AW Blair Engineering dated June 2002.
‘‘(17) In the Hidalgo County, Texas, Irrigation District No.
6, rehabilitation of 10.2 miles of concrete lining in the main
canal between Lift Stations Nos. 2 and 3 as identified in the
engineering report by AW Blair Engineering dated June 2002.
‘‘(18) In the Hidalgo County, Texas, Irrigation District No.
2, Wisconsin Canal Improvements as identified in the Sigler,
Winston, Greenwood & Associates, Incorporated, engineering
report dated February 2001.
‘‘(19) In the Hidalgo County, Texas, Irrigation District No.
2, Lateral ‘A’ Canal Improvements as identified in the Sigler,
Winston, Greenwood & Associates, Incorporated, engineering
report dated July 25, 2001.’’.
SEC. 3. AMENDMENTS TO THE LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY WATER
RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND IMPROVEMENT ACT OF
2000.
The Lower Rio Grande Valley Water Resources Conservation
and Improvement Act of 2000 (Public Law 106–576; 114 Stat.
3065 et seq.) is further amended as follows:
(1) Section 3(a) is amended in the first sentence by striking
‘‘The Secretary’’ and all that follows through ‘‘in cooperation’’
and inserting ‘‘The Secretary, acting through the Bureau of
Reclamation, 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 entitled ‘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 operation, maintenance,
repair, and replacement’’.
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(4) Section 3(e) is amended by striking ‘‘the criteria estab-
lished pursuant to this section’’ and inserting ‘‘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 preparation 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’’.
(8) Section 4(c) is amended by striking ‘‘$10,000,000’’ and
inserting ‘‘$47,000,000 (2001 dollars)’’.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.