H. R. 7938 
One Hundred Eighteenth Congress 
of the 
United States of America 
AT THE SECOND SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday, 
the third day of January, two thousand and twenty-four 
An Act 
To amend the Klamath Basin Water Supply Enhancement Act of 2000 to provide 
the Secretary of the Interior with certain authorities with respect to projects 
affecting the Klamath Basin watershed, 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 ‘‘Klamath Basin Water Agreement 
Support Act of 2024’’. 
SEC. 2. KLAMATH PROJECT WATER AND POWER. 
(a) ADDRESSING WATER, POWER, AND FACILITIES MANAGEMENT 
FOR IRRIGATION.—Section 4 of the Klamath Basin Water Supply 
Enhancement Act of 2000 (Public Law 106–498) is amended by 
adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(d) RESTORATION ACTIVITIES.—The Secretary may— 
‘‘(1) plan, design, construct, operate, and maintain projects 
in the Klamath Basin watershed, including— 
‘‘(A) facilities to reduce fish entrainment; 
‘‘(B) projects that reduce or avoid impacts on aquatic 
resources of facilities involved in the storage or diversion 
of water for irrigation in the Klamath Project service area; 
and 
‘‘(C) projects that restore habitats in the Klamath 
Basin watershed, including Tribal fishery resources held 
in trust; 
‘‘(2) undertake studies, including feasibility studies, and 
improvements that the Secretary determines to be necessary 
to implement this subsection; 
‘‘(3) in implementing this subsection, enter into contracts, 
memoranda of understanding, financial assistance agreements, 
cost-sharing agreements, or other appropriate agreements 
with— 
‘‘(A) State, Tribal, and local governmental agencies; 
and 
‘‘(B) private parties; and 
‘‘(4) accept and expend non-Federal funds in order to facili-
tate implementation of this subsection. 
‘‘(e) GOALS.—The goals of activities under subsections (b) and 
(d) shall include, as applicable— 
‘‘(1) the short-term and long-term reduction and resolution 
of conflicts relating to water in the Klamath Basin watershed; 
and
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‘‘(2) compatibility and utility for protecting natural 
resources throughout the Klamath Basin watershed, including 
the protection, preservation, and restoration of Klamath River 
Tribal fishery resources, particularly through collaboratively 
developed agreements. 
‘‘(f) PUMPING PLANT D.—The Secretary may enter into 1 or 
more agreements with the Tulelake Irrigation District to reimburse 
the Tulelake Irrigation District for not more than 69 percent of 
the cost incurred by the Tulelake Irrigation District for the oper-
ation and maintenance of Pumping Plant D, subject to the condition 
that the cost results in benefits to the United States. 
‘‘(g) KENO AND LINK RIVER DAMS.—The Secretary of the Interior 
shall comply with the terms of the agreement entitled ‘2016 
Klamath Power and Facilities Agreement’ (‘Agreement’), including 
Attachment A to the Agreement.’’. 
(b) ADMINISTRATION; EFFECT.— 
(1) COMPLIANCE.—In implementing the amendments made 
by this section, the Secretary of the Interior shall comply with— 
(A) the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 
(42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.); 
(B) the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 
1531 et seq.); and 
(C) all other applicable laws. 
(2) EFFECT.—None of the amendments made by this sec-
tion— 
(A) modify any authority or obligation of the United 
States with respect to any Tribal trust or treaty obligation 
of the United States; 
(B) create or determine any water right; or 
(C) affect any water right or water right claim in 
existence on the date of the enactment of this Act. 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.