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Central Valley Project to allocate water pro-
vided for irrigation purposes to each existing 
Central Valley Project agricultural water service 
contractor within the Sacramento River Water-
shed in accordance with the following: 
(i) Not less than 100 percent of the 
contract quantity of the existing Central 
Valley Project agricultural water service 
contractor within the Sacramento River 
Watershed in a ‘‘Wet’’ year. 
(ii) Not less than 100 percent of the 
contract quantity of the existing Central 
Valley Project agricultural water service 
Contractor within the Sacramento River 
Watershed in an ‘‘Above Normal’’ year. 
(iii) Not less than 100 percent of the 
contract quantity of the existing Central 
Valley Project agricultural water service 
contractor within the Sacramento River 
Watershed in a ‘‘Below Normal’’ year that 
is preceded by an ‘‘Above Normal’’ or 
‘‘Wet’’ year. 
(iv) Not less than 50 percent of the 
contract quantity of the existing Central 
Valley Project agricultural water service 
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contractor within the Sacramento River 
Watershed in a ‘‘Dry’’ year that is pre-
ceded by a ‘‘Below Normal’’, ‘‘Above Nor-
mal’’, or ‘‘Wet’’ year. 
(v) Subject to clause (ii), in any other 
year not identified in any of clauses (i) 
through (iv), not less than twice the alloca-
tion percentage to south-of-Delta Central 
Valley Project agricultural water service 
contractors, up to 100 percent. 
(B) EFFECT
OF
CLAUSE.—Nothing in 
clause (A)(v) precludes an allocation to an ex-
isting Central Valley Project agricultural water 
service contractor within the Sacramento River 
Watershed that is greater than twice the alloca-
tion percentage to a south-of-Delta Central Val-
ley Project agricultural water service con-
tractor. 
(3) PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT, MUNICIPAL 
AND INDUSTRIAL SUPPLIES, AND OTHER CONTRAC-
TORS.— 
(A) ENVIRONMENT.—Nothing in para-
graph (2) shall adversely affect— 
(i) the cold water pool behind Shasta 
Dam; 
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(ii) the obligation of the Secretary of 
the Interior to make water available to 
managed wetlands pursuant to section 
3406(d) of the Central Valley Project Im-
provement Act (Public Law 102–575; 106 
Stat. 4722); or 
(iii) any obligation— 
(I) of the Secretary of the Inte-
rior and the Secretary of Commerce 
under the smelt biological opinion, the 
salmonid biological opinion, or any 
other applicable biological opinion; or 
(II) under the Endangered Spe-
cies Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et 
seq.) or any other applicable law (in-
cluding regulations). 
(B) MUNICIPAL
AND
INDUSTRIAL
SUP-
PLIES.—Nothing in paragraph (2)— 
(i) modifies any provision of a water 
Service contract that addresses municipal 
or industrial water shortage policies of the 
Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary 
of Commerce; 
(ii) affects or limits the authority of 
the Secretary of the Interior and the Sec-
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retary of Commerce to adopt or modify 
municipal and industrial water shortage 
policies; 
(iii) affects or limits the authority of 
the Secretary of the Interior and the Sec-
retary of Commerce to implement a munic-
ipal or industrial water shortage policy; 
(iv) constrains, governs, or affects, di-
rectly or indirectly, the operations of the 
American River division of the Central Val-
ley Project or any deliveries from that divi-
sion or a unit or facility of that division; 
or 
(v) affects any allocation to a Central 
Valley Project municipal or industrial 
water service contractor by increasing or 
decreasing allocations to the contractor, as 
compared to the allocation the contractor 
would have received absent paragraph (2). 
(C) OTHER
CONTRACTORS.—Nothing in 
subsection (b)— 
(i) affects the priority of any indi-
vidual or entity with Sacramento River 
water rights, including an individual or en-
tity with a Sacramento River settlement 
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contract, that has priority to the diversion 
and use of Sacramento River water over 
water rights held by the United States for 
operations of the Central Valley Project; 
(ii) affects the obligation of the 
United States to make a substitute supply 
of water available to the San Joaquin 
River exchange contractors; 
(iii) affects the allocation of water to 
Friant division contractors of the Central 
Valley Project; 
(iv) results in the involuntary reduc-
tion in contract water allocations to indi-
viduals or entities with contracts to receive 
water from the Friant division; or 
(v) authorizes any actions inconsistent 
with State water rights law. 
SEC. 450. None of the funds in this Act shall be avail-
able to implement the Stipulation of Settlement (Natural 
Resources Defense Council, et al. v. Kirk Rodgers, et al., 
Eastern District of California, No. Civ. 9 S–88–1658 
LKK/GGH) or subtitle A of title X of Public Law 111– 
11. 
SEC. 451. None of the funds in this Act shall be avail-
able for the purchase of water in the State of California 
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