I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2733 
To establish the Trinity River Restoration Fund, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 14, 2007 
Mr. THOMPSON of California (for himself and Mr. GEORGE MILLER of Cali-
fornia) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Natural Resources 
A BILL 
To establish the Trinity River Restoration Fund, and for 
other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; DEFINITIONS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Trinity River Restoration Fund Act of 2007’’. 
(b) DEFINITIONS.—For the purposes of this Act: 
(1) APPENDIX
C.—The term ‘‘Appendix C’’ 
means Appendix C of the Final Environmental Im-
pact Statement/Environmental Impact Report for 
the Trinity River Mainstem Fishery. 
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(2) RECORD OF DECISION.—The term ‘‘Record 
of Decision’’ means the Record of Decision issued by 
the Secretary with the concurrence of the Hoopa 
Valley Tribe on December 19, 2000, on ‘‘Trinity 
River Mainstem Fishery Restoration’’. 
(3) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of the Interior. 
SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT AND PURPOSE OF FUND. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT, PURPOSE.—There is hereby es-
tablished in the United States Treasury a fund, to be 
known as the ‘‘Trinity River Restoration Fund’’, to be 
available to the Secretary for expenditure without further 
appropriation or fiscal year limitation, and which the Sec-
retary shall use solely for the purpose of implementing the 
preferred alternative identified in the Record of Decision. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION
TO
ACCEPT
AND
EXPEND 
FUNDS.—The Secretary is authorized to accept and ex-
pend funds without further appropriation or fiscal year 
limitation from public and private sources to assist in the 
implementation of the Record of Decision. 
(c) USE FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES.—Amounts depos-
ited into the Trinity River Restoration Fund for specific 
purposes shall be expended for those purposes only and 
shall not be subject to appropriation. 
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SEC. 3. DEPOSITS INTO FUND. 
The following shall be deposited in the Trinity River 
Restoration Fund: 
(1)(A) Out of the capital component of pay-
ments made pursuant to long-term contracts with 
the Bureau of Reclamation by Central Valley Project 
water and power contractors (excluding payments 
made by Friant Division long-term contractors) and 
beginning the first full fiscal year beginning after 
the date of the enactment of this Act and continuing 
each subsequent fiscal year for 5 years, such amount 
per year as is necessary to yield on an average an-
nual basis over 5 years $6,500,000 (October 2007 
price levels), to be used to complete the construction 
and associated administrative activities that the 
Record of Decision incorporated pursuant to the Im-
plementation Plan for Trinity River restoration. 
(B) For purposes of this paragraph, construc-
tion activities include portions or all of the Mechan-
ical Rehabilitation, Coarse and Fine Sediment Man-
agement Program, and Infrastructure Modifications 
described in sections 2, 3, and 4 of Appendix C. 
(2)(A) Out of the capital component of pay-
ments made pursuant to long-term contracts with 
the Bureau of Reclamation by Central Valley Project 
water and power contractors (excluding payments 
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made by Friant Division long-term contractors) and 
beginning the first fiscal year after the date of the 
enactment of this Act and continuing through the 
conclusion of the Central Valley Project repayment 
pursuant to Public Law 99–546, such amount per 
year required to yield a 3-year rolling average of 
$11,000,000 (October 2007 price levels), to fund op-
eration, maintenance, repair, and replacement, and 
associated administrative activities necessary for the 
implementation of the Record of Decision. 
(B) For purposes of this paragraph— 
(i) operation, maintenance, repair, and re-
placement activities— 
(I) are activities necessary to main-
tain the physical infrastructure constructed 
under paragraph (1); and 
(II) those activities associated with 
Coarse and Fine Sediment Management, 
Infrastructure Modifications, Watershed 
Protection, and Adaptive Environmental 
Assessment and Management, described in 
sections 3, 4, 5, and 6 of Appendix C; and 
(ii) associated administrative activities are 
those described in Organizing to Implement the 
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Trinity River Restoration Program in section 7 
of Appendix C. 
(3) Non-Federal funds contributed to the 
United States for implementation of the Record of 
Decision or Federal funds appropriated to the Trin-
ity River Restoration Fund. 
SEC. 4. COSTS; STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION. 
The Federal costs of implementing paragraphs (1) 
and (2) of section 3 shall be nonreimbursable under Fed-
eral reclamation law. Nothing in this section shall— 
(1) limit or be construed to limit the use of the 
funds assessed and collected pursuant to section 
3407(d)(2) of the Central Valley Project Improve-
ment Act (Public Law 102–575; 106 Stat. 4706, 
4727) for implementation of the Record of Decision; 
or 
(2) be construed to limit or modify existing or 
future Central Valley Project Ratesetting Policies. 
SEC. 
5. 
FUNDING 
IN 
THE 
EVENT 
CENTRAL 
VALLEY 
PROJECT CAPITAL REPAYMENTS ARE UN-
AVAILABLE. 
For any fiscal year in which the capital component 
of payments made pursuant to long-term contracts with 
the Bureau of Reclamation by Central Valley Project 
water and power contractors (excluding payments made 
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