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107TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2990
To amend the Lower Rio Grande Valley Water Resources Conservation and
Improvement Act of 2000 to authorize additional projects under that
Act, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
OCTOBER 2, 2001
Mr. HINOJOSA (for himself, Mr. BONILLA, Mr. GONZALEZ, Mr. ORTIZ, Mr.
REYES, and Mr. RODRIGUEZ) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Resouces
A BILL
To amend the Lower Rio Grande Valley Water Resources
Conservation and Improvement Act of 2000 to authorize
additional projects under that Act, and for other pur-
poses.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Lower Rio Grande Val-
ley Water Resources Conservation and Improvement Act
of 2001’’.
SEC. 
2. 
AUTHORIZATION 
OF 
ADDITIONAL 
PROJECTS
UNDER THE LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY
WATER RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND IM-
PROVEMENT 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 Hi-
dalgo County, Texas, a pipeline and pumping system
as identified in the Sigler, Winston, Greenwood, As-
sociates, 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 Hi-
dalgo 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 Engineer-
ing report dated February 14, 2001.
‘‘(10) In the Brownsville Irrigation District of
Cameron County, Texas, a proposed main canal re-
placement as outlined in the Holdar-Garcia & Asso-
ciates 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, Incor-
porated, engineering report dated February 14,
2001.
‘‘(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, Incorporated, engineering analysis
dated February 13, 2001.
‘‘(14) In the Hudspeth County, Texas, Con-
servation and Reclamation District No. 1, the Alamo
Arroyo Pumping Plant water quality project as iden-
tified 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 reg-
ulating reservoir for the capture and conservation of
irrigation water, as identified in the engineering re-
port by AW Blair Engineering dated March of 2001.
‘‘(15) In the El Paso County, Texas, Water Im-
provement District No. 1, the Riverside Canal Im-
provement Project Phase I Reach A, a canal lining
and water conservation project as identified by the
engineering report and drawings by AW Blair Engi-
neering dated November 1999.
‘‘(16) In the Maverick County, Texas, Water
Improvement and Control District No. 1, the con-
crete lining project of 12 miles of the Maverick Main
Canal, identified in the engineering report by AW
Blair Engineering dated March 2001.
‘‘(17) In the Hidalgo County, Texas, Irrigation
District No. 6, rehabilitation of 10.2 miles of con-
crete lining in the main canal between Lift Stations
Nos. 2 and 3 as identified in the engineering report
by AW Blair Engineering dated March 2001.
‘‘(18) In the Hidalgo County, Texas, Irrigation
District No. 2, Wisconsin Canal Improvements as
identified in the Sigler, Winston, Greenwood & Asso-
ciates, Incorporated, engineering report dated Feb-
ruary 2001.
‘‘(19) In the Hidalgo County, Texas, Irrigation
District No. 2, Lateral ‘A’ Canal Improvements as
identified in the Sigler, Winston, Greenwood & Asso-
ciates, Incorporated, engineering report dated July
25, 2001.’’.
SEC. 3. AMENDMENTS TO THE LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY
WATER RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND IM-
PROVEMENT ACT OF 2000.
The Lower Rio Grande Valley Water Resources Con-
servation and Improvement Act of 2000 (Public Law 106–
576; 114 Stat. 3065 et seq.) is further amended as fol-
lows:
(1) Section 3(a) is amended in the first sen-
tence by striking ‘‘The Secretary’’ and all that fol-
lows through ‘‘in cooperation’’ and inserting ‘‘The
Secretary, acting through the Bureau of Reclama-
tion, 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 en-
titled ‘Guidelines for Preparing and Reviewing Proposals
for Water Conservation and Improvement Projects Under
P.L. 106–576’, dated June 2000.’’.
(3) Section 3(d) is amended by inserting before
the period at the end the following: ‘‘, including op-
eration, maintenance, repair, and replacement’’.
(4) Section 3(e) is amended by striking ‘‘the
criteria established pursuant to this section’’ and in-
serting ‘‘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 prepa-
ration 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)’’.
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