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(D) The limitation on liability of the United
States contained in section 3 of the Act entitled ‘‘An
Act For the control of floods on the Mississippi
River and its tributaries, and for other purposes’’,
approved May 15, 1928 (chapter 569; 33 U.S.C.
702c), shall not apply to surplus flood flows that are
diverted to the Salton Sea pursuant to this Act.
(g) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—There are authorized to be
appropriated to carry out the Project the following:
(A) For the feasibility study under sub-
section (c), including preparation and any revi-
sion of the reclamation plan under subsections
(c) and (d), and completion of environmental
compliance and permitting required for con-
struction of the Project, $22,500,000.
(B) For construction of the Project in ac-
cordance with a reclamation plan approved by
the Committees, $350,000,000.
(2) 
ALLOCATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.—
Amounts authorized under paragraph (1)(B) may be
appropriated to the Administrator of the Environ-
mental Protection Agency and the Secretary of the
Interior in amounts that ensure that neither the Ad-
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ministrator nor the Secretary is appropriated sub-
stantially all of the Project construction costs.
(3) APPROPRIATIONS TO THE ADMINISTRATOR
OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY.—
Amounts appropriated under paragraph (1)(B) to
the Administrator of the Environmental Protection
Agency shall be directly available to the Secretary.
(4) APPROPRIATIONS TO THE SECRETARY OF
THE INTERIOR.—Amounts appropriated under para-
graph (1)(B) to the Secretary may be appropriated
to the Bureau of Reclamation as specified in appro-
priations Acts.
SEC. 102. CONCURRENT WILDLIFE RESOURCES STUDIES.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall provide for
the conduct, concurrently with the feasibility study under
section 101(c), of studies of hydrology, wildlife pathology,
and toxicology relating to wildlife resources of the Salton
Sea by Federal and non-Federal entities.
(b) SELECTION OF TOPICS AND MANAGEMENT OF
STUDIES.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall establish
a committee to be known as the ‘‘Salton Sea Re-
search Management Committee’’. The committee
shall select the topics of studies under this section
and manage those studies.
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(2) MEMBERSHIP.—The committee shall consist
of the following five members:
(A) The Secretary.
(B) The Governor of California.
(C) The Executive Director of the Salton
Sea Authority.
(D) The Chairman of the Torres Martinez
Desert Cahuilla Tribal Government.
(E) The Director of the California Water
Resources Center.
(c) COORDINATION.—The Secretary shall require
that studies under this section are coordinated through the
Science Subcommittee which reports to the Salton Sea Re-
search Management Committee. In addition to the mem-
bership provided for by the Science Subcommittee’s char-
ter, representatives shall be invited from the University
of California, Riverside; the University of Redlands; San
Diego State University; the Imperial Valley College; and
Los Alamos National Laboratory.
(d) PEER REVIEW.—The Secretary shall require that
studies under this section are subjected to peer review.
(e) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.—For
wildlife resources studies under this section there are au-
thorized to be appropriated to the Secretary $5,000,000.
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SEC. 103. SALTON SEA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE RE-
NAMED AS SONNY BONO SALTON SEA NA-
TIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE.
(a) REFUGE RENAMED.—The Salton Sea National
Wildlife Refuge, located in Imperial County, California, is
hereby renamed and shall be known as the ‘‘Sonny Bono
Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge’’.
(b) REFERENCES.—Any reference in any statute,
rule, regulation, executive order, publication, map, or
paper or other document of the United States to the
Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge is deemed to refer
to the Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge.
SEC. 104. RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER LAWS AND AGREE-
MENTS GOVERNING THE COLORADO RIVER.
(a) PRESERVATION OF RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS
WITH RESPECT TO THE COLORADO RIVER.—Nothing in
this Act shall be construed to alter, amend, repeal, modify,
interpret, or to be in conflict with the provisions of the
Colorado River Compact (45 Stat. 1057), the Upper Colo-
rado River Basin Compact (63 Stat. 31), the Water Trea-
ty of 1944 with Mexico (Treaty Series 944, 59 Stat. 1219
and Minute 242 thereunder), the Colorado River Basin
Salinity Control Act of 1974 (94 Stat. 1063), the Flood
Control Act of 1944 (58 Stat. 887), the decree entered
by the United States Supreme Court in Arizona v. Califor-
nia, et al. (376 U.S. 340) (1964) and decrees supple-
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mental thereto, the Boulder Canyon Project Act (45 Stat.
1057), the Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment Act (45
Stat. 774), the Colorado River Storage Project Act (70
Stat. 105), the Colorado River Basin Project Act (82 Stat.
885), including the Criteria for Coordinated Long Range
Operation of Colorado River Reservoirs and the Annual
Operating Plans developed thereunder, the San Luis Rey
Indian Water Rights Settlement Act (102 Stat. 4000),
any contract entered into pursuant to section 5 of the
Boulder Canyon Project Act, or any other entitlement to
the use of the Colorado River existing pursuant to or rec-
ognized by Federal law. Furthermore, nothing contained
in this Act shall be construed as indicating an intent on
the part of the Congress to change the existing relation-
ship of Federal law to the laws of the States or political
subdivisions of a State with regard to the diversion and
use of Colorado River water, or to relieve any person of
any obligation imposed by any law of any State, tribe, or
political subdivision of a State. No provision of this Act
shall be construed to invalidate any provision of State,
tribal, or local law unless there is a direct conflict between
such provision and the law of the State, or political sub-
division of the State or tribe, so that the two cannot be
reconciled or consistently stand together.
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(b) LIMITATION
ON COLORADO RIVER WATER.—
Nothing in this Act shall be construed to enlarge an exist-
ing entitlement or to create a new entitlement to Colorado
River water for California or any user therein.
(c) FLOOD FLOWS.—In no event shall Colorado River
water be diverted for Salton Sea restoration except as pro-
vided in this subsection. Diversion into the All-American
Canal for delivery directly to the Salton Sea of flood flows
in the Colorado River that are required by the Water Con-
trol Manual for Flood Control, Hoover Dam and Lake
Mead, Colorado River, Nevada-Arizona, adopted February
8, 1984, and which would pass to Mexico in excess of the
amount required to be delivered pursuant to the Mexican
Water Treaty and Minute 242 thereunder may be made
available to carry out the purposes of this Act. The volume
of water diverted pursuant to this subsection shall be lim-
ited to the excess capacity of the All-American Canal to
carry such flood flows after, and as, it has been used to
meet existing obligations. The diversion of water from
time to time under this subsection shall not give rise to
any ongoing right to the recurrent use of such waters or
the All American Canal or facilities.
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TITLE II—EMERGENCY ACTION
TO IMPROVE WATER QUALITY
IN THE ALAMO RIVER AND
NEW RIVER
SEC. 201. ALAMO RIVER AND NEW RIVER IRRIGATION
DRAINAGE WATER.
(a) RIVER ENHANCEMENT.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary is authorized
and directed to promptly conduct research and con-
struct river reclamation and wetlands projects to im-
prove water quality in the Alamo River and New
River, Imperial County, California, by treating water
in those rivers and irrigation drainage water that
flows into those rivers.
(2) ACQUISITIONS.—The Secretary may acquire
equipment, real property, and interests in real prop-
erty (including site access) as needed to implement
actions under this section if the State of California,
a political subdivision of the State, or Desert Wild-
life Unlimited has entered into an agreement with
the Secretary under which the State, subdivision, or
Desert Wildlife Unlimited, respectively, will, effective
1 year after the date that systems for which the ac-
quisitions are made are operational and functional—
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(A) accept all right, title, and interest in
and to the equipment, property, or interests;
and
(B) assume responsibility for operation
and maintenance of the equipment, property, or
interests.
(3) TRANSFER OF TITLE.—Not later than 1
year after the date a system developed under this
section is operational and functional, the Secretary
shall transfer all right, title, and interest of the
United States in and to all equipment, property, and
interests acquired for the system in accordance with
the applicable agreement under paragraph (2).
(4) MONITORING AND OTHER ACTIONS.—The
Secretary shall establish a long-term monitoring pro-
gram to maximize the effectiveness of any wetlands
developed under this title and may implement other
actions to improve the efficacy of actions imple-
mented pursuant to this section.
(b) COOPERATION.—The Secretary shall implement
subsection (a) in cooperation with the Desert Wildlife Un-
limited, the Imperial Irrigation District, California, and
other interested persons.
(c) CLEAN WATER ACT.—No permit shall be re-
quired under section 402 of the Federal Water Pollution
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Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1342) for a wetlands filtration or
constructed wetlands project authorized by subsection
(a)(1) of this section.
(d) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.—For
river reclamation and other irrigation drainage water
treatment actions under this section, there are authorized
to be appropriated to the Secretary $3,000,000.
Passed the House of Representatives July 15, 1998.
Attest:
ROBIN H. CARLE,
Clerk.