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109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5796 
To direct the Secretary of the Interior to exclude and defer from the pooled 
reimbursable costs of the Central Valley Project the reimbursable capital 
costs of the unused capacity of the Folsom South Canal, Auburn-Folsom 
South Unit, Central Valley Project, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 13, 2006 
Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Resources 
A BILL 
To direct the Secretary of the Interior to exclude and defer 
from the pooled reimbursable costs of the Central Valley 
Project the reimbursable capital costs of the unused ca-
pacity of the Folsom South Canal, Auburn-Folsom South 
Unit, Central Valley Project, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. CERTAIN AMOUNTS EXCLUDE AND DEFER 
FROM THE POOLED REIMBURSABLE COSTS 
RELATED 
TO 
THE 
CENTRAL 
VALLEY 
PROJECT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the Interior (re-
ferred to in this section as the ‘‘Secretary’’) shall exclude 
and defer from the pooled reimbursable costs of the Cen-
tral Valley Project the reimbursable capital costs of the 
unused capacity of the Folsom South Canal, Auburn-Fol-
som South Unit, Central Valley Project. 
(b) CALCULATION
OF
AMOUNT
OF
DEFERRED 
USE.—The Secretary shall calculate the amount to be as-
signed to deferred use as soon as practical and such shall 
be reflected in future years’ water rates. 
(c) CALCULATION OF CAPITAL COSTS.—For the pur-
pose of calculating the excluded reimbursable cost for the 
Folsom South Canal facility, the Secretary shall multiply 
the existing total reimbursable cost for the facility by a 
factor, to be determined by dividing the current minimum 
unused conveyance capacity of the canal by the original 
design conveyance capacity of the canal. The minimum un-
used conveyance capacity of the canal shall— 
(1) be determined by the Secretary; 
(2) be based upon actual historic measured 
flows in the canal and planned future flows; and 
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(3) include the amount of Central Valley 
Project water that was originally conveyed or was 
historically projected to be conveyed through the 
Folsom South Canal which may have been contrac-
tually assigned to another entity. 
(d) REVIEW AND ADJUSTMENT.—The Secretary shall 
review and adjust— 
(1) the amount described in subsection (b)(3) 
as appropriate and recalculate the amount of such 
unused capacity of the Folsom South Canal; and 
(2) the amount of reimbursable capital costs of 
the Folsom South Canal. 
(e) CONVEYANCE OF CERTAIN WATER.—So long as 
an entity that is allocated and that pays capital, interest, 
and operation and maintenance costs associated with an 
amount of Central Valley Project water historically as-
signed to the Folsom South Canal does not use the Folsom 
South Canal for the conveyance of Central Valley Project 
water, that entity shall be entitled, without additional cost, 
to convey up to an equivalent amount of non-Central Val-
ley Project water through the Folsom South Canal. 
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