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Union Calendar No. 347
107TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 2990
[Report No. 107–580]
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 Resources
JULY 16, 2002
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic]
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on October 2, 2001]
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 RE-
SOURCES 
CONSERVATION 
AND 
IMPROVE-
MENT 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 add-
ing at the end the following:
‘‘(5) In the United Irrigation District of Hidalgo
County, Texas, a pipeline and pumping system as
identified in the Sigler, Winston, Greenwood, Associ-
ates, 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 Engineering re-
port 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 & Associ-
ates 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, Conserva-
tion and Reclamation District No. 1, the Alamo Ar-
royo Pumping Plant water quality project as identi-
fied 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 regu-
lating reservoir for the capture and conservation of
irrigation water, as identified in the engineering re-
port by AW Blair Engineering dated June 2002.
‘‘(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 by AW Blair Engineering dated
June 2002.
‘‘(16) In the Maverick County, Texas, Water Im-
provement and Control District No. 1, the concrete
lining project of 12 miles of the Maverick Main
Canal, identified in the engineering report by AW
Blair Engineering dated June 2002.
‘‘(17) In the Hidalgo County, Texas, Irrigation
District No. 6, rehabilitation of 10.2 miles of concrete
lining in the main canal between Lift Stations Nos.