A bill to amend the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to authorize certain extraordinary operation and maintenance work for urban canals of concern.
Bill: S.4175 | Sponsor: Sen. Risch, James E. (R-ID)
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
This bill amends the Bureau of Reclamation's authority to carry out emergency work to include certain urban canals of concern and amends certain cost-sharing provisions.
Specifically, the bill reclassifies Reclamation's urban canals of concern as emergency extraordinary maintenance and operation work necessary to ensure the continued safe, dependable, and reliable delivery of project benefits. An urban canal of concern conveys water through a densely populated urban area and the canal's failure would result in the loss of life and property in the vicinity of the failure.
As emergency work, Reclamation may provide federal funds to an urban canal of concern project on a non-reimbursable basis sufficient to cover 35% of the cost. The bill further specifies that reimbursable funds provided under this provision must be considered a nonfederal source of funds for purposes of federal grant cost-sharing requirements.

To amend the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to authorize 
 certain extraordinary operation and maintenance work for urban canals 
                              of concern.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. EXTRAORDINARY OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE WORK PERFORMED BY 
              THE SECRETARY.

    (a) Definitions.--Section 9601 of the Omnibus Public Land 
Management Act of 2009 (43 U.S.C. 510) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), 
        (6), and (7) as paragraphs (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), and 
        (1), respectively;
            (2) in paragraph (3) (as so redesignated), by striking ``et 
        seq.)'' and inserting ``et seq.))'';
            (3) in paragraph (4) (as so redesignated), by striking 
        ``mean'' and inserting ``means''; and
            (4) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(8) Urban canal of concern.--The term `urban canal of 
        concern' means a transferred works or segment of a transferred 
        works--
                    ``(A) that conveys water through a densely 
                populated urban area; and
                    ``(B) with respect to which the Secretary 
                determines, pursuant to the guidelines and criteria 
                developed under section 9602(a), that if a failure were 
                to occur, the failure would result in loss of life and 
                property in the vicinity of the failed transferred 
                works or segment of transferred works.''.
    (b) Extraordinary Maintenance and Operation Work on Urban Canal of 
Concerns.--Section 9603 of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 
2009 (43 U.S.C. 510b) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (c)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1)--
                            (i) by striking ``carry out any'' and 
                        inserting the following: ``carry out--
                    ``(A) any'';
                            (ii) in subparagraph (A) (as so 
                        designated), by striking the period at the end 
                        and inserting ``; or''; and
                            (iii) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(B) any extraordinary maintenance and operation 
                work on an urban canal of concern.''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (3), in the first sentence--
                            (i) by striking ``If the Secretary'' and 
                        inserting ``In the case of extraordinary 
                        maintenance and operation work on an urban 
                        canal of concern authorized under paragraph (1) 
                        or if the Secretary'';
                            (ii) by striking ``, which'' and inserting 
                        ``that''; and
                            (iii) by inserting ``or to carry out the 
                        extraordinary maintenance and operation work on 
                        the urban canal of concern'' after ``imminent 
                        harm''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(e) Reimbursable Funds.--Any reimbursable funds provided under 
this section shall be considered to be a non-Federal source of funds 
for purposes of any cost-sharing requirement for a Federal grant.''.
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