Title: Endangered Fish Recovery Programs Extension Act of 2017
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
Endangered Fish Recovery Programs Extension Act of 2017
This bill extends through FY2023 the authority of the Department of the Interior to use power revenues collected pursuant to the Colorado River Storage Project Act for annual base funding of endangered fish recovery implementation programs for the Upper Colorado and San Juan River Basins.
Additionally, Interior must submit to Congress a report that describes the accomplishments and costs of the recovery implementation programs.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4465 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4465

  To maintain annual base funding for the Upper Colorado and San Juan 
fish recovery programs through fiscal year 2023, to require a report on 
     the implementation of those programs, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 28, 2017

 Mr. Curtis (for himself, Ms. DeGette, Mr. Bishop of Utah, Mr. Polis, 
 Mr. Stewart, Mr. Perlmutter, and Mr. Tipton) introduced the following 
     bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To maintain annual base funding for the Upper Colorado and San Juan 
fish recovery programs through fiscal year 2023, to require a report on 
     the implementation of those programs, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Endangered Fish Recovery Programs 
Extension Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF AUTHORIZATION TO USE UPPER COLORADO RIVER BASIN 
              FUND REVENUES FOR ANNUAL BASE FUNDING OF FISH RECOVERY 
              PROGRAMS; REMOVAL OF CERTAIN REPORTING REQUIREMENT.

    Section 3(d)(2) of Public Law 106-392 (114 Stat. 1604; 126 Stat. 
2444) is amended--
            (1) in the fourth sentence--
                    (A) by striking ``2019'' and inserting ``2023''; 
                and
                    (B) by striking ``; except that'' and all that 
                follows through ``capital projects and monitoring''; 
                and
            (2) by striking the fifth, sixth, and seventh sentences.

SEC. 3. REPORT ON RECOVERY IMPLEMENTATION PROGRAMS.

    Section 3 of Public Law 106-392 (114 Stat. 1603; 126 Stat. 2444) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(j) Report.--
            ``(1) In general.--Not later than September 30, 2021, the 
        Secretary shall submit to the appropriate committees of 
        Congress a report that--
                    ``(A) describes the accomplishments of the Recovery 
                Implementation Programs;
                    ``(B) identifies--
                            ``(i) as of the date of the report, the 
                        listing status under the Endangered Species Act 
                        of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) of the 
                        Colorado pikeminnow, humpback chub, razorback 
                        sucker, and bonytail; and
                            ``(ii) as of September 30, 2023, the 
                        projected listing status under that Act of each 
                        of the species referred to in clause (i);
                    ``(C)(i) identifies--
                            ``(I) the total expenditures and the 
                        expenditures by categories of activities by the 
                        Recovery Implementation Programs during the 
                        period beginning on the date on which the 
                        applicable Recovery Implementation Program was 
                        established and ending on September 30, 2021; 
                        and
                            ``(II) projected expenditures by the 
                        Recovery Implementation Programs during the 
                        period beginning on October 1, 2021, and ending 
                        on September 30, 2023;
                    ``(ii) for purposes of the expenditures identified 
                under clause (i), includes a description of--
                            ``(I) any expenditures of appropriated 
                        funds;
                            ``(II) any power revenues;
                            ``(III) any contributions by the States, 
                        power customers, Tribes, water users, and 
                        environmental organizations; and
                            ``(IV) any other sources of funds for the 
                        Recovery Implementation Programs; and
                    ``(D) describes--
                            ``(i) any activities to be carried out 
                        under the Recovery Implementation Program after 
                        September 30, 2023; and
                            ``(ii) the projected cost of the activities 
                        described under clause (i).
            ``(2) Consultation required.--The Secretary shall consult 
        with the participants in the Recovery Implementation Programs 
        in preparing the report under paragraph (1).''.
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