Title: Conveyance Capacity Correction Act
Policy area: Water Resources Development

Summary:
Conveyance Capacity Correction Act
This bill allows the Bureau of Reclamation to provide funding to repair certain water conveyance facilities that (1) need nonrecurring repairs because of damage caused by land subsidence; (2) have lost a specified portion of their designed carrying capacity; or (3) would, with restored carrying capacity, assist in meeting groundwater sustainability goals.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5752 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5752

 To provide for restoration of the original carrying capacity of water 
   conveyance facilities impacted by land subsidence, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 4, 2020

   Mr. Costa (for himself, Mr. Cox of California, and Mr. Harder of 
 California) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide for restoration of the original carrying capacity of water 
   conveyance facilities impacted by land subsidence, 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 ``Conveyance Capacity Correction 
Act''.

SEC. 2. CONVEYANCE CAPACITY CORRECTION PROJECTS.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary may provide funding to States and 
joint powers authorities for the initiation, acceleration, and 
completion of repairs to--
            (1) water conveyance facilities at transferred works 
        located in a Reclamation State; or
            (2) water conveyance facilities that distribute irrigation 
        water and untreated municipal water supplies from water storage 
        facilities that are owned by the United States under the 
        jurisdiction of the Bureau of Reclamation and operated by a 
        State entity.
    (b) Eligibility.--A project eligible for funding under this section 
is a project where--
            (1) damage caused by land subsidence has resulted in the 
        need to undertake non-recurring repairs on a conveyance 
        facility that conveys water from an estuary to a joint powers 
        authority or public water agency;
            (2) the Secretary has determined that the conveyance 
        facilities have lost 10 percent or more of their designed 
        carrying capacity along some portion of the facility; or
            (3) restoring carrying capacity of a conveyance facility 
        would assist in meeting groundwater sustainability goals 
        defined under State law.
    (c) Ineligible Projects.--On-farm conveyance facilities and 
conveyance facilities that serve only one water district are not 
eligible for funding under this Act.
    (d) Priority.--The Secretary shall give funding priority to 
projects that--
            (1) are located in both--
                    (A) a State that has been identified by the United 
                States Drought Monitor as experiencing severe, extreme, 
                or exceptional drought during some or all of at least 7 
                calendar years during the 10-year period ending 
                immediately before such funds are made available; and
                    (B) an area that has been identified by the United 
                States Drought Monitor as experiencing exceptional 
                drought during some or all of at least 4 calendar years 
                during the 10-year period ending immediately before 
                such funds are made available;
            (2) restore conveyance capacity lost as a result of 
        subsidence;
            (3) have commenced an appraisal or feasibility level 
        analysis in consultation with the Bureau of Reclamation or 
        performed by a State; or
            (4) support water supply benefits, including through 
        groundwater recharge, to disadvantaged communities.
    (e) Cost Sharing.--
            (1) Federal share.--The Federal share of the cost of 
        carrying out a project described in this section shall not be 
        more than 50 percent.
            (2) Non-federal share.--The non-Federal share of the cost 
        of carrying out a project described in the section--
                    (A) shall be not less than 50 percent; and
                    (B) may be provided in cash or in kind.
    (f) Savings.--Federal funds provided under this section shall be--
            (1) in addition to any and all Federal funds authorized by 
        statute for such purposes; and
            (2) non-reimbursable.

SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary 
$400,000,000 to carry out this Act.

SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS.

    For the purposes of this Act:
            (1) Reclamation facility.--The term ``Reclamation 
        facility'' means each of the infrastructure assets that are 
        owned by the Bureau of Reclamation at a Reclamation project.
            (2) Reclamation state.--The term ``Reclamation State'' has 
        the meaning given the term in section 4014(8) of the Water 
        Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act (43 U.S.C. 390b 
        note; Public Law 114-322).
            (3) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
        of the Interior.
            (4) Transferred works.--The term ``transferred works'' 
        means a Reclamation facility at which operations and 
        maintenance of the facility is carried out by a non-Federal 
        entity under the provisions of a formal operations and 
        maintenance transfer contract or other legal agreement with the 
        Bureau of Reclamation.
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