Title: Move Water Now Act
Policy area: Water Resources Development

Summary:
Move Water Now Act
This bill temporarily authorizes the Department of the Interior to conduct activities to accelerate and complete repairs to certain water conveyance facilities in western states. The bill also authorizes additional activities related to implementation of the San Joaquin River restoration settlement, which resolved a legal dispute regarding fish populations and water supply in the San Joaquin River in California.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5316 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5316

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 5, 2019

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

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide for the restoration of the original carrying capacity of 
      canals 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 ``Move Water Now Act''.

SEC. 2. CONVEYANCE CAPACITY CORRECTION PROJECT.

    (a) In General.--There is authorized to be appropriated to the 
Secretary of the Interior, $200,000,000 for fiscal years 2020 through 
2023, in the aggregate, for the acceleration and completion of repairs 
to water conveyance facilities at transferred works in Reclamation 
States.
    (b) Eligibility.--A project eligible for funding under this section 
is a project where--
            (1) repairs are major, non-recurring maintenance of a 
        mission critical asset;
            (2) the Secretary determines that the project has lost 50 
        percent or more of its designed carrying capacity along some 
        portion of the facility; and
            (3) the additional water made available for conveyance 
        through the project would be used primarily for groundwater 
        recharge to assist in meeting groundwater sustainability goals 
        defined under State law.
    (c) Cost Sharing.--
            (1) Federal share.--The Federal share of the cost of 
        carrying out an activity 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 an activity described in the section--
                    (A) shall be not less than 50 percent; and
                    (B) may be provided in cash or in-kind.
    (d) Restrictions.--Funds authorized to be appropriated under this 
section may not be used to build new surface storage, raise existing 
reservoirs, or enlarge the carrying capacity of a canal beyond the 
project's capacity as previously constructed by the Bureau of 
Reclamation.
    (e) Environmental Compliance.--In carrying out projects under this 
section, the Secretary of the Interior shall comply with all applicable 
environmental laws, including--
            (1) the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969;
            (2) the Endangered Species Act of 1973; and
            (3) other applicable State law.
    (f) Savings.--Federal funds provided under this section shall be in 
addition to any and all Federal funding authorized in statute for such 
purposes and shall be non-reimbursable.

SEC. 3. FUNDING PARITY FOR WATER MANAGEMENT GOALS AND RESTORATION 
              GOALS.

    In addition to the funding authorized in section 10009 of Public 
Law 111-11, there are authorized to be appropriated an additional 
$200,000,000 (at October 2019 price levels) to implement the 
Restoration Goal of the Settlement described in section 10004 of Public 
Law 111-11.
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