Title: Colorado River Drought Contingency Plan Authorization Act
Policy area: Water Resources Development

Summary:
Colorado River Drought Contingency Plan Authorization Act
This bill requires the Department of the Interior to carry out the Colorado River Drought Contingency Plan which was submitted to Congress on March 19, 2019, by Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Interior must execute the plan without delay and operate applicable Colorado River System reservoirs accordingly.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1057 Considered and Passed Senate (CPS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1057

   To direct the Secretary of the Interior to execute and carry out 
agreements concerning Colorado River Drought Contingency Management and 
                  Operations, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 8, 2019

    Ms. McSally (for herself, Ms. Cortez Masto, Mr. Barrasso, Mrs. 
Feinstein, Mr. Gardner, Mr. Romney, Ms. Sinema, Mr. Lee, Mr. Enzi, Ms. 
Rosen, Mr. Bennet, Mr. Udall, Mr. Heinrich, and Ms. Harris) introduced 
 the following bill; which was read twice, considered, read the third 
                            time, and passed

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                                 A BILL


 
   To direct the Secretary of the Interior to execute and carry out 
agreements concerning Colorado River Drought Contingency Management and 
                  Operations, 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 ``Colorado River Drought Contingency 
Plan Authorization Act''.

SEC. 2. COLORADO RIVER BASIN DROUGHT CONTINGENCY PLANS.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law 
expressly addressing the operation of the applicable Colorado River 
System reservoirs, immediately upon execution of the March 19, 2019, 
versions of the Agreement Concerning Colorado River Drought Contingency 
Management and Operations and the agreements attached thereto as 
Attachments A1, A2, and B, by all of the non-Federal parties thereto, 
the Secretary of the Interior shall, without delay, execute such 
agreements, and is directed and authorized to carry out the provisions 
of such agreements and operate applicable Colorado River System 
reservoirs accordingly.
    (b) Effect.--Nothing in this section shall--
            (1) be construed or interpreted as precedent for the 
        litigation of, or as altering, affecting, or being deemed as a 
        congressional determination regarding, the water rights of the 
        United States, any Indian Tribe, band, or community, any State 
        or political subdivision or district of a State, or any person; 
        or
            (2) exempt the implementation of such agreements and the 
        operation of applicable Colorado River System reservoirs from 
        any requirements of applicable Federal environmental laws.
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