Title: A bill to extend a repayment contract relating to the Purgatoire River Water Conservancy District and to authorize the District to develop an excess capacity contract to offset repayment costs, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Water Resources Development

Summary:
This bill allows the Bureau of Reclamation to extend the repayment contract with the Purgatoire River Water Conservancy District relating to the Purgatoire project for the Trinidad Dam on Purgatoire River in Colorado. The bill also allows Reclamation to enter into excess capacity contracts with respect to the project; revenues from such contracts must be first credited toward the district's outstanding payment obligation under its repayment contract.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1758 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1758

 To extend a repayment contract relating to the Purgatoire River Water 
Conservancy District and to authorize the District to develop an excess 
  capacity contract to offset repayment costs, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 10, 2019

  Mr. Gardner introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To extend a repayment contract relating to the Purgatoire River Water 
Conservancy District and to authorize the District to develop an excess 
  capacity contract to offset repayment costs, 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. TRINIDAD DAM, PURGATOIRE RIVER, COLORADO.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding the maximum term of the repayment 
of the irrigation first cost described in House Document 325, 84th 
Congress, 2d Session, the Commissioner of Reclamation may extend the 
contract with the Purgatoire River Water Conservancy District relating 
to the Purgatoire project for the Trinidad Dam on Purgatoire River, 
Colorado, authorized by section 203 of the Flood Control Act of 1958 
(72 Stat. 309) to allow for a maximum term of the repayment of the 
irrigation first cost of not more than 100 years.
    (b) Excess Capacity.--
            (1) Authorization.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
        law, the Commissioner of Reclamation may enter into excess 
        capacity contracts at the project described in subsection (a).
            (2) Use of revenue.--Notwithstanding the reclamation laws, 
        any revenue derived from a contract for the use of the excess 
        capacity at the project described in subsection (a) shall be--
                    (A) first credited toward the outstanding repayment 
                obligation of the Purgatoire River Water Conservancy 
                District under the contract referred to in subsection 
                (a); and
                    (B) after the outstanding repayment obligation 
                referred to in subparagraph (A) is repaid in full, 
                credited toward the annual operations, maintenance, and 
                replacement obligation of the Purgatoire River Water 
                Conservancy District.
    (c) Operations, Maintenance, and Replacement Costs.--
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the operations, 
maintenance, and replacement costs of the Corps of Engineers described 
in the contract referred to in subsection (a) and annually invoiced to 
the Purgatoire River Water Conservancy District shall not exceed the 
lesser of--
            (1) the actual costs of the Corps of Engineers, determined 
        in accordance with the terms of the contract; and
            (2) the calculation of the Bureau of Reclamation of the 
        actual costs of the Corps of Engineers for a single-purpose 
        irrigation reservoir facility.
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