Title: Endangered Fish Recovery Programs Extension Act of 2019
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
Endangered Fish Recovery Programs Extension Act of 2019
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 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 38 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 38

  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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 8, 2019

Mr. Gardner (for himself and Mr. Bennet) 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 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 2019''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF AUTHORIZATION FOR ANNUAL BASE FUNDING OF FISH 
              RECOVERY PROGRAMS; REMOVAL OF CERTAIN REPORTING 
              REQUIREMENT.

    Section 3(d) of Public Law 106-392 (114 Stat. 1604; 126 Stat. 2444) 
is amended--
            (1) by striking paragraph (1) and inserting the following:
            ``(1) Authorization of appropriations.--
                    ``(A) In general.--There is authorized to be 
                appropriated to the Secretary to be used by the Bureau 
                of Reclamation to make the annual base funding 
                contributions to the Recovery Implementation Programs 
                $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2020 through 2023.
                    ``(B) Nonreimursable funds.--The funds contributed 
                to the Recovery Implementation Programs under 
                subparagraph (A) shall be considered a nonreimbursable 
                Federal expenditure.''; and
            (2) in paragraph (2), by striking the fourth, 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; and
                    ``(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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