Title: Platte River Basin Critical Maintenance and Repair Act
Policy area: Water Resources Development

Summary:
Platte River Basin Critical Maintenance and Repair Act
This bill expands federal government funding to allow for the critical maintenance and repair of certain Bureau of Reclamation-owned facilities located within the Platte River Basin in Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming. The bill applies to those basin facilities that have had a structural failure resulting in a declaration of emergency in the 3-year period ending on the date the bill is enacted (e.g., the Fort Laramie Canal in both Wyoming and Nebraska, which had a tunnel collapse in July 2019).
Current law limits funding eligibility to certain Reclamation-owned facilities that suffered a critical failure during a 2-year period ending on November 15, 2021.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4233 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4233

  To amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to provide for 
   critical maintenance and repair of certain Bureau of Reclamation 
         reserved or transferred works, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 17, 2022

 Mr. Barrasso 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 amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to provide for 
   critical maintenance and repair of certain Bureau of Reclamation 
         reserved or transferred works, 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 ``Platte River Basin Critical 
Maintenance and Repair Act''.

SEC. 2. CRITICAL MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR.

    Section 40904 of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (43 
U.S.C. 3204) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(1)(B)--
                    (A) by striking the period at the end and inserting 
                ``; or'';
                    (B) by striking ``(B) a unit'' and inserting 
                ``(B)(i) a unit''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(ii) in the case of reserved or transferred works 
                located within the Platte River Basin, the reserved or 
                transferred works had a structural failure in Bureau of 
                Reclamation infrastructure resulting in a declaration 
                of emergency by the applicable State during the 3-year 
                period ending on the date of enactment of this Act.''; 
                and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(c) Authorization of Appropriations.--In addition to amounts 
otherwise made available to carry out subsection (a), there is 
authorized to be appropriated to carry out that subsection $100,000,000 
for fiscal year 2023, to remain available until expended.''.
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