Title: A bill to make certain irrigation districts eligible for Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program pumping power, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Water Resources Development

Summary:
This bill makes certain irrigation districts in North Dakota eligible to receive pumping power (i.e., hydropower) from the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, subject to the terms and rates established by the Bureau of Reclamation. Under this bill, an irrigation district must enter into a contract with Reclamation to receive such pumping power.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1554 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1554

 To make certain irrigation districts eligible for Pick-Sloan Missouri 
          Basin Program pumping power, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 11, 2021

Mr. Cramer (for himself and Mr. Hoeven) 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 make certain irrigation districts eligible for Pick-Sloan Missouri 
          Basin Program pumping power, 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. ELIGIBILITY OF CERTAIN AREAS TO RECEIVE PICK-SLOAN MISSOURI 
              BASIN PROGRAM PUMPING POWER.

    Section 5(a) of Public Law 89-108 (79 Stat. 435; 100 Stat. 419; 114 
Stat. 2763A-284) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(6) Eligibility of certain irrigation districts to 
        receive pumping power.--
                    ``(A) Definition of eligible irrigation district.--
                In this paragraph, the term `eligible irrigation 
                district' means an irrigation district that is located 
                in--
                            ``(i) the test area referred to in 
                        paragraph (1); or
                            ``(ii) an area within the 28,000-acre area 
                        described in paragraph (3) that is analyzed by 
                        the Secretary but not developed under that 
                        paragraph.
                    ``(B) Eligibility.--An eligible irrigation district 
                shall be eligible to receive Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin 
                Program pumping power--
                            ``(i) subject to any terms and at any rates 
                        established by the Secretary; and
                            ``(ii) in accordance with a contract 
                        entered into under subparagraph (C).
                    ``(C) Contract.--
                            ``(i) In general.--Subject to clause (ii), 
                        the Secretary may enter into a contract with an 
                        eligible irrigation district to provide Pick-
                        Sloan Missouri Basin Program pumping power to 
                        the eligible irrigation district.
                            ``(ii) Requirement.--No Pick-Sloan Missouri 
                        Basin Program pumping power may be delivered to 
                        an eligible irrigation district under this 
                        paragraph until the date on which a contract 
                        authorizing the delivery to the irrigation 
                        district is executed under clause (i).''.
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