Title: Salton Sea Projects Improvements Act
Policy area: Water Resources Development

Summary:
Salton Sea Projects Improvements Act
This bill provides the Bureau of Reclamation with additional project authorities for the Salton Sea research project in Southern California.
Specifically, the bill authorizes Reclamation to provide grants and enter into contracts and cooperative agreements to carry out projects (e.g., construction activities and dust suppression projects) to improve air quality, fish and wildlife habitat, recreational opportunities, and water quality in the area of the Salton Sea.
To carry out these projects, Reclamation may enter into partnerships with state, tribal, and local governments; water districts; joint powers authorities, including the Salton Sea Authority; nonprofit organizations; and institutions of higher education.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2693 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2693

 To amend the Reclamation Projects Authorization and Adjustment Act of 
 1992 to authorize additional projects related to the Salton Sea, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            August 10, 2021

 Mr. Padilla (for himself and Mrs. Feinstein) 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 Reclamation Projects Authorization and Adjustment Act of 
 1992 to authorize additional projects related to the Salton Sea, 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 ``Salton Sea Projects Improvements 
Act''.

SEC. 2. RESEARCH PROJECT.

    Section 1101 of the Reclamation Projects Authorization and 
Adjustment Act of 1992 (Public Law 102-575; 106 Stat. 4661) is 
amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsections (b) through (d) as 
        subsections (c) through (e), respectively;
            (2) by inserting after subsection (a) the following:
    ``(b) Additional Project Authorities.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Secretary of the Interior, acting 
        through the Commissioner of Reclamation, may provide grants and 
        enter into contracts and cooperative agreements to carry out 
        projects located in the area of the Salton Sea in southern 
        California to improve air quality, fish and wildlife habitat, 
        recreational opportunities, and water quality, in partnership 
        with--
                    ``(A) State, Tribal, and local governments;
                    ``(B) water districts;
                    ``(C) joint powers authorities, including the 
                Salton Sea Authority;
                    ``(D) nonprofit organizations; and
                    ``(E) institutions of higher education.
            ``(2) Included activities.--The projects described in 
        paragraph (1) may include--
                    ``(A) construction, operation, maintenance, 
                permitting, and design activities required for the 
                projects; and
                    ``(B) dust suppression projects.''; and
            (3) in subsection (e) (as so redesignated), by striking 
        ``$10,000,000'' and inserting ``$250,000,000''.
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