Title: To extend the authorities under the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act of 2016 providing operational flexibility, drought relief, and other benefits to the State of California.
Policy area: Water Resources Development

Summary:
This bill extends the authority of certain federal agencies to provide support for western water infrastructure and extends consultation requirements concerning projects in California.
Specifically, the bill extends through 2028 the authority of the Bureau of Reclamation to provide support for projects in certain western states related to federal or state-led water storage, water desalination, and water recycling and reuse. It also extends provisions specific to California, including drought relief and the operations of the Central Valley Project (a hydropower and water management project in California that is operated by Reclamation).
Further, the bill extends through 2033 consultation requirements concerning biological assessments and the coordinated operations of the Central Valley Project and the State Water Project in California.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1563 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1563

 To extend the authorities under the Water Infrastructure Improvements 
 for the Nation Act of 2016 providing operational flexibility, drought 
         relief, and other benefits to the State of California.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 3, 2021

 Mr. Garcia of California (for himself, Mr. McCarthy, Mr. Calvert, Mr. 
 Issa, Mrs. Kim of California, Mr. LaMalfa, Mr. McClintock, Mr. Nunes, 
 Mr. Obernolte, Mrs. Steel, and Mr. Valadao) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in 
  addition to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, for a 
 period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
                          committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To extend the authorities under the Water Infrastructure Improvements 
 for the Nation Act of 2016 providing operational flexibility, drought 
         relief, and other benefits to the State of California.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY.

    (a) Subtitle J of the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the 
Nation Act (Public Law 114-322) is amended--
            (1) in section 4007 (43 U.S.C. 390(b) note)--
                    (A) in subsection (i), by striking ``January 1, 
                2021'' and inserting ``January 1, 2028'';
                    (B) in subsection (h)(1), by striking the period 
                and inserting ``; and'';
                    (C) by redesignating subsection (h)(2) as (h)(3); 
                and
                    (D) by adding after subsection (h)(1) the 
                following:
            ``(2) There is authorized to be appropriated $134,000,000 
        for each fiscal years 2022 through 2028.'';
            (2) in section 4011(e)(2), by inserting ``projects found 
        feasible under the provisions of section 4007,'' after 
        ``construction of water storage''; and
            (3) in section 4013 (43 U.S.C. 390(b) note)--
                    (A) in the first sentence, by striking ``the date 
                that is 5 years after the date of its enactment'' and 
                inserting ``December 31, 2028''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (1), by striking ``10 years after 
                the date of its enactment'' and inserting ``on December 
                31, 2033''.
    (b) Section 4(a)(1)(F) of the Water Desalination Act of 1996 (42 
U.S.C. 10301 note; Public Law 104-298), as amended by section 4009(a) 
of the WIIN Act (Public Law 114-322), is further amended by striking 
``$30,000,000 of funding is authorized to remain available until 
expended; and'' and inserting ``$12,000,000 is authorized to be 
appropriated for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2028.''.
    (c) Section 1602 of the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater 
Study and Facilities Act (title XVI of Public Law 102-575; 43 U.S.C. 
390h et seq.), as amended by section 4009(c) of the WIIN Act (Public 
Law 114-322), is further amended in subsection (g) by striking 
``$50,000,000 to remain available until expended'' and inserting 
``$20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2028''.
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