Title: A bill to amend the America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 to modify a provision relating to cost-sharing requirements applicable to certain Bureau of Reclamation dams and dikes, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Water Resources Development

Summary:
This bill requires the federal government to fully fund the costs of dam safety modifications of certain dikes owned by the Bureau of Reclamation. The bill also requires the federal government to fully fund gate replacements or repairs for certain dams for the next 10 years. The bill applies to certain Reclamation-owned dams or dikes completed not later than December 31, 1948 (e.g., the Altus Dam and dikes in the W.C. Austin Project in Oklahoma).
Under current law, the federal government is required to fully fund the operation and maintenance costs of certain Reclamation-owned dikes that were completed not later than December 31, 1945. However, current law requires the federal government to fund only 85% of certain dam safety modifications.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3971 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3971

  To amend the America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 to modify a 
 provision relating to cost-sharing requirements applicable to certain 
     Bureau of Reclamation dams and dikes, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 31, 2022

  Mr. Inhofe 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 America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 to modify a 
 provision relating to cost-sharing requirements applicable to certain 
     Bureau of Reclamation dams and dikes, 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. COST-SHARING REQUIREMENTS APPLICABLE TO CERTAIN BUREAU OF 
              RECLAMATION DAMS AND DIKES.

    Section 4309 of the America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 (43 
U.S.C. 377b note; Public Law 115-270) is amended--
            (1) in the section heading, by inserting ``dams and'' 
        before ``dikes'';
            (2) in subsection (a), by striking ``effective beginning on 
        the date of enactment of this section, the Federal share of the 
        operations and maintenance costs of a dike described in 
        subsection (b)'' and inserting ``the Federal share of the dam 
        safety modifications costs of a dike described in subsection 
        (c)'';
            (3) by redesignating subsection (b) as subsection (c);
            (4) by inserting after subsection (a) the following:
    ``(b) Gate Repairs.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law 
(including regulations), effective during the 10-year period beginning 
on the date of enactment of this Act, the Federal share of the costs to 
repair or replace a gate and any ancillary gate components of a dam 
described in subsection (c) shall be 100 percent.''; and
            (5) in subsection (c) (as so redesignated)--
                    (A) in the subsection heading, by inserting ``Dams 
                and '' before ``Dikes'';
                    (B) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by 
                striking ``A dike referred to in subsection (a) is a'' 
                and inserting ``A dam or dike referred to in 
                subsections (a) and (b) is a dam or''; and
                    (C) in paragraph (2), by striking ``December 31, 
                1945'' and inserting ``December 31, 1948''.
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