To make available the continued use of Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program project use power by the Kinsey Irrigation Company and the Sidney Water Users Irrigation District, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-hr-3471
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Gianforte, Greg [R-MT-At Large]
Introduced: 2019-06-25
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Electric power generation and transmission

Energy storage, supplies, demand

Montana

Public contracts and procurement

Water resources funding

Water storage

Water use and supply
Latest action: action_date: 2019-07-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-06-25
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill&nbsp;provides for the continued use of power from the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program by the Kinsey Irrigation Company and the Sidney Water Users Irrigation District in Montana. </p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3471 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 25, 2019 Mr. Gianforte introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources A BILL To make available the continued use of Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program project use power by the Kinsey Irrigation Company and the Sidney Water Users Irrigation District, and for other purposes.

1. Continued use of Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program project use power by the Kinsey Irrigation Company and the Sidney Water Users Irrigation District (a) Findings Congress finds that— (1) the Act of May 18, 1938 (52 Stat. 403, chapter 250; 16 U.S.C. 833 et seq.), authorized the completion, maintenance, and operation of the Fort Peck project; (2) section 2 of that Act (52 Stat. 404, chapter 250; 16 U.S.C. 833a ) authorized and directed the Bureau of Reclamation— (A) to transmit and sell electric energy generated by the Fort Peck project; and (B) to interconnect the Fort Peck project with either private or with other Federal projects and publicly owned power systems now or hereafter constructed. ; (3) section 9 of the Act of December 22, 1944 (commonly known as the Flood Control Act of 1944 ) (58 Stat. 891, chapter 665)— (A) authorized the Missouri River Basin Project, now known as the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program (referred to in this section as the Program ); (B) approved the comprehensive plan for the Program set forth in Senate Document 191 and House Document 475, as revised and coordinated by Senate Document 247, 78th Congress; (C) established a permanent administration for the development of the Missouri River Basin; and (D) incorporated the Fort Peck project as part of the Program; (4) in 1946, the Bureau of Reclamation entered into project use power contracts to provide the Kinsey Irrigation Company and the predecessor of the Sidney Water Users Irrigation District electrical service under the authority of the Act of May 18, 1938 (52 Stat. 403, chapter 250; 16 U.S.C. 833 et seq.); (5) since 1946, the Bureau of Reclamation has approved 9 modifications to the project use power contracts between the Bureau of Reclamation, the Kinsey Irrigation Company, and the Sidney Water Users Irrigation District; (6) the project use power contracts in effect on the date of enactment of this Act provide electric service to the Kinsey Irrigation Company and the Sidney Water Users Irrigation District at the Program rate of 2.5 mills per kilowatt-hour, including wheeling, through 2020; and (7) the Kinsey Irrigation Company and the Sidney Water Users Irrigation District have reasonably relied on the authority of the Act of May 18, 1938 (52 Stat. 403, chapter 250; 16 U.S.C. 833 et seq.), and the fact that the Bureau of Reclamation has treated the Kinsey Irrigation Company and the Sidney Water Users Irrigation District as irrigation pumping units of the Program for more than 74 years. (b) Authorization Notwithstanding any other provision of law and subject to subsection (c), the Secretary of the Interior (acting through the Commissioner of Reclamation) shall continue to treat the irrigation pumping units known as the Kinsey Irrigation Company in Custer County, Montana, and the Sidney Water Users Irrigation District in Richland County, Montana, or any successor to the Kinsey Irrigation Company or Sidney Water Users Irrigation District, as irrigation pumping units of the Program for the purposes of wheeling, administration, and payment of project use power. (c) Limitation The quantity of power to be provided to the Kinsey Irrigation Company and the Sidney Water Users Irrigation District (including any successor to the Kinsey Irrigation Company or the Sidney Water Users Irrigation District) under subsection (b) may not exceed the maximum quantity of power provided to the Kinsey Irrigation Company and the Sidney Water Users Irrigation District under the applicable contract for electric service in effect on the date of enactment of this Act.