Platte River Basin Critical Maintenance and Repair Act

Bill: 117-s-4233
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY]
Introduced: 2022-05-17
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources

Dams and canals

Electric power generation and transmission

Lakes and rivers

Nebraska

Water resources funding
Latest action: action_date: 2022-05-25
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held.

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-05-17
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Platte River Basin Critical Maintenance and Repair Act</b></p> <p>This bill expands federal government funding to allow for the critical maintenance and repair of certain Bureau of Reclamation-owned facilities located within the Platte River Basin in Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming. The bill applies to those basin facilities that have had a structural failure resulting in a declaration of emergency in the 3-year period ending on the date the bill is enacted (e.g., the Fort Laramie Canal in both Wyoming and Nebraska, which had a tunnel collapse in July 2019). </p> <p>Current law limits funding eligibility to certain Reclamation-owned facilities that suffered a critical failure during a 2-year period ending on November 15, 2021.</p>

tv_txt: II 117th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 4233 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES May 17, 2022 Mr. Barrasso introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources A BILL To amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to provide for critical maintenance and repair of certain Bureau of Reclamation reserved or transferred works, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Platte River Basin Critical Maintenance and Repair Act . 2. Critical maintenance and repair Section 40904 of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act ( 43 U.S.C. 3204 ) is amended— (1) in subsection (a)(1)(B)— (A) by striking the period at the end and inserting ; or ; (B) by striking (B) a unit and inserting (B)(i) a unit ; and (C) by adding at the end the following: (ii) in the case of reserved or transferred works located within the Platte River Basin, the reserved or transferred works had a structural failure in Bureau of Reclamation infrastructure resulting in a declaration of emergency by the applicable State during the 3-year period ending on the date of enactment of this Act. ; and (2) by adding at the end the following: (c) Authorization of appropriations In addition to amounts otherwise made available to carry out subsection (a), there is authorized to be appropriated to carry out that subsection $100,000,000 for fiscal year 2023, to remain available until expended. .