A bill to amend the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to authorize certain extraordinary operation and maintenance work for urban canals of concern.

Bill: 117-s-4175
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID]
Introduced: 2022-05-10
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Dams and canals

Urban and suburban affairs and development
Latest action: action_date: 2022-05-25
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held.

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-05-10
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>This bill amends the Bureau of Reclamation's authority to carry out emergency work to include certain urban canals of concern and amends certain cost-sharing provisions. </p> <p>Specifically, the bill reclassifies Reclamation's urban canals of concern as emergency extraordinary maintenance and operation work necessary to ensure the continued safe, dependable, and reliable delivery of project benefits. An urban canal of concern conveys water through a densely populated urban area and the canal's failure would result in the loss of life and property in the vicinity of the failure. </p> <p>As emergency work, Reclamation may provide federal funds to an urban canal of concern project on a non-reimbursable basis sufficient to cover 35% of the cost. The bill further specifies that reimbursable funds provided under this provision must be considered a nonfederal source of funds for purposes of federal grant cost-sharing requirements.</p>

tv_txt: II 117th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 4175 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES May 10, 2022 Mr. Risch introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources A BILL To amend the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to authorize certain extraordinary operation and maintenance work for urban canals of concern.

1. Extraordinary operation and maintenance work performed by the Secretary (a) Definitions Section 9601 of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 ( 43 U.S.C. 510 ) is amended— (1) by redesignating paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), and (7) as paragraphs (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), and (1), respectively; (2) in paragraph (3) (as so redesignated), by striking et seq.) and inserting et seq.)) ; (3) in paragraph (4) (as so redesignated), by striking mean and inserting means ; and (4) by adding at the end the following: (8) Urban canal of concern The term urban canal of concern means a transferred works or segment of a transferred works— (A) that conveys water through a densely populated urban area; and (B) with respect to which the Secretary determines, pursuant to the guidelines and criteria developed under section 9602(a), that if a failure were to occur, the failure would result in loss of life and property in the vicinity of the failed transferred works or segment of transferred works. . (b) Extraordinary maintenance and operation work on urban canal of concerns Section 9603 of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 ( 43 U.S.C. 510b ) is amended— (1) in subsection (c)— (A) in paragraph (1)— (i) by striking carry out any and inserting the following: carry out— (A) any ; (ii) in subparagraph (A) (as so designated), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; or ; and (iii) by adding at the end the following: (B) any extraordinary maintenance and operation work on an urban canal of concern. ; and (B) in paragraph (3), in the first sentence— (i) by striking If the Secretary and inserting In the case of extraordinary maintenance and operation work on an urban canal of concern authorized under paragraph (1) or if the Secretary ; (ii) by striking , which and inserting that ; and (iii) by inserting or to carry out the extraordinary maintenance and operation work on the urban canal of concern after imminent harm ; and (2) by adding at the end the following: (e) Reimbursable funds Any reimbursable funds provided under this section shall be considered to be a non-Federal source of funds for purposes of any cost-sharing requirement for a Federal grant. .