Bolts Ditch Act

Bill: 119-s-365
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO]
Introduced: 2025-02-03
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Colorado

Lakes and rivers

Water storage

Water use and supply
Latest action: action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

Summaries:
action_date: 2025-02-03
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>Bolts Ditch Act</strong></p><p>This bill allows additional entities—the Eagle River Water and Sanitation District and the Upper Eagle Regional Water Authority—to access and use the Bolts Ditch and its headgate within the Holy Cross Wilderness in Colorado for the purposes of the diversion of water and use, maintenance, and repair of such ditch and headgate.</p>

tv_txt: II 119th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 365 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES February 3, 2025 Mr. Bennet (for himself and Mr. Hickenlooper ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources A BILL To amend the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act to allow for additional entities to be eligible to complete the maintenance work on Bolts Ditch and the Bolts Ditch Headgate within the Holy Cross Wilderness, Colorado.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Bolts Ditch Act . 2. Additional entities allowed to maintain Bolts Ditch and the Bolts Ditch Headgate Section 1101(a) of the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act ( Public Law 116–9 ; 133 Stat. 604) is amended by inserting before the period at the end the following: , the Eagle River Water and Sanitation District, a Colorado Special District, or the Upper Eagle Regional Water Authority, an authority organized under the laws of the State of Colorado .