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Timestamp: 2020-07-13 05:04:21
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§9504', '§203', '§206', '§4009', '§205', '§8501', '§203', '§8501', '§8501']

[USC02] 42 USC Ch. 109B: SECURE WATER
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42 USC Ch. 109B: SECURE WATER
Reclamation climate change and water program.
Water management improvement.
Hydroelectric power assessment.
Climate change and water intragovernmental panel.
Water data enhancement by United States Geological Survey.
National water availability and use assessment program.
Research agreement authority.
The term "Advisory Committee" means the National Advisory Committee on Water Information established—
The term "assessment program" means the water availability and use assessment program established by the Secretary under section 10368(a) of this title.
The term "climate division" means 1 of the 359 divisions in the United States that represents 2 or more regions located within a State that are as climatically homogeneous as possible, as determined by the Administrator.
The term "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Reclamation.
The term "Director" means the Director of the United States Geological Survey.
The term "eligible applicant" means any State, Indian tribe, irrigation district, water district, or other organization with water or power delivery authority.
The term "Federal Power Marketing Administration" means—
The term "hydrologic accounting unit" means 1 of the 352 river basin hydrologic accounting units used by the United States Geological Survey.
The term "major aquifer system" means a groundwater system that is—
The term "major reclamation river basin" means each major river system (including tributaries)—
The term "major reclamation river basin" includes—
The term "non-Federal participant" means—
The term "panel" means the climate change and water intragovernmental panel established by the Secretary under section 10366(a) of this title.
The term "program" means the regional integrated sciences and assessments program—
Except as provided in subparagraph (B), the term "Secretary" means the Secretary of the Interior.
The term "service area" means any area that encompasses a watershed that contains a federally authorized reclamation project that is located in any State or area described in section 391 of title 43.
(A) be located within—
(i) the States and areas referred to in section 391 of title 43;
(ii) the State of Alaska; or
(iii) the State of Hawaii; and
Except as provided in clause (ii), in carrying out paragraph (1), the Secretary shall not provide a grant, or enter into an agreement, for an improvement to conserve irrigation water unless the eligible applicant agrees not—
(ii) Indian tribes
In the case of an eligible applicant that is an Indian tribe, in carrying out paragraph (1), the Secretary shall not provide a grant, or enter into an agreement, for an improvement to conserve irrigation water unless the Indian tribe agrees not—
(I) to use any associated water savings to increase the total irrigated acreage more than the water right of that Indian tribe, as determined by—
(aa) a court decree;
(bb) a settlement;
(cc) a law; or
(dd) any combination of the authorities described in items (aa) through (cc); or
(II) to otherwise increase the consumptive use of water more than the water right of the Indian tribe described in subclause (I).
There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $530,000,000, to remain available until expended.
(Pub. L. 111–11, title IX, §9504, Mar. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 1334; Pub. L. 113–235, div. D, title II, §203, Dec. 16, 2014, 128 Stat. 2311; Pub. L. 114–113, div. D, title II, §206, Dec. 18, 2015, 129 Stat. 2407; Pub. L. 114–322, title III, §4009(d), Dec. 16, 2016, 130 Stat. 1870; Pub. L. 115–244, div. A, title II, §205(b), Sept. 21, 2018, 132 Stat. 2906; Pub. L. 116–9, title VIII, §8501, Mar. 12, 2019, 133 Stat. 826; Pub. L. 116–94, div. C, title II, §203, Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 2669.)
2019—Subsec. (a)(2)(A). Pub. L. 116–9, §8501(1), substituted "within—" for "within", inserted cl. (i) designation before "the States", and added cls. (ii) and (iii).
Subsec. (a)(3)(B). Pub. L. 116–9, §8501(2), designated existing provisions as cl. (i) and inserted heading, substituted "Except as provided in clause (ii), in carrying" for "In carrying" in introductory provisions, redesignated former cls. (i) and (ii) as subcls. (I) and (II), respectively, of cl. (i) and realigned margins, and added cl. (ii).
Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 116–94 substituted "$530,000,000" for "$480,000,000".
2018—Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 115–244 substituted "$480,000,000" for "$450,000,000".
2016—Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 114–322 substituted "$450,000,000" for "$350,000,000". See Funding note set out below.
The Secretary, in coordination with the Advisory Committee and State and local water resource agencies, shall establish a national assessment program to be known as the "national water availability and use assessment program"—