A bill to amend the Klamath Basin Water Supply Enhancement Act of 2000 to make certain technical corrections.
PL 116-191 (S.3758), enacted 10/30/2020

[116th Congress Public Law 191]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



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Public Law 116-191
116th Congress

                                 An Act


 
To amend the Klamath Basin Water Supply Enhancement Act of 2000 to make 
  certain technical corrections. <<NOTE: Oct. 30, 2020 -  [S. 3758]>> 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. KLAMATH BASIN WATER SUPPLY ENHANCEMENT ACT OF 2000 
                              TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS.

    Section 4(b) of the Klamath Basin Water Supply Enhancement Act of 
2000 (114 Stat. 2222; 132 Stat. 3887) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)--
                    (A) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A)--
                          (i) by striking ``Pursuant to the reclamation 
                      laws and subject'' and inserting ``Subject''; and
                          (ii) by striking ``may'' and inserting ``is 
                      authorized to''; and
                    (B) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ``, including 
                conservation and efficiency measures, land idling, and 
                use of groundwater,'' after ``administer programs'';
            (2) in paragraph (3)(A), by inserting ``and'' after the 
        semicolon at the end;
            (3) by redesignating the second paragraph (4) (relating to 
        the effect of the subsection) as paragraph (5); and
            (4) in paragraph (5) (as so redesignated)--
                    (A) by striking subparagraph (B);
                    (B) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``; or'' and 
                inserting a period; and
                    (C) by striking ``the Secretary--'' and all that 
                follows through ``to develop'' in subparagraph (A) and 
                inserting ``the Secretary to develop''.
SEC. 2. <<NOTE: Montana. Energy.>>  CONTINUED USE OF PICK-SLOAN 
                    MISSOURI BASIN PROGRAM PROJECT USE POWER BY 
                    THE KINSEY IRRIGATION COMPANY AND THE SIDNEY 
                    WATER USERS IRRIGATION DISTRICT.

    (a) Authorization.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law and 
subject to subsection (b), 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 Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program for the purposes of 
wheeling, administration, and payment of project use power, including 
the applicability of provisions relating to the treatment of costs 
beyond the ability

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to pay under section 9 of the Act of December 22, 1944 (commonly known 
as the ``Flood Control Act of 1944'') (58 Stat. 891, chapter 665).
    (b) 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 (a) 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.

    Approved October 30, 2020.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--S. 3758:
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 166 (2020):
            June 30, considered and passed Senate.
            Oct. 1, considered and passed House.

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