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This Act may be cited as the ''Missouri River Basin, Kansas and
Nebraska, Pick-Sloan Project Facilities Transfer Act''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

As used in this Act:
(1) Project beneficiary.--(A) The term ''project
beneficiary'' means one or more of the following irrigation
districts or reclamation districts organized and operating
under the laws of the State of Kansas or the State of Nebraska:
(i) In Kansas, Kansas-Bostwick Irrigation District
No. 2, Kirwin Irrigation District No. 1, Webster
Irrigation District No. 4, and Almena Irrigation
District No. 5; and
(ii) In Nebraska, Ainsworth Irrigation District,
Farwell Irrigation District, Sargent Irrigation
District, Loup Basin Reclamation District, Frenchman-
Cambridge Irrigation District and Nebraska Bostwick
Irrigation District.
(B) Such term may also include an organization established
by one or more of the irrigation districts referred to in
subparagraph (A) under laws of the States of Kansas and
Nebraska authorizing the creation of interlocal cooperation
entities or such term may include another political subdivision
of the States of Kansas or Nebraska established by act of their
respective State legislatures for the purpose of acquiring
title to reclamation project property in accordance with this
Act.
(2) Secretary.--The term ''Secretary'' means the Secretary
of the Interior or the Secretary of the Army, as appropriate,
with jurisdiction over project facilities subject to this Act.
(3) Reclamation project property.--The term ''reclamation
project property'' means the following:
(A) All contracts which are currently in effect
between the United States and the project beneficiaries
or other parties and which relate to the projects,
project facilities and related programs, including any
such contracts, written or not written to provide
project use power from Federal power facilities.
(B) All reclamation project distribution and
drainage facilities, all reservoir and related
diversion facilities and all related lands currently
held by the United States which are subject to this
Act.
(C) All acquired lands, both surface and subsurface
estate, within the respective reclamation projects.
(D) All water rights held by the United States
relating to the respective project facilities.
(E) All outstanding leases or contracts on the
lands associated with the respective projects.
(F) All fund accounts held by the United States for
any purposes related to the project.
(G) All contracts, other than those listed under
subparagraph (E), or other legal obligations in
existence which have any impact upon the project
facilities or the project operations and which may be
required to be assumed or accepted by the project
beneficiary.
(H) All personal property, including operating
equipment, tools and other tangible personal property,
held by the United States for the purposes of operating
the project or serving the project facilities.
(I) All funds held in reserve or otherwise
dedicated accounts in which funds have been paid by
project beneficiaries or from other nonproject related
revenues and which are, as of the date of enactment of
this Act, held for project purposes.

SEC. 3. TRANSFER OF MISSOURI RIVER BASIN, PICK-SLOAN PROJECTS
FACILITIES.

(a) General Authority.--Within 180 days after the date of enactment
of this Act and upon tender of the specified consideration by the
project beneficiary, the Secretary shall transfer, in fee title and
free of all liens and encumbrances, the project described in section 6,
including all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to
the reclamation project property, to the project beneficiary of each
such described project.
(b) Consideration and Satisfaction of Outstanding Obligations.--The
transfer of a project under subsection (a) shall be for the
consideration specified for the project. The payment of the specified
consideration for a project shall be in full and complete satisfaction
of all obligations against the project facilities and the project
beneficiaries existing before the date of transfer of the project under
every contract entered into by and between the United States and the
project beneficiaries. The completion of the transfer of all facilities
as provided for in this Act and the payment of the consideration
specified for each transferred project shall be deemed to constitute
full and complete satisfaction of any and all obligations for further
payments or repayments by the respective project sponsors for
irrigation benefits of the project facilities and for any other
benefits specifically transferred to the respective project sponsors.
(c) Transfer Costs.--All costs of transfers carried out under this
section shall be the obligation of the United States.
(d) Transfer Documents.--The Secretary with the assistance of the
project beneficiaries shall execute all necessary transfer documents
and make all such filings or take all such actions as may be needed to
consummate the transfers of reclamation project property. Such
documents shall include (but not be limited to) land deeds, court
proceedings, decrees, bills of sale, certificates of title, lease
contract transfers, water rights certificates and amendment documents,
and notice filings.
(e) Present Vesting of Lease Benefits and Obligations.--The project
beneficiaries to whom any project lands are to be transferred under
this section shall be entitled to immediately assume the management of
all existing and future leases and shall be entitled to any revenues
accruing on or after the date of enactment of this Act.
(f) Limitation.--The further transfer of any facilities or parts
thereof of any project which are not specifically transferred by this
Act shall only be carried out by the United States with the specific
advice and consent of the project beneficiaries to which project
facilities are to be transferred by this Act.

SEC. 4. LIABILITY.

Upon completion of the transfer of reclamation project property to
the project beneficiaries as provided by this Act, the project
beneficiaries shall assume sole responsibility and liability for the
project and the project beneficiaries shall hold the United States
harmless and indemnify the United States against any and all claims of
damage, except that all project facilities transferred under this Act
shall, as to the project beneficiaries, be free from liability for
latent defects in such facilities unless all such defects were fully
disclosed and the defects corrected or accepted in writing as to
further future liability by the project beneficiaries.

SEC. 5. PROJECT PURPOSES, OPERATIONS, AND COST ALLOCATIONS.

(a) Continuation.--All facilities transferred in accordance with
this Act shall be deemed to be committed to the purposes for which
those facilities were authorized and constructed. Operations of all
such transferred facilities shall be subject to the laws of the States
of Kansas and Nebraska as set forth in the establishment and operation
of irrigation or reclamation districts under those respective State
laws. All cost allocations identified as reimbursable by other
beneficiaries provided for as a part of the original authorizing laws
for each transferred project shall remain due from those beneficiaries
under the same provisions and in the same manner as originally approved
from and after the date of enactment of this Act until paid.
(b) Deemed Consent of Project Beneficiary.--The project beneficiary
of each transferred project, upon accepting the transfer provided under
this Act, shall be deemed to agree to operate, maintain, repair,
replace and rehabilitate the project in a manner designed to carry out
the intended purposes for which the project was developed and
constructed, except that a transferred project or part thereof may be
redirected to another already identified use or to another use if the
project beneficiary determines that the public purpose for which the
facilities were constructed is better served.
(c) Termination of Mandates.--All mandates imposed by the
Reclamation Act of 1902 (and all Acts supplementary thereto or
amendatory thereof, including the Reclamation Reform Act of 1982, or by
Department of the Interior or Army regulations, upon the project
facilities, the project beneficiaries, or the individual water users
for whom the respective projects are operated shall be terminated upon
the completion of the transfers as provided by this Act. Any other
Federal laws and regulations shall be administered upon the projects as
they might be over any other non-Federal project.
(d) Certain Acts Not Applicable.--The transfers directed by this
Act are subject to the requirement that all transferred reclamation
project property be used in accordance with this section. A transfer
under this Act shall not--
(1) be deemed to constitute a major Federal action within
the meaning of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969
and shall therefore be deemed to satisfy all requirements of
the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 without further
action;
(2) constitute or be deemed a basis for invoking any
provisions of the Endangered Species Act of 1973;
(3) require certification under the provisions of the
Federal Water Pollution Control Act;
(4) be subject to the provisions of chapter 5 of title 5,
United States Code (commonly known as the ''Administrative
Procedures Act''); or
(5) be considered a disposal of Federal surplus property
under the provisions of the Federal Property and Administrative
Services Act of 1949.

SEC. 6. FACILITIES AFFECTED.

(a) Ainsworth Unit.--The Ainsworth Unit, Missouri River Basin
Project, shall consist of the project constructed and operated pursuant
to the Act of December 22, 1944 (58 Stat. 887, Public Law 78-534), and
the Act of August 21, 1954 (68 Stat. 757), and the Act of May 18, 1956
(Public Law 84-531), and which is situated in Cherry, Brown, and Rock
Counties in Nebraska. The Ainsworth Unit shall be transferred to the
Ainsworth Irrigation District as the project beneficiary upon the
payment of $1,747,097 as consideration therefore.
(b) Farwell Unit.--The Farwell Unit, Missouri River Basin Project,
shall consist of the project constructed and operated pursuant to the
Act of December 22, 1944 (58 Stat. 887, Public Law 78-534), and the Act
of August 3, 1956 (70 Stat. 975), and which is situated in Howard,
Sherman, Custer and Valley Counties in Nebraska. The Farwell Unit shall
be transferred to the Farwell Irrigation District and to the Loup Basin
Reclamation District as the project beneficiaries in such manner as
elected by the beneficiaries upon the payment of $2,399,874 as
consideration therefore.
(c) Sargent Unit.--The Sargent Unit, Missouri River Basin Project,
shall consist of the project constructed and operated pursuant to the
Act of December 22, 1944 (58 Stat. 887, Public Law 78-534), and the Act
of August 3, 1956 (70 Stat. 975), and which is situated in Blaine,
Custer, and Valley Counties in Nebraska. The Sargent Unit shall be
transferred to the Sargent Irrigation District and to the Loup Basin
Reclamation District as the project beneficiaries in such manner as
elected by the beneficiaries upon the payment of $565,862 as
consideration therefore.
(d) Frenchman-Cambridge Unit.--The Frenchman-Cambridge Unit,
Missouri River Basin Project, shall consist of the project constructed
and operated pursuant to the Act of December 22, 1944 (58 Stat. 887),
by Act of Congress (Public Law 78-534), as a component of the Pick-
Sloan Missouri Basin Program, and which is situated in Red Willow,
Frontier, Hitchcock, Furnas and Harlan Counties in Nebraska. The
Frenchman-Cambridge Unit shall be transferred to the Frenchman-
Cambridge Irrigation District or to another project beneficiary
designated by the Irrigation District as the project beneficiaries upon
the payment of $1,478,291 as consideration therefore.
(e) Bostwick Unit.--The Bostwick Unit, Missouri River Basin
Project, shall consist of the projects constructed and operated
pursuant to the Act of December 22, 1944 (58 Stat. 887), by Act of
Congress (Public Law 78-534) as a component of the Pick-Sloan Missouri
Basin Program, and which are situated in Harlan, Franklin, Webster and
Nuckolls Counties in Nebraska, and Republic, Jewell and Cloud Counties
in Kansas. The reclamation project property of the Bostwick Unit shall
include all constructed facilities deemed to be a part of the
irrigation operations for the Unit and shall include only that part of
the Harlan County Dam and Reservoir required for irrigation storage and
irrigation use. For purposes of this transfer such irrigation storage
shall include water storage capacity between elevation 1925.0 and
1946.0 M.S.L. In accordance with the conditions set forth herein the
irrigation storage and operations agreements now in effect between the
United States Army Corps of Engineers, and the United States Department
of Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, shall be the basis for future
operations between the United States Army Corps of Engineers, and the
project sponsors. The parts of the Bostwick Unit necessary to the
operations of the Nebraska portion of the project shall be transferred
to the Nebraska Bostwick Irrigation District or to another project
beneficiary designated by the Irrigation District as the project
beneficiaries. The parts of the Bostwick Unit necessary to the
operations of the Kansas portion of the project shall be transferred to
the Kansas-Bostwick Irrigation District No. 2 or to another project
beneficiary designated by the Irrigation District as the project
beneficiaries. The payment of $4,333,804 shall constitute consideration
for the Bostwick Unit.
(f) Almena Unit.--The Almena Unit, Missouri River Basin Project,
shall consist of the project constructed and operated pursuant to the
Act of December 22, 1944 (58 Stat. 887, Public Law 78-534), and the
Flood Control Act of 1946 (Public Law 78-526), and which is situated in
Norton and Phillips Counties in Kansas. The Almena Unit shall be
transferred to the Almena Irrigation District No. 5 or to another
project beneficiary designated by the Irrigation District as the
project beneficiaries upon the payment of $112,631 as consideration
therefore.
(g) Kirwin Unit.--The Kirwin Unit, Missouri River Basin Project,
shall consist of the project constructed and operated pursuant to the
Act of December 22, 1944 (58 Stat. 887, Public Law 78-534), and the
Flood Control Act of 1946 (Public Law 78-526), and which is situated in
Phillips, Smith, and Osborn Counties in Kansas. The Kirwin Unit shall
be transferred to the Kirwin Irrigation District No. 1 or to another
project beneficiary designated by the Irrigation District as the
project beneficiaries upon the payment of $253,967 as consideration
therefore.
(h) Webster Unit.--The Webster Unit, Missouri River Basin Project,
shall consist of the project constructed and operated pursuant to the
Act of December 22, 1944 (58 Stat. 887, Public Law 78-534), and the
Flood Control Act of 1946 (Public Law 78-526), and which is situated in
Rooks and Osborn Counties in Kansas. The Webster Unit shall be
transferred to the Webster Irrigation District No. 4 or to another
project beneficiary designated by the Irrigation District as the
project beneficiaries upon the payment of $232,012 as consideration
therefore.
Student:
Missouri River Basin, Kansas and Nebraska, Pick-Sloan Project Facilities Transfer Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of the Army, as appropriate, to transfer specified Missouri River Basin, Pick-Sloan project facilities in Kansas and Nebraska, including all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to specified reclamation project property, to the project beneficiary.
Sets forth provisions regarding consideration and satisfaction of outstanding obligations, transfer costs, transfer documents, present vesting of lease benefits and obligations, and limits on further transfers.
Specifies that, upon completion of the transfer of reclamation project property to the project beneficiaries, such beneficiaries shall assume sole responsibility and liability for the projects and shall hold the United States harmless and indemnify the United States against any claims of damage, with exceptions.
Sets forth provisions regarding project purposes, operations, and cost allocations.