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115TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 115-156
BUREAU OF RECLAMATION TRANSPARENCY ACT
JUNE 2, 2017.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of
the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. BISHOP of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 660]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 660) to require the Secretary of the Interior to submit to
Congress a report on the efforts of the Bureau of Reclamation to
manage its infrastructure assets, having considered the same, re-
port favorably thereon without amendment and recommend that
the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 660 is to require the Secretary of the Inte-
rior to submit to Congress a report on the efforts of the Bureau of
Reclamation to manage its infrastructure assets.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
The goal of H.R. 660 is to provide Congress, States, localities,
and water and power users with a better understanding of the esti-
mated cost of repairs at Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) fa-
cilities.
According to the agency, Reclamation is the nation's largest
wholesale water supplier, providing 1 out of 5 (or 140,000) Western
farmers with irrigation water for 10 million farmland acres that
produce 60 percent of the nation's vegetables and one quarter of its
fresh fruit and nut crops. It also delivers 10 trillion gallons of
water to more than 31 million people annually and is the second
largest domestic producer of hydropower. Reclamation's assets in-
clude 475 dams and 53 hydroelectric power plants. With much of
this infrastructure built over 50 years ago, maintaining these as-
sets is critical for safety and economic security. Despite this need,
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