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H. Rept. 115-166 1 (2017-06-12)

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                     115TH CONGRESS                                          REPORT
                        1st Session    HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES              115-166







                          WATER SUPPLY PERMITTING COORDINATION ACT



                      JUNE 12, 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

                                                together with

                                            DISSENTING VIEWS

                                            [To accompany H.R. 1654]

                               [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]

                       The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
                     bill (H.R. 1654) to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to coordi-
                     nate Federal and State permitting processes related to the con-
                     struction of new surface water storage projects on lands under the
                     jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Ag-
                     riculture and to designate the Bureau of Reclamation as the lead
                     agency for permit processing, and for other purposes, having con-
                     sidered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment
                     and recommends that the bill as amended do pass.
                       The amendment is as follows:
                       Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
                     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
                     This Act may be cited as the Water Supply Permitting Coordination Act.
                     SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
                     In this Act:
                          (1) BUREAU.-The term Bureau means the Bureau of Reclamation.
                          (2) COOPERATING AGENCIES.-The term cooperating agency means a Federal
                        agency with jurisdiction over a review, analysis, opinion, statement, permit, li-
                        cense, or other approval or decision required for a qualifying project under ap-
                        plicable Federal laws and regulations, or a State agency subject to section 3(c).
                          (3) QUALIFYING PROJECTS.-The term qualifying projects means new surface
                        water storage projects in the States covered under the Act of June 17, 1902 (32
                        Stat. 388, chapter 1093), and Acts supplemental to and amendatory of that Act
                        (43 U.S.C. 371 et seq.) constructed on lands administered by the Department
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