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U.S. GOVERNMENT
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115TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 115-334
RECLAMATION TITLE TRANSFER AND NON-FEDERAL
INFRASTRUCTURE INCENTIVIZATION ACT
SEPTEMBER 27, 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. 3281]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 3281) to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to facili-
tate the transfer to non-Federal ownership of appropriate reclama-
tion projects or facilities, and for other purposes, having considered
the same, report favorably thereon without amendment and rec-
ommend that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 3281 is to authorize the Secretary of the In-
terior to facilitate the transfer to non-Federal ownership of appro-
priate reclamation projects or facilities.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
H.R. 3281 seeks to reduce administrative paperwork, eliminate
federal taxpayer liability and empower water users by streamlining
the process governing the transfer of some Bureau of Reclamation
(BOR) projects or facilities to non-federal interests.
BOR is the nation's largest wholesale water supplier. According
to the agency, BOR provides 1 out of 5 (or 140,000) Western farm-
ers with irrigation water for 10 million farmland acres that
produce 60 percent of the nation's vegetables and one quarter of its
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