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H. Rept. 114-366 1 (2015-12-03)

handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxaarg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATEO U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP 114TH CONGRESS REPORT 1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 114-366 BUREAU OF RECLAMATION TRANSPARENCY ACT DECEMBER 3, 2015.-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. 1107] [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office] The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 1107) 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, report favorably thereon with an amendment and recommend 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 Bureau of Reclamation Transparency Act. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds that- (1) the water resources infrastructure of the Bureau of Reclamation provides important benefits related to irrigated agriculture, municipal and industrial water, hydropower, flood control, fish and wildlife, and recreation in the 17 Rec- lamation States; (2) as of 2013, the combined replacement value of the infrastructure assets of the Bureau of Reclamation was $94,500,000,000; (3) the majority of the water resources infrastructure facilities of the Bureau of Reclamation are at least 60 years old; (4) the Bureau of Reclamation has previously undertaken efforts to better manage the assets of the Bureau of Reclamation, including an annual review of asset maintenance activities of the Bureau of Reclamation known as the Asset Management Plan; and (5) actionable information on infrastructure conditions at the asset level, in- cluding information on maintenance needs at individual assets due to aging in- frastructure, is needed for Congress to conduct oversight of Reclamation facili- ties and meet the needs of the public. SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. In this Act: 59-006

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