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115TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 115-700
AUTHORIZING EARLY REPAYMENT OF OBLIGATIONS TO THE BUREAU OF
RECLAMATION WITHIN THE NORTHPORT IRRIGATION DISTRICT IN THE
STATE OF NEBRASKA
MAY 22, 2018.-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. 4689]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 4689) to authorize early repayment of obligations to the
Bureau of Reclamation within the Northport Irrigation District in
the State of Nebraska, having considered the same, report favor-
ably thereon without amendment and recommend that the bill do
pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 4689 is to authorize early repayment of obli-
gations to the Bureau of Reclamation within the Northport Irriga-
tion District in the State of Nebraska.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
H.R. 4689 gives individual landowners within the Northport Irri-
gation District the ability to make accelerated or lump sum capital
repayments to the federal government. In exchange for paying
their part of Northport's debt, the landowners who pay will no
longer be subject to federal acreage limitations and paperwork re-
quirements.
Under federal law, any irrigation district that receives contracted
water from a Bureau of Reclamation facility must repay its allo-
cated portion of the capital costs of the federal water project. These
repayment costs are typically set forth in long-term capital repay-
ment contracts between the irrigation district and the federal gov-
ernment.
Northport, located in western Nebraska, is one of four irrigation
districts that receive water from the federal North Platte Project.
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