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U.GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION .
118TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 118-264
TO CLARIFY JURISDICTION WITH RESPECT TO CERTAIN BUREAU OF REC-
LAMATION PUMPED STORAGE DEVELOPMENT, AND FOR OTHER PUR-
POSES
NOVEMBER 3, 2023.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. WESTERMAN, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany H.R. 1607]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 1607) to clarify jurisdiction with respect to certain Bu-
reau of Reclamation pumped storage development, and for other
purposes, having considered 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. LAND WITHDRAWAL AND RESERVATION.
(a) DEFINITIONS.-In this section:
(1) AGREEMENT.-The term Agreement means the agreement between the
United States and the Association dated September 6, 1917, as amended.
(2) ASSOCIATION.-The term Association means the Salt River Valley Water
Users' Association.
(3) COVERED LAND.-The term covered land means the portion of the Na-
tional Forest System land located on the south side of the Salt River from the
March 9, 1903, 1-mile withdrawal area for the Bureau of Reclamation purposes
extending an additional 2 miles from the Salt River at Roosevelt Dam to 18.25
river miles downstream, in the State of Arizona, not including the Superstition
Mountain Wilderness Area and the Tonto National Monument, as depicted on
the Map.
(4) DISTRICT.-The term District means the Salt River Project Agricultural
Improvement and Power District.
(5) MAP.-The term Map means the map prepared under subsection (e)(1).
(6) SRP.-The term SRP means-
(A) the District; and
(B) the Association.
(b) RESERVATION OF COVERED LAND.-Subject to valid existing rights, the covered
land is reserved to the United States, through the Secretary of the Interior, for the
exclusive right to use the covered land and interests in the covered land for the de-
velopment, generation, and transmission of electrical power and energy for the use
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