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118TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 118-367
PILOT BUTTE POWER PLANT CONVEYANCE ACT
JANUARY 30, 2024.-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. 3415]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 3415) to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey to
the Midvale Irrigation District the Pilot Butte Power Plant in the
State of Wyoming, and for other purposes, having considered the
same, reports favorably thereon without amendment and rec-
ommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE LEGISLATION
The purpose of H.R. 3415 is to direct the Secretary of the Interior
to convey to the Midvale Irrigation District the Pilot Butte Power
Plant in the State of Wyoming, and for other purposes.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
H.R. 3415, the Pilot Butte Power Plant Conveyance Act, requires
the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) to enter good faith nego-
tiations to convey the Pilot Butte Power Plant (Power Plant) to the
Midvale Irrigation District (District) under Reclamation's Title
Transfer Program. The Title Transfer Program allows for Reclama-
tion to transfer authority over water infrastructure to a project's
beneficiary. This process, designed to give greater local control and
autonomy to a project beneficiary, has historically required an indi-
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