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U.S. GOVERNMENT
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106TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 106-712
DESCHUTES RESOURCES CONSERVANCY
REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF 1999
JULY 10, 2000.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of
the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. YOUNG of Alaska, from the Committee on Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 1787]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Resources, to whom was referred the bill
(H.R. 1787) to reauthorize the participation of the Bureau of Rec-
lamation in the Deschutes Resources Conservancy, and for other
purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon
without amendment and recommend that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 1787 is to reauthorize the participation of
the Bureau of Reclamation in the Deschutes Resources Conser-
vancy, and for other purposes.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
The Deschutes Resources Conservancy was authorized in 1996 as
a five-year pilot project designed to achieve local consensus on
projects to improve ecosystem health in the Deschutes River basin
in Oregon. The Deschutes River drains Oregon's high desert along
the eastern front of the Cascade Mountains and eventually flows
into the Columbia River. The river basin is used for recreation, irri-
gation, contains hundreds of thousands of acres of productive forest
and rangelands, serves the treaty fishing and water rights of the
Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, and has Oregon's largest
non-federal hydroelectric project.
Projects funded through the Conservancy demonstration include:
piping for irrigation district delivery systems to prevent water loss;
securing water rights for instream flows to restore flows to Squaw
Creek; providing fencing of riparian areas to protect riverbanks;
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