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U.S. GOVERNMENT
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Calendar No. 68
113TH CONGRESS SEAEREPORT
1st Session SENATE 113-35
BUREAU OF RECLAMATION SMALL CONDUIT
HYDROPOWER DEVELOPMENT AND RURAL JOBS
JUNE 3, 2013.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. WYDEN, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 306]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (S. 306) to authorize all Bureau of Reclamation
conduit facilities for hydropower development under Federal Rec-
lamation law, 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 out all after the enacting clause and insert in lieu thereof
the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Bureau of Reclamation Small Conduit Hydropower
Development and Rural Jobs Act.
SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION.
Section 9(c) of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (43 U.S.C. 485h(c)) is amend-
ed-
(1) by striking The Secretary is authorized to enter into contracts to furnish
water and inserting the following:
(1) The Secretary is authorized to enter into contracts to furnish water;
(2) by striking (1) shall and inserting (A) shall;
(3) by striking (2) shall and inserting (B) shall;
(4) by striking respecting the terms of sales of electric power and leases of
power privileges shall be in addition and alternative to any authority in existing
laws relating to particular projects and inserting respecting the sales of elec-
tric power and leases of power privileges shall be an authorization in addition
to and alternative to any authority in existing laws related to particular
projects, including small conduit hydropower development; and
(5) by adding at the end the following:
(2)(A) When carrying out this subsection, the Secretary shall first offer the
lease of power privilege to an irrigation district or water users association oper-
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